Edmundo spotted this building blanketed in a delightful Fruity Pebbles inspired color scheme on 16th and Carolina. Say what you will, that takes some serious time and dedication. That guy is probably still icing his wrist.
Here’s a before shot:
Update:
GG points out that this was a promotional party that Sean Parker threw for Spotify. A snip from the SFGate article:
The extravagant setting felt like a throwback to the glory days of the dot-com era. The exterior of the building was covered entirely by professional graffiti artists. Inside, makeshift chandeliers dangled from the converted warehouse roof. There were several open bars stocked with a dizzying array of top-shelf liquor; two roasted whole hogs; a butcher from Parma, Italy, slicing prosciutto; endless trays of sushi; and a veritable mountain of seafood, courtesy of McCalls catering.
I feel dirty now.
I think it was done for the private Spotify party they had going on there on Friday. (there were a bunch of Spotify vans going in and out after they revealed the new paintjob) I also hear Fuseproject (á la Yves Behar) will be moving in soon.
Do you know if this was by permission or a criminal activity?
You’re looking at HOURS of work there, a great deal of it on a ladder if not a cherry-picker. My guess is by permission.
what a stupid fucking question.
wait no, there are no stupid question, only stupid people…
Glad you are honest with yourself.
cant take being called out???
Did I just get served?
yeah this was done by permission somewhat overnight but partially in bright daylight, with use of scaffolding all around the building, for a Spotify party. They did some of the inside as well, all arranged by Stanlee R. Gatti
photos of work in progress here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29840699@N08/6172267013/in/photostream
Yes. The conversion to a time machine was also by permission, which enabled them to go back to a time when Napster was a thing and people cared about Jane’s Addiction and Snoop Dogg. I can’t remember if MM strips out links in comments, but if not, here’s the SFGate story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/24/DDJ71L8JGC.DTL
Thanks for the link.
Yeah, I was really bummed to see this in my neighborhood. Like we don’t have enough pollution coming from the traffic on the 280 & 101 freeways. We gotta be so damn vain that we’ll spray up a shit ton of chemical poison across our neighborhood so we can say COOL.
Good job, people. Tagging culture is sociopathic, as bad as the oil companies and the car companies and the bankers and the repeat Burning Man attendees. It’s a bad excuse to create more chemical / industrial pollution, at a time when we know this shit is really bad for our planet and our health.
Stop lauding polluters.
You are a crazyperson.
That guy should meet up with the Bernalwood commenter who is obsessed with the prospect of “radiation” being emitted from proposed new cellphone towers.
I agree with MungoBungoSF, VISUALLY this building became a complete eyesore overnight. I’d hate to have to look at it everyday. I have to pass the timbuk2 bag place on Folsom daily and it’s constantly getting tagged/repainted/tagged/repainted the only people that think this stuff is cool are the taggers and their dumb ass admirers.
That was seriously the best party I’ve ever been to.
i’m sorry
No, it’s cool. I hear an odd number of people got laid.
Really? Like three?
1
http://revok1.com/blog/2011/09/nemel-geso-grey-earsnot/
yeh. fuck nemel. this is the guy who tagged the in progress clarion alley mural.
maybe he was feeling charged up for having gotten this sweet napster gig, so he decided to scent the neighborhood.
fuck that mural, that’s been a nem spot for years. these little “street artists” need to earn their stripes.
Blah Blah Blah.
What’s that say? Romanes eunt domus? People called Romanes, they go the house?
+1
I was rumored to have been lurking there, but I quashed the rumor in person. Leaving hastily, I still had to pray for those two roasted whole hogs,
ask the butcher from Parma, Italy how much they paid for his flight and if his slicing prosciutto skills were affected by working in the western hemisphere.
I was gratified that we are partying like it’s 1998.
I work for a company (with no website nor social media outlets or inlets) that issues urban legends that are actually true. One is that we actually get fat eating whole hogs and prosciutto and that the heart attack is returning with a vengeance from its 1970′s ascendancy. Party on, Garth.
And as MungoBungoSF rightly observes, polluting with lung-toughening tagging spray is bad for our health, but it is an excellent antidote for atherosclerosis.
I live nearby. It looks awful. I prefer a well-thought out mural to that crap. I figured it was another attempt at trying to capture being cool. A for effort. Scaffolding. top to bottom canvass. It’s just not cool, moving, thought provoking or anything.
Murals are almost universally ghastly. This building looks great and means a lot more than another 3rd rate, childish mural of forgotten political activists. When and if i ever own property I would want one like this, one by Reader, MQ, ETC. Open your eyes, Frank, & sorry about all your problems.
False.
…and when I become rich I want to travel around the world in a pirate ship that can fly.