What's up with that sign on Turk & Larkin

Annise Gross gets the lowdown on this historic Tenderloin Landmark. Read the her piece on
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Sign Hacked by Slayer

On my morning commute today I saw this at 14th & Church

previous road sign hack:
zombie warning sign

San Francisco Bank of America ATMs converted into truth machines

Rainforest Action Network activists took to the streets of San Francisco and turned every single one of Bank of America's Automated Teller Machines in the city into Automated Truth Machines. Using special non-adhesive stickers that were designed to look exactly like BoA's ATM interface, the activists gave the bank's customers a menu of what their money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on America's homes, bankrolling climate change, and paying out fat executive bonuses.

see complete flickr set
here

BART Police Warning stickers

I'm glad BART has decided to warn it's users of the inherent risks they take every time they ride the public rails system with these new stickers. BART police are there for our protection, because our taxes pay their salaries, so if they didn't actually kill people who could possibly be criminals, wouldn't they be wasting our hard earned money?




via:
Cafe Intifada

1920 Time Capsule

1920 Time Capsule, originally uploaded by David Gallagher.

Ghost sign for Boss of the Road work clothes exposed on 3rd Street in San Francisco's Bayview District during demolition for an expanded neighborhood library

The sign dates from before 1921, based on San Francisco Assessor's records for the demolished building

here's a 1928 shot of the street from the Jesse Brown Cook Collection at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library
www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8z09p4xr/?brand=oac4

Passive Agressive street signs

nice sign find from @ekai



previous posts involving Eddie:

Sign Montage from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

laser etched macbookpro

More Is Always on the Way

I had the pleasure of seeing Bryon Boyce's "More is Always Better" last night at Southern Exposure Art Gallery. It is part of a large group show entitled and themed around the word "Boom!" I was amazed by the double entendres he was able to create by being at the right place at the right time, with the right specific perspective to shoot these amazing signage portraits. I recognized a few of the shots, as signs I had also seen around San Francisco, but the way the Boyce presents them in context with other signs, create a social commentary that I would have never imagined.


Boom! at SOEX until December 18th

Happy 40th SF Pride!

blog NSFW this

blog this, originally uploaded by violet.blue.

title says it all.

see also:
Violet Blue puts the S.F in N.S.F.W.

godhatessigns.com

Make your own silly Westboro Baptist Church protest sign!

Anthony Discenza - Minna Street Sign Project

SFMOMA interview with Anthony Discenza


on flickr

Billboard Liberation Front partners with Wachovia Bank

Watch your little ones burn.... Way to Fail....

Read the whole story here
see it on flicker here

related posts:
billboards
economics



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making noise for President Obama!!!

extra action marching band, originally uploaded by rcarver.

Game Over - Giant Robot

I just checked out the Game Over- Art of the Gamer Generation, show at Giant Robot.
I give it two callused Nintendo thumbs up.

David Byrne plays Davies Symphony Hall October 6&7

I'm so excited for this show!
you can preview the whole album by clicking the "show playlist" link below.

...with a secret surprise guest ending.


see previous posts on David Byrne

National Park(ing) Friday!

Started by ReBar of San Francisco in 2005, National Park(ing) Day, is a day where public metered parking spaces are converted into public micro parks for the day.

www.parkingday.org
participating cities and maps




see also:
ReBar - Common Space Podcast

City Planning - Packard jennings & Steve Lambert

It's all about getting in,

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Originally uploaded by violet.blue

thanks for calling speedy locks. sorry we are no longer a mobile service. please write all checks payable to San Francisco Dept of Parking.
Our new location is about 3 blocks west of the 101 overpass on the right side of the road.

Chrome Bags - Sign

Chrome Bags - Sign
Originally uploaded by Ape Do Good Printing

The new Chrome store is open! I still have and use my first Chrome bag that they traded to me about 12 years ago for some tradeshow graphics I made for them. Pictured here, is one from a great series of photos from Ape Do Good Printing in the Mission Dist. showing the screen printing production, start to finish of some retail Chrome Bags signs.


check out the Chrome Bag Thrash Test Video

and Laughing Squid's Photos from the grand opening party.

Jeff Canham in IDN magazine

Displacement Art Auction
Originally uploaded by sketchypad

SF local sign painterJeff Canham is featured in the "pick of the month" section of the newest issue of IDN Magazine. His work bridges the gap between hand-painted vintage typography and gallery art. The piece seen here (Float) is on auction, via the luggage Store Gallery, as part of a benefit show to help fund production of a surf culture film titled Displacement by Alex Kopps