Tracie couldn’t come with me to San Francisco, so I made her this video to share some of the sights I saw. It’s a little bit lengthy, but I had a CityPass that included some of the popular area attractions like the Aquarium of the Bay, the California Academy of Sciences, SFMoMa, and others.
Video cc by Jeremy Parnell (music attributions in credits).
The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
— Kerouac
This is the bar in North Beach where Kerouac hung out with Neal Cassady and other famous Beat poets when they were in San Francisco. I ordered none other than a “Jack Kerouac” off the menu, a mix of rum, tequila, orange/cranberry juice, lime and an olive.
When the shadow of the grasshopper falls across the trail of the field mouse on green and slimey grass as a red sun rises above the western horizon silhouetting a gaunt and tautly muscled indian warrior perched with bow and arrow cocked and aimed straight at you it’s time for another martini.
Some photos I took in San Francisco while attending a mobile web developer conference.
While in San Francisco I was excited at the opportunity to see, in person, my first Banksy. This one was in Chinatown.
I also stumbled upon this one in the North Beach area. Wasn’t looking for it on purpose, just sort of looked up and instantly recognized it.
Haunting graffiti art at Chernobyl, by photographer Jan Smith.
Whenever I take a trip, I like to bring along a trackable. Found this one in a nearby geocache. Poor little guy’s only been 321 miles so far.
I’ll be dropping him off in San Francisco somewhere.
[Update: There’s a great little travel bug hotel at the California Historical Society. Check it out if you get the chance.]
Using just shadows caused by creased paper, artist Simon Schubert creates complete stop motion animations.
Have a lot of blue jeans in the closet you’ve been putting off taking to Goodwill? Turn them into portraits.
From the artist, Ian Berry:
“The story of denim jeans follows snuggly against that of America. In its early history, it embodied the wholesome American hero, the cowboy and the laborer. For many years jeans were only used as work clothes, but by the 1940s they were starting to be considered leisure-wear in America. With the popularity of the Western movie and stars like John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, blue jeans were all the rage. What were originally designed as prospectors working britches now gained the irresistible aura of romance and adventure.”
Each of these detailed drawings, by artist Gregory Euclide, are made with dry erase markers on whiteboards during the artist’s short lunch breaks.
There’s a Toyota manufacturing plant near where I live. In an attempt to bridge culture gaps, the community built this nice Japanese inspired friendship garden.
