the maybe inspired by “Alien” t-shirt !

huh people are making unauthorized reel-to-reel tapes of famous jazz albums complete with faux packaging! also in this rabbit hole discovered people are still making new reel to reel players

got it!
www.etsy.com/listing/1497...

unwisely searched eBay for "reel to reel jazz" after seeing this and the first return is Miles Bitches Brew for $178 with all the original packaging

fair that iconic buildings can have a carbon footprint per @kristoncapps.bsky.social point, they tore a 55 y/o building because of leaks. guessing ‘aging concrete’ will be the excuse in 2070, not 2526

Govan Airways flies twice a week to Zurich for $700,000

screen grab that says LACMA has 617M in debt

reading the coverage, Oliver Wainwright asked Govan about the carbon footprint of so much concrete and Govan said it could last … 500 years?! Also this little detail about the debt, guess it’s never going to free admission

every time I’ve driven down Wilshire since reading that I think “airport terminal” so that one has stuck

simpler times when it was just "airport terminal" now we're in the era of "jacked up [redacted] bridge"

RM x SFMOMA See what inspires the voice of a generation in this first-ever exhibition featuring artworks from the personal collection of RM of BTS.

After Kaws show ends, they have a show curated by a singer in BTS (which might be more interesting than the Fisher collection):
www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/r...

both OSes feel “let’s make bell bottoms cool again” except it’s border radius and drop shadow from 20 years ago

the next generation will come across photos of the idiosyncratic, inconvenient, not-beautiful sculpture and wonder why we replaced it with a rendering, slouching towards Blandistan

amazing to watch it dawn across his stupid face that the war is a quagmire / lost but then he expects Pete should have a solution

carrying six hundred million debt, they don't have $ to pay hotmail

was an SF espresso snob, ignorant of this madness, until I walked into Philz on 24th with their mint sprigs

for me the main humiliation (and perhaps this is their innovation pre Covid) is they ask you how much milk and sugar and blend it in for you. Invariably much sweeter and milkier than I’d ever make it

mediocre coffee and didn’t improve when they expanded

poet Charles Simic!

10 year performance on HD is half the SP500, so not that smart

avoided visiting SFMOMA for 6 months because of this shit

saw the thumbnail and thought: twombly thiebaud cake sculpture!?

another amazing thing is the people that are really careful aligning the photo, like they are getting a free jpeg of a great work of art for later printing

a handmade sign that reads “Safeway used to be sexy “ - presumably this refers to the marina Safeway being known as a singles meeting spot in the 70s, but now those people are wretched NIMBYs

imagine having nostalgia for a Safeway

I follow politics somewhat closely as a normie CA liberal and I recognize his name but that's it. (caveat, I don't listen to podcasts, know what "pod save" is but only find it digestible for 10 minutes or less.)

San Francisco angle in Bouie's story: Wong Kim Ark was returning to SF in 1895 aboard SS Coptic, denied entry and kept for 5 months off the coast of SF, was freed on bail while the case progressed to scotus. Edison made a short film of the ship in SF bay:
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6y...

Painting of a chocolate eclair with a knife buried in it

Wayne Thiebaud, "Eclair," 1972

how many times has ‘drama at the Kennedy center’ been on the front page of the NYT vs the camps where the inevitable horrific abuses are happening

The Procrastinator YouTube video by Lee Morgan - Topic

i have basically listened to nothing other than this record for the last week www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-y...

Soon, You Can Visit Ruth Asawa’s Art Whenever You Like | KQED The family-run Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. will open a permanent exhibition space at Minnesota Street Project on May 9.

Ruth Asawa's family to open a permanent exhibition space at MSP!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398804...

USDA subsidies for zip code 54154, https://farm.ewg.org/

subsidies for O'harrow's Family Farm LLC, showing 1.9M in payments (1.1M in 2020) source https://farm.ewg.org/

along with relying on undocumented labor, useful context is this farmer and most of his neighbors get government subsides