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by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Walk toward the Yerba Buena Gardens and you will spot a partially buried green glass ship. This is SFAI proffessor John Roloff's DEEP GRADIENT/SUSPECT TERRAIN (SEASONS OF THE SEA ADRIFT). If you look through the glass and condensation you will discover a mysterious ecosystem growing there. Moss crawls up the edges of the metal girders, Tall grass pierces up from the bottom. These plants grew out of sediment that was gathered 4 miles off the coast and organic matter that came from the rivers that flow to the sea by the Golden Gate.

148 3rd St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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RAYKO PHOTO CENTER. You can buy art from an Art-O-Matic vending machine here. Take your photo in a photo booth. See some beautiful and thought provoking photographs on the walls of their gallery spaces. Take classes in photography, print digital photos or rent a darkroom here.

3rd St & Perry St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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CARMEN'S used to be a home style Filipino restaurant, but is now a dilapidated building hanging over the creek on pilings and connected to the 4th St. Bridge. When and why was it abandoned?

966 4th St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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MISSION BAY VISITORS CENTER. This is a corporate style visitors center, where you can see architectural models made of cardboard, wood, and paper, repleat with tiny little figures and trees. Detailed proposals and maps lay out the destiny of the Mission Bay area, some of which have been completed. The plan is to bring back the Vara Block system that was used to construct most of old San Franciso blocks, a measurement of 150 x100 varas per block ( a vara is 2'9"). So something like 420 x 280 feet per block. Of course also the project includes lots of green spaces and mixed use development.

255 Channel St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Houseboats in Mission Creek! Giant community garden behind wooden fence!

6th St & Channel St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Here you can see what is left of Mission Creek, a series of tubes and gates leading into what we now call Mission Creek, a waterway lined with stacked rocks. Back in the 19th century, this was a marshy estuary, and the old Mission Creek was a navigable stream that flowed west and then somewhat south to 16th St. If you take the pathway that goes under highway 280 you will be able to see another spot where culverts lead into the modern Mission Creek. Someone has painted the surrounding cement slopes with Egyptian style yellow and red imagery on a blue ground, with text: "Keep it Blue".

494 Berry St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Go to the railroad side of 7th street. Two bright orange signs here reveal the hidden infrastructure of urban communication cables. One sign says, "Buried communication cable. Call before you dig. 1800-248-0133. Failure to Comply will result in legal action. Williams Telecommunications Group." with a no shovel icon in black. The pole sign says: " MCI, WARNING, FIBER OPTIC CABLE ROUTE" with an icon of no shovel and earth mover arm.

7th St & Hooper St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Behind a chain link fence and adjacent to SF Scrap Metal a group of children painted a mural depicting the shipping industry of the bay. They left a list of their names, including: S. Shoden M Weiss, K Tarca, A Nyugen, K Jo, G Loving, L Kell Clohessy, W. Ramos, S. Mock and more.

71 Mississippi St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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This is the SF Gaurdian newspaper building. If you look at the parking entryway just south of the building, you will see a lively mural of the sites and events of San Francisco, featuring bicyclists, jazz players, and night clubs. It is a kind of pictorial distillation of the Best of The Bay edition that The Gaurdian publishes every year.
Also, look down at the curved railroad tracks that pass through the parking lot but stop abruptly under an asphalt ramp and the cement sidewalk. This was an old train car loading dock for some industry at one point.

135 Mississippi St, San Francisco

by nomadmick Oct 14, 2009

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Painted patches of different tones of red on a corrogated metal wall, forming some interesting patterns. Also the garage door has a great giant black patch, as though it wants to be a trompe l'oeil for a hole in the door. All of these patches have a practical function: graffitti coverup, but they end up being another form of graffitti, more like an urban form of abstract expressionism.

588 Mariposa St, San Francisco

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