San Francisco the city of GOLD!
For the first time i was close enough to make MVP gold on Alaska, which may sound like no big deal, but skipping security at the airports is a HUGE deal. Anyway I needed 845 more miles.
I decided it would be a good time to go visit Will for the day. I took a EARLY flight (7:30am) which landed in SF at 9:30am, Will picked me up and we cruised down to the SFMOMA, which had a few shows Will hadn't seen. Jeff Wall, a collection of large back lite, mostly "recreated" photos, a few of which were I thought were stunning! Also showing was Olafur Eliasson, which had a frozen BMW, which was contained in a HUGE walk in freezer. Seemed to me that most of his work revolved around geometrics and geometry. The room full of geometrical models was amazing and could have been a show to its self. I think highlight of the Olafur show was "Room for One Color" which was lite, with really bright yellow lights that made all color look monochromatic, and your skin look like you were dead,
Will and I hung out here for awhile before heading off to The luggage Store Gallery, which had a group show hanging with some good stuff, most interesting was that they were peeling back the paint in one corner of the gallery to reveal some pieces that had been painted over almost 10 years ago.
Left downtown and cruised over to Haight, popped into Giant Robot, Kid Robot, FTC, RVCA (which was really nice), spent some time at Ameoba.
Left the Haight and cruised to the Mission, stopped in at Jack Hanely Gallery, which had a cool collages and paintings by up by Gee Vaucher. Cruised into a few shops, 826 Valencia, which is Dave Eggers, writing / pirate supply shop! Stopped into another record shop and played Tron for about an hour (this game is addicting!)
We then ended up at Zeitguys, which is nice for Will because you can smoke outside and nice for me because they have 2.50 Pabst in bottles. While we were there a huge lot of Drunk Santas got kicked out which was a site to see.
Left Zeitguys at 7:45 got the airport at 8:30 and was in my bed by 11pm!
Thanks to Will for showing me around. Here are few more photos!
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