Art to the Masses

I found this on Fwy 80 East, Just before the bridge.

I love it.

This nod to Goya; a man who also lived in a time of war, is just bad ass.

This is SOMA.

San Francisco has been undergoing a huge and obscene condo hi-rise boom in the last few years in the traditionally industrial SOMA district. While rent prices skyrocket the high-rises and gentrifiers pour in. Much of San Francisco’s cultural character has been pushed aside, or pushed out for well to do out of towners who are apparently the only ones who can afford the "affordable housing" that these mammoth domiciles provide.

I guess thats the way of the world these days, but it’s still sad.

Saturn devouring his own was alway one of my favorites.

In another life I would have been an art history teacher for sure.

irony not lost

Across from my work place is the main Cal Train station for the area. Like in so many other cities the industrial center becomes the place where all of the lost and left out people live. The gentrification of these urban places ensures that the mad wandering masses will have no where to go but the burbs who's traditional answer to the unwanted is to the imprison them. This NIMBY attitude has always really bothered me. How can anyone one of us claim superior morality over anyone when even just one of us is lost? Maybe thats why despite the financial difficulties I work at a non-profit that serves a part of that community.



I found this discarded record of Peter and The Wolf on my way to lunch one day. Passing the train yard and several makeshift vehicle/homes as I walked.



irony not lost.

filling up

Was in Santa Clara last weekend and had to get gas on the way back.

I got to thinking how much these stations are going to change in the next few years.

Diesel, Ethanol, Flex Fuel, Hydrogen, etc will be the end of the simple gas station as we know it.

food related

Chinese food.

This artzy glob of hot mustard and sweet'n'Sour sauce is about to be a part of my wanton. Yum OhTaco here !!!
Whats that thing hanging out of the left side of that taco?? Its a taco right? Well, it is now.

baby kitty

That my cat; baby kitty.




She hasn't been a baby for a real long time now, but I could never get used to calling her by her real name.







I like taking candid pictures of her, even tho she's very photogenic and will pose for me whenever I like.




I'm sure she appreciates it.