☞ A closer shot of the leftmost of the two murals. ☞ A closer shot of the rightmost of the two. ☞ The two murals as seen from across the street on a trolley island. Each had a bike rack in front and the pair had a street lamp between them. ☞ The pair of murals was labeled with the artists' signatures. "Drew Roulette, Carlos.G, Mario Dimas, 2017." ☞ The bottom of the rightmost side had flowers with a real alien flavor. ☞ A closer shot of the left hand side's eye. ☞ The leftmost of the two had logs below with clouds or water above the logs. The border was a series of opposing quotation marks. View all▼
☞ A closer shot of one of the giraffes as its head rose above the background concrete. ☞ The right end of the mural contained images of urban junk, old space capsules, and incomplete freeways. Two surfers walked out of the junk. ☞ A closer look at the two surfer dudes as they carried their surf boards out of the world of junk in search of surf. ☞ A closer look at the artist's signature at the right-hand end of the mural. ☞ A space capsule was assembled at the left end of the mural. The word Lido was printed on a board behind the capsule workers. View all▼
☞ The woman lay eyes closed on a brown pillow. An apropos pose for a hotel. ☞ A view of the mural form the opposite corner put it in context with the city as a whole. ☞ A view of the mural from across the street to put it into context with the hotel. ☞ The frame for the face was topped with what looked like an all-seeing eye. ☞ More words, below the image of stars on a cloudy night, read: "Victoria • Concordia • Crescit." That phrase was followed by tiny words that read, "Jim Miner & The Ex.D." View all▼
☞ One wall was painted black and given a sign that read, "Hart's Dog Park." ☞ The woman lay on a big dog. Sadly the dog park itself was too small for big to dogs to run. It's small size benefited only small dogs. ☞ A bench was available for humans to rest while dogs played. Flowers were painted on the wall behind the bench. An actual planter box was to the bench's left. ☞ The signature of the artist read, "Roan Victor E7S." ☞ The dog paws were arranged to avoid damage to blue flowers. ☞ A complex floral pattern that decorated the woman's dress. ☞ The other wall was painted in a mural. It depicted a woman relaxing with her dog. View all▼
☞ Another rod ran vertically to hold the lower silver colored bars together. ☞ The sculpture was affixed to a concrete stand on a park between to busy roads. ☞ The sculpture was made up of intersecting bars of silver colored metal. ☞ The effect looked like a fan, but one absent its paper covering. ☞ The sculpture rose high overhead. It looked like intersecting fans, or perhaps abstract jazz hands. ☞ The sculpture looked handsome backed by palm trees and a glass building. ☞ A metal rod passed through the silver colored bars and held them together. View all▼
☞ The blue outline of a heart, signed by CBar, had been painted on the side of a building just off Charnelton near West 7th Street, Eugene, Oregon. ☞ The red outline of a heart had been drawn on the side of a building just off Charnelton near West 8th Street in Eugene, Oregon. View all▼
☞ A kayak as they appeared back in 1997. ☞ A fishing boat named, "Salty Lady," that plied the waters of the bay in 1849. ☞ The Ferry Boat "Amador" 1877 was one of many ferris that hauled people across San Francisco Bay. ☞ An old motor-sailer cargo ship from 1880. Called the "Willamette," it worked on San Francisco Bay. ☞ One of the Tule Canoes of the Ohlone Indians who used to paddle the waters of San Francisco Bay back in 1597. ☞ One of the many Tugboats that worked the ships of San Francisco Bay. View all▼
☞ The mural was painted on the side of a retaining wall holding up Highway 87 at the corner of St. John Street and Almaden Boulevard in San Jose, California. ☞ The mural was a background for potted trees and light posts. In the foreground a woman holding a pole was most prominent. ☞ Look close and notice a skull on the hat of the boy. ☞ Behind the woman a boy, wearing a baseball hat, played the flute. ☞ Look close and notice the white hair of the woman and what is either a hoop earing or a curl of hair. ☞ Look close and see a four paned window on the top floor of the farmhouse behind the boy. View all▼
☞ Three women relaxing in a garden. ☞ The individual sins were unlabeled (the sin of omission?) so we leave it to the reader to imagine the sin. ☞ A man and a woman relaxed on blankets. ☞ One man with two women and two cherubs. ☞ A woman apparently dead, having eaten a poison flower. ☞ The bar with its shiny tile floor, dark wood, and open windows above. ☞ The last of the 7-sins had been defaced. So the government replaced it with a portrait of the original artist. ☞ A man and two women held up the heavy grapes under a full arbor. ☞ The series of the 7-sins murals were each painted in an alcove behind the bar counter. View all▼
☞ A concrete ring surrounded the sculpture. With the addition of, "Were Safe." The complete phrase became, "What Would The World Be Like If Women Were Safe?" ☞ A concrete ring surrounded the sculpture. It read in part, "What Would The World Be Like If . . ." ☞ A plaque described the sculpture. In part it read, Truth Is Beauty 55' x 15' x 15' Steel Interior Structure, Stainless Steel Mesh, LEDs Lighting Design Ka ping Yee Designed and Built without Aid of Computers ☞ The sculpture was 55 feet (16.7 meters) tall, so that the photographer had to stand well back to fill the frame. View all▼
☞ A plaque on the front of the Ferry Building labeled it a, "California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark." ☞ A sign etched in concrete read, "Erected in A.D. 1896 by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners." ☞ A sign in front of the grand staircase leading up into the Ferry Building said, "SF Fire Department Safety Code. Please Do Not Sit On Stairs." ☞ Another sign on the front of the Ferry Building read, "Ferry Building Historic Rehabilitation 2003." View all▼
