Tag: streetart
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Blurry Simpsons
Finally, a street art mural of the Simpsons that’s as blurry as my memories of a time when the show was still funny. UPDATE: The Simpsons have now come into focus. (Spotted in Clarion Alley.)
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Lisbon’s Super Mario Bros. obsession
As mentioned in the previous post, Lisbon has a Super Mario thing going on with its street art. Someone must be nostalgic for the 8-bit days. I think the sign in the 4th image is for a bar… can’t be certain since it was closed both times I walked by.
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Lisbon street art
Lisbon is one of those rare places that looks just like the postcards. Even the street art is beautiful. Above are the best of what I happened to see. Stay tuned for a subsequent post on Lisbon’s obsession with Mario, which will include some street art that deserves an Official Nintendo Seal.
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Lucid dreaming squid
Ever had a lucid dream? If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s a dream where you are fully conscious and can exert influence over the dream. (Yes, you can be asleep and conscious at the same time.) As this squid points out, looking at one’s hands is a good way to check if one…
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Valencia chalkboard
The boarded-up former Bombay Creamery space is now hosting a chalkboard where passers-by can scribble a proclamation of love, a poem, or maybe some expletives. No word on whether the chalkboard was an official installation, or if it was the work of an underground street artist. Either way, leave a note on there soon because…
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Zoltron loves you, wants to measure your height
Local street/concert artist has put up a new piece with a height measuring stick at the old Bombay Creamery space on Valencia. “How high are you?” asks the mural, as though that were a question that could be answered quantitatively. Be sure to stand in front of this and measure yourself before someone paints over…
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Berlin street art
All the photos of street art above come from Mitte, the central borough of Berlin. It’s the “capital” of Berlin, if you will. Around the backstreets of Mitte you find abandoned buildings filled covered in illegal art. There’s some real creativity there, it’s refreshing compared to what we see here in San Francisco. Lots of…
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Does BoingBoing coverage confirm San Francisco street art no longer hip?
There was a time when BoingBoing was an underground zine, and being covered in its pages meant you were an up-and-coming phenomenon. Now that BoingBoing is the 11th most popular blog on the internet, your grandmother is probably reading it. Nothing diminishes the cool factor more quickly than when uncool people know about it. With…
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Catching up with Clarion Alley
Sometimes I walk through Clarion Alley just to look. It’s not that I don’t want to take photos of the murals, it’s just that I don’t want to be so cliche. But today I decided to take some photos in spite of my own unoriginality, and you’re looking at the result. These are the newest…
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Goodbye, tiger.
You know that fantastic mural of a tiger on 15th and Valencia? The one on the side of Pica Pica? Well, it’s gone. Sad day indeed. Goodbye, tiger. UPDATE: Walked by today, saw this. Don’t get me wrong, this is obviously skilled work; but it’s really generic compared to what was there before.
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