June 16, 2009
What’s on the plate this week for 7 by 7 by nine? Polaroids!
There’s something about Polaroid cameras and prints that just scream summer. Maybe it’s the beauty in the washed out colors, the mystery of the artifacts and imperfections and the patience practiced while waiting to relive your captured moment. They force you to take a few minutes to smile and live in the now, and that’s a great thing to do every once in a while.
J♥ and I have 3 Polaroid cameras in our home, scaled back from the 5 or 6 we had when we first started living together, but we don’t take them out half as often as we should. Fortunately there are truly devoted fans of the Polaroid spreading their love all over the world.
Some that I am loving from Flickr…
1. Good Morning, 2. exactly., 3. Graham, on the Roof at Sunset, 4. Untitled, 5. Melissa, on the Roof, 6. Untitled, 7. intersections, 8. Pack in the park, 9. Untitled
Do you love Polaroids and the wonderful devices that produce them? Why or why not?
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June 15, 2009
Do you love deliciously sweet baked goods? How about happy piglets, cowlets*, and goatlets*?
If either of these bring a toothy grin to your face I would love it if you came out to the World Wide Vegan Bake Sale San Francisco and indulged in delicious treats to support the efforts of Animal Place and East Bay Animal Advocates, two bay area non profits specializing in improving the quality of life for animals typically used in agriculture through care, education and research.
I had planned on making deliciousness for the sale, but sadly I will be out of town. This of course doesn’t stop you from going out and enjoying one, two or three (!) desserts for me. The sale takes place on June 27 at 16th and Sanchez in front of Ike’s Place and on June 28th on the 800th block of Capp Street. Thats two days of yumtasticness!
Need more information? Check out the WWVBS SF’s tumblog. Want to help get the word out? Since I won’t be able to provide baked goods for the sale I made the flyer above. It’s available for download as a PDF, why not print out a few and give ‘em to those who need a little sweetness in their life? I’d be most grateful!
Enjoy the sweets sweeties!
Do you have a favorite vegan dessert recipe that never lets you down?
* - I know it’s calves and kids. I’m hip.
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“San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world~ one of the really urbane communities in the United States~ one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world” - Edward Duke Ellington
Welcome to a new week beautiful people! Time to start anew and set goals and intentions. What do you plan on getting done this week? I want to find a class to take, get out and meet some new wonderful people. Maybe one about baking, or bikes or beaches. Who knows?!?
How about you? What’s one thing you really want to accomplish or experience this week? Whatever it may be, I wish you the best week ever!
photograph taken by Nesster and used under creative commons.
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June 10, 2009
Introducing this weeks 7 by 7 by nine, Architecture!
San Francisco is tops in building facade and interior variety, from the modern with their straight edges and 90 degree angles to the Victorians, thoroughly ornamented and curvaceous.
There isn’t a day when some new building or detail doesn’t grab my attention, and I am not the only one who notices these beauties. Here are a few of my favorites from flickr:
1. Working Late, 2. Stainless Sine Waves, 3. Vaillancourt Fountain on the Embarcadero, 4. flourescent sunshine, 5. San Francisco MOMA, 6. Ode to Twitter: words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither wildly as they slip away across the universe, 7. Untitled, 8. San Francisco architecture, 9. Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SF MOMA, Yeah You Jerk, Photography is Not a Crime
What’s your favorite building where you are?
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June 9, 2009
Tomorrow, June 10th, San Francisco coalitions and advocacy groups will be taking to the streets to march and rally against the proposed budget cuts to support and safety net services, services utilized by our cities low income and homeless populations.
If you feel strongly about the right for all people to have a decent quality of life please get out there and let your voice be heard. Removing funds from these life improving programs is not the solution to our budget issues. The population that these groups service need them and for many these collaborative and advocacy groups greatly improve their situations.
Would you want to help San Francisco’s poor with their bed bug issues? Eviction threats? Helping them figure out where their next meal will come from? I’m guessing most citizens would reply no. If these organizations aren’t there to help these people, who will?
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