Mission Mission

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Artist Isaac Bader posted this image on our Facebook wall and asked for some help:

Can anyone recommend a venue or individual who might be interested in helping me find a home/homes for four paintings This work is very specific to my time living and working in the Mission and I would be so happy to show in the neighborhood sometime soon. Any recommendations or referrals would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Dude, I totally want to visit a dreamworld ghost town where Cine Latino sits adjacent to the LAC/Boogaloo’s building.

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Local printmaking collective Colpa Press has selected limited edition prints, books, and objects by an assortment of artists to feature in a pop-up shop at Wire+Nail Gallery this weekend. And the opening is tonight from 6-9pm!

The pop-up shop will be open Saturday and Sunday, 10-8pm.

The Communication Company is a local letterpress studio run by Mission resident Katherine Wong, who promises to never print an owl. She made these gorgeous bifold greeting cards, and they’re now available on Etsy.

Also available: these colorful condensed bold purrs and exclamations:

Ooh, chihuahua indeed.

Unsilent Night is an original composition by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in December in the form of a “public performance art piece,” aka flash mob parade.

Here’s how it works:

1. Download the MP3. There are four different tracks, and one will be chosen for you at random. Load the MP3 onto a boombox or other sound-amplifying device.
2. If you can’t do Step 1, arrive early and get a CD or cassette.
3. Meet at Dolores Park on the evening of Saturday, December 17. At 7:30pm, everyone presses play!
4. Parade through the city on a predetermined route while the music plays, creating a “unique mobile sound sculpture.”

And then head to American Tripps after!

Took me a minute to place it, since it doesn’t say “Argus Lounge” or anything, but then I placed it and I was like “OHHHHHH YEAHHH.”

Not pictured: Leather Tongue Video signage, Annie’s Social Club signage, Mission Records signage.

Ultracore explains:

Rainbow mutant baby creature, a work in progress by Craig Calderwood at The Sock Shop on Haight. The teeth are molds of his teeth. [link]

Siiick! (Also, I guess it’s unclear whether this will eventually be available for purchase or not, but whatevrr.)

The artist Jenny Odell explains:

[R]ather than hanging out in the actual, physical Dolores Park, I’ve been spending hours cutting out every single person in the very crowded Google Earth view of Dolores Park.

I guess we’re a little late to this as it showed as part of a group show at Intersection for the Arts in October. But better late than never. Read on for more explanation and a look at all the people on Pier 39.

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UPDATE: The show is up through mid-January!

These are new prints by artist Claire Nereim. Find these and more in her Etsy shop, or I’m pretty sure Needles + Pens might have one or two of her forever calendars for sale.