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High5s: May Whatevers
Written by Trippe   
Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:34
You know that one song that's all about love, death, and that one time you guys fell over the ridge? The winners and losers.

Ran into Bod Boyle at Van Rock Out's BDay... Bod is the president of Dwindle.

Whoa, a blow out last week as temps around the bay got retarded... bike rides, sailing, skating...

Man meat, John Groshong, is soon to be an SF fireman dude... Add another hungover fireman to the SFFD.

He's a poet too.

On the right is Mr Meric Long and he fronts Dodo Bird. If you've not seen them yet, you need to.

As fixes become more and more popular.

Am thinking of becoming a Giant's fan this year as I watched the Tigers blow it last year. Can the Giants pull it? Got to get a new hat.

Fecal Face gets some props on the Hightower board... Damn, that show was awhile ago.

Brahms in town.

Yet another SFFD. Collinson.

Sailed to treasure Island on one of the nicest days of the year.

Rich, Kate, and Jessica

We're in San Francisco?! Why more people don't own sailboats is fuck all to me. So much fun and you can find them cheap if you look. We got ours for $850. start looking now. We need a fleet of younger people with boats.

Who needs to fly to some tropical island when we got them right here.

Richard

and then we motored back on the glassy bay in tee shirts. It was so warm and chill. Best night shit ever.

Ok, so where I was born, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, they have blue crabs and they're fucking brilliant. Much better than Dungeness to me... I've always thought it'd be amazing to have the live little fellas shipped out for some steamin and eatin, but that's pretty expensive... You can imagine my surprise that they sell some sort of Blue Crab right here in the Mission, but I ain't gonna tell you where because we later found out that they only sell the females which only mate once and it's illegal to catch and sell- well, at least in Maryland. It's pretty fucked up and I think it's illegal that they're sold here. Not totally sure. Anyone know?

But before we did our blue crab research, we bought some, invited some friends over and had ourselves a little crab dinner complete with corn, beer, and more beer... and some wine.

Poo digs them

The bath before the being steamed alive to death they're about to undergo.

As they wiggle about their death chamber, you dump a shit load of Old Bay seasoning on them, and then steam them up... Once they stop moving and turn a nice red...

You make a mess and eat the fuckers... for real. Maryland Blue Crab are the best crab ever.

Yet another work deterrence is when Irving invites me out for some baseball- seating? right behind home plate.

They have waiters when you're sitting this close. It's sweet. They take your order and then 5 minutes later you have a fresh beer in hand... No lines and you don't miss any of the game. Nice one, rich guy who gave us the tickets!

Nicole and Brett

Not much on food but got a steak from Range on Valencia the other day... That place is expensive and the food wasn't worth it... Go to Luna Park down the street. That place rules, and they got some old Damon Soule paintings on the walls to boot.

More sailing on the windiest day of the year... It was hectic out there.

Some video from last week's time on the water.

The best place to see KFOG's KBOOM fireworks is from your own boat- not the best place to photograph them though.

The next day it was time to head on over to the opening of The Pizza Place which is owned by my two old friends Kevin Barza and Dave Ashin.

I really love pizza, and this is the best pizza in the city- Hands down, and I'm not just saying that to be nice... My top pizza places now are as follows and this place takes top prize as my favorite as of now:

#1 - The Pizza Place (47th and Noriega)
#2 - De Ja Vue (16th @Guerrero)
#3 - Arnell's (16th @ Valencia)
#4 - Soranos (12st @ Valencia)
#5 - Golden Boy (North Beach)

*Gourmet pizza is gay.

Irving takes a slice down... can you spot the Myth Busters star in the background?

Lookin' good, Wolfe.

Plus they have the coolest art up. The pizza wheels move!

Outside

Alicia and Brett

Pizza Place owners- Kevin Barza and Dave Ashin

Walking distance to the beach

Andreas who...

Came out sailing the next day with us. Took the ferry on over.

He scrubbed the bottom of the boat as we prepped for take off.

Andreas and his urine in case you've ever wondered what he would look like holding his own urine.

Dinner time

and congrats to Jessica's brother, Ravi (also of the SFFD) and Magume (SP?), who were married on Tuesday at City Hall!!

The happy couple.

How's the mustaches coming, fellas? There's a contest going and the winner gets themselves a banjo, and I'm out already because mustaches are a bit douche, and I couldn't hang... but Matt and Rich pull it off suitably.

the smallest little VIP in town.

Poo

Love me POO

I LOVE these pens. {moscomment}

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Ian Kimmerly @Dolby Chadwick

SAN FRANCISCO --- Local painter Ian Kimmerly opened his newest show Continuous Wave at Dolby Chadwick on Thursday night, and these are some of the best paintings I've seen in a while.


High 5s: 1 + 1 = 1

This editor has been posting images from his life for the last 13 years. Cats, sailboats and living one's life in the city of San Francisco. Visual randomness.


The Black Robe at Spoke Art

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Michael Alan Interview

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Mute by Youth Lagoon

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Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival

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Kelly Tunstall's A16 Commissions

Kelly Tunstall, who's showing w/ Ferris Plock at FFDG this August 16th, recently finished some commissions for A16 in Oakland. Here's a little taste, and check out her last year's show at FFDG.


Brendan Monroe Sculptures, A How To

Brendan Monroe, whose show Melting Into the Floor runs through June 15th at LA's Richard Heller, creates these great wooden sculptures and featured a bunch in the show... He's often asked how he goes about making them and gives us at Fecal Face a little 'how to' on the process.


Mural by Curiot (+Mexico)

Mexico City based Curiot, whose sold out solo show Age of Omuktlans ran last March at FFDG, just finished this great mural entitled "El Retorno de Akhankutli" in Mexico. He recently completed one in Berlin too which we'll be posting in the coming week. The guy is very very talented in our eyes.


The Pizza Slice(r) by Henry Gunderson

This made our day. Not only do we love pizza but we also love Henry Gunderson... So a board shapped like a hot slice designed by Henry Gunderson for The Good Company, well... this writer needs to go for a slice right now.


Wendell McShine @Fifty24SF

Wendell McShine (lives in Mexico City, from Trinidad) opened his newest show, Raccoon's Law, at Fifty24SF on Saturday night. ARYZ was a tough act to follow, but McShine held his own in the space... With a combination of a mural, a video, and both drawings and mixed-media works on paper, the diversity of this solo show was impressive. The Raccoon drawings were especially attractive as the way he executed them looked like they actually had fur coming off the page, and you can only imagine how soft it would be to touch. I was lucky to see his work in person through this show, and I hope to encounter more in the future.


Honey Boo Boo's Amurrican Starquest

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"Out the Window" at Prohibition Gallery

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The Tornatos in Moore, OK by Justin Clemons

I got there the day after the tornado came through. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. My mind just could not grasp what my eyes were seeing. It was just too much to take in, too much to process. So, I did what comes naturally and took images. It sort of helped me separate from the chaos and helped me focus.


Hyuro "In/Between" at ArtRebels

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ARYZ's TL Mural and The Apple

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Oversized Paintings by Jeffrey Cheung

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Alison Blickle at Eleanor Harwood thru June 15th

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Sanjay & Craig Premiere Party (+LA)

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Tonight We Fight @New Image, Sat
Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:54

LOS ANGELES --- mark down Saturday, June 22nd on the calendar as New Image Art will be opening Tonight We Fight featuring works by John Malta, Pacolli, Mildred, Dillon Froelich, Eric McHenry, Teddy Kelly, Luke Pelletier, Sean Morris, Yarrow Slaps, Ben Jensen, Nathan Brown and Miles Jackson.

- show details

 

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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 17:39


Whole Foods Rips Off Corey Arnold?
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 13:57

Tucker Nichols emailed over this Whole Foods poster (below right) which looks a lot like one of Corey Arnold's photos (bottom left). Coincidence? Where they inspired by Corey's photo? Did Corey actually shoot the photo? Who knows and Corey is fishing for salmon right now (like this), so we can't ask him to find out.

Wait, on this Instagram, Corey Arnold writes "Ripped off!", so we guess that's your answer.

Whole Foods highly inspired by a Corey Arnold photo. Ripped off?

 

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Homemade Tattoos (+How To)
Friday, 14 June 2013 10:00

Yeah, bad tattoos are basically a bummer, right? But they're also pretty much a rite of passage for bored and disenfranchised-feeling teenagers the world over. At least it was for about 95% of the people I know. Going to a reputable tattoo shop and getting a wizard or unicorn drilled into your lower back is totally fine, but nothing really takes the place of sitting around with a bunch of friends and some beers, enthusiastically taking turns poking each others' arms full of bad ideas-which actually is fun at any age.

Homemade Tattoos

Andreas Trolf's feature is an olde but goodie

 

Oakland: Organizers Trying to Keep Monthly Street Art Party Alive
Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:18

OAKLAND -- First Fridays is hoping Oakland hasn't seen the last of the one of a kind event... The street art party is free to attend, but organizers say with police and other costs the price tag to throw the monthly party is $20,000... The City of Oakland has been footing the bill for months and after kicking in $500,000, it's pulling the plug... Organizers are now asking for donations and developing a vendor fee schedule to try and keep the party alive. ~continue reading

From a Fecal Face visit to one in 2008 (pics)

 

June Group Show @Guerrero Gallery Saturday
Thursday, 13 June 2013 09:52

SAN FRANCISCO -- Guerrero Gallery, here in the Mission, opens their summer group show this Saturday, June 15th, featuring works from a steller lineup: Daniel Albrigo, Ryan Travis Christian, Alejandro Diaz-Ayala, Frohawk Two Feathers, Michelle Guintu, Justin Hager, Cody Hudson, Terry Powers, Rye Purvis, Victory Reyes, Jamie Williams, and Yarrow Slaps.

~complete details

Work by Alejandro Diaz-Ayala

 

Austin McManus Photography
Monday, 10 June 2013 14:06

NYC based Austin McManus updates his site with more tasty photography like the below image from his "Partner in Crime" series.

Image from Austin McManus' "Partner in Crime" series

 

SOEX's Monster Drawing Rally
Tuesday, 11 June 2013 12:42

SAN FRANCISCO --- Southern Exposure hosts thier annual Monster Drawing Rally Friday, June 14, 2013 at THE NWBLK, 1999 Bryant Street (at 18th). Tons of great artists auctioning works at a starting price of only $60.

A live drawing and fundraising event with 120 artists working side by side. The event lets spectators to observe artists in the act of creation, providing the opportunity to watch a drawing come to life, and to purchase a work of art minutes after its completion. Drawings are available for purchase immediately for just $60 each.
~complete details

 

Disputed Banksy graffiti art sold for $1.1M in London
Tuesday, 04 June 2013 14:00

Wonder if our old emails with Banksy are worth a few thousand dollars. It seems everything the dude touches is worth a million dollars these days! Nutty and much deserved.

A disputed Banksy graffiti artwork removed from a gritty London neighbourhood has sold for approximately $1.1 million US at auction. The provocative Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) sold at a private auction held by concierge firm The Sincura Group at the London Film Museum on Sunday, according to Bloomberg news service. The spray-painted, stenciled work depicts a child labourer using an antique sewing machine to create a Union Jack bunting.
-Continue reading

 

The Boys From The UK
Monday, 03 June 2013 14:39

Daniel Cronin, who shot The Gathering of the Juggalos Feature (book out now through Random House), swung through FFDG last Friday to check out The Skull & Sword show (running through June 8th) with a couple of English fellas that's he's been traveling with for a feature on The Guardian UK's website.

Daniel Cronin was hired to shoot photos for the ongoing feature series: the Road Trips USA: Pacific Coast... An interesting idea where the trip was live blogged/ tweeted/ Instagramed with people making suggestions for what to check out, and well, into FFDG they stopped.

Look ma, we made The Guardian U.K.

Come on, guys. Don't call San Francisco "San Fran".

 

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High 5s: 1 + 1 = 1

This editor has been posting images from his life for the last 13 years. Cats, sailboats and living one's life in the city of San Francisco. Visual randomness.


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Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival

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Brendan Monroe Sculptures, A How To

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Mural by Curiot (+Mexico)

Mexico City based Curiot, whose sold out solo show Age of Omuktlans ran last March at FFDG, just finished this great mural entitled "El Retorno de Akhankutli" in Mexico. He recently completed one in Berlin too which we'll be posting in the coming week. The guy is very very talented in our eyes.


The Pizza Slice(r) by Henry Gunderson

This made our day. Not only do we love pizza but we also love Henry Gunderson... So a board shapped like a hot slice designed by Henry Gunderson for The Good Company, well... this writer needs to go for a slice right now.


Wendell McShine @Fifty24SF

Wendell McShine (lives in Mexico City, from Trinidad) opened his newest show, Raccoon's Law, at Fifty24SF on Saturday night. ARYZ was a tough act to follow, but McShine held his own in the space... With a combination of a mural, a video, and both drawings and mixed-media works on paper, the diversity of this solo show was impressive. The Raccoon drawings were especially attractive as the way he executed them looked like they actually had fur coming off the page, and you can only imagine how soft it would be to touch. I was lucky to see his work in person through this show, and I hope to encounter more in the future.


Honey Boo Boo's Amurrican Starquest

Ingrid Wells just got her MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and these oil paintings from her Honey Boo Boo's Amurrican Starquest were on display as part of the recent MFA exhibition... Ingrid Wells works and lives in San Francisco.


"Out the Window" at Prohibition Gallery

Henry Gunderson emailed over some photos from his recent group show with Andrew Luck, Jordan Bogash, and Mario Ayala "Out The Window" which ran at the Los Angeles based Prohibition Gallery.


The Tornatos in Moore, OK by Justin Clemons

I got there the day after the tornado came through. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. My mind just could not grasp what my eyes were seeing. It was just too much to take in, too much to process. So, I did what comes naturally and took images. It sort of helped me separate from the chaos and helped me focus.


Hyuro "In/Between" at ArtRebels

Check out this, what could be, one of the longest murals ever created. Hyuro from Valencia, Spain was recently in Copenhagen for the solo show "In/Between" at ArtRebels.


ARYZ's TL Mural and The Apple

Rachel Ralph spotted Barcelona-based ARYZ working on his mural in the TL a couple weeks back, and we forgot to share the pics. His show at Fifty24SF opened back in April.


Oversized Paintings by Jeffrey Cheung

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Alison Blickle at Eleanor Harwood thru June 15th

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John Felix Arnold III in Japan (Part 4)

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Sanjay & Craig Premiere Party (+LA)

Last Thursday evening, I was lucky enough to get invited to Nickelodeon's premiere party for their newest cartoon, Sanja & Craig, created by three awesome dudes - Andreas Trolf, Jim Dirschberger, and Jay Howell. Hosted at Tony's Salon with pizza provided by Pizzanistas, the premiere party was filled with libations and celebrations, even a break-dance battle broke out. Congrats to everyone who worked on the show, and especially Trolf, Jim, and Jay who all have been working tirelessly on it. Sanja & Craig premiered Saturday 10:30 am 11 am on Nickelodeon. You can watch Sanjay and Craig Episode 1: Brett Venom on hulu. and read about how the guys came up with it in this interview with The LA Times. Now, here's some photos from the premiere.


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Tofer Chin @Lu Magnus (+NYC)

Los Angeles Christofer Chin (Tofer) emailed over some install shots of his current show Ar running in NYC at Lu Magnus through June 29th. Simple/ clean and continuing his op artstyle Tofer Chin features new paintings, photographs, and sculpture continuing his exploration of geologically and architecturally inspired Minimalist forms.


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