someone saw my camera in the tray and was like, is that film? lemme hand check the film for you. what film are you shooting? where did you get the waist level finder? i really want one too.
Welcome to #SFO ; as a tourist arriving at the airport here your first experience of the city will be the clapped out #BART train carriage as loud as a steelworks and the sadly unfortunate but often actively unpleasant people who spend all day riding it. It's quite the first impression.
Our last trip had three different people: one taking drugs, one begging and one masturbating during our ~40 minute journey :(
The worst thing about the airport/airplane experience these days is the people who have, apparently, just arrived on this planet and wear their belts,shoes, and have their keys in their pockets through the scanner and the people who give the flight crew a hassle when they’re in the exit row.
Yes, the checkpoint stuff is security theatre but slowing the world down and literally cursing out the flight crew because you can’t be bothered to think or behave isn’t the flex you think it is.
#california q: i will probably have 10 hours to kill at #sfo on monday april 8. should i try to explore #sanfrancisco ? i'm flying in on friday and will be at a conference in santa cruz the whole weekend. my flight leaves at 11pm monday & i have to check out of my hotel at 11am.
i should probably just stay at the airport but i've never been to sf before & my birthday is the next day 😏
BTW, did you know that you can rent out the SFO Museum?
It's beautiful, spacious, and extremely accessible – you can get there by plane, bus, shuttle, car, BART, etc. SFO Museum is also cheaper and more reasonable to work with than most wedding venues, as it turns out 😂
#SFO was running on a single runway for most of the day. Wind pushed both departures and arrivals to RWY 10 (already a rare condition) but 10R is closed for repairs. Luckily once the worst of the wind started mid-afternoon, the direction had changed enough to move to 19L/R—with an obvious relief in the voices of the controllers.
But still a fun afternoon hanging out with the resident seagull population of the Tanforan Target parking lot. #planespotting#avgeek
Lions on a porcelain hat stand from the late 19th century (artist Zhan Yishun)
From the exhibit 'Everyday Elegance in Chinese Ceramics' at #SFO Museum!
"帽筒
Hat Stands
Once ubiquitous in Chinese dress, hats were worn on most public occasions. Historically, one’s rank, the occasion, and time of year dictated the type of hat worn. Hats, often displayed on decorative stands, were scented with fragrant materials that diffused through hollows to impart the owner’s hat with a pleasant scent."
The whole Midwest has highs below 0 the next couple of days, which is playing havoc with all #travel (including my better half, whose cross-country train won't be going past Denver today).
"In recent decades, candidates for political office in San Francisco have developed a tradition of finding an “authentic” Chinese name to put on ballots. In the past, the process was somewhat freewheeling, in which non-Chinese candidates were more or less allowed to call themselves whatever they wanted. But the rules are tightening."
"Protesters blocked all lanes of westbound Interstate 80 traffic on the Bay Bridge during the Thursday morning commute. The protesters stopped their cars on the bridge, east of Treasure Island Road, and threw their keys into the Bay before chaining themselves together and to the bridge, according to California Highway Patrol." #SanFrancisco#SFO#protest https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/bay-bridge-protest-blocks-all-westbound-traffic/
Hope you don't need the CHP or Caltrans up in that area for a bit, they're all on the Bay Bridge. "NEG TKS AVAIL / ALL AT THE PROTEST" #protest#BayBridge#SFO
Damn. Because of “VIP” movement in the area, our flight is delayed by about 30 minutes at #SFO.
(A stupid policy, that makes no one safer, but provides an aura of safety. Oh well.)
"A globally-acclaimed Japanese artist has opened up a new exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Takashi Murakami’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area opened on Friday...The 'Murakami: Monsterized' exhibit will be open from Sept. 15 until Feb. 12, 2024.
'The larger-than-life paintings and sculptures in ‘Murakami: Monsterized’ use monsters as a central motif to address the complicated nature of the world around us.'"
Nancy Pelosi needs to step dwn. As underthedesknews just pointed out in a great vid, Democrats must “RECIPROCATE the trust they demand for themselves and back a GenZ candidate”. #California#SanFrancisco#SFO#uspol