“You see that girl over there with green hair,” Ray says. At a woman across the street, he shook his finger. I knew Ray from New York. We had a mutual friend and we moved to San Francisco around the same time. I bumped into him in the Mission. In a dark corner outside a library near Haight Street, I spent the night trying to make myself as small as I could. People sleeping in their beds surrounded me. I …
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I catch myself staring at things longer: deformed pigeon feet stepping into rainbow puddles, the pronounced veins on my weed dealer’s hands, the fading green of a bench in Marcus Garvey Park, the thick painted bolts and beans that elevate the Metro North train tracks. Bushwick, Brooklyn, “Damn son, that shit looks heavy. They gonna let you take that on the plane?” Ezrah said standing on his porch chuckling. Ezrah’s a struggling rapper from the Bronx. “The thing about the …
A sushi restaurant on St. Mark’s, Lower East Side, Manhattan, “Wait, you’re going to San Francisco with $100?” says Quang. “Yeah,” I say. “When I knocked on the door I heard heaving,” Haruki said about stopping by Colin’s dorm room. She left, guessing that someone was having sex. Colin, like Haruki and Quang, was an exchange student. That night, Quang knocked on Colin’s door and heard the same sound. He had a Resident Assistant open the door. They found Colin …
If you haven’t heard or read about artist David Young V, please click here, here, and here. D Young V stay-making work and wheat pasting the world with it. He’s also written about his travels through his Bombing series, here, here, and here. His work is timely to put it modestly, especially if we’re about to elect an orange-faced-tycoon who wants to turn our country into a Mad Max dystopian paradise. DYV gives a quick update on his travels, future …
Believe it or not, Ground of Being is Shaun Roberts’ first ever solo show. He’s photographed for a lot of media outlets including GQ Magazine, Juxtapoz, Wired, and Hi-Fructose. Taking place at Hashimoto Contemporary on March seventh, this is years in the making. He spent countless hours visiting various artists’ studios, getting immersed in their world and observing their creative process. From 2007-2014 Roberts photographed a lot of Bay Area artists and others around the country. Portraits of C3, Brett Amory, David Young V, Emory Douglas, and Doze Green are just some of the subjects …
