Fabric Font Friday
I saw this framed fabric at Britex Fabrics in San Francisco. Britex is an amazing emporium of all things fabric, from single buttons to $200-a-yard sequinned loveliness. Yes, I know, I should get a bunch of the font fabric and upholster my house in it!
Do you have vertigo? Do you want some?
It’s one of San Francisco’s favorite photo subjects, and today we bring you a selection of our favorite leaning house photos to illustrate just how steep some of the city’s sidewalks can be, courtesy of photographer Leighton Wallis. [From sfist.com]
Rarely Seen Maps From San Francisco’s Quirkiest Hidden Library
By Greg Miller from wired.com: << Previous | Next >> Have you ever gone to a place you’ve always wanted to visit and found out it was even more awesome than you thought it would be? That’s how I felt last week when we visited […]
New Cloud Magically Appears Inside a San Francisco Room
By alice from mymodernmet.com: By now, you’re all familiar with the name Berndnaut Smilde, the Dutch artist who magically makes clouds appear inside rooms. His latest work took him to the Green Room of the Veterans Building in downtown San Francisco where he let Julia Wilczok and Maria Judice of Avant/Garde Diaries shoot him and […]
Disaster Preparedness: San Francisco Emergency Drinking Water Hydrants
In the spirit of Independence for July 4th, be independent in case of disaster by knowing your closest San Francisco hydrant with drinking water. Go here for an interactive map of all 67. Note: There doesn’t seem to be a Hydrant #19 for some reason. Emergency Drinking Water Hydrant #1 Anza St. & 43rd Ave., […]
“Moon Gate” at the 2012 Burning Man Festival
Moon gates symbolizing the full moon, birth and renewal are common in classical Chinese buildings and gardens. For the 2012 Burning Man festival—the theme of which was “Fertility 2.0”—I worked with nine other artists from the Liminal Labs theme camp to design and build this 12-foot-high steel moon gate. Our architects, in various places around […]