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July 21st 2011: S.F. Moma


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Civic Center and Vicinity
Public sculptural art on Market Street near Civic Center.
Civic Center fountain.  The seagulls seem to be enjoying themselves.
The regular street fair/market in Civic Center Plaza.
Facing the Civic Center building, another view of the street market.  
Most vendors sold cloth products.
Public sculptural art on Market Street near Civic Center.
Civic Center fountain. The seagulls seem to be enjoying themselves.
The regular street fair/market in Civic Center Plaza.
Facing the Civic Center building, another view of the street market. Most vendors sold cloth products.
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Off the Grid, a 
company that organizes food trucks, stations trucks every Thursday in 
Civic Center Plaza.  Here are a few of the trucks.  If you look at the 
full-sized image, you can read what kind of food each truck serves.
More trucks.  The long line in the foreground of the shot three pictures ago is for the famous 
Senor Sisig truck (filipino tacos and burritos), in the foreground here.
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A band of kids (probably not even teenagers) performed Johnny Cash songs in the plaza! I'm sorry I didn't record them.
Off the Grid, a company that organizes food trucks, stations trucks every Thursday in Civic Center Plaza. Here are a few of the trucks. If you look at the full-sized image, you can read what kind of food each truck serves.
More trucks. The long line in the foreground of the shot three pictures ago is for the famous Senor Sisig truck (filipino tacos and burritos), in the foreground here.
The most intriguing items/trucks to me were the bbq truck and the truck that serves Cuban sandwiches made with waffles.
Lunch at Saigon Sandwich
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The cashier and sandwich assembly people.
We sat at the small counter in the joint.  Here's Di Yin eating a 
sandwich and gazing out the window.
Roasted chicken banh mi.  Quite good.  I loved the notes the cilantro 
and chilies contributed in addition to the other flavors.
We ate lunch at Saigon Sandwich in the Tenderloin. Sorry I didn't feel comfortable standing on the street with my camera to take a picture of the facade.
The cashier and sandwich assembly people.
We sat at the small counter in the joint. Here's Di Yin eating a sandwich and gazing out the window.
Roasted chicken banh mi. Quite good. I loved the notes the cilantro and chilies contributed in addition to the other flavors.
Roasted pork banh mi.  It tasted very similar and thus was also quite 
good.
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Roasted pork banh mi. It tasted very similar and thus was also quite good.
We also bought a tofu banh mi that we ate a little later. It was different in flavor. The tofu was silky and the sandwich as a whole tasted rather refreshing.
S.F. Moma
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Does the designer really expect two people to use this at once?
A panorama (mostly complete) of 51 Drawings by Hanne Darboven.  
This mathematical art could easily be a Game clue.
A description of this work.  The sign is interesting in that it 
describes the piece clearly and explains its meaning yet doesn't provide 
any explanation of the meaning of the content of the piece.
I didn't take a picture of S.F. Moma because it doesn't look like much from the front.
Does the designer really expect two people to use this at once?
A panorama (mostly complete) of 51 Drawings by Hanne Darboven. This mathematical art could easily be a Game clue.
A description of this work. The sign is interesting in that it describes the piece clearly and explains its meaning yet doesn't provide any explanation of the meaning of the content of the piece.
Jasper John's Canvas is pretty funny, both in terms of what it is 
and what it isn't.
The label attached to it. Jasper John's 
Canvas
Fun with type faces.
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Jasper John's Canvas is pretty funny, both in terms of what it is and what it isn't.
The label attached to it. Jasper John's Canvas
Fun with type faces.
We saw a neat interactive touch screen exhibit allowing people to draw to make one's own doodle for Google. The tools made it easy to create one that looked good. I created one and had the computer mail it to me but sadly it never arrived.
Self-portrait using mirror with an embedded clock.
The view northwest from S.F. Moma.
The view west toward Yerba Buena Garden.  If you know what you're 
looking for, you can spot of the top of the pretty Martin Luther King 
Jr. Memorial Waterfall.
A weird sight in S.F. Moma's central atrium: a pencil drawing on the 
wall, plus climbing equipment.
Self-portrait using mirror with an embedded clock.
The view northwest from S.F. Moma.
The view west toward Yerba Buena Garden. If you know what you're looking for, you can spot of the top of the pretty Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Waterfall.
A weird sight in S.F. Moma's central atrium: a pencil drawing on the wall, plus climbing equipment.
It's officially art: Drawing Restraint 14 by Matthew Barney.  
Reading the description, one realizes that the visible weirdness of the 
piece is no match to the weirdness displayed in the performance of 
creating the piece.
A sample of a wall-sized installation that's another Game clue: 
mysterious letter-word patterns followed by a word. Notice a pattern in 
the words? The changing light pattern can make the puzzle more complex.
The installation is Peter Wegner's The United States of Nothing.  
The title reveals the pattern in the words.  The numbers/letters also 
have meaning.  (Did you notice the pattern before you read it?)  As I 
said, this would be a great Game clue.
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It's officially art: Drawing Restraint 14 by Matthew Barney. Reading the description, one realizes that the visible weirdness of the piece is no match to the weirdness displayed in the performance of creating the piece.
A sample of a wall-sized installation that's another Game clue: mysterious letter-word patterns followed by a word. Notice a pattern in the words? The changing light pattern can make the puzzle more complex.
The installation is Peter Wegner's The United States of Nothing. The title reveals the pattern in the words. The numbers/letters also have meaning. (Did you notice the pattern before you read it?) As I said, this would be a great Game clue.
Mitch Epstein's Amos Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia is striking.
We watched part of a video: Spielberg's List by Omer Fast.  It 
explores an interesting idea.  Read about it.
S.F. Moma's rooftop sculpture garden.  The sculpture I like the most is 
the one with bent pipes in the back-right.  It's hard to make out in 
this picture.
Looking north (I think) to San Francisco's skyline.  Pretty.
Another shot looking west at Yerba Buena.
We watched part of a video: Spielberg's List by Omer Fast. It explores an interesting idea. Read about it.
S.F. Moma's rooftop sculpture garden. The sculpture I like the most is the one with bent pipes in the back-right. It's hard to make out in this picture.
Looking north (I think) to San Francisco's skyline. Pretty.
Another shot looking west at Yerba Buena.
Snack at Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous
Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous, a new ice cream joint in the outskirts of 
San Francisco.
Inside.  Lots of light came through the picture windows.  The menu and 
list of toppings is readable.  The ice cream flavor menu is less 
interesting than what it usually is judging by what I've read.
Di Yin and I with our ice cream.
We got peach and vanilla bean.  Both were very good.  Di Yin preferred 
the peach, I the vanilla.
Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous, a new ice cream joint in the outskirts of San Francisco.
Inside. Lots of light came through the picture windows. The menu and list of toppings is readable. The ice cream flavor menu is less interesting than what it usually is judging by what I've read.
Di Yin and I with our ice cream.
We got peach and vanilla bean. Both were very good. Di Yin preferred the peach, I the vanilla.