I don't need a spectacularly put together video to remind me of how great the city I live in is, but it doesn't hurt to watch one either:

San Francisco: The Miniature City from MINIMUS on Vimeo.

Here's this thing I did...

This is a timelapse video I made from several places around the city. The editing on this isn't perfect as the files I was working with were extremely large and my editing computer is two years old now making it a dinosaur. Anyway, enjoy:

SF Timelapse from 1 on Vimeo.

Conan O'Brien, Patton Oswalt and Andy Richter Kill It @ SF Sketchfest Tribute

This past Saturday was the hastily re-scheduled SF Sketchfest Tribute to Conan O'Brien.  Patton Oswalt was the host/moderator of sorts although Conan kind of just took the reigns and ran with it.  About an hour or so in Andy Richter joined them on stage and the drunken hilarity continued for another two hours.  This was  a truly surreal and candid moment from three class acts!
Below is video (if you want to call it that) footage that I took while at the event.  I was literally in the second row, but trying to be discreet I was unable to capture anything but glimpses of the gents.  However I did manage to get some very nice clear audio of the first hour and 40 minutes which I now present to you in 10 parts on Youtube:

Lucha Vavoom at The Fillmore - Mexican Wrestling/Burlesque Show

Friday evening this was quite an event that a visiting friend from out of state suggested we attend; and might I add (not knowing what we were up for) that this was quite an experience!
Below I present to you some unedited clips from the evening.  Beware some of these maybe NSFW, and most of these will not do justice to the spectacle.
What more could you ask for?  Mexican Wrestling, striptease, midgets, a character named Dirty Sanchez complete with embellished pubic hair, midgets, a lady with an oversized bag of cocaine and razorblade, and much, much more.  This was a touch pricey but totally worth it in the end.

Local Celebrity of the Day: Solo Spear St. Mystery Twin Lady

So I've decided that I'm going to start featuring people that I see on a regular basis throughout my day-to-day life in the city.  These people to me are local celebrities as I see them frequently yet know very little about who they are.  I tend to imagine brief personal biographies from the small surface level observations I am able to make.

Today's celebrity is an elderly woman that can be spotted almost daily near the Southwest corner of Market and Spear streets.  This lady has a peculiar style that I would say is all her own, except for the fact that she has an identical twin that dresses exactly the same as she does.  I typically only see one of them on this corner and wonder if the other is off on another corner asking for spare change, and if they alternate spots.  I imagine the two of them living together in cluttered single room apartment somewhere nearby.

I've been a curious about these two ladies for quite some time now and have yet to muster up the gall to actually speak to them.  So I did what any indisposed human would do, I Googled the terms "San Francisco, twins, sisters."  I learned a little bit about the famous Brown Sisters, however there was next to nothing about the two ladies that I see near my place of employment.  She/they stand in a high traffic area so I know many people see her/them daily like I do, yet there's little to no word about them on the ol' interwebs.  Eventually I suppose I'll ask them about themselves but until that day all I have is speculation.

The only other evidence I could find online of these ladies together was a photo from lnkyhack's flickr stream:

Banksy in San Francisco

I know I'm a little late to the game on this one, but as you probably already know several Banksy pieces have popped up around the city.  I managed to make it to all six and pop a couple of shots, see below:

Locations from top to bottom: Valencia between 19th and 20th; Sycamore and Mission; Grant and Commercial;  Haight and Belvedere;  Mission and Erie

Dave Attell @ Cobb's Comedy Club 10:15pm Saturday 03.13.10