Our pal Many Machines takes a moment:
Top: Potrero hillside, 2008. Bottom: same hillside, 2015.
I was especially fond of the earlier version, as it featured the work of several artists who had an outsize significance in my mind in the first few years after I moved to San Francisco.
Few things make me feel quite so bad about how SF has changed as this hideous current incarnation. [link]
An outsize number of this blog’s early posts were about Girafa. Let’s take a look:
The ‘hideous’ current incarnation was done by hardcore graffiti writers with permission to keep the toys off that wall. That wall had so many sick pieces before musk and girafa came along- they were way late to the game. it’s a sketchy climb and a big liability for the business to have kids up there,falling off or getting sliced up by the razor wire so the graff bosses took it over with a benign piece. Standard procedure. maybe you should stop trying to act all OG about what happened in the late 2000′s. No dap for that.
What’s Girafa doing these days? 15-to-life?
15-to-long-neck-4-life!
Also, OP needs to get real. Yeah, it was only the transplants that came AFTER him that ruined this place…
What cash advance said. Meaningful, poignant.
that last comment make little sense