Wild Amanitas of San Francisco

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:53:59 +0000

Speaking of Street Art, there is a rad little trend here on the streets of San Fran, painting vent pipes to look like the hallucinogenic Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.

It’s actually a street phenomenon that may have been going on for many decades (?). The vent pipes that get painted are common to many buildings here, and have been around for ever. Certainly, numerous artists get inspired to put their stamp on the familiar prank. Here’s some that someone took a particularly good amount of time with (considering).

It’s nice that the city still has some magic in it, and that it all hasn’t moved to Oakland, chased away by the $1000 strollers.

Street art in Emeryville CA

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:55:51 +0000

There is some rad street art going on in Emeryville. Its actually been slowly growing in scope for over a year, at least. Someone is putting freakin cool vinyl stickers up on the traffic control boxes:

There are dozens of them, each completely different, each completely interesting. The strange thing is that the city seems to be leaving them, which made me wonder if it wasn’t a city funded project. But after numerous Google searches that came up empty, I am thinking it is unsanctioned.

If this is true, how cool is that? Street Art that is done well enough that the city just decides to keep it!

Kudos to the designer.

And if anyone out there knows more about this, please do tell.

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Wild Amanitas of San Francisco

Street art in Emeryville CA