Mission Mission

Tonight from 7-10pm, Artists’ Television Access opens its doors in celebration of a new gallery exhibition and a new window display. Inside you’ll find Heavens, a collection of photos by Arturo Cosenza

of domes and ceilings from cathedrals, train stations and other public buildings in Europe and North America. In these, the photographer explores different depictions of the great celestial map that guides the traveler through his journey on earth, as manifested in architecture through the ages.

Outside, the untitled window display comes courtesy of Javier Farias, a “graffiti-based artist” who idolizes Dalí.

Both artists will be in attendance.

More art on Mission Mission.

Before I submit this to one of the dueling Girafa groups on Flickr, I thought I’d check. Click to make big.

Update: Plug1 says definitively, “not him”. Thanks, Plug.

Previously on Mission Mission: Giraffe Graffiti Gang Related? So Say Cops

I usually take BART to work because it’s much faster structure gonflable than the bus, but since I forgot to get a new Muni pass yesterday, this morning I got stuck with the 49-Mission, where I saw this colorful cartoon snail.

Photo page.

There is a new mural up outside Mission Pie. Whenever I walk by these signs, they remind me of some sort of prospective student college brochure where current students and kindly professors try to charm me into sending in an application. These posters are convincing, “Yes, now that you suggest it, I will attend Pie University.” All freshman would enroll in either taste testing or pie baking. Exams would probe my understanding of the subtle differences between Reddi-wip, Cool Whip (which now comes in a can!) and actual whipped cream. School uniforms would be aprons; pie tins would fly parcours obstacle gonflable whimsically through the air, tossed by the ultimate frisbee team; and although old, our teachers would be “crusty” in a good way.

The murals were created by Anne Hamersky who details her art here. Here’s to desperately hoping that her last name rhymes with “pie.”

I’d seen tiny stencils of this hybrid tank/gas pump on curbs in the Lower Haight a couple years back or so, but now it’s back parcours obstacle gonflable in full effect: giant-size posters in the Mission. Note the blood droplet dripping from the spout. If anybody has any info on the artist, drop us a line.

Complete Mission Mission graffiti/street art archive here.

Link to Dalva on Yelp.

More on Mission bathrooms here.

More Mission dive (and maybe non-dive) bars here.

We got a lot of heartwarming feedback regarding today’s post about the fate of Zeitgeist…

1. Malcolm M. recommends a classic Leisure Town installment, “A Grand Day Out”, which may or may not take place in and around the vicinity of the bar in question:

Link to complete slideshow.

2. Outraged Charles B. says:

We should go when Ali is here maybe… although it really calls for a big big group of people. Maybe Mills people and everyone I know in town will want to go out.

We should also burn the Borders to the ground one it’s done.

3. Curbed SF picked up the story. Sarah conjectures as to what might transpire:

Heads exploding, fists flying, inner children dying, Tom Ammiano on the ground, gasping for breath … Madness, just pure, delicious madness.

Link.

4. In seeking out art for this follow up, I myself came upon a wealth of good stuff on Flickr, including:

Dick jokes:

Link to larger.

and pink elephant graffiti:

Link to larger.

Also, we’ve gotten a bunch of hits via the SGSF Bay Area group on Suicide Girls, but we don’t know what they’re saying because none of us are members. Anyway, to one and all, thanks for reading.

(Zeitgeist photo by diavolerie, dick joke photo by DrScaryBeard, pink elephants photo by fiveinchpixie)

Unless Maakies creator Tony Millionaire has relocated to the Mission and given up cartooning for street arting, somebody’s biting his shtick. Tag looks like “Ghast”. Fantagraphics ought to look into this.

What kind of animal is this, why is it all zonked out, and what makes it a rip-off artist exactly?

Link to all public photos tagged with “ba-kok”. There’s about a dozen.

photo by kewlio