Mission Mission

Twin openings inside the old mint! The first one is a group show, but you probably know Brian Brophy better as superstar blogger The Tens from Tumblr. The second one is by a guy named Troy Holden who way back in 2007 and 2008 was known as Plug1 and did a (now-defunct) blog called “What I’m Seeing” where he posted daily pics of his routine roaming around SF. It was like Instagram waaaaaaaaaaaay before Instagram, and it was inspiring. Now he’s doing portraits of his neighbors! Here’s the deal:

The San Francisco Museum at the Mint in collaboration with the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District presents “Neighbors”, 50 environmental portraits by Troy Holden as a photographic essay of the Tenderloin, South of Market, and Mid-Market neighborhoods.

“Side Walks” is a collection of photographs made in downtown San Francisco by Bay Area photographers Chris Beale, Brian Brophy, Reynaldo Cayetano Jr., Brandon Doran, Troy Holden, David Root and Oscar Santos.

Zines available for sale.

Yeahhhh, zines too! RSVP and invite your friends!

[Photo and backpack by Motley Goods]

Oh, the indignity of being a porta-potty.  They can’t all be pagoda-potties!

3D City is a year long stereoscopic photography project by Doctor Popular

Jei Cheetah, seen above rocking a two handed yo-yo routine, has been a regular at the yearly Bay Area Classic competition in Golden Gate Park. There aren’t many furries competing at yo-yo competitions these days, but I’m kind of hoping this is a trend we’ll see grow. Not just in yo-yoing… table tennis, climbing, skiing, everywhere. Put a fuzzy red fox suit on a pitcher and I bet it’d make baseball more fun to watch.

More “beeautiful” people after the bump (more…)

[via Stella]

To celebrate, let’s take a look back at our famous “Cool Dads” post from 5 years ago. Here it is, along with its star-studded comments section:

Cool Dads

Hipster-related comment of the week, courtesy of Aaron Mayfield-Sunshine:

hipsters cannot be 30 or 40 something. 32 is the max! after that you become a cool dad.

Link.

Previously:

“Cool Kid” not “Hipster”

Saw this on the wall of the portable men’s room at SoMa StrEat Food Park, and I thought Ariel could maybe work a little magic on it, like that time I ate a cigar.

Ouch! This is the only way I can look at it because it literally burns the naked eye. But even this photo hurts! OUCH!

I know everyone’s already planning on getting real evil tonight, what with the full moon and Friday the 13th super fun combo and everything, but be sure to save some of that sin for tomorrow. And please, for the love of god, watch out for werewolves wearing hockey masks.

You’ve been warned.

On April 26th over a hundred local filmmakers took their cameras to the streets to document life in San Francisco over a 24 hour period. It was part of a new doc series from the people who made the feature length documentary One Day on Earth. One Day in SF was produced by local filmmaker Winnie Wong, and on the same day filmmakers in ten other cities around the US were participating simultaneously. I was out there with the BAYCAT crew, interviewing people in front of the Roxie and at The Secret Alley. The One Day on Earth team is putting all the pieces together for a 3-part documentary series that we’ll be hearing more about later in the year. You can see the locations of everyone’s videos and watch them on the interactive map, and I’ve included some selections below, mostly Mission-based.

Riding along with an ambulance for the night. Great night shots, and nice profiles of the EMTs:

Kind of has a perfect opening line:

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