Mission Mission

How does one open this door? How does that doorknob even work? Does it work? Does it lead to some sort of fanciful kingdom full of crazy doors with doorknobs in the middle???

The mysteries of the universe are too vast to ponder this early in the morning.

Art is a tricky thing to define. As we all know. Or maybe we don’t. I find it a lot easier to recognize what is art than what isn’t. Today I got into a debate with a Twitter account for DPW’s Zero Graffiti program. What strikes me the most about Zero Graffiti SF‘s argument here is the implication that acknowledging that something is art is to condone it or qualify it in a positive way. I understand that the city doesn’t want people tagging where they’re not supposed to (pretty much everywhere), but I wonder why they won’t call it art. Or rather, why they specifically decide to say that it’s not.

Why can’t it be both? Saying it’s art doesn’t condone it. “@zerograffitisf: Tagging Is Not Art; It’s Property Damage http://t.co/oacGoMHe9T”

— Ariel Dovas (@eviloars) January 14, 2014

@eviloars difference between art and vandalism? permission. If you have permission, you have art; if not, you have vandalism – simple

— Zero Graffiti SF (@zerograffitisf) January 14, 2014

.@zerograffitisf So Banksy's not art? Even if his vandalism is worth the price of the building it's on? Art doesn't have to be asked for.

— Ariel Dovas (@eviloars) January 14, 2014

.@zerograffitisf @cynthia_says No, art can be vandalism, art can be illegal. Not that plain, not that simple. http://t.co/1qWBrCPC8u

— Ariel Dovas (@eviloars) January 14, 2014

SFist reports:

As Inside Scoop reports, it’s a German-style pilsner with “a smokey note and Sichuan peppercorns,” and it was produced by Bjergsø’s brewery in Denmark. And the label bears the image of a dragon with Danny Bowien’s face, glasses, and signature skullcap.

It’s not available to the public yet, but keep your eyes peeled. Read on.

[via The Fog Bender]

UPDATE: SFist has more info.

This is a still from a short film by Abby Ayckbourn. Watch and listen here.

No u-lock, no cable, not even to secure one of the wheels to the frame. Guy was just like “Kickstand and I’m out!”

In case you’re wondering, it was still there a couple hours later…

#TrickDog new new drink menu: tattooed backwards on the entrails of a galloping unicorn, in a herd of identical unicorns, on another planet.

— Wow Throngs (@wowthrongs) January 11, 2014

Now let’s rock out:

[via @jokesless]

In a post called “I Remember Valencha,” local blog Ticklefight takes a look back at a Valencia Street of the not-so-distant past:

KFC used to own this stretch and they knew it. For blocks and blocks you could smell it, sometimes all the way up to the other KFC on 14th or the Taco Bell near Saint Luke’s.

The 26 would get you all over, that is if it ever showed up. Plenty of seats and hardly any riff-raff.

The Gardens on 15th were a jungle and you stayed away if you could because you knew better.

Read on for the scoop on $2 slices and some pondering about the future of La Rondalla.

Also, let’s all be sure to read former Mission Mission editor Kat Malinowska’s stirring remembrance of the 26-Valencia (sample excerpt: “Riding the 26 always made me feel like I was taking public transit in Santa Barbara”).

Every now and then, the now-LA-based but still SF-devoted photographer Joshua Cobos shoots a roll of film just for us. He picks the best 13 shots and we call it “Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos.” Here’s what Joshua has to say about this edition:

This roll is an example of the various types of shoots I’ve been on in the past month. The first photo is Ashley Pamela on her birthday off Melrose. Ashley Ording on a concept shoot at the Legion of Honor. Allyson Hillerby is a model / vintage lover I just met, she runs an online store / appointment only shop in the Mission. My pals near St. Francis Fountain on a recent trip to SF. Back in LA, I saw Michelle Guintu’s new art show off Santa Monica Blvd., at various times with various people wandered around Hollywood during our Winter Heatwave and worked with the twin brother punk band The Garden.

Thanks, Joshua! Ten more shots after the jump:

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