Yesterday, I made the trek downtown to the SFMOMA to see the Kusama installation. I wasn't sure if the timing would work out, since I wasn't sure if I'd be recovered enough to walk around a museum before the show closed.
I loved it! Totally exhausted me, but it was worth it!
The shapes and colors in one of the rooms got right into my imagination, and I've been playing with the shapes in my own drawings.
This articulates my exact feelings about San Francisco, the tech industry, & the entire social crisis of Capitalism we are all facing. Ms. Solnit writes with fierce precision & grace, connecting the dots with damning evidence rather than hyperbole.
A genuinely thick fog is consuming San Francisco -- quite a rare event in these times. I'm standing outside accumulating moisture in my clothes and hair. #sanfrancisco
A bit blurry due to using a 2x converter on a very soft 500mm on a cheap tripod with very bad skill, but still very happy with how it came out. #Photography#SutroTower#SanFrancisco#Moon
SAN FRANCISCO: A Black man who has been repeatedly targeted with death threats and racist threats and harassment finds that his S.F. home set on fire; his elderly parents rescued and sent to hospital. https://tinyurl.com/yck2xn6t#SanFrancisco
The problem with these $200 pp ramen restaurants in SF is (1) I'm glad people are going, I know why restauranteurs in this city feel they need to focus on the top end (2) most of the time, ramen and Japanese spots in SF that charge $200 are not 5x better than things that cost $40 or less in almost every global food city that isn't SF. Or even in San Mateo (which has markedly better Japanese food).
Klaire Lockheart, Two Brodalisques. 2023. Oil on Canvas. 32x48”.
Klaire Lockheart, Old Fashioned Man Cave. 2023. Oil on Canvas. 24x40”.
[Description: Two photographs of oil paintings in the same image include the top painting of a pair of lounging bros wearing cozy superhero pajamas and the lower painting stars a dude relaxing on red satin sheets.]
This driverless Waymo came to a full stop in the bike lane ahead of us, even though there was plenty of space in the passenger loading zone a few feet away. I waited to see if the Waymo would ever pull into the loading zone, but I got tired of waiting after 5 minutes. #SanFrancisco#Waymo#Robotaxi
Much like candidates and elected officials adopting #Chinese names, the prominence of #monolingual Chinese seniors at #political rallies has become a perennial election-year phenomenon in #SanFrancisco. This demographic may not swing elections, but their presence sends a signal to other pockets of this heavily #Asian city about diversity and organizing power.
My #SanFrancisco story “Volcanid” was accepted today by Persimmon Lit for its “menagerie” edition. It encounters a coyote in McLaren Park and a dog in the back of Muni’s 14-Mission bus - thus its claim to “menagerie - and has brunch in the Mission District and contemplates Quito, Ecuador and the Volcán Pichincha, which I trod decades ago. I’ll post a link here when it comes out online. Meanwhile my thanks to Editor-in-Chief Amanda Sun. #Writing#WritingCommunity
Art Not Ads are a group of #SanFrancisco artists who paste collage art on walls that are usually covered with obnoxious ads. Their favorite "gallery" are the walls on the old Big Lots store (3333 Mission). I've really enjoyed seeing their art in the neighborhood over the years, and I was glad to finally meet them in person today. Good vibes! #SFGraffiti#Collage#Wheatpaste#ArtNotAds