My Changing Neighborhood(s): graffiti

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Saturday, November 24, 2018

YIN AND YANG

Manhole cover on Howard between 9^thand 10^th

Thursday, September 13, 2018

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Seen on the sidewalk on Bush Street between Polk and Larkin.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Monday, April 23, 2018

RETURN OF THE KOI

When I first started this blog in 2014, one of the topics I meant to write about were the swimming koi I saw painted on the sidewalks thruout San Francisco.

Folsom between 8th and 9th

They were done around 2010/2011 by the artist Jeremy Novy.

Anyway, I never got around to blogging about them, and soon they faded away off the sidewalks and out of my consciousness.

Then, last year, they began re-appearing in my neighborhood:

Larkin Street near California

and elsewhere as well. They're meant to beautify the environment and cityscape,

MIssion and 24th

Corner of O'Farrell and Larkin.

which can use as much beautification as possible.

Copyright © by Chris Enquist 4/23/18

Thursday, December 7, 2017

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT -- #32 in a series

50th Summer of Homeless

Friday, December 23, 2016

IF YOU WISH FOR PEACE

Seen on a boarded-up window in Washburn Alley.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT 2016 – POST-ELECTION PROTESTS (#28 in a series)

Photographed the Wednesday morning after Donald Trump's election victory (since erased)

Protest of the election by hundreds of San Francisco high school students and others marching south down Van Ness Boulevard around noon on Thursday, November 10.

Friday, June 24, 2016

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT 2016 (#24 in a series) – HOMELAND SEC. GOV POLICE

The above graffiti recently appeared on the wall of Fox Plaza, which is currently being remodeled.

I have to admire whoever did this. They had to scale a 10-foot fence topped with barbed wire, erect ladders to block-paint the letters, take down the ladders and get back over the fence, all under the cover of darkness.

Well done.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

SIDEWALK SAYINGS (#9 in a series)

Seen on Bush Street between Polk and Larkin

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

SIDEWALK SAYINGS (#8 in a series)

Hyde Street between California and Pine

Thursday, December 18, 2014

CHILDHOOD’S END

The graffiti below was drawn on the back wall of Redding Elementary School. It was quickly painted over.

When I saw it, I thought: ‘Right. That’s what childhood is for a lot of kids – a time of crushed spirits and strangled lives' – and for some, a childhood that never begins at all.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

CRY OF THE HOMELESS

Graffiti on wall outside Buzzell Electric Works, 130 Eighth Street

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

HAUNTERS AT THE BUS STOP

Tech workers waiting for their buses at Van Ness and Pine

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT (#4 in a series)

Was the below drawing done by:

Drawing on wall on Larkin Street, since erased

(a) Unhappy SF resident, or

(b) Disgruntled Google employee?

You decide.

Copyright © by Chris Enquist 513/14

Monday, May 5, 2014

SIDEWALK SAYINGS (#5 in a series)

One of the things I like about living in my neighborhood are the sayings and drawings people have scratched and painted here and there in the sidewalks.

This was scrawled into wet cement by some scalawag a few years back. I’d gone past it for years and only noticed it last week. Its timeliness remains.