Did you ever notice that the streets of Chinatown are covered in these pretty flower designs? Who says Oakland isn’t beautiful? Answer: people who don’t live in Oakland.
Posted May 29, 2012 at 5:55pm in nice bike bikes bicycles gold Fruitvale Oakland BART East Bay Bay Area
Posted May 28, 2012 at 5:55pm in East Oakland Oakland Fruitvale graf graffiti street art tags Bay Area East Bay art
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Guarding an estate in Oakland’s Chinatown. I love these Chinese guard dogs and see them all over town. Does anyone know what they’re called?
I want to create my own portable-amplification system for protest and DJing. This guy had simply hooked his mic up to a portable amp and strapped that bad boy to his bike. So, basically, awesome.
And he was using the amp to beat box about Occupy Oakland, which is also awesome, no?
The Wave Organ, like San Francisco herself, is gorgeous and hard and weird. We walked out on the dirt path past the fancy yacht club to listen to the acoustics of the tides bounce off the sculpture’s concrete pipes and into our ears. After the bottles of wine were empty, we stripped down to our underwear and jumped into the bay, Alcatraz at eye level as our teeth chattered and we held each others goosebumped bodies. Her black hair was wet and matted to her forehead when we kissed, our mouths filled with the Pacific.
Posted May 25, 2012 at 5:59pm in hot caught being awesome East Oakland Bay Area fashion people Oakland East Bay
Protesters cling to the back of a van that blares music for the the Occupy protesters. See, protests are fun!
Posted May 24, 2012 at 6:01pm in protests Monopoly signs Occupy Oakland Occupy Oakland Bay Area hugs general strike May Day
Posted May 23, 2012 at 6:01pm in architecture Chinese Oakland East Oakland Chinatown East Bay Bay Area
Posted May 22, 2012 at 6:01pm in East Oakland graffiti graf animated gifs gif street art tags East Bay Oakland Bay Area Nor Cal
Posted May 21, 2012 at 6:01pm in The Mission Mission District graffiti photography black & white B&W 24th street San Francisco Bay Area California
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I’ve been to all the great cities of the world… and not one of them has what this one has - and I’m not talking about hills or water. I mean light - fantastic changes of light. I’ve never seen a city move so fast or so often from gray to white to blue to pink to gold and then back again, and sometimes all at the same time. Wherever you turn there seems to be a new shade in a new connotation - a violet hill, a yellow street or a green house turning orange right before your eyes.
— Herb Caen on San Francisco (via sanfranciscofreak55)
(Source: sfgate.com, via ileftmymindinsanfrancisco)
Runs his own clothing line? Wish I’d asked for his card. He and several other awesome people were tending to a magical box on wheels that produced music. I should have asked them what powered the thing, but I am sort of shy about talking to strangers.
If anyone knows about his clothing line, do speak up! Do ya?
Posted May 16, 2012 at 6:02pm in occupy Oakland occupy Oakland North Oakland Temescal East Bay OWS
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