Mission Mission

eviloars asks “what does this tree look like?”

“I was thinking a giant leaping ghost. Or that Oogie Boogie guy from ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’.”

(Found on 15th St. - link)

Woke up one mornin’
Had some skid mark on my porch
Empty bottle of Smirnoff
and some very happy flies

Don’t forget to pack an umbrella:

“A record rainfall of 0.03 inches was set at San Francisco CA today. This breaks the old record of 0.02 inches set in 1998.”

(link Weather Underground)

Brittney Gilbert over at Eye on Blogs stumbled across a pretty cool Emotion Map of San Francisco.

Christian Nold, the designer of the project, briefly detailed what went into making the map:

The San Francisco Emotion Map is the culmination of Christian Nold’s five-week residency and participatory art project that involved a total of 98 participants exploring San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood using the Bio Mapping device he invented. During his residency at Southern Exposure, Christian Nold worked in the organization’s Mission Street storefront gallery encouraging visitors to stop by and use the devices during the weekdays and on Saturdays when he conducted intensive workshops. The project invited the public to go for a walk using the device, which records the wearer’s physiological response to their surroundings. The results of these walks are represented on this map using colored dots and participant’s personal annotations. The San Francisco Emotion Map is a collective attempt at creating an emotional portrait of a neighborhood and envisions new tools that allow people to share and interpret their own bio data. (link)

(Credit Eye on Blogs)

These are screen shots from my new favorite blog, Tanks and Insects.

I saw this and went “WHOA.” I looked behind me and saw the windows from which they’re reflected:

Unassuming windows, right? But a ton of the windows down San Carlos between 19th and 20th, at just the right time of day, make these light buttons. Wow:

Photo by itsolivia.

Mission resident Kevin Haas, 26, last weekend did the Berry Creek Falls hike at Big Basin. Today, he put on his hiking shoes for the first time since the hike, only to find a pair of saplings sprouted from the toe.

Related:

I Have Completed Stage One Of Our Plan To Take Over The World at The Onion.

SF Citizen just ruined my afternoon with this thing, so I figured I’d share the wealth. Click here if god forbid you want to see it way bigger. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go make a pizza.