As always, YOU MAKE THE CALL:
I thought the fun was in the coloring…
Look what UAL has in store for you at SFO:
“Comfortable seating options that include the iconic Fritz Hansen “egg” chairs and swivel lounge chairs”
All is forgiven, United, ’cause I’m sitting on one of your “iconic” egg chairs.*
But the citizens of San Francisco don’t owe the flying public an assortment of googaws, no no. What the citizens of San Francisco owe the flying public are longer, better runways that are farther apart from each other, you know, runways that don’t need a special dispensation from the FAA. To wit:
Damn the torpedo fish (or whatever else is down there), full speed ahead (with longer and better runways farther apart)
And oh, the concomitant Egg™ Footstool costs thousands of dollars as well.
*If United sprang for leather, then the retail price is $16k each, srsly.
Ever more deets after the jump.
Like this bay window molding you can see from the sidewalk in the Western Addition:
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Egg and Dart (or Egg and Tongue) must have been the thang back in the day, cause a lot of it is still around, up and down and outside and inside and all over, really.
San Francisco’s most productive journalist these days has got to be Steve Rhodes – the man is out there in the field reporting on things All The Time.
“An exciting series of art events, fairs, installations and performances taking place along Market Street between UN Plaza and 6th Street.”
Gavin experiencing the sidewalk eggs of famous Robert James:
And let’s let Steve tell us what Gavin was saying last night:
“Market st should have 100 of these damn things. I can say that now that I only have 30 days.”
A few minutes later shaking a man’s hand: “It is good to see art out here”
I think I missed all that fuss, passing by a little while later. (You could tell something arty was going on just by the number of art student-types milling about the Mid Market.)
All the deets, below.
Sidewalk egg and sign, Market Street, USA:
Join the San Francisco Arts Commission on Thursday, December 9 from 5-7 p.m.for the launch of The ARTery Project, which kicks off its exciting series of events with the debut of three site-specific light installations by artists Jim Campbell, Theodore Watson and Paul Notzold and art openings at the luggage store, Central City Hospitality House Community Arts Program, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. Click here for more information.
See? This was the warm-up to show folks how to do the hottest(?) dance since the Macarena. If you were able to imitate these critters well enough, you could have won yourself free tickets yesterday, or something.
People have been practicing for weeks, as we see, in the Castro:
Congratulations to all the winners!
OVO is fantastic.
OVO’s been going been going for a week or so, but people were calling yesterday’s performance Opening Night – the food was free for some reason and there were a lot of San Francisco Swells and/or People You’d Recognize in the crowd, including Olympic Gold Medal-winning Kristi Yamaguchi – she’s now Twittering about how she was in “constant awe” last night.
Myself, I liked the suspended rope bit from Maxim Kozlov and Inna Mayorova best but the whole show was great.
The kiwi ants were memorable…
…and the very flexible spider was off the hook:
All the fun ends January 24th, 2010
See you there!
Well, The Review from Robert Hurwitt is in, and it’s good. O.K. then.
But don’t pay the scalpers to see OVO, just get your ticks at the box office, or discounted at the University of California San Francisco School of Pharmacy(!?)
Here are the crickets, up to something or other. Click to expand:
See you there!
Oh no, it’s OVO! The latest production from Cirque du Soleil is buzzing our way down at the Great AT&T Park Parking Lot south of SoMA in the “emerging” Mission Bay part of town.
Looks like the opener at 8:00 PM on November 27th is sold out, but seats are available for shows a few days later.
An team of athletic insects got the word out around town last Friday:
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It’s going to be mega!
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Currently it’s owned by FAMSF Board of Trustees President Diane B. “Dede” Wilsey, but let’s not forget about its history:
“When the wealthy Russian heiress Varvara Bazanova married cash-poor nobleman Nikolai Ferdinandovich Kelkh (also spelled Kelch) in 1892, she obtained a noble title and he obtained access to her money. When Kelkh died two years later, the heiress married Nikolai’s younger brother, Alexander.
The Kelch Rocaille Egg, made by Faberge in 1902, was one of a series of seven ostensibly bought by Alexander as a gift for his wife, but in truth paid for with her money.”
Rocaille means “rococo” – and this thing certainly is rococo a gogo, quite ornate it is. And this could be your last chance to see it for a while ’cause the expiration date for all the famous Faberge eggs as well as the entire show is May 31, 2009.
Eggs, precious eggs!