City Murals
If you live in the city, or even in the Bay Area, there is something you should go and see. Stop what you are doing, go ahead, just stop what you are doing and leave right now. Get on the J, and get off at 15th and Church. There is an amazing mural of the city from the Ferry Building to 8th street showing the Ferry Building as the past, and moving toward 8th street with time, with 8th being the fantastical future of San Francisco.
It’s worth a visit, really. Trust me. I was looking at it for a good 15 minutes.
While I was at it I walked around some more to find some artists filling dilapidated alleys with their art work. not tagging, not graf, but their creations on parts of the city that few people driving about would ever see.
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:32 pm
It sounds pretty cool if you were looking at it that long. Since it would take me a while to get there, can you tell me what types of pictures there were?
Catha
October 2nd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I didn’t have my camera with me at the time (reminder: always carry a camera on a walk, ugh). In the alley I found painted garage doors with various scenery, such as kids playing, techno drawings like people dancing, space scenery, trees, buildings, towers, and even poetry.
One that struck me was a damaged and tagged peice that said something to the extent of “it’s easier to destroy than create, why must you destroy what we work so hard to show the world?”
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:53 pm
People will always tag stuff. I saw a wooden fence that was tagged the other day. The owners of the fence must have gotten fed up with it because they took down the 20 or so fence boards that were tagged and mixed them all up and re-nailed them again so all the tagging looked like a puzzle. It must have confused the taggers because they haven’t done it since. Good idea but a lot of work. Go figure.
Catha
October 10th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Hi Mark,
Are you doing okay? Did you survive the trip back home? Seen any new cool stuff in your neck of the woods? Just thought I’d say hi. So HI!
Catha
October 10th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Hi sis,
I’ve been sick and not really so active. I’m plotting and planning at the moment. Things are okay, but it’ll be better when my stress sickness goes away.