{"id":3034,"date":"2014-07-13T22:43:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T22:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:32:36","slug":"face-sculptures-in-clarion-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/face-sculptures-in-clarion-alley\/","title":{"rendered":"Face sculptures in Clarion Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/14647042192\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3853\/14647042192_46a5d4c230.jpg\" alt=\"Bini faces in Clarion Alley\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bernalwood.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/04\/bizarre-concrete-creatures-emerge-from-cortland-sidewalks\/\">Much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/webuiltthiscity.tumblr.com\/post\/86349728563\/sculpted-faces-in-noe-valley-the-same-artist-has\">has<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrybobsf\/status\/486538706572951552\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2014\/03\/street-installation-takes-over-the-mission\/comment-page-1\/\">written<\/a> on the mysterious Mayan-esque face sculptures that have been appearing over the city in recent months. The only clue is that if you pick them up and turn them over, they say &#8220;Bini&#8221; on the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But of course, there is no real mystery here: as <a href=\"http:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2014\/04\/the-benevolence-of-street-art\/\">Mission Local reported<\/a>, the painted plaster faces are made by local artist Bruce Hallman, who&#8217;s perfectly fine with people &#8220;liberating&#8221; them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more photos, Hallman himself documents the little Bini sculptures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hallman\/\">his Flickr stream<\/a> and in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hallman\/galleries\/72157644134459777\">Flickr gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written on the mysterious Mayan-esque face sculptures that have been appearing over the city in recent months. The only clue is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Face sculptures in Clarion Alley - MrEricSir.com","description":"Much has been written on the mysterious Mayan-esque face sculptures that have been appearing over the city in recent months. The only clue is that if you pick t"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1026,637,1027,38,23,1025],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-bini","tag-clarionalley","tag-mayan","tag-photos","tag-san-francisco","tag-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10071,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/10071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}