Too Funky

 

I like this building. I don't know what took me so long to notice it.

From sunny Embarcadero. 

Ocean Beach

Nice empty beach on a windy day*...

As soon as I had set my foot on the sand I understood my mistake. Both the wind and the sand were lashing at me. It was painful.

I had to use the stairway for protection, took one shot and left the beach.

*:  (when I want to go where I am going... ;)

Art on pavement #2

Somebody has been dropping these little sculptures on the pavement.

So let's keep our eyes down for an artful cause!

I [poop] you

There is a French expression that is close to that one... It's pretty rude. The translation here is literal so I would say that the very conceptual artist who did this display has probably some notion of French...

Does his/her linguistic skill equal his talent? That is the question!

Conceptual art needs not be pretty. It's generally the contrary.

I finds this funny. In a window on a street known to love that type of art. Of course never in my house...

But the artist is right : sometimes, art is [poop]

Coit Tower Art

I call it : Coit Terror. I apologize for the bad pun. (After all, I did consider a journalistic career ;)

Last summer, we went to the Coit Tower. It was hellish : it took us forever to find a parking space and when we finally arrived there, the line to get to the top of the tower was longer than that of Delfina's at weekends.

And then the first thing I saw was this :

 Sympa !

We left. But on the way back to our car, we found pine nuts...  (like the one I used to break open with my sister in my grand-mother's garden!)  -Super sympa !

What's that?

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to get some ice-cream from a neighborhood ice-cream parlor in the Mission.

It's a nice walk and in general it's always sunny :)

On our way to that Crazy Ice-cream Cup thing, we walked past one of the many shops on Mission Street. They were selling these :

Now, there was a little sign to tell us ignorant people what this was... If not, I would never have guessed.

Would you?







Fresh chick peas!

The anti-Guédelon building

In the heart of Puisaye, in Burgundy, France a team of fifty people have taken on an extraordinary feat: to build a castle using the same techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages. 

In San Francisco, they are building a lego-resembling building. The techniques and materials are modern...

 

To be fair, the housing situation in SF is problematic to say the least... No time to waste.

For a visit of the Guédelon, go here (English version)