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NIMBY
"A place to create the impossible, the new, the ridiculous, the exiting and most importantly, the never seen before. It is the largest do-it-yourself industrial art space in the Bay Area with over 40 different art groups and craftsmen in the shop.

NIMBY not only offers space to create, but supports its artists with resources, assistance in sourcing re-purposed material, as well as logistical and technical guidance. This supportive culture shared by all members of the NIMBY community is at the root of the amazing art that emerges from its doors. NIMBY is the hub for creativity that boggles the mind and fosters community values that encourage collaboration and
innovation.

Over the years, the concept of our community has brought together talented and diverse local artists who have created an impressive body of work. NIMBY has been the largest workspace/gallery of its kind in the City of Oakland and continues to provide a workspace, storage and display area - a one-stop shop for big…"
makerspaces  nimby  burningman  hackerspace  diy  art  sanfrancisco  oakland  from delicious
10 days ago by robertogreco
Phil Ross | The Biotechnique of Phil Ross
"My art is driven by a life-long interest in biology. While I was terrible in high-school science and math my education about the life sciences emerged from a wide engagement with materials and practices. Through my work as a chef I began to understand biochemistry and laboratory methods; as a hospice caregiver I worked with life support technologies and environmental controls; and through my interest in wild mushrooms I learned about taxonomies, forest ecology and husbandry.

The creative projects I work on take a variety of forms, though all are based on research, experimentation and long term planning. Recent work has included some videos about live cultures, experiments with growing fungal building materials, and founding and directing CRITTER- a salon for the natural sciences. These diverse projects stem from my fascination with the interrelationships between human beings, technology and the greater living environment."
sanfrancisco  naturalsciences  biochemistry  materials  lifescience  mushrooms  plants  environment  technology  design  artists  sculpture  via:laurenpopp  philross  nature  art  from delicious
12 days ago by robertogreco
SF Muni Fast Pass Colors - a set on Flickr
"A small cache of SF Muni Fast Passes (2005-2011) to aid a casual study of urban wayfinding, social design processes and their influence on visual culture.

Themes: security and aesthetic caprice."
urbanwayfinding  wayfinding  urbanism  publictransit  transportation  munipasses  colors  color  socialdesign  socialdesignprocesses  urban  2005  2006  2007  2008  2009  2010  2011  sanfrancisco  fastpass  from delicious
26 days ago by robertogreco
Headlands Center for the Arts
"Headlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary, international arts center dedicated to supporting artists; the creative process; and the development of new, innovative ideas and artwork.

Where we are is as important as what we do. Our campus comprises a cluster of artist-rehabilitated military buildings, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge at historic Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands, a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Headlands artists programs support artists of all disciplines—from visual artists to performers, musicians, writers, and videographers—and provide opportunities for independent and collaborative creative work. Our impact is evident in the lives and careers of the artists who have participated in our programs and the experiences of our visitors."
via:javierarbona  headlandsartcenter  headland  fortbarry  museums  galleries  residencies  community  art  marin  sanfrancisco  bayarea  glvo  from delicious
8 weeks ago by robertogreco
A city in ruins: Stunning photo that captures devastation in San Francisco after earthquake of 1906 | Mail Online
"This rarely seen image of the city of San Fransisco lying in ruins after the devastating earthquake of 1906 was captured by an ingenious photographer using a camera attached kites. 

The panoramic shot, which is of outstanding quality considering the basic equipment available, shows the full scale of the disaster which claimed the lives of over 3,000, injured 225,000 and caused $400,000,000 worth of property damage.

Commercial photographer George Lawrence, who used home-made large format cameras, was well known at the time for his wide angle photographs of banqueting groups, national political conventions, and state legislature sessions."
cities  naturaldisasters  earthquakes  georgelawrence  1905  aerialphotography  photography  kites  sanfrancisco 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Embark | Mass Transit Made Simple
"We make mass transit simple. Embark provides an accurate, reliable, and interactive transit experience that helps you get where you want to go."
navigation  mapping  maps  longisland  newjersey  philadelphia  dc  washingtondc  sanfrancisco  london  chicago  boston  nyc  applications  trains  transportation  transport  guidebooks  iphone  android  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Human Motor - YouTube
"The Human Motor: A Documentary on the San Francisco Critical Mass Bike Ride, created by Ellie Vanderlip, 2011"
via:javierarbona  carculture  cars  activism  transportation  biking  bikes  toshare  studentfilms  documentary  2011  history  sanfrancisco  criticalmass  ellievanderlip  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
FOLLOWING SEAN - official website
"Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood at the height of the 1960s.

The city was awash with the trappings of America's cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck's building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera‌

Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become‌"
economics  philosophy  cities  thechildinthecity  children  via:litherland  hippies  sanfrancisco  california  documentary  film  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Nomic
"Nomic is a platform for your personal economy.

We're building tools for people to share their craft, tell their story, and build relationships. Simply and beautifully."

"Nomic is a seed-funded San Francisco startup building a platform for economic relationships.

We have set out to build a global impact, Internet-scale business, create products that people love, and help advance a healthier society and better functioning economy.

We have set out to build, change the world, hustle, and have fun."
sanfrancisco  personaleconomy  relationships  business  glvo  web  internet  society  nomic  storytelling  social  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
DIY Days – a roving conference for those who create
"DIY DAYS is a roving conference for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable storytellers to fund, create, distribute and sustain."
diy  conferences  free  losangeles  sanfrancisco  nomadic  creativity  glvo  classideas  sharing  networking  nyc  making  doing  diydays  media  community  roving  collaboration  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
OBIA, THE THIRD: GPOYW
"Flux is great as a concept until you actually have to sit down and get stuff done. I’m one of those strange people who enjoys working. I like being in the haven of my studio—busting out ideas and trying out new experiments and explorations within the laboratory of these four white walls. And yet, I cannot help but notice how everything around me feels more and more temporary. Everything is moving about so much more quickly now. The moment I create something it vanishes in my memory. My own work becoming information to be transferred and over layered—over and over until it is only a glimmer of something I once interacted with, something I once knew. This is not limited to the experience of making or working. I don’t know about you, but I see and feel it everywhere I turn."
toyinodutola  homes  temporality  temporary  flux  change  permanence  place  meaning  security  2011  sanfrancisco  belonging  searching  work  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Outerlands is a gathering place for sea goers who seek warmth | Outerlands
Also at: http://twitter.com/outerlandssf
restaurants  sanfrancisco  food  srg  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
BART Cuts Cell Service to Foil Protest - Pulse of the Bay - The Bay Citizen
"BART took the unusual step of shutting off cell phone service on BART station platforms Thursday night to prevent protestors from using their cell phones to communicate with each other. 

Demonstrators snarled the evening commute July 11, evading police for hours and shutting down several BART stations, as they protested the shooting death of Charles Hill by a BART police officer last month. 

BART warned commuters that a similar protest could take place Thursday and a posting on the web site of the group No Justice No BART invited protestors to gather at 5 pm at Civic Center. Only a few demonstrators showed up, but then quickly left.

The commute went on without a hitch, but no one could get cell phone service on the platforms or the trains. KTVU reported that BART's media relations department suggested cutting off the cell service during the protests…"
bart  sanfrancisco  bayarea  via:javierarbona  protest  technology  mobile  phones  cellservice  2011  control  police 
august 2011 by robertogreco
Sanborn Atlas
"Thanks to the combined efforts of the San Francisco History Center and the David Rumsey Map Collection, this historic glimpse of San Francisco in the years leading up to the devastating 1906 earthquake is now available in full color. Created for fire insurance purposes, it includes precise detail on every building in city limits, including its use and construction. Did you know there was a skating rink on Mission across from The Sycamore? Or that City Hall used to be across the street from its current block?<br />
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John at Burrito Justice says: “At some point I will make a mapesque clickable HTML grid … Imagine an iPhone app where you could stand on a corner and pull up the Sanborn map to see what was there. You turn around, and the map rotates with you. Awesome, no?” The first step to creating a map of every atlas page is getting them roughly matched up to the current geography, and we’d like your help. Can you spend a few minutes aligning pages of the atlas with a map from today?"
maps  mapping  sanfrancisco  history  sanbornmaps  michalmigurski  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Brightworks: A School that Rethinks School | MindShift
"At Brightworks, a K-12 private school set to open in San Francisco this fall, there will be no tests, grades, or transcripts.<br />
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Instead, students will participate in activities and interact with professionals in various fields, design a project that they bring to fruition themselves, and produce a multimedia portfolio that they’ll share with the school, the community, and – via the Brightworks website – the world…<br />
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…curriculum with three phases: 1) exploration, 2) expression, & 3) exposition.<br />
…year’s theme is “wind” for instance…<br />
Sure, there are only 30 students aged 6 through 12 starting in September (though there are a few slots still open for 12-year-old girls) and the teacher-to-student ratio at Brightworks is a minimum of 1 to 6. The program is resource and labor-intensive. “We don’t scale well at all,” says Welch."
lcproject  scale  gevertulley  2011  brightworks  schools  schooldesign  inquiry-basedlearning  projectbasedlearning  passion-based  exploration  student-centered  unschooling  deschooling  grades  grading  thematicunites  tcsnmy  teaching  learning  constructivism  pedagogy  sanfrancisco  making  doing  tinkering  tinkeringschool  curiosity  curriculum  creativity  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
help make pre-quake san francisco seeable (tecznotes)
"Take five minutes, and help place a few of these historic Sanborn maps of pre-earthquake San Francisco in their modern locations."
sanfrancisco  maps  mapping  history  overlay  michalmigurski  sanbornmaps  1905  sanborninstitute  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
scar tissue (tecznotes)
"This is a piece of San Francisco healing around now-gone railroad tracks:"
architecture  history  cities  sanfrancisco  scars  cityscars  rail  scartissue  repurposing  landuse  2006  michalmigurski  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Playgrounds :: Golden Gate Mothers Group
San Francisco has some great playgrounds.
maps  sanfrancisco  playgrounds  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
FoundSF
"Your place to discover and shape San Francisco history"
sanfrancisco  history  place  neighborhoods  timelines  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
San Francisco's Different Faces.
"Covering San Francisco's districts and finding what's unique about each and every one."
sanfrancisco  blogs  places  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Castro’s Seward Street Slides « San Francisco's Different Faces. [More: http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Corwin_Community_Garden_and_Seward_Mini-Park AND http://www.ggmg.org/Playgrounds/seward.html ]
"Hidden up in the Castro Hills, the Seward Mini-Park houses a pair of concrete slides, which are secretly tucked in just off of Douglass Street, between 19th and 20th Street. From what is known, the park and slides are more than three decades old. The area was salvaged by residents from the neighborhood who felt the hills needed a free space for everyone in the community to enjoy. A 14-year-old girl named Kim Clark came up with the idea and won the ”Design a Park” contest. The slides were created by the sculptor Ruth Asawa.<br />
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More than three decades later, the double concrete slide still remains somewhat hidden in the mini-park and are appreciated by more than just kids. Adults take on the mission of walking or driving up the steep hills to find a park with more than just grass and benches. They make sure to bring pizza boxes so sliding down the concrete isn’t painful for their tushes and they also make sliding down faster."
ruthasawa  sanfrancisco  togo  playgrounds  history  art  artists  design  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
TenderNoise Project | Movity.com
"TenderNoise (TN) is an applied acoustic ecology project that invites a large audience ranging from urban planners to government officials, from local residents to global design technologists to consider sound as a key proxy for urban activity, with all of its positive and negative ramifications.<br />
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TN collects, maps and layers noise data across Tenderloin, San Francisco, exploring the aural quality of streets via frequently-logged historical decibel (dBA) levels over a few days period.<br />
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TN has been developed as part of the CityCentered Festival organized by GAFFTA in June 2010. The project is the outcome of many individuals who are employed at various organizations and who have collaborated on a pro-bono basis. Three key organizations involved are Stamen Design, Movity.com and Arup:"
maps  information  visualization  data  noise  sound  mapping  stamen  stamendesign  tendernoise  acoustics  urban  urbanism  sanfrancisco  tenderloin  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
seesaw [via: http://twitter.com/dcinc66/status/88450490043613184 ]
"We're a one-of-a-kind studio + café inspiring curiosity, creativity, and connection.<br />
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Studio: education and support for children & adults.<br />
• friendship skills<br />
• structured play groups<br />
• language immersion<br />
• workshops<br />
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Café: eat. drink. play.<br />
• Four Barrel coffee<br />
• tasty Danish and Korean snacks<br />
• family-friendly vibe<br />
• art shows and private events<br />
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Private Events: Seesaw is a great place to have your next birthday party, baby shower or private event. We offer a variety of packages. Call or e-mail us and we'll give you the low down."
sanfrancisco  lcproject  education  learning  parenting  children  glvo  cafe  cafes  studios  curiosity  creativity  social  food  tovisit  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
LITTLE BROTHER LIVE
"I am adapting and directing Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother for Custom Made Theatre Company, opening January 2012 in San Francisco. I’ll be blogging about the process here. Blog posts will include insights into the process of adapting the novel for the stage, changes that our production will make (spoilers!), and the process of staging the play. Single tickets aren’t on sale yet, but you can purchase a subscription to Custom Made’s full 2011-12 Season on their website. Want to get involved? Check back soon for information about auditions, design positions, and how you can support the production."
littlebrother  sanfrancisco  theater  custommade  2012  books  adaptation  corydoctorow  blogs  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Welcome to the Flaneur Society
"The Flaneur Society was created in response to Walter Benjamin's book Berlin Childhood Around 1900. In it he explores the concept of the Flaneur, one who wanders without destination.<br />
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Intrigued by this concept, the society was created to spread the concept of the Flaneur beyond academic studies and into the general consciousness of how we think of urban spaces.<br />
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The Guidebook to Getting Lost is a small pocket sized book which defines the concept of the Flaneur. Using the language of the Park Service and backcountry maps, the guide aims to introduce the participant to a city without the concern of street names and directions. Inside, there are three maps which can guide the participant to a state of Flaneuring. A PDF of the guidebook can be downloaded here." [PDF: http://www.flaneursociety.org/guide.pdf ]<br />
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[Tumblr: http://flaneursociety.tumblr.com/ ]
flaneur  situationist  walking  wandering  sanfrancisco  walterbenjamin  maps  mapping  derive  via:maryannreilly  ralphwaldoemerson  iste-fringe2012  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
i live here:SF
"I Live Here:SF is an open invitation to San Francisco residents to enjoy and participate in, sharing many facets of life in this city with each other and the world at large. The project has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, KQED Arts Online and The Urbanist.<br />
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I Live Here:SF is a photography/portraiture project that I began in March 2009. It is an exploration of the city through the visages and stories of the people who participate, and through it, I have learned so much about San Francisco and its myriad of nano-neighborhoods and micro-climates. Living here in San Francisco, and our communal attachment to the city, is the common thread for the work that I am doing."<br />
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[via: http://flaneursociety.tumblr.com/post/1417358975/i-live-here-sf ]
sanfrancisco  place  storytelling  photography  people  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Oral history interview with Ruth Asawa and Albet Lanier, 2002 June 21-Jul 5 - Oral Histories | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
"An interview of Ruth Asawa and her husband, Albert Lanier, 2002 June 21-2002 Jul.5, conducted by Mark Johnson on June 21 and Paul Karlstrom on July 5, for the Archives of American Art, in the subjects' home/studio in San Francisco, Calif.<br />
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Asawa and Lanier shared their memories of Black Mountain College, Josef and Anni Albers (with whom they became close friends) and Buckminster Fuller. Part of their account of those years and the early stage of their marriage dealt with issues of race.<br />
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This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators."
ruthasawa  albertlanier  2002  interviews  blackmountaincollege  josefalbers  annialbers  buckminsterfuller  oralhistory  history  race  art  visualarts  glvo  interracialmarriage  markjohnson  artists  sanfrancisco  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Scream Sorbet: Amazing sorbet at a Bay Area farmers' market near you!
"We believe that the quality of our sorbet is unparalleled. Because we start with whole fresh ingredients, our sorbet is denser, creamier, and more flavorful than anything else you can buy. Each week, we walk Bay Area farmers' markets in search of the best local, organic, and seasonal produce available, head back to our lab to experiment, and then finish by making our sorbet one quart at a time. We want our sorbet to taste exactly like the fantastic ingredients that go into it."<br />
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[Also seen here: http://flaneursociety.tumblr.com/post/2981400196/found-coconut-kale-sorbet-two-great-tastes-which ]
oakland  food  sustainability  sanfrancisco  fruit  sorbet  via:sahelidatta  bayarea  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Mass Transit and Walking - NYTimes.com
"While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation."<br />
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"“In the United States, there has been much more of a tendency to adapt cities to accommodate driving,” said Peder Jensen, head of the Energy and Transport Group at the European Environment Agency. “Here there has been more movement to make cities more livable for people, to get cities relatively free of cars.”"
us  europe  cities  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  mobility  cars  walking  publictransit  pedestrians  livability  carfree  carfreecity  2011  london  stockholm  zurich  vienna  sanfrancisco  traffic  priorities  nyc  bikes  biking  sustainability  health  parking  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Robot Flâneur: Exploring Google Street View
"Robot Flâneur is an explorer for Google Street View. Select a city to start exploring.<br />
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Follow the instructions or just go full screen for an urban screensaver of your choice."
photography  cities  urban  maps  mapping  jamesbridle  robotflaneur  london  sanfrancisco  manhattan  nyc  sãopaulo  paris  johannesburg  tokyo  mexicodf  df  berlin  exploration  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco
"We found that people tended to conceptualize San Francisco in terms of “main drags” and “mini cities” – commercial corridors that attract people – contrasted with “mini suburbs” – primarily residential centers that are often perceived by people who don't live in those neighborhoods as “boring” places where “there's nothing really there.” The balance between vibrant and inviting corridors and seemingly monotonous residential areas results in some areas of the city being described as more exciting than others."
maps  mapping  neighborhoods  sanfrancisco  mentalmaps  perception  residential  visualization  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - Paul Rodriguez, San Francisco, Fall 2010
"We tasked our friends Mike Martin and Gabe Morford (of MASH) with the job of documenting Paul Rodriguez during one of his recent visits to San Francisco. Watch how Paul navigates the city's streets, hills and skate spots. Check out scenes from 3rd and Army, Pier 7 and Hubba Hideout while listening to the song "Watching Trees" performed by underground 80s synth-wave band Eleven Pond (written by Jeff Gallea)."
paulrodriguez  2010  sanfrancisco  skateboarding  skating  incase  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
P R O J E C T  M  :  T H I N K  W R O N G
"Sure, we may not be known in the in circles. We may not fill the pages of design annuals. And we may never see our names in lights. But, we do know how to save the rain forest with a waterproof book. We do know how to build a park with a postcard. And we know how to bring water to a community with a few pages of newsprint.<br />
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We are part of a design movement. We believe that ability equals responsibility. And we are not the only ones. So, we built a lab where designers like you can make a difference. We are building the tools that will build the future. And this is where you come in."<br />
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"The human brain tends to think along pre-determined linear thought pathways. Such linear thinking can inhibit true innovation and creative exploration. Project M will encourage, and provide techniques for, “thinking wrong” to generate new ideas and design directions to challenge the status-quo."
maine  design  architecture  change  social  johnbielenberg  alabama  california  activism  humanitariandesign  gamechanging  poptech  sanfrancisco  projectm  projectmlab  lcproject  openstudio  communityservice  halecounty  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Wendy MacNaughton — San Francisco Public Library Main Branch
Illustrated description/story about the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library<br />
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[via: http://twitter.com/librarianedge/status/69641229788397568 ]
illustration  sanfrancisco  libraries  wendymacnaughton  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Food Raves Gain in Popularity - NYTimes.com
"In a sense it is civil disobedience on a paper plate.<br />
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The underground market seeks to encourage food entrepreneurship by helping young vendors avoid roughly $1,000 a year in fees — including those for health permits and liability insurance — required by legitimate farmers markets. Here, where the food rave — call it a crave — was born, the market organizers sidestep city health inspections by operating as a private club, requiring that participants become “members” (free) and sign a disclaimer noting that food might not be prepared in a space that has been inspected."
food  sanfrancisco  anarchy  anarchism  popuprestaurants  restaurants  eating  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
RICE PAPER SCISSORS
"Rice Paper Scissors was created by Valerie Luu (Little Knock) and Katie Kwan (KitchenSidecar), two Vietnamese street food vendors in San Francisco who love sitting on small stools.<br />
Inspired by the sidewalk dining and street food we experienced in Vietnam, we wanted to recreate the experience here in the Mission — complete with small tables, even smaller stools, fresh Vietnamese condiments, Cambodian pop music, and a rotating menu of Vietnamese comfort foods.<br />
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Our cafe will pop up on front porches, garages, and sidewalks and when we’re not figuring out what kitschy Asian housewares to buy, you can find us at various street food events and monthly at the SF Underground Market."
vietnamese  food  sanfrancisco  ricepaperscissors  via:faketv  popuprestaurants  restaurants  pop-ups  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
When in San Francisco, go to Mission Chinese... - Covenger & Kester
"When in San Francisco, go to Mission Chinese Food:

"The hole-in-the-wall at 2234 Mission Street in San Francisco looks more like a greasy spoon where General Tso’s chicken is ordered by number than a cult outpost offering quirky, responsibly sourced Chinese food. Inside, it’s both. Danny Bowien and Anthony Myint, who ran the pop-up Mission Street Food out of Lung Shan restaurant, are now cooking here permanently with Mission Chinese Food. Alongside Lung Shan’s menu, you can now indulge in what Mr. Bowien calls “whimsical Chinese” — sizzling cumin lamb, ma po tofu, barbecued brisket braised with a Mexican/Coca-Cola gastrique. “It’s not fusion,” he said. “It’s not fine dining. It’s not authentic. It’s not from one region. We’re just trying to do everything backwards.”"

Or, you know, just fly there for a meal."
food  chinese  sanfrancisco  restaurants  popup  pop-ups  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Telling Their Stories
"High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco conduct and film interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. Students then transcribe each 2-plus hour interview, create hundreds of movie files associated with each transcript, and then post the full-text, full-video interviews on this public website as a service to a world-wide audience interested in Holocaust studies. See Project Descriptions for a more detailed overview of the course and project.<br />
This is an ongoing, ever-changing, & constantly evolving project involving dozens of students, teachers, & community volunteers. The majority of efforts thus far have been applied to the actual interview process as well as posting interviews on this website… Our current strategy here is to simply provide information on our model."
digitalstorytelling  storytelling  oralhistory  classideas  socialstudies  history  urbanschool  sanfrancisco  tcsnmy  projectideas  film  documentary  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
'Remigration' Imagines a City With No Workers | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS
"Imagine a city occupied exclusively by the upper class. High rents and property costs have pushed out construction workers, public school teachers, subway operators and other middle- and lower-wage earners.<br />
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'Remigration,' a short film which can be viewed online as part of ITVS' 'Futurestates' series, imagines how this scenario might play out in San Francisco in the not-too-distant future.<br />
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Director Barry Jenkins explores this idea of extreme gentrification from the point of view of a couple who have been forced to move inland from San Francisco after a job loss and family illness. The city seeks out Kaya and his wife, Helen, to test a new program that entices working-class laborers back to the city with fair wages and the promise of a college scholarship for their young daughter -- in exchange for taking up blue collar work.<br />
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"Futurestates" asks filmmakers to imagine how current events could play out 20-30 years from now and to explore that idea through short narrative film…"
gentrification  fiction  future  futurism  hypergentrification  migration  barryjenkins  sanfrancisco  via:bldgblog  remigration  futurestates  cities  urban  urbanism  class  society  wealth  segregation  globalwarming  labor  2011  wealthdistribution  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
California English - Wikipedia
"California English (or Californian, Californian English) is a dialect of the English language spoken in California.[1] California is home to a highly diverse population, which is reflected in the historical and continuing development of California English."<br />
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[Of particular interest is "freeway nomenclature" of Northern and Southern California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English#Freeway_nomenclature ] <br />
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[via: http://latimes.tumblr.com/post/4102291799/10-freeway ]
language  english  california  linguistics  dialects  accents  vocabulary  usage  phonology  nocal  socal  losangeles  sanfrancisco  sandiego  orangecounty  inlandempire  freeways  carculture  cars  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Jay Shafer: The Politics of Tiny Houses
"In February, 2011, we spent a couple of hours with Jay Shafer (Tumbleweed Tiny House Company), in his 96 square foot house-on-wheels in Sebastopol, California. Jay is one of the more well-known and successful tiny house designers, and there’s no denying the “curb appeal” of his designs. That appeal is generated by Jay’s careful attention to proportion as well as by his decisions about which elements to include in–and more precisely, what to leave out of—his designs. But as much as he enjoys talking about design, what he really wanted to talk about was the politics of tiny houses. Why building and zoning codes are stacked against tiny houses, how the costs of purchase and upkeep compare to the big houses he calls “debtors’ prisons”, and why, when the Big One shakes the land around San Francisco Bay, he’d rather be in his tiny house than anywhere else."
tinyhouses  houses  housing  politics  jayshafer  homes  via:leighblackall  sanfrancisco  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Bezoar — War Resistance films and videos at Other Cinema
"Javier Arbona, Nick Sowers & Kate Chandler present an experimental live slide-, sound- and video-show on the emergence of drones as America’s killing machine of choice. PLUS Steev Hise’s American Business Adventures and Code Pink’s confrontation with the Blackwater mercenaries. Free bread and roses!"
javierarbona  nicksowers  katechandler  drones  sanfrancisco  events  film  multimedia  todo  military  war  warresistance  video  blackwater  militaryindustrialcomplex  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Gangs and Cupcakes: Violence and Sugar Go Together - Nicola Twilley - Life - The Atlantic
"map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in the Mission district of San Francisco w/ Norteño & Sureño gang territory.<br />
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As Al-Saleh writes, cupcakes & gangs, violence & sugar, "are perceived to exist in separate worlds." And yet, as the Mission Local blog reports, a recent homicide, followed swiftly by a lunchtime gunfight, "offered Mission District residents a reminder that the hip neighbourhood where they feast on everything from the latest doughnut recipe to cupcakes & artisan pork rinds is also a place where gang violence still exists, & where a 2007 gang injunction is still in place."<br />
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I have written about the insights to be gained from a spatial analysis of cupcake proliferation before, on Edible Geography, in a post inspired by Rutgers Urban Policy lecturer Dr. Kathe Newman's theory that "cupcake shops can provide a more accurate and timely guide to the frontiers of urban gentrification than traditional demographic & real estate data sets"
culture  geography  food  violence  sanfrancisco  cupcakes  gangs  maps  mapping  gentrification  missiondistrict  2011  ediblegeography  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
In Gettys' Exclusive Preschool, It's Tough to Fly from Gilded Cage - The Bay Citizen
"Ann and Gordon Getty run an exclusive, invitation-only free preschool in their San Francisco home, but despite the cachet of the school, all is apparently not well inside"
via:javierarbona  gordongetty  anngetty  getty  sanfrancisco  pacificheights  elitism  education  children  parenting  2011  regulation  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
San Francisco – Pictory
"Looking south down Hyde Street from a balcony in Russian Hill, I thought of all the people drawn to this beautiful city from afar for its promise. Not everyone finds the reality as perfect as their vision. Just like in any city, there’s no shortage of melancholy, unrealized dreams, lost fortunes, and lives ending too soon. But in San Francisco there’s also a persistent optimism that stands out even in the midst of hard times. New things are always being created here."
sanfrancisco  optimism  making  creativity  creating  doing  cities  vitality  dreams  vision  melancholy  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Free University of San Francisco [via: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/20bcfree.html via @willrich45]
"aims to make highest level of education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free…only requirement for membership is a desire to teach &/or a desire to learn.<br />
We believe that the purpose of education is not to turn the student into a better consumer & profit-earner but to help him/her to discover wealth of human culture upon whose shoulders she/he stands. What we share at FUSF is a passionate determination to see restoration of humanity—warm, literate, democratic—to vibrant human life. & in order to achieve this aim we have taken hold of the very hub of our culture, which is education, in order to create a brand new kind of institution, one whose existence makes no sense in current social order, that stands in direct defiance of privatized profit-oriented social engineering centers that pass for unis today.<br />
…we are rebels of knowledge."
the2837university  agitpropproject  lcproject  education  highereducation  sanfrancisco  freeschools  freeuniversities  anarchism  anarchy  democracy  learning  universities  colleges  highered  free  democratic  accessibility  flat  postconsumerism  postmaterialism  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Common Sense — Mobile sensing for community action
"We are developing mobile sensing technologies that help communities gather and analyze environmental data. We hope that this hardware and software will empower everyday citizens to learn more about their environment and influence environmental regulations and policy.<br />
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We have developed various research prototypes, which are being used in studies such as a deployment on street sweepers in San Francisco and a deployment of a handheld device in West Oakland. Right now we are focusing our efforts on air quality sensing. Our hope is that our research prototypes will demonstrate the utility of embedding environmental sensors in commercial commodity devices such as mobile phones."
mobile  sensing  community  technology  sensors  environment  crowdsourcing  sustainability  policy  data  datacollection  sanfrancisco  oakland  bayarea  phones  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Uptown Almanac | San Francisco: Where 20-Somethings go to Retire
"Uptown Almanac is basically a crappy blog about San Francisco culture and general bullshit.  Yeah, Uptown is a term often associated with New York City, which is some city like San Francisco on the east coast.  But really, it means any residential part of town away from the main center.  We all live "Uptown," be it in the Mission, SOMA, Potrero, Lower Haight, or even the Sunset (but fuck the Sunset).<br />
The blog is made up of a few pendejos (who mostly live in the Mission but whatever):"
sanfrancisco  blogs  mission  culture  humor  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Lawrence Hall of Science
"Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is a renowned resource center for preschool through high school science and mathematics education, and a public science center with exciting hands-on experiences for learners of all ages."
science  education  kids  california  berkeley  bayarea  sanfrancisco  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  tovisit  learning  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Mission Science Workshop
...seeks to combine traditional activities in experimental science—use of microscopes, balances, thermometers, culturing plants and animals—with building a variety of projects with clay, wood, and plastic, including pendulums, electric and mechanical toys, musical instruments, and apparatuses that enhance our explorations of sound, light, and color.<br />
In all our activities in the workshop the emphasis is upon learning from observation and direct experience with real things rather than simply accepting the truth of transmitted knowledge, whether the source is books or teachers. Our favorite quote is from physicist Richard Feynman: “Science doesn’t teach anything, experience teaches it.”
parenting  homeschool  unschooling  science  sanfrancisco  dansudran  missionscienceworkshop  lcproject  education  learning  handsonlearning  handson  schools  teaching  children  alternative  alternativeeducation  experiential  scientificmethod  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
A place to awaken S.F. kids' inner Einsteins
"Those are magic words to Dan Sudran, 64, who conducted the balloon experiment the other day in the Mission Science Workshop he runs in a former high school auto shop on Church Street in San Francisco.<br />
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Sudran's do-it-yourself laboratory is to science what a wizard's lair is to sorcery. Complete animal skeletons hang from the ceiling or from perches - a cow found in the Salinas Valley, an ostrich acquired by way of Sudran's butcher, a dolphin donated by a guy in Bolinas.<br />
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There's a mummified cat that a janitor found at a middle school, its fangs still agape in terror. A pelican in dramatic rigor mortis is available for inspection. Bones, flippers, femurs, hooves, teeth and beaks are arranged in evolutionary order on a table. Donors include bears, pigs, sea lions, armadillos and humans."
via:caterina  parenting  homeschool  unschooling  science  sanfrancisco  dansudran  missionscienceworkshop  lcproject  education  learning  handsonlearning  handson  schools  teaching  children  alternative  alternativeeducation  experiential  scientificmethod  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Rebecca Solnit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She has written on a variety of subjects including the environment, politics, place, and art. [1]<br />
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She skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the GED exam. Thereafter she enrolled in junior college. When she was 17 she went to study in Paris. She ultimately returned to California and finished her college education at San Francisco State University when she was 20.[2] She then received a Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley[3] in 1984 and has been an independent writer since 1988. Prior to this she was a museum researcher and art critic.[4] She has worked on environmental and human rights campaigns since the 1980s, notably with the Western Shoshone Defense Project in the early 1990s, as described in her book Savage Dreams, and with antiwar activists throughout the Bush era."
literature  rebeccasolnit  unschooling  deschooling  alternative  education  sanfrancisco  california  writing  writers  books  wanderlust  wandering  walking  nomads  neo-nomads  nature  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Benny Gold
clothing  skateboarding  bikes  bennygold  codyhudson  sanfrancisco  shopping  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Gravel & Gold
"Gravel & Gold is a shop in the Mission District of San Francisco run by three ladies, Cass, Lisa, and Nile. We sell useful goods from stand-up makers—hand-picked vintage and new things to wear, to adorn, to hear, to read & write, to furnish, and to love up. We like to know where our things come from and to directly support the people who create them."
sanfrancisco  shopping  gifts  boutique  diy  fashion  design  clothing  retail  glvo  via:robinsloan  art  handmade  make  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
La Cocina » San Francisco Incubator Kitchen
"Mis sion State ment The mis sion of La Cocina is to cul ti vate low-income food entre pre neurs as they for mal ize and grow their busi nesses by pro­vid ing afford able com mer cial kitchen space, industry-specific tech ni cal assis tance and access to mar ket oppor tu ni ties. We focus pri mar ily on women from com mu ni ties of color and immi grant com mu ni ties. Our vision is that entre pre neurs will become eco nom i cally self-sufficient and con tribute to a vibrant econ omy doing what they love to do.<br />
San Francisco’s First Incu ba tor Kitchen La Cocina is a ground-breaking busi ness incu ba tor designed to reduce the obsta cles that often pre vent entre pre neurs from cre at ing suc cess ful and sus tain able small busi nesses. By pro vid ing shared resources and an array of industry-specific ser vices, busi ness incu ba tors ensure small busi nesses can succeed."
bayarea  sanfrancisco  nonprofit  entrepreneurship  food  incubator  streetfood  women  cooking  diy  commercialkitchen  foodcarts  business  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Snailr Project
"One journey of almost 7000 miles, six new cities, eight trains, fifteen days, and every vignette, observation and fractured bitty-bit of the travelogue broken up and sent as status messages the old way. By postcard. To a bunch of random people who asked for one. Because travelling slowly is nice. And so is leaving a trail to see where we have been."
papernet  travel  snailr  slow  slowtravel  postcards  glvo  amtrak  trains  us  sanfrancisco  losangeles  seattle  memphis  neworleans  chicago  portland  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
A Sentence Apart on Vimeo
"Three intimate portraits exploring how the incarceration of a family member transforms the hopes and dreams of their loved ones."
jasonsussberg  theorigby  documentary  incarceration  prisons  california  sanfrancisco  children  parenting  classideas  prisonindustrialcomplex  storytelling  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Stereotypical Cartography Map World | someecards.com
Related: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/09/27/yanko-tsvetkov-mapping-european-stereotypes/
maps  mapping  bigotry  humor  cartography  classideas  sanfrancisco  world  stereotypes  geography  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Your city sucks! (And so does mine) – stu.mp
"I very much enjoyed my time in the Pacific Northwest and would recommend checking out both Portland and Seattle. I’m slightly biased towards Seattle because I prefer bigger, denser cities. I didn’t like Boulder at all due to the cold climate and small size of the city.<br />
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As a result, I’m sticking with San Francisco, despite poop filled bananas, because it’s a big, dense city filled with a bunch of weirdos who love building great technology."
via:cervus  sanfrancisco  seattle  cascadia  portland  boulder  colorado  comparison  california  cities  living  moving  technology  bayarea  entrepreneurship  pacificnorthwest  losangeles  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
War Perspective: A Map of 65,649 Iraqi Civilian Deaths on Familiar Locations
"The goal of this project is to give you a better perspective on the toll that war has taken on the civilian population of Iraq. By clicking on one of the cities below, the map of a place you are familiar with will be overlaid with data representing civilian deaths in Iraq over a five year period."
maps  mapping  war  iraq  geography  death  cities  classideas  nyc  washingtondc  philadelphia  sanfrancisco  losangeles  chicago  via:javierarbona  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Unspeakable Trip to San Francisco - Google Maps
My seventh and eighth grade students were asked to create an online document of our trip to San Francisco. One of the three groups, the Unspeakables, created this photo-and-text-enriched map that also shows the routes they walked each day. Don't miss their reflections (more to come as I bookmark this) — there are links to them at the top of the sidebar on the left and here below.

Ruby's Reflection: http://bit.ly/dm2VPN
Charlie's Reflection: http://bit.ly/acbcST
Anthony's Reflection: http://bit.ly/b3UpwY
Max's Reflection: http://bit.ly/bERssr
Tatiana's Reflection: http://bit.ly/bHWMK9
Brianna's Reflection: http://bit.ly/bp7bRL
Sofia's Reflection: http://bit.ly/b5MBoU

An early planning document with more information about the trip: http://bit.ly/cGaImK
tcsnmy  tcsnmy7  tcsnmy8  sanfrancisco  robinsloan  javierarbona  cv  classtrips  2010  october2010  maps  mapping  cartography  learning  space  place  landscape  publictransit  walking  travel  tours  photography  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Mapped historical photos, film, and audio | SepiaTown
"SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe. Search the map to view images or...<br />
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We welcome historical images from collections of all sizes, from libraries and historical societies to individuals with a boxful of cool old photos."
via:javierarbona  archive  photography  geography  mapping  maps  history  images  cities  moscow  boston  london  sanfrancisco  paris  amsterdam  losangeles  buenosaires  valparaíso  sandiego  local  portland  oregon  googlemaps  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
San Francisco School of the Arts
"The Mission of the SFUSD School of the Arts is to provide a specialized high school program and learning environment which are conducive to creative and independent thinking and artistic and academic excellence for promising students of the arts."
sanfrancisco  bayarea  schools  arts  art  music  public  publicschools  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
FunCheapSF | Free & Cheap Things to Do in the San Francisco Bay Area
sanfrancisco  oakland  bayarea  activities  free  fun  film  events  entertainment  culture  music  cheap  local  calendar  travel  todo  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Find SF Food Carts and Trucks - Track all San Francisco gourmet food truck and cart twitters from one website
sanfrancisco  food  restaurants  eating  foodcarts  foodtrucks  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
games of nonchalance [trailer at: http://vimeo.com/11705554]
"We are a hybrid arts consultancy in San Francisco with an expertise in Situational Design. Our mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experiences and pervasive play."
sanfrancisco  interactive  arg  narrative  games  cities  play  gaming  media  jejune  events  art  situationist  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Trampoline park opens at Crissy Field hangar
"House of Air is the brainchild of Dave Schaeffer and Paul McGeehan, two self-described action sports enthusiasts who started using trampolines to practice air stunts in 2003, but were frustrated by the fact that most gyms equipped with a trampoline only had one to share.<br />
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"We thought, 'Well, this is just silly. We need a warehouse and we need to fill it with trampolines,' " Schaeffer said.<br />
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The pair had looked for the last two years for a location to house an internal trampoline facility and, since the very beginning, Crissy Field's historic airplane hangar seemed like the ideal place, McGeehan said." [via: http://twitter.com/#!/dianakimball/status/24910197196 via @tcarmody]
sanfrancisco  trampolines  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
SPUR - San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
"Through research, education and advocacy, SPUR promotes good planning and good government in the San Francisco Bay Area.<br />
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SPUR's history dates back to 1910, when a group of young city leaders came together to improve the quality of housing after the 1906 earthquake and fire. That group, the San Francisco Housing Association, authored a hard-hitting report which led to the State Tenement House Act of 1911."
sanfrancisco  urbanplanning  urbanism  urban  planning  bayarea  architecture  environment  nonprofit  community  culture  design  transportation  sustainability  advocacy  development  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Spots Unknown
"Forgotten places, events, and histories of San Francisco."
bayarea  sanfrancisco  photography  psychogeography  history  travel  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Photos of San Francisco in 1939 « Spots Unknown
"1939 was a big year for San Francisco, during which it attempted to convince the world that it had fully recovered from the catastrophes of 1906 and was once again a city to be reckoned with. Completion of the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge was punctuated with the International Exhibition on Treasure Island.<br />
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For one photographer/photojournalist, that year left a lasting impression.<br />
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The photographer's name is Seymour Snaer, and the images were published in 1980 in a book titled, San Francisco 1939: An Intimate Photographic Portrait. Snaer had over 100 rolls of film from that one year, so publisher Bill Owens reprinted select shots from negatives, rescuing them from the bad cropping done by newspapers like the Examiner, who Snaer had worked for." [via: http://bezoar.tumblr.com/post/1062159657/seymour-snaer-photos-of-san-francisco-in-1939]
seymoursnaer  photography  history  sanfrancisco  1939  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Rare Device / good stuff for you and your home / San Francisco
"Rare Device is, simply, good stuff for you & your home. Rena Tom, the founder, is a former jewelry & graphic designer who loves design. She was so inspired by all of the fabulous, creative designers she met along the way, both in person & online, that she decided she had to share her discoveries, & she opened Rare Device in Brooklyn in October 2005. The webshop opened in December of that year &, combined with a lively & generally topical blog, has developed into its own microcosm of design.<br />
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The storefront is a place to promote designers, artists & artisans plus help them grow by taking on new projects & collaborations. Every object in the store has its own story, & has been chosen because it is either handmade, well-designed, useful, beautiful or all of the above. The aesthetic is modern & quirky while remaining warm & inviting - design that is accessible to all. Influences range from comic book art to entropy in nature, laser-etching to hand-lettering to nautical lore."
sanfrancisco  nyc  lisacongdon  craft  brooklyn  clothing  gifts  furniture  art  design  crafts  glvo  shopping  boutique  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Derek Powazek - San Francisco Values
"I’ve lived in San Francisco for 15 years, which is 15 years more than anyone connected to this ad [in support of Proposition 8]. San Francisco changed my life. I found a career here. I was married here. I bought property here. I’m never, ever leaving. So I think I can speak to what San Francisco Values really are. Here are a few of them. [Bulleted list here]…

I believe San Franciscans embody the best American values: bravery, liberty, tolerance, and opportunity. I look around San Francisco and I see people who risked everything to move to a place where they could be free. People who decided, out a mix of idealism and insanity, that they could make a more perfect union that values life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

San Francisco values and American values are one and the same."
sanfrancisco  rights  politics  humanity  us  derekpowazek  values  pride  bravery  freedom  liberty  toleranceopportunity  progressivism  reinvention  perseverance  love  coffee  community  coffeehouses  idealism  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
san francisco
Britta has a great collection of San Francisco-related bookmarks. These will be a wonderful resource as we plan our October trip.
sanfrancisco  tcsnmy  brittagustafson  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Inside the Outside Lands
"The Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP) - http://www.outsidelands.org - plays an active role in community affairs on San Francisco's west side.<br />
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We try to figure out how to use history in a positive and effective way to improve the neighborhoods we love so much, and our organization often acts as a clearinghouse of information between activists, historians, researchers, residents, businesses and community nonprofits.<br />
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This blog is about issues and events in the Richmond, Sunset, West of Twin Peaks, OMI and Lake Merced areas that have some bearing on WNP's work or the history of San Francisco's west side."
sanfrancisco  neighborhoods  history  activism  community  via:britta  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Forging Ahead / In the midst of urban Rincon Hill, a blacksmith remains
"Approaching the Bay Bridge from First Street at Folsom, motorists can't help but root for the stubborn holdout of Edwin Klockars Blacksmithing, standing its ground against the skyscrapers.<br />
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The juxtaposition of this squat wood-and-tin shop, built in 1906, against two glass-and-stone apartment towers (20 and 27 stories) going up around it, begs the questions, "Who the hell is Edwin Klockars, what does he do and why is he still here?"<br />
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To get the whole story, you have to get out of the traffic line on Rincon Hill, pull over and walk through the wide-open double doors. It is dark inside and gets darker at the back, where all you see is the orange glow of coals in a stove and all you hear is metal pounding metal."
sanfrancisco  blacksmiths  blacksmithing  via:britta  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
I Can See 200 Yards « Mission Mission
"200 yards is a photography experiment conceived of and presented by Lightbox SF.<br />
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First we find a venue, maybe a wine bar, office lobby, or traditional gallery. Then we put out a call to photographers to explore a 200 yard radius from the venue’s location and take pictures of whatever catches their eye. Each photographer then selects their best photos, up to 10, and submits them for possible inclusion in a photo exhibit held at the originally selected center point.<br />
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The idea behind the project is to expose local photographers, the little details that make each block of San Francisco unique, as well as the merchants that give each neighborhood its character."
via:britta  community  nearby  photography  hyperlocal  sanfrancisco  classideas  noticing  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
PCC streetcar - Wikipedia [via: http://twitter.com/agpublic/status/21516778254]
"The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) streetcar (tram) design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world. The PCC car has proved to be a long-lasting icon of streetcar design, and PCC cars are still in service in various places around the world. …<br />
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The F Market Line (historic streetcar service) in San Francisco, opened in 1995, runs along Market Street from The Castro to the Ferry Building, then along the Embarcadero north and west to Fisherman's Wharf. This line is run by a mixture of PCC cars built between 1946 and 1952, and earlier pre-PCC cars. (Although San Francisco had removed PCCs from revenue service when the city's light rail was transformed into the Muni Metro system in 1980, they had made occasional festival trips in the ensuing years before being returned to full-time service.)"
sanfrancisco  toronto  streetcars  pccstreetcar  transportation  masstransit  history  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - OBSESSIVES: Coffee - CHOW
"Arno Holschuh, barista at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, discusses the big and the little: the surface area of the bean, the thousand small cuts that will kill your espresso, and why Starbucks is not so bad. Video by CHOW.com" [via: http://brendandawes.posterous.com/obsessing-about-the-detail]
coffee  arnoholschuh  bluebottlecoffee  sanfrancisco  espresso  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Transporter: A New Kind of Public Transit App for San Francisco
"Transporter is an award-winning public transit app designed specifically for San Francisco riders.<br />
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It supports SF MUNI and BART. AC Transit is coming soon. (We would love to support more transit agencies in the Bay Area, but unfortunately only MUNI, BART, and AC Transit have real-time arrivals information.)<br />
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Transporter supports many features you might find in other apps, like finding out real-time arrivals of the buses and trains you ride. But, once you're on board Transporter lets you find out when you'll arrive at your destination!" [iTunes page: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transporter-real-time-public/id373726282?mt=8]
transportation  sanfrancisco  bayarea  muni  bart  iphone  applications  tcsnmy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Real-time Muni and BART predictions for iPhone - Routesy Bay Area
"Have another coffee. The train is still 15 minutes away.<br />
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Real-time predictions for San Francisco Muni and BART<br />
Bookmarks for quick access to your favorite stops<br />
GPS-enabled to help you find the nearest stop<br />
Fully compatible with iOS 4.0"
applications  bayarea  sanfrancisco  transit  transportation  bart  muni  buses  trains  iphone  tcsnmy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
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