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Os Gemeos, Bode and The Warfield

 Posted by on January 27, 2014
Jan 272014
 

Taylor and Turk
The Tenderloin

Os Gemeos and Mark Bode

This fun mural was finished in September of 2013.  It is a collaboration between Os Gemeos and Mark Bode, both whom have been in this site before.

This whimsical piece sits on the back of the Warfield Theater on Market street.  The two cousins from Brazil and San Francisco artist Mark Bode  painted this mural which includes one of Os Gemeos’ characters and the iconic comic character “Cheech Wizard” created by Mark’s father Vaughn Bodé in 1957.

Cheech WizaardCheech Wizard

The wall was organized by the Luggage Store Gallery and Wallspace SF.

Os Gemeos and Mark Bode Collaborate at the Warfield in San Francisco

With Love and Respect for Moebius

 Posted by on November 15, 2012
Nov 152012
 

Clarion Alley
Mission District

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This beauty is by BODE, CUBA and Stan153. With Love and Respect for Moebius.

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French comics artist who earned worldwide fame, predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius, and to a lesser extent Gir (used for the Blueberry series). He has been described as the most influential bandes dessinées artist after Hergé. (Herge is known to most in the U.S. as the author of TinTin)

Among his most famous works are the Western comic series Blueberry he co-created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, one of the first Western anti-heroes to appear in comics. Under the pseudonym Moebius he created a wide range of science fiction and fantasy comics in a highly imaginative and surreal almost abstract style.

Moebius contributed storyboards and concept designs to numerous science fiction and fantasy films, including AlienWillowTron (1982), and The Fifth Element.

 Mark Bode, son of Vaughn Bode comes by his comic style of art honestly, this tribute is heartfelt.

CUBA is the name of one of the city’s earliest known graffiti artists, still operating today. The 46-year-old Baltimore transplant moved to the Mission in 1985, when he was 21 years old.  Mission Local has a terrific video of CUBA that you can watch here.

STAN153  started in 1970 in Harlem on 153rd street and 8th Avenue. He was one of the original 3 Yard Boys and one of the founding members of Master Works Productions. He has coloborated and painted with almost every top aerosol artist in New York City. From the seventies to the nineties he has been involved in the graff movement and has done 40 shows in the U.S. and Europe. He has been documented in the first graff book ever, The Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer, back in 1974 and Getting Up 1984 by Craig Castleman. His clothing has been featured in Fresh the book of Hip Hop by Susan Finkler.

Happy Herbs

 Posted by on November 10, 2012
Nov 102012
 

1391 Haight Street

This creature by Bode is on the side of the new Happy High Herb Shop in the Haight.

Happy High Herbs is not your everyday head shop. Their website and sign promise to “promote herbs that bring happiness, bring wellness, increase horniness and bring contentment,” and they say their products “are marketed only in our physical shops, in a face to face situation, as alternatives to drugs of harm and addiction.” That said, you still have to be 18 to buy them.

The company was founded in Australia by Ray Thorpe to offer safer alternatives to typical party drugs. The Haight Street shop is their fifth shop stateside, and their fourth in California.

 Mark Bode was born in Utica, New York. He is the son of the legendary cartoonist Vaughn Bode.  Mark is best known for his work on Cobalt 60 and as the creator of the hit comic Miami Mice.

Bode attended Art School in Oakland. His first professional job was for Heavy Metal Magazine when he was asked to color is father’s black and white strip Zooks.  He was a fine arts major at The School of Visual Arts in New York and studied animation and etching at SF State University.


The Jungle on Clarion Alley

 Posted by on November 3, 2012
Nov 032012
 

Clarion Alley
The Mission

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This gorgeous woman is by BODE.  This mural is in Clarion Alley in the Mission District.

Clarion Alley runs just south of 17th Street from Mission to Valencia.

CAMP, or the Clarion Alley Mural Project originated in 1982, inspired by San Francisco’s Balmy Avenue just down the street. None of the artists that formed CAMP had participated in the Balmy Alley project, nor did any of them have any background in mural projects. There is no theme to the alley or what artists are allowed to paint.  Once an artist is given space, and as long as it is maintained it pretty much belongs to the artist.  There is a committee that notifies the artist if the mural has been tagged or defaced.

The Clarion Alley area has an ethnically diverse set of residents and owners, but it is also the site of serious drug dealing and substance abuse, and is frequently used as an outdoor toilet. Although Clarion opens onto Valencia Street directly across from a new district police station, that has had no impact on the alley’s illicit users.

It was hoped that if the alley became the site of artwork which brought visitors, then its “inhabitants” would be inclined to go elsewhere to defecate and shoot up, there is some indication that this is happening, but not fully.

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Mark Bode is the son of legendary Vaughn Bode, and is a prolific and highly successful artist in his own right.


 

 

Fire Station #8 a WPA gem on Bluxome Street

 Posted by on October 21, 2013
Oct 212013
 

36 Bluxome Street
SOMA
South of the Slot

36 Bluxome Street

Fire Station Number 8 was built in 1939 as a result of the WPA

The San Francisco Fire Department was a big beneficiary of W.P.A. The Department’s 1974 Historical Review noted, “One of the few advances made by the Department in these lean years resulted from the formation of the Works Project Administration. As a result of this program several of the Department buildings were remodeled, new heating and plumbing facilities installed, and much necessary maintenance accomplished.”

Assistant City Engineer Clyde E. Healy’s December, 1939, report notes repairs to no less than forty-one Fire Department locations throughout the city, including the construction of a new fire house at 38 Bluxome Street.

Bluxome Street Fire Station

The October 20, 1938, Project Proposal informs, “The present fire house at this location was built in 1907, as a temporary structure. W.P.A. will start razing this building on October 10th and this proposal is for a new modern fire house on the same site.”

For those unfamiliar with Bluxome Street  it is a small alley south of Market between Fourth and Fifth streets. Should a fire-related emergency ever occur at Pac Bell Park, firefighters from the Bluxome station would be the first on the scene.

Bluxome Fire Department #8

 

The day I was there the firetruck was parked outside and I was able to get a few fun photos.  Sadly, I can tell you nothing about the logo.

When public transit was still dominated by cable cars, The Slot was the iron track that went through the center of Market Street where the cables operated.

According to a short story from Jack London at the time, “North of the Slot were the theaters, hotels, and shopping district, the banks and the staid, respectable business houses. South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine-shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class.”

“South of The Slot” became a euphemism for the, shall we say, seedier parts of the area. It also became a class divider, as in “that guy’s from the south of the slot.” The 1906 Earthquake and Fire destroyed the area, burning through the wooden hotels, boarding houses, and flats. Over time, as the area was redeveloped, the nickname slowly disappeared, and now we all call it SOMA.

Bluxome 8 South of the Slot

 

Bluxome Street was named for Isaac G. Bluxome.  He was a successful business man of his time, and sat on the California State Board of Mineralogists.  He died at the age of 60 (or 61) in 1890.

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