Golden Gate Covered in Gold Black Gold, that is
I was sitting around at work the other day when one of my co-workers asked me if Id heard that a tanker had struck the Bay Bridge. I said I hadnt and, with the memories of the 35-W bridge collapse in Minneapolis fresh in my mind, I asked if there was any damage to the Bridge. No, he replied, but I guess there was a minor oil spill. Something like 150 gallons, so not too bad. Best to avoid the beach for the next few days anyway just to be safe.
Now, Im a man of many hobbies, but hanging out at the beach is definitely not one of them. Im pasty by design, and I like to keep it that way thank you very much. Plus, do you know how hard it is to mix a good appletini with sand in the shaker? Its a nightmare! Anyhoo, I didnt figure that avoiding the beach would be a problem, so I promptly forgot about it and went back to thinking about more creative ways I can sell out to the establishment.
Well, it turns out that the initial estimate of 150 gallons spilled was a wee bit off. Just a smidge, though.
An 810-foot-long container ship crashed into the base of a tower of the Bay Bridge's western span in heavy fog Wednesday, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel into San Francisco Bay.
Um
what? Fifty-eight thousand?! Did they forget to carry the five or something? I mean, Im not a math person, but thats like four times as much!
Its a whole fuck of a lot. And it turns out that its doing some really nasty things to the SF Bay ecosystem.
All through the day, the heavy fuel oil that spilled from the container ship Cosco Busan washed up on beaches along the San Francisco and Marin coastlines, leaving purplish sheens on the water and black blobs in the sand. Hundreds of birds coated in thick, gloppy oil were injured or dead.
"It's just heartbreaking," said Sally McFadden, 49-year-old birdwatcher from Larkspur who went to Kirby Cove in the Marin Headlands to help and was shocked when she saw the oil-slathered rocks and sand.
About 9,500 gallons of oil had been contained by Thursday evening, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. William Uberti said. But as he spoke, questions were swirling about his agency's response and whether it could have been quicker.
Those swirling questions include the obvious one alluded to above. Namely, why on earth was the initial leakage estimate so much lower than it turned out to be?
Oil began leaking into the water after the 65,131-ton, 810-foot-long ship crashed into the base of a tower of the Bay Bridge's western span in heavy fog at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Within an hour, six emergency vessels from the Coast Guard and Marine Spill Response Corp. were on the scene, [U.S. Coast Guard Capt. William] Uberti said. Yet up until 4 p.m., officials apparently believed only 140 gallons of oil had leaked into the water.
They then learned that the actual amount of the spill was a much more alarming 58,000 gallons, Uberti said. That news was not announced to the public and some local officials until 9 p.m.
In other words, it took them almost 12 hours to release the information to local authorities that the biggest ecological disaster in over a decade had just happened in the San Francisco Bay. Meanwhile, they were telling everyone no biggie. And why?
"We were kind of busy. ... We were busy figuring this stuff out," Uberti said when asked about the delay.
Ok then. So in addition to making sure the Coast Guard responds to problems of this scale more quickly, we need to get them a better PR guy. That much is clear.
While the Coast Guard and local environmental organizations have begun a frantic race to clean up the oil as quickly as possible and minimize damages, state and local officials are pretty righteously pissed off.
Democrat [Barbara] Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, said in a statement that she was "very troubled by the Coast Guard's delay in delivering accurate information to the public and the city of San Francisco ... Many questions remain as to why it took an entire day to determine the gravity of this spill."
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom promised that the city would take legal action against whoever is responsible for the spill and expressed irritation that his office, like many, learned the true scope of the spill after 9 p.m.
"I'm not saying anyone lied. I'm saying there was wrong information," Newsom said. "It all goes to intent. Was there intent to mislead? That needs to be assessed. There's a lot of finger-pointing right now. ... I'm just concerned about mitigating the damage and cleaning it up and then holding those people responsible."
The question of who is ultimately responsible could be more difficult than youd think. The ships pilot, John Cota, was tested for drugs and cleared. Of course, he wasnt tested by the Coast Guard until 24 hours after the spill (apparently the Coast Guard was kind of busy or something) so who knows how accurate that test was. Moreover, the dude doesnt exactly have a spotless safety record.
Capt. John Cota, the veteran master mariner who was piloting the container ship Cosco Busan when it hit the Bay Bridge on Wednesday, has been involved in a number of ship-handling incidents and was reprimanded last year for an error in judgment when he ran a ship aground, state regulatory documents show.
Cota, 59, has been a bar pilot, guiding ships in and out of San Francisco Bay and its tributaries, for more than 25 years. Many mariners consider him an excellent ship handler.
But he has had four "incidents" involving an investigation by the Board of Pilot Commissioners in the past 14 years and has been "counseled" by pilot commission executives on several other occasions, documents show.
To be fair to Cota, Wednesday was a heavy fog day. Of course, we have heavy fog days all the time around here. Theyre so common that one could even call S.F. Fog City if one were so inclined. Or he might just not have known that the Bay Bridge was there. Its only been up for 70 years. He might have been working off an old map. It could happen.
Even if they find that Cota personally was not at fault, that wont necessarily relieve the owners of the ship from liability for the accident. The problem is that actually locating these owners is often difficult. That's because the owners of these ships often bury themselves in so many layers of sub-contracts and chartering agreements that it becomes a tangled mess of jurisdiction.
Finding the owner of the ship - or finding who, if anyone, is liable - can be so difficult that sometimes it's "hard to get jurisdiction over the actual owner or even figure out who they are," [A local S.F. admiralty lawyer] said.
The only solution, ultimately, may be to go after the ship.
"If (the state) has incurred a $3 million damage," the lawyer said, "then they can arrest the ship. ... Then a U.S. marshal stops the ship and keeps it here, requiring the ship itself to pay for damages, which means they can seize it and sell it."
Meanwhile, the tales of damage done to wildlife, particularly migratory birds, are heartbreaking. Beaches have been closed to the public as rescue workers scramble to pick up as many live birds as they can before they are killed by the toxic sludge in their feeding areas.
If nothing else, its an ecological tragedy with a sense of timing, and not just because our state is trying to kill us. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to review a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon for their inhumanly reckless and reprehensible conduct leading up to the 1989 Valdez spill. The Court took up not only the question of whether the award was unconstitutionally excessive, but also whether Exxon should have to pay punitive damages at all. Awesome. Wouldnt want to punish someone for practically criminal conduct leading to the worst ecological disaster of the modern era, would we?
Luckily, the S.F. situation is nowhere near the level of the Valdez spill (which pumped an astonishing 11 million gallons of crude into the Alaska shoreline), but its still going to take a whole lot of work to get under control. Hopefully, the Coast Guard isnt too busy to see things through.
Tuesday Tasting: Arse Elektronika
Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.
(Image: Ariel Waldman, Sean Bonner, Violet Blue taken by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid)
Arse Elektronika, a conference about pr0nnovation and the intersections of sex and technology, kicked off at Kink.com's Porn Palace in San Francisco over the weekend. Myself and fellow SG friend Sean Bonner were in attendance for the anticipated debauchery.
Audience Member Fucks A Machine
The opening night catered to many sights (and sounds) from various performances. A review of the first half of the night, including the opening speech by Johannes Grenzfurthner of Monochrom and a demonstration of the "Moaning Lisa" modified mannequin can be found at Shake Well Before Use. However, the most notable and naughty part of the evening began much later. A session on Fucking Machines by Kink.com showcased Fuckzilla, a treaded robot literally armed with a dozen-tongue-chainsaw and dildo. Asking "so who wants to fuck a robot?" to the audience, a woman volunteered and was subsequently video-taped (in this NSFW video, she is behind a curtain giving the play-by-play). Apparently, from various sources, the unidentified woman had never used a vibrator before, yet climaxed twice. Needless to say, Friday night's Fucking Machines presentation created rapidly viral conversations.
Ceiling Cat Is Watching More Than Masturbation
Speaking at a session titled "Ceiling Cat Hates Your Porn: Sexual Privacy Online", Violet Blue discussed the intimate logistics behind being intimate online. The root of the issue is that the internet has changed human sexuality, yet people don't realize it. People often times aren't as anonymous as they think. Violet cited the Craigslist Experiment to her experiences with Flickr (aka "Censr") as examples of violated privacy. She also discussed the current state of affairs among many Web 2.0 companies fumbling around with community management. Reading from A Girl With a One-Track Mind's experience with being publicly "outed" after being anonymous, the true emotion and importance of privacy online became overwhelmingly clear. Violet concluded that the general state of blogging and privacy online comes down to risk-assessment.
More from Arse-Elektronika
Arse Elektronika featured many other fabulous speakers and presentations over the course of three days. A conference about the interaction of sex and technology can leave many insatiable. As such, a few more reviews can be found here:
Laughing Squid
The Underwire
qDot
BotJunkie
My City is Better Than Yours, Fuckheads!
I live in San Francisco. The vast majority of you idiots reading this do not. My city is better than yours. Period. No argument.
Now, Im not simply throwing this out there willy-nilly. Sure, everyone thinks their city is the best (except for those of you living in Fresno or Denver or something) but I have actual proof. And Im not even talking about proof in the our-weather-is-better kind of way or the have-you-seen-our-views!? kind of way. Im talking about actual scientific proof.
Freals, assholes.
Richard Florida, a professor from George Mason University and author of the book The Rise of the Creative Class argued that the more "gay-friendly" a city is, the more economically prosperous it will be.
In his March 2007 paper "There Goes the Neighborhood," Florida uses something he calls the "Bohemian-Gay Index" to demonstrate that "artistic, bohemian, and gay populations" have a "substantial effects on housing values across all permutations of the model and across all region sizes." He also found that more open and "gay-friendly" areas generally support higher income levels.
This morning on CNN's In the Money, Florida argued that educated kids are generally moving to the most "gay-friendly" cities after graduating from college because those cities tend to have the best job markets.
Thats right. I know youre jealous, but its not my fault your cities arent as rad as mine. By definition, no city can be more gay friendly than San Francisco. Thus, all of the cool people are naturally attracted here. I didnt look this up or anything, but Im pretty sure that on a scale of 1-10, San Franciscos Bohemian-Gay Index is going to be approximately a 150. By contrast, Im figuring that a place like Boston or New York would be like a 17, Houston or Detroit would be a 5 and LA would be about a 2.75 (because if Los Angelenos were creative at all they would surely be able to think of a better place to live than Los Angeles.)
How does this more gays equals more money equation work? Well, Professor (and future SF Mayor) Florida has this to say.
"Places that were open to gay and lesbian people were also the kind of places that could attract not only smart young people, but also Indian and Chinese immigrants who come here and start a lot of high tech companies," he said. "They were attracting people across the board, building up a talent base, and then innovating and starting these new enterprises."
Florida said he thinks it is the open mindedness of these cities that has allowed economically successful communities to emerge, rather than prior economic success attracting open minded people.
"Places that a large gay and lesbian community gravitated to, a large group of musicians and other open minded people gravitated to. When these kind of geeky entrepreneurs became important economic growth, those were the places that accepted them, too," he told CNN.
The full story of how much exactly everyone should envy me for my area codes overwhelming personal, cultural and economic superiority can be found here. In case youre more of a passive learner, I've included some clips of the good professor explaining things. He yammers on a bit about the power of creativity and how that creativity leads to greater intelligence, cultural relevance and competitive economic ability, but dont lose sight of what you should really be taking from his work: that San Franciscans are better than you.
Were you counting how many more times San Francisco (or its surrounding areas) were mentioned vs. how many times any other city was mentioned? Because I was, and it was twice as much as any other city. That makes the Baghdad by the Bay twice as good. It's simple mathematics and everyone else can eat a dick.
I suppose it is also worth discussing his ancillary point, because the idea that artistic and cultural creativity is a strong indicator of economic prosperity makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, the idea that artistically and culturally creative people are attracted to open-minded areas where risk-taking and divergent lifestyles are accepted makes even more sense. Whats more, the numbers seem to bear it out. The areas of the country that are known for fostering an open, creative environment are our current centers of industry. The areas of the country who are not, simply arent.
But again, thats the secondary point. The real lesson to take from this is that the more you other plebes try to make your city like San Francisco, the better off youll be. Not just in the intellectual, cultural or existential senses, but in the pocketbook as well. Now get going, kids, and good luck. Youre gonna need it, suckers!
This is the 100th article I have been fortunate enough to write for the SuicideGirls.com Newswire. Id like to earnestly thank those who have let me write and those who have bothered to read. Its been a great time, and very rewarding for me. Thanks again, and Ill see you around.
San Francisco Wants Orphans to Have Homes; Christian Right Not Amused
Everyone knows that San Francisco has a large and relatively affluent gay population. Biology being what it is, the vast majority of gay couples in the city are without children. Nationwide, there are an estimated half a million children that spend their youth going from foster home to foster home, yearning to be adopted by a stable home wherein they will be loved and cared for.
The San Francisco Department of Human Services looked at the above three facts and said to themselves Huh. Ill bet we can do something about this.
Today, the San Francisco Department of Human Services is starting a campaign to recruit more [same-sex couples] to adopt foster kids, especially teens, who are among the hardest to place. The agency sees gays and lesbians as an underutilized pool of potential parents.
"We're always looking for adoptive homes for children, and we never have enough families," said Debby Jeter, deputy director for the city's Family and Children Services. "We believe same-sex couples have the ability to provide the same kind of family for a child as non-same-sex couples."
It's a tough time for foster agencies, which have to compete against international adoptions, in vitro procedures and surrogate mothers. So many prospective parents prefer babies and worry about the physical or mental needs of older foster children, who most often have landed in the system because they experienced neglect.
Its really a perfect solution. You have this huge population of underutilized potential parents and a huge population of foster children who need parents. Simple, easy. Especially when, according to the Urban Institute, a non-partisan think tank, [s]ame-sex couples raising adopted children are older, more educated, and have more economic resources than other adoptive parents. The Institute also noted that past studies have shown no ill effects on children raised by gay parents.
However, some might see San Franciscos move as a response to the idiots at James Dobsons Focus on the Family, who are not very happy about these children focusing on getting a family of their own.
[SFDHSs campaign] comes just two weeks after the evangelical Christian group Focus on the Family began its drive to recruit more Christians as adoptive parents, partly -- the group said -- to keep foster children out of homosexual hands.
Focus on the Family's objection to same-sex parents is grounded in interpretation of biblical scripture and research by Paul Cameron, director of the Family Research Institute in Colorado. Cameron says gays and lesbians are unfit parents, are more likely to molest children of their same sex, switch partners frequently, have shorter life expectancies and cause their children embarrassment and social difficulties.
"Any child that can be adopted into a married-mother-and-father family, that's the gold standard," Cameron said. "An orphanage would be the second choice, and then a single woman."
Of course, Dr. Camerons research is a load of utter horseshit. Dobson knows this, but that doesn't stop him and his ilk from attempting to keep children in orphanages and foster homes through their support of a ban on same-sex adoption and their dissemination of their usual noxious garbage.
California is among a handful of states where sexual orientation cannot be a basis for preventing someone from adopting. On the other hand, Florida forbids "homosexuals" from adopting, Mississippi bans "same-gender" couples from adopting, Utah bans fostering and adoption by all unmarried couples and Nebraska has a policy prohibiting gay people from fostering.
The bans are based on some sort of assumption that being raised by gay couples somehow harms children. But SFs response is essentially that the proof is in the pudding.
In San Francisco, gay men and lesbians already adopt a large share of the foster children who are not adopted by relatives -- 88 percent since last July, for example, according to Dan Kelly with the Human Services Department.
But perhaps the strongest argument for the benefits of same-sex adoption comes from one such adoptee.
"It's easier for me (to have two dads) than growing up on my own.
Precisely.
San Francisco Woman Sticks it to the Man, Baby
In a move today that could only be described as "so San Fran," a 33-year-old woman (in an act of symbolic disapproval) gave birth on the sidewalk and then walked away as if nothing happened.
Nadine Matthews gave birth on the sidewalk Sunday night, then walked away pretending that it never happened, said SFPD Capt. Al Casciato.
A security guard called 911 after seeing the woman give birth on 5th and Stevenson streets. When an ambulance arrived, a 5-pound, 12-ounce baby boy was found alive and kicking, but his mother was nowhere to be found, said Casciato.
Apparently one of these "right to life" types called the man and ruined everybody's placenta buzz. In an unsurprising move the right wing patriarchy arrested her
on suspicion of child endangerment and neglect, police said.
Whatever that means.
No word yet on whether San Francisco plans to ban babies in a couter-productive effort to reduce corpse pollution or if they will simply go ahead with the sidewalk ban.
Mayor McDreamy Pledges to Keep San Francisco Open for Undocumented Immigrants
In our never-ending quest to ensure that San Francisco remains ahead of Massachusetts on wingnut talk radios list of Evil Liberal Areas Wherein Everyone Will Soon Explode From Sheer Lack of Moral Fiber, Mayor/gay rights icon/philanderer/matinee idol/Democratic wunderkind Gavin Newsom went out of his way this weekend to let everyone know that illegal aliens are a-OK in the Baghdad by the Bay.
The mayor cannot stop federal authorities from making arrests, Newsom told about 300 mostly Latino members of St. Peter's Church and other religious groups supporting immigrants. But no San Francisco employee will help with immigration enforcement.
"I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it."
Suck it, Massholes! You may have had legal gay marriage and universal health care before us, but were not backing down without a fight. Oh, and were also banning plastic bags. Ill bet you didnt even think of that shit. You can take your clam chowdah and your Hahvahd Yahd and shove it.
Returning to Newsoms announcement, the border freaks out there need not worry too much. Newsoms pledge is both a renewal of a 1989 Board of Supervisors action and a statement with little legal effect. Newsom may be able to discourage federal raids on suspected undocumented immigrants San Francisco, but he cant necessarily stop them. So why make the announcement?
Well, for one its good politics in an election year. Newsom is a political genius at sewing up blocks of voters who may not be his "natural" base. However, in addition to the standard election-cycle pandering, theres a bigger reason why this issue is making news in this area: the INS have been freaking the fuck out of people lately.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have since May 2006 conducted raids across the country, including arrests in San Rafael, Oakland, Richmond, San Pablo, Santa Clara and other cities across the Bay area. Immigration officials have said they were executing arrest warrants for immigrants who had committed crimes or were in the country illegally and had ignored final deportation orders.
In the course of serving deportation warrants, the officials said, other people whom officers suspected of being illegal immigrants were questioned and then arrested. Of at least 65 Marin County residents arrested in March, for example, just five had been ordered deported.
The raids, many of which conducted at private homes before dawn and some of which caught up legal immigrants and even citizens, have created an uproar in the Bay Area. Politicians and community leaders have demanded they end, saying some immigrants parents are now afraid to send their children to school or leave home.
But why should people be upset about being questioned by the Feds? I mean, if theyre legal then they should have nothing to hide, right?
Porfirio Quintano was one of those who pleaded with Newsom, Senator Carole Migden and Assemblyman Mark Leno during Sunday's meeting to do what they can to make San Francisco safe for immigrants.
The 42-year-old immigrant from Honduras said his Richmond home was raided in 2003 by federal immigration agents based on what turned out to be bad information.
"We are victims," said Quintano, adding that his wife and two daughters, then ages 4 and 10, live in fear of another raid, even though they are in the country legally. "They were looking for somebody unrelated to us, but they lined us up against the wall and held us for an hour. It was terrifying, especially for our daughters."
Sounds like a party. Seeing as the INS is often set off on these raids by tips fed to them by state or local authorities, San Franciscos policy is a reasonable one and designed to minimize this sort of blatant bullying and xenophobia. The City cant stop the Feds from enforcing their draconian and illogical immigration policy, but that doesnt mean we have to help them do it.
Subrosa thinks the plastic bag ban is quite silly. Really.
Escaping from e-mail
Anyone that knows me more than casually knows e-mail is one of my biggest demons. I fight it every day and it's back again tomorrow for more. I hate it, yet can't seem to get away from it. In the past few weeks I've spent a good deal of time talking to folks about my serious plan to declare e-mail bankruptcy and try to move as much daily communication as I can to phone and IM. At Sunday night's Ignite session at the Web 2.0 Expo I saw a talk by Tim Ferriss that I think is going to change my life. Tim is a bit of a life hacker and has figured out a lot of things we all dream of, most notably how to outsource your life - meaning if you are being paid $25 an hour to do a job, finding someone else who will do the same thing for $5 an hour and making $20 an hour doing nothing. It's a great idea and just takes some figuring out to pull off, but it's not as crazy as it might sound. He talked a little about that but the thing that really grabbed my attention was when he talked about how to get by checking e-mail only once a week. Or maybe once or twice a day, but far less than every few minutes like most people do.
So my problem with e-mail is that I get a new message, and before I'm done responding to it, I've got another new message needing a reply. I get to that one just in time for another to show up demanding my attention. This cycle repeats itself all day long, and often all night, which seriously impacts what I can get done far too often. Tim's proposal, which is painfully simple, is the best idea I've heard on this subject yet. He suggests setting up an autoresponder to your e-mail that sends back a message something like this:
"Thank you for your email! Due to my current workload I am only checking email at 11am and 4pm. I will try and respond to email in a timely manner. If you need anything immediately please call me..."
And then, and this is the real trick, actually stick to that schedule. Of course it can be whatever works best for you. You can say you are only checking e-mail once a day, mostly in the evenings. You can say you check and respond to all e-mail on Fridays only. Or you can be even more vague and say something like "on average I only check my e-mail once a week." You can also change the request from phone to IM to SMS or whatever you prefer. The talk lasted 5 minutes and I swear 4 of those I was in shock trying to process the brilliance that had just been shown to me. Implementing this kind of system just skyrocketed to the top of my todo list (just under writing this post, of course - I'll keep you posted). Luckily a fellow named Colin filmed the whole thing and just posted it online. Trust me, take the 5 minutes and go watch the video of Tim's talk now.
If you want more, here are other clips from the Ignite session as well as this podcast of Tim's much longer talk from earlier this year at SXSW. If you are in the San Francisco area and are not attending the conference (which costs around $1500 a ticket) you might want to check out the web2open schedule, as several of the sessions (like Ignite) are free and open to the public. More soon.
The History of SF in Buildings
Get a free crash course with the American Institute of Architects on the evolution and definition of San Francisco architecture. The new Center for Architecture + Design is celebrating its inaugural show tonight titled Informing the Future of Bay Area Architecture. The reception runs from 5:30 - 7:30 at 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600.
For the lazy or the afar, check out the AIA's architecture podcasts, aka ArchCasts, and get to know the buildings around you.
[The exhibition] highlights important architectural works in San Francisco and Marin county over the last 125 years through the trends and technologies that made them possible, from adobe to glass.
One of the West Coast's only galleries devoted solely to the exploration of architecture and design, the AIA San Francisco Gallery specializes in exhibitions showcasing the best of Bay Area design talent, while also exploring issues of national and international concern. Each month, panel discussions explore the issues and themes presented within the current exhibition.
Frizzly Gur
This Saturday, September 23rd at Giant Robot SF, Rachell Sumpter will be sharing her paintings in a show titled Frizzly Gur. This is the second time GR and Rachell teamed up recently, as she has a wonderful article about her trip to meet the Sami people, a contemporary reindeer-herding Nordic tribe sharing striking similarity to the imagined characters and environments of her paintings, in the most recent issue of Giant Robot magazine. Those missing the show should surely pick up a copy.
If You're Going to San Francisco, Be Sure to Take a Hezbollah Flag
Zombie has an interesting hobby. He attends rallies, taking photographs of the extremist nutcases, conspiracy freaks, racists and terror lovers he finds.
His most recent project was the "Stop the U.S. - Israel War Rally" in San Franciso and here's some of the photos he took. He makes little comment, so I'll follow his lead. The pictures speak for themselves.
Tree Show II at GRSF
It's a little late for Arbor Day, but beginning this weekend and running for about a month is Giant Robot SF's second Tree Show. A curated cast of over 40 artists were asked to produce artwork honoring our leafy friends. A portion of proceeds will benefit Friends of the Urban Forest to keep San Francisco green.
Artists will include Corey Arnold, Robert Bellm, Gary Benzel, Bigfoot One, Calef Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Martin Cendreda, Catia Chien, David Choe, Josh Cochran, Allison Cole, Jen Corace, Evah Fan, Susie Ghahremani, Greenlady/HUGA, Jun Seo Hahm, Ryan Heshka, Kelly Lynn Jones, Megan Kelso, kozyndan, Jack Long, Jacob Magraw-Mickelson, Nikki McClure, Matt Moroz, Munkao, National Forest, Chris Neal, Saelee Oh, Beci Orpin, PCP, John Pham, Brian Ralph, Albert Reyes, Zach Rossman, Jay Ryan, Souther Salazar, Rachell Sumpter, Deth P. Sun, Daria Tessler, Kelly Tunstall, Megan Whitmarsh, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright.
The reception for the tree show is July 29th from 6:30-10pm at GRSF's new location at 618 Shrader St. in San Francisco. Check back at the GRSF website for more info and for artwork sales online.
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