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Ardiri--Sicilian for taking a risk or being consumed by fire.

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PSA

As we enter into the runup to the 2012 presidential election craziness, a public service announcement:

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Posted by hollyarn on June 15, 2011 at 01:23 PM in Politics, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

San Francisco Days...

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Giraffe mural near Lyon and Page streets in San Francisco

Posted by hollyarn on June 06, 2010 at 05:31 PM in So San Francisco, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Alexandre Orion & Reverse Graffiti

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(Image via alexandreorion.com/ossario)

Reverse Graffiti is the art of scraping, scrubbing, and pressure-hosing away dirt to create art.

Alexandre Orion of São Paulo, Brazil, scraped the skulls above in a traffic tunnel as a commentary upon the pollution humans were creating.  Of course, the city tried to clean away his artwork, but in trying to do so, they found the only solution was to clean the entire tunnel!

Posted by hollyarn on June 30, 2008 at 08:41 PM in Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Thylacine?

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Found on the sidewalk, up the street from the Giant Robot store. 
Thylacine?  An extinct, carnivorous marsupial in which both sexes have genital pouches.
That's an interesting thought to ponder, indeed.

Posted by hollyarn on June 07, 2008 at 02:51 PM in So San Francisco, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Worth Perusing...

Here are few websites that are worth your perusal:

  • Tink (aka Lacey Jane Roberts) (non-traditional craft with yarn)
  • Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Blog, Etc.; not specifically Walter Benjamin)
  • Fecal Face (Blogzine serving the Bay Area Art Community since 2000)
  • And, as always, good ol' Banksy

Posted by hollyarn on May 18, 2008 at 12:51 PM in Art, Detritus, Knitting, Politics, So San Francisco, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Jesus is Pissed...

While going on the City Guides "1906: Phoenix Rising" tour (Free!  Entertaining! Educational! Tour regarding the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire), these nicely juxtaposed images caught my eye:

"Jesus is Pissed" (And carrying guns!! Embiggen and look at arrow and red circle!) and the nude stripper shadow profile!
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San Francisco is just too wonderful!  I love it!

Posted by hollyarn on April 05, 2008 at 08:23 PM in Humor, So San Francisco, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Vote, Texans! Vote, Ohioans! VOTE!!!

And now for today's not-at-all-subliminal message:
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And a pee-wee league cheer: "Barack, Barack!  He's our *human*, if he can't do it, nobody can!"

So why did I--as a democrat--end up choosing Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton?

  • Hillary Clinton failed to vote on the FISA Bill and, in my opinion, her failure to show up to vote on such an essential civil liberties bill is a tacit approval of the bill which would "(1) [...] render retroactively legal the President's illegal spying program by legalizing its crux: warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, and (2) to stifle forever the sole remaining avenue for finding out what the Government did and obtaining a judicial ruling as to its legality: namely, the lawsuits brought against the co-conspiring telecoms.." (Glenn Greenwald, "Amnesty Day for Bush and Lawbreaking Telecoms", at Salon.com).  For a more impassioned and better explanation visit this entry at Six Hours a Week: Adventures of a Sudden Patriot.
  • I am ready for change.  That is, I am tired of dirty politics and the mudslinging that Clinton (and her hubby) are engaging in--i.e. putting out "the picture" (Obama wearing traditional tribal costume and turban).  Either they are trying to make him "not black enough" or not "American enough"--and that is essentially a lame, dirty, and weak political move in my book.
  • I originally felt I should vote for Clinton as a woman, as a feminist, as the girl I was (fifteen or so years ago) in eighth grade who didn't believe it was possible for a woman to be president in America--at least not in my lifetime. But then the more I thought about it, I realized that voting for a woman—just because she is a woman—did not fit my feminist thinking and in fact was a failure to see that it should be the right person (or right *human*), for the right job.  And I see Barack Obama or even, gods forbid, Ron Paul (cross my heart, hope to die, I can’t believe I just supported Ron Paul so straightforwardly; especially since he sees Roe Vs. Wade as a state issue and not a federal issue!) as the right candidate--OBAMA--(#1 choice for me), or as a better candidate than Clinton due to the race he is running (clean, straightforward on his Libertarian beliefs--Ron Paul).
  • However, I must say that I do think that countries such as Saudi Arabia or Iran could benefit from having a female president/queen/prime minister or what not—especially when they arrest a woman for having coffee with a male coworker at Starbucks or when they stone women to death for alleged cheating on a husband.  I think that countries that so rigidly and so back-ass-wardly treat the female population could certainly use female leaders (and female leaders who don't practice Sharia Law.  For a good overview of Sharia Law visit this entry at American Thinker.com). 
  • Of course, one could say that I am being paradoxical in saying that the U.S. doesn't need a female commander, while other countries do.  To this I reply: America has had some excellent female (and male) feminist who have made great strides towards gender equality in the United States.  Iran and Saudi Arabia--among many others--are simply in the stone age in regards to the treatment of women.

Posted by hollyarn on March 03, 2008 at 11:39 PM in Politics, Urban Art | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

A Wordless--thus far--Wednesday

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Posted by hollyarn on August 22, 2007 at 10:46 AM in So San Francisco, Urban Art, Wordless Wednesdays | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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  • SFist
  • SF Weekly
  • Mission Loc@l
  • Haighteration
  • SF FunCheap
  • The N-Judah Chronicles
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Interesting!

  • mimi smartypants
  • WebUrbanist
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  • The SF Weekly Dinner
  • Six Hours A Week: Adventures of a Sudden Patriot
  • The SF Book and Brunch Club
  • CROSSROADS
  • passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers
  • whoopsy daisy!
  • tea reads

Crafty!

  • Bark n Knit
  • brainylady
  • Bulldog Knits
  • Coloursknits
  • Fig and Plum
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  • Grumperina
  • knit and tonic
  • knot another hat
  • Living a Conscious and Creative Life
  • My Middle Name is Patience
  • Nightingale, tell me your tale...
  • Numerical Knitting
  • She Knits By The Seashore
  • sixoneseven
  • Stumbling Over Chaos
  • Subway Knitter
  • the purl bee
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  • yes, i MADE that.