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  • Kenzo’s Octopus on Fell Street

    Civic Center/Hayes Valley  * 155 Fell Street  This is titled Big Octopus and is by Kenzo. Kenzo, (Aleix Gordo Hostau)  is from Barcelona, you can see his other work around San Francisco here or his own flicker photo stream here.

  • A Ross – Ziegler Collaboration

    435 Duboce Duboce Triangle/ Lower Haight Ian Ross and Zio Ziegler * * * * After these two worked together on a juxtaposed mural South of Market, it was an obvious step to combine forces.  The result is truly fabulous.  Obviously a temporary installation while construction is occurring behind this, but you have to love the…

  • Hayes Valley – Ghinlon/Transcope

    Hayes Valley/Western Addition Octavia Boulevard between Market and Hayes * * * Ghinlon/Transcope by Po Shu Wang 2005 Commissioned by the SF Arts Commission for the Octavia Boulevard Streetscape Project, these transcopes invite you to observe the comings and goings along Octavia Boulevard and Patricia’s Green. There are twelve of these installed along the medians…

  • Hayes Valley – Great Adventure

    Hayes Valley/Western Addition Octavia and Page * This is Growing Home’s Community Garden, their mission is to provide a community garden where both homeless and housed San Franciscans work side-by-side to grow nutritious food, access green space, and build community. The mural on the back wall is by Ben Eine, he has several murals around…

  • Hayes Valley

    Hayes  Valley – San Francisco 580 Hayes Street On the side of Hayes & Kabob – a terrific Mediterranean restaurant – there are these bright and happy dog murals. In front of the restaurant is a parking lot that used to be an “Elder Art Park”  Fortunately, at least these pieces remain. Because it is…

  • Hayes Valley Farm

    Hayes Valley – San Francisco Hayes  Valley Farm Thanks to the efforts of Colonel Thomas Hayes, Hayes Valley became the first outlying area of the vast Western Addition to develop. Hayes was born in 1823 in Ireland.  Afflicted by gold fever, Hayes and his two brothers set sail for San Francisco, and acquired a 160-acre…

  • Hayes Valley – Ethereal Art

    Hayes Valley – San Francisco Hayes Valley came to prominence when film director Erich von Stroheim chose the corner of Hayes and Laguna for the filming of his 1924 film “Greed.” His affections were for a 19th-century Victorian that had been built in the early 1880s by Col. Michael Hayes as an amusement pavilion, though…

  • Hayes Valley – Pop Up Art

    Hayes Valley – San Francisco I had the privilege of catching Andy Vogt in the process of making this piece.  We chatted for awhile, as he worked putting lath into the chain link fence.  This space surrounds a temporary landing spot for the Museum of Craft and Art.  The museum is presently in a storage…

  • Oddities in San Francisco

    915 Fulton Street This is Ron Henggeler’s Tower at 915 Fulton Street in San Francisco.  Ron is a collector, he started building this 45 foot tower after the Loma Prieta Earthquake.  He wandered down to where they were tearing up the Fell Street Freeway exit and scavenged the rebar, the tower grew from there.  Ron…