Trespass: a History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art is a new 320-page Taschen book by Carlo McCormick (pop culture critic, curator and Senior Editor of Paper magazine), Marc and Sara Schiller (founders of the Wooster Collective), Ethel Seno (editor). In recent years street art has grown bolder, more ornate, more sophisticated and—in many cases—more acceptable. Yet ...
Urban Forest Map
I was still curious after taking this photo of the trees on 24th Street at Bryant earlier today. How could I identify these trees? I did several searches on variations of “trees on 24th street mission san francisco” which brought up some great local links, including SFTrees and a good list of trees in the Mission ...
Time-Lapse Video of the SF Bay Bridge Construction
Here’s a time-lapse video of last weekend’s San Francisco Bay Bridge construction closure made using a script that grabbed images from the bridge webcams. Via Laughing Squid
Clever Car
Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a “clever” (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car. The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability. The prototype is purely a research project and is unlikely to come to market in its present form. But the researchers hope that car companies ...
Qube Sign
Wicked car-as-sign.
Barcode Building
I’ve always like the simplicity and functionality of bar codes. In art school, I made a series of oversized bar code prints as rough posters and had a collection of various bar codes pulled from packaging and collected in one sketchbook. So whenever I walk by this green building on Harrison during my walk to ...
SF Night
Night time traffic on the interstate as seen from our window. Even after a year, this scene still fascinates me. Any hour of the day or night, endless cars stream across several curved interstate ramps running into the city and diverging onto ramps heading towards the bay bridge. (Shot on digital video, looped and converted ...