When She Had a Face
I really dig this close-up shot of the purple elven diva we linked to here. And I love seeing how she used to look (2007) before HATERS uglified her.
(Spotted @)
Name That Spot
Make your guess in the comments.
UPDATE: And, BAM, commenter Lemon nailed it, the side of Alioto's, Folsom and 14th.
The Often-Missed Beauty of Graffiti Tags
Even folks who think of themselves as open-minded urbanoids who can appreciate a good "mural" - unlike these wankers - will often mutter about tags as being mere marking of territory - simple, unimaginative, unskilled fuck-you-ism.
The above visualization of the motion of tagging, however, seems to challenge this notion. Anyone who's ever paid attention to the kids on Muni as they swipe their markers and fill the bus with dizzying fumes has had a chance to see this, on some level. And yet most cannot get past the criminality (or the smell).
Now they can. (There is, of course, an iPhone app.)
Graffiti Guy Girafa Arrested
The prolific Bay Area graffiti artist was apparently taken downtown on Thursday.
Steven Free, 30, of San Francisco was arrested Tuesday on a $100,000 warrant, charging him in 10 felony cases in San Jose involving $40,000 in damages.
During a search of his San Francisco home, officers discovered thousands of pictures of graffiti with the "Girafa" moniker and cartoon characters of giraffes on several of his social Web sites.
"He was just causing a lot of vandalism around the Bay Area, anywhere he would find a spot, he would use this moniker," said San Jose police officer Jermaine Thomas.
Free also is also accused leaving his tags on multiple places in Alameda, San Francisco and Contra Costa counties.
Follow Us via…
Recent Posts
- Name That Spot
- The Best Thing About ‘Up in the Air’ Was San Francisco in the Title Sequence
- Possibly the Best Use of San Francisco in a Film, Ever
- Snow on Mission Street!
- Albion Brewery & Castle
- Pony Express Turns 150
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27
- Name That Spot
- Curbside Brick-Oven Pizza
- Tipped & Smashed Streetcar, circa 1920
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20
- “Playland at the Beach” Documentary Premier
- Dear MUNI, Maybe Switch Back to the Roman Alphabet Now?
- San Francisco Girls on Bikes
- Google Teases SF With Promise of Fiber Internet Roll-out
Most Commented
- Love It or Leave It, SF Weekly 31 comment(s)
- Fantastic 1958 Film Footage of San Francisco 21 comment(s)
- San Francisco Opium Den Photos circa 1889 9 comment(s)
- Name That Spot 9 comment(s)
- Snow on Mission Street! 9 comment(s)
- Who Is This Bearded Legend? 8 comment(s)
- Google Street View Blackout 6 comment(s)
- Submitted: Pet Cemetery in the Presidio 6 comment(s)
- The New Beauty Bar 6 comment(s)
- Name That Spot 5 comment(s)
Recent Comments
- Jeff Diehl on The Best Thing About ‘Up in the Air’ Was San Francisco in the Title Sequence
- CK on The Best Thing About ‘Up in the Air’ Was San Francisco in the Title Sequence
- theCara on Name That Spot
- Jeff Diehl on Name That Spot
- theCara on Name That Spot
Archives
Categories
- Art
- Booze
- Creeks
- Drugs
- Events
- History
- I Love SF
- Infiltrations
- Just Photos
- Maps
- Mass Transit
- Name That Spot
- Not San Francisco
- Parks
- Politics
- Quake
- Spots Explored
- Tech
- The Mission
- Uncategorized
- Urban Wildlife
- Video
- Visitors
- Watershed
Check These: Blogs
- 10 Zen Monkeys
- Burrito Justice
- Eye on Blogs
- Golden Gate Beer Blog
- Laughing Squid
- Mission Mission
- Muni Diaries
- Olde Nasty
- Sexpigeon
- SF Sewers
- Sunnyside Herald
- Tenderblog
- Wolf! Not Wolf
Check These: Other Sites
- CounterPULSE
- David Rumsey Historical Maps
- FoundSF
- H Plus
- I Live Here
- Nature in the City
- ParkScan
- Secret San Francisco
- SF City Guides
- SFPD Scanner
Twitter Feed
- [pic] Name That Spot. http://bit.ly/a5pQUi 3 hrs ago
- and the Oscar for Best Title Sequence goes to... http://bit.ly/bATbpD 21 hrs ago
- [vid] San Francisco Soapbox Derby, 1975. http://bit.ly/dD0Utl @swissmiss 1 day ago
- [vid] best-ever use of San Francisco in a film? http://bit.ly/dCIkiE 2 days ago
- [pic] it snowed on Mission Street just now. http://bit.ly/cwL8hS 2 days ago
- More updates...
