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KevinFreitas.net ~ Tacoma's Deriugin house to be demolished ~ kevin freitas journal photos pics cheats projects seattle web developer: photo essay of handmade four-story house including exterior closeups and neighborhood views

PARK(ing) is a parking space south of Market turned into a park for a couple of sunny hours last month.

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functionalfate.org - Researching the White Plastic Chair

3eyes - Streetclock gnomon [milov]

Jeff Berner Photography: Paris, France & Marin County, California. Visit ABTEERLNIEERR, 01 42 52 25 95, 102-bis rue Lepic 75018 Paris, metro Abbesses

From Gertrude Stein on Picasso, 1970, Liveright, 1946, Random House:

Then again in 1904 he was once again in Paris.

He lived in Montmartre, in the rue Ravignan, its name has been changed now, but the last time I was there it still had its old charm, the little square was just as it was the first time I saw it, a carpenter was working in a corner, the children were there, the houses were all about the same as they had been, the old atelier where all of them had lived was still standing, perhaps since then, for it is two or three years that I was there last, perhaps now they have commenced to tear it down and build another building. It is normal to build new buildings but all the same one does not like anything to change, and the rue Ravignan of that time was really something, it was the rue Ravignan and it was there that many things that were important in the history of twentieth century art happened.

Found in the history room at Canessa...

CANESSA

The Canessa Building, built in the late 1800s and located at 708 Montgomery, is an official San Francisco landmark. Canessa once housed printing presses and gas lights, and nearby, on Sansome Street, a bustling produce market district shook the neighborhood into pre-dawn life.

For 30 years, from 1933 to 1963, the Black Cat Cafe, located at 710 Montgomery, was the Canessa Building's next-door neighbor. The Cat attracted a bohemian clientele of both straight and gay writers, artists and musicians from the neighborhood. Many lived and worked across the street in the historic Montgomery Block building (where the TransAmerica Pyramid now stands). Just north of the Cat, at 716-718-720 Montgomery, were the studios of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Emmy Lou Packard and Ralph and Peter Stackpole.

Regular visitors to the Cat included artists Hassel Smith, Maynard Dixon and Ed Corbett. John Steinbeck and William Saroyan dropped in from time to time -- as did two veteran police reporters, Neil Hitt of the Chronicle and Harry Debolt of the Examiner. According to Jerry Flamm, author of Hometown San Francisco, Hitt and Debolt, “an inseparable pair in the Hall of Justice press room after 5 p.m., would occasionally stroll down one block to the Black Cat for a thirst quencher after advising the police radio dispatcher where they would be in case all hell broke loose somewhere in the city.”

Though many of the buildings in this area did not survive the era of high-and-higher architecture, the diminutive gem known as Canessa has. Today, the old brick building still glows with light and life and is home to an art gallery and several creative professionals with small businesses.

Fran Herndon shows at Canessa through May 28, beloved by poets.

Artweek classifieds, space for rent

NoHoArtsDistrict.com� Visual Arts "How to Article" #2: This is about vanity galleries. One is described as an art gallery for exhibitions sponsored by arts organizations, eductional institutions, independent curators and individual artists, 1300 sq ft, ground floor.

Google Maps (Unofficial Standalone Viewer) - Lower Columbus Passage is a map showing rough locations of Canessa neighborhood views seen in the Passage album on shootColumbus.com.

Google Maps - 94111: TransAmerica Pyramid is lower left and Canessa is lost in the shadows in this satellite image.

NYPL Digital Gallery in the Changing New York collection, there is a picture of two old houses in front of a giant brick warehouse by Berenice Abbott from 1935. What a difference in scale.

Helene Sobol shows studies of of Bark in this month's installation at Canessa Gallery. Beauty comes from something useful, in this case the bark of numerous trees.

Jimo Perini shows 63 years of photography at Canessa Gallery through January. Published more than once. A part of North Beach. A photographer's photographer. Canessa in the past.

ROOKE TIME 26: A Brief History of Graffiti Research/Staffan Jacobson via elastic space

The Cockettes -- uh, the Palace, the theater up the street that seems to be seriously boarded up. Also The Artist General via an official purveyor of information.

Elastico.net: USA, 1872-1991, USGS earthquake and dramatic landscape.

The Examiner has a perceptive article about why North Beach is such a great place, and trashes Civic Center, Union Square (a little) and the Embarcadero and its fancy farmer's market.