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Brian Barnelco is a San Francisco artist who is lending his paint stylings to the side of FoodCo a grocery store in the Mission district between 14th and 15th Streets on Shotwell. The two hundred-foot piece explores the source of our food from seed to dinner plate. Still in progress if you live in the area and want to stop by.

Food Chain Mural blog
Brian’s previous work
SFGate Culture blog article

Karolina Sobecka’s wildlife street art takes your favorite beast and projects it onto the city streets from a moving vehicle. Software installed in the car detects the speed and adjusts the running animals animation accordingly.

Some stills and video n more info
Karolina’s personal site

Google’s attempts to catalog the world’s libraries at first came with resistance, then speculation, and now are slowly being embraced by many major partners. Being all for the access to as much information as possible we’re glad to see you can now also download pdfs of works from Google Book Search.

Google Book Search
Google Blog post with more details

Some downloadable works of interest:
Dante’s Inferno
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Aesop’s Fables

We’re big fans of Flickr and yesterday they announced a new geotagging feature for all members. You can now drag and drop your photos over a Yahoo! generated map and get pretty little pink dots on the location of your shot. Links below will help to get you started posting and wasting the rest of the day exploring.

How to geotag your own photos
Searching and exploring geotagged photos
Flickr Blog posting with more details

Mark Jenkins is a Washington DC based artist, who’s work includes tape babies and lollipop parking meters, may wake you up from that urban everday daze sometime.

Video of Jenkins work on the street
Morning News Interview
Mark’s Stroker Project

Covers everything except your shelter and clothes.

Altoids Tin Survival Kit

More DIY survival kits:
The Do-it-yourself Coffee Can Survival Kit
A Survival Kit you can Live With

How to hang artwork without destroying the balance (or wall) in your space.

How to hang your Artwork and not fuck it up
The Art of hanging Art
28 Tips for Hanging Art
Hanging Art by Robert Terrell

Interesting read of a 1964 New Yorker profile of Bob Dylan. Exploring what ‘folk’ meant for the time and place in music.

The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds

Affordable cell phone plans for travelers, $49 for 140 countries, $99 for 160 + US. Good deals if you’re going to be out for awhile.

Mobal rental

Now legendary street artist Banksy is opening up a warehouse full of goods starting Friday September 15th. Location to be announced at his website the day of the show.

Wooster Collective posting
Banksy site
Flickr group featuring Banksy street work

In certain parts of rural Sweden an old traditional law still stands. If a child under the age of 18 commits a serious offence and is convicted of the crime, he or she is NOT sent to a correctional facility. Instead, state firemen show up at the child’s home and ceremonially burn the house to the ground.

It is hoped that by being made an example of, other parents will keep control of their children’s behaivour.

The system seems to work as a house is only burned once every 12 to 15 years.

via Sean Rogg and his video ‘Wood’

“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds”

Mixing engineering and art Theo Jansen creates larger than life kinetic sculptures from his studio in the Netherlands. Resembling the skeletal structure of animals his wind-powered creatures are incredible to watch in motion.

BMW commercial featuring Jansen voice over
Video of Jansen’s Animaris Rhinoceros Transport in motion
Theo Jansen interview with artificial.dk