Mission Mission

Sorry for this detour, but it’s Friday and I’m feeling loose, and I like this. Seen yesterday in SoMa.

Please excuse this quick detour from the Mission to the Bowery, but Animal just published this beauty and we thought you’d like to see it. Link.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Matt Gonzalez T-Shirt Drew No Ire

When It Rains It Pours

On Friday, Valentina at Threadtrend published a nice feature on Fabric8. Note the colorful rendering of Rip-Off Artist Mildred in the lower right-hand corner of this photo. Valentina profiles the shop:

It’s been around online since 1995, and it’s now its a real-life store holding court in the city’s happening Mission district. Like a lot of inflatable obstacle course shops in the area, it’s pretty teeny tiny, but the super-friendly owner Olivia Ongpin keeps it brimming with paintings, t-shirts, home design, bags, and jewelry from “urban independent designers.”

Link.

If you like dryness and gristle, you’ll love the carne asada at La Cumbre. If you don’t like dryness and gristle, surely you can at least agree that their furniture is more fun than the boring stuff at most of the neighborhood’s taquerias.

If that’s not enough, be sure to relish the joy to be had tobogan acuatico hinchable in La Cumbre’s collection of odd photos lining the wall. Here’s my favorite. It reads, “To Eddie, Thanks for the great BURRITOS!” and seems to be from some kind of celebrity organist.

Finally, the graffiti in the bathroom at La Cumbre is pretty nice too. Whimsical, colorful, fun. Thanks, Sad Jose!

Previously on Mission Mission:

Muni Overhead Wire Technicians Allowed To Double Park Outside La Taqueria

Carnitas at Taqueria Can-Cun! Finally!

See the group’s Flickr photostream for other works, and clues about their “fuck private property” aesthetic. Click picture to visit it on Flickr, or visit it in person on 20th Street between Guerrero and Valencia.

That’s right, to celebrate the announcement that Mayor Newsom is getting married again, it’s a sidewalk-stencil graffiti street-art ode to “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield — starring Newsom and Ruby Rippey Tourk. See all photos and make them bigger here, or visit them in person on 20th Street between Dolores and Guerrero. Best wishes!

Jessie’s Girl on Wikipedia.

Jessie’s Girl on YouTube.

Previously on Mission Mission:

‘You Are Here’ Sidewalk Stencil Graffiti Puts You in the Cockpit

Stencil Graffiti: In The City We Trust

Gentrification Implications of Sidewalk Stencils

The latest iteration of Gastank:

Dick Cheney as Grim Death (stencil):

Fire-Axe Bozo and Fire-Axe Bozo remixed as Giants Fan Fire-Axe Bozo:

Click any photo to enlarge.

Update: Speaking of baseball, Boing Boing just published some pretty good baseball news. Link.

Took a closer look at one of the Gastank stickers on Valencia today. Noticed the fine print said gastank.us. Nothing there but the tank, an email link, and a Digg button (only nine diggs so far).

Previously on Mission Mission: Gas Tank Street Art

Spotted on 19th Street in front of Mission Pool, this bold bit of street stencil says we’re all responsible for the actions of our military. To make the picture bigger, click it.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Gas Tank Street Art

Stencil Graffiti: In The City We Trust

Gentrification Implications of Sidewalk Stencils

Saw this across from the Chronicle building while waiting for the 26 to take me back to the neighborhood. It’s a bus shelter ad, mistakenly aufblasbarer wasserpark installed backward. The question is, is the tag backward too? I hope it is. Click the picture to make it much bigger.