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"Jack-of-all-trades musician, artist, dramatic yo-yoist, and video game designer-wizard" - From the San Francisco Bay Guardian's "Best Of The Bay" issue.
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San Francisco, CA

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docpop, to random
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Today is Ritual Roasters’s 19 anniversary. I moved to SF a few weeks prior to Ritual’s opening and spent a lot of time at their location on Valencia St (I lived a block away). Over the years I’ve made a lot of art and friends at this location too. Happy birthday, Ritual!

Me in line at Ritual Roasters. I’m wearing a grey KN95 mask, a Benders baseball cap, and a Tech Won’t Save Us hoodie in bright yellow.

docpop, to random
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I animated some tricks.

Video of me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. I'm using a very responsive yo-yo with a counterweight on the end and doing original tricks. Throughout the video, glowing lines and drawings appear on the screen and audio effects are heavily used. The video starts off with some slow motion footage, during this slowed down section I do intricate tricks while the audio creates the effect of time slowing down and a "woosh" can be heard as the yo-yo moves. Then the video returns to normal speed with a record scratch sound effect, before going into cool jazz music. My glasses get filled in to look like shades. The jazz stops and an animated ufo appears on screen over my freehand as the yo-yo spins on it's side on the pointer finger of my other hand. A cow is animated over the spinning yo-yo, giving the look of a yo-yo floating over a cow. The string between the two hands looks like a tractor beam coming from the ufo and lifting the cow up. The ufo goes off screen and I finish my tricks with the sound of a crowd cheering in the background.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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Rad things happening in #SanFrancisco today:

docpop,
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New murals popping up on 18th and Mission Street. Footage from Ape_SF and the Drawing Room Annex on Instagram. This is part of the Second Saturdays art walk on Mission St in #SanFrancisco
https://www.instagram.com/p/C61zm3lyzyC/ #SFGraffiti

This is a video of a wall being painted by several artists. The wall is a flat grey color and located on 18th and Mission in SF. The artists are using spray cans and creating art with a graffiti flair. Each artist is working on there own piece of the wall and there are about 11 artists. Some are painting text in ornate graffiti style, others are painting flowers in tattoo art style, and others are painting flowers or watermelons.

DocPop, to graffiti
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Spotted some superb sticker slaps by Sickid around SF.

A slap sticker spotted on the street. A drawing of a man's face, he has a pointy nose and a goatee and a mischievous expression. "Jerkoff. Sandwich. Heehee. LOL." is written near his head. The art is drawn in sharpie on a sticker label that is mostly white, but has "Sickid's Raspados" printed on the top.
A slap sticker spotted on the street. It has as stylized drawing of a woman smoking a cigarette. She looks buff and kind of mean. The art is drawn on a sticker label that is mostly white, but has "Sickid's Raspados" printed on the top.
A slap sticker on a post. It says "Dead Phone" in a nice cursive style and has a drawing of a person's face as they smirk towards the viewer. The art is done with a pink paint pen on a sticker label that says "Sickid's Respados" on the top.
A slap sticker spotted on the street. It's a drawing of someone's head, as seen from the side. They have a mischievous expression and a long pointed nose. The art is drawn in sharpie on a sticker label that is mostly white, but has "Sickid's Raspados" printed on the top.
A slap sticker spotted on the street. This one is another drawing of someone's head. They are biting their lower lip as if they are thinking, or maybe even farting? They have a long pointy nose and long eyelashes. The art is drawn on a sticker label that is mostly white, but has "Sickid's Raspados" printed on the top.

docpop,
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@DocPop here's a great write up with Sickid about his art around LA. https://www.avantpopbooks.com/post/the-artist-sickid-s-twisted-parallel-universe
His painting style is very different than his slaps, but you can see some crossover from time to time. https://www.instagram.com/sickid1/

docpop, to BelieveInFilm
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These 13 photos are actually one long image scanned from a foot of 35mm film. I shot the images on a LC-A Wide and used the "half-frame advance", so the images would overlap and expose on top of each other. https://docpop.org/2017/05/half-frame-advance-lomo-lc-wide-camera/ #Lomography #DoubleExposure #BelieveInFilm #35mm

Still images that slide across the screen from right to left. They are various shots from the SoMa district in San Francisco. Storefronts, sidewalks, street graffiti, and other things. Each image blends into the next image like a double exposure, which makes the video feel like one long image, rather than 13 shots placed side by side.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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This podcast about the bike lane, and the hissy fits some business owners are throwing, is a must listen.

BikeCurious and @notjustbikes covered this story better than most of our local news outlets did. If course this type of story isn't unique to , but businesses stop complaining when the new lanes bring more business.

You can find it on Youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gboI4MjwzIU
Here's an @overcastfm link https://overcast.fm/+BARYrVgy6U

CStamp, to SanFrancisco
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One day, I'll visit here with some company. As a lone woman, I try to leave here before sunset because at this time of day, by the time I climb back up the very steep hill trail and walk back to where there are lots of people, it is dark. I'm glad I "chanced" a later time, but still couldn't linger to see how the sky might change. I loved the mist and the rock silhouettes. Straight ahead is the Pacific; behind, to the right, the Golden Gate Bridge.

docpop,
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@CStamp beautiful photo.

docpop, to random
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So many rad ways to get around.

A brand new MUNI bus that is totally battery powered. This replaces some of the older gas powered buses. It is grey and red with an electric lot painted on the side. It is at Cesar Chavez and Valencia.
A photo I took while riding my bicycle down the bike lane on Valencia St. The lane is in the center of the road and you can see 7 other cyclists coming and going down the lane, with a few cars on either side. The weather looks warm, everyone is in shorts, and the sky is blue. A nice slice of city life.

docpop, to random
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Okay, but when will Apple apologize for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack?

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@futurebird yo, I love my AirPods so much. They are fantastic! But there are times, many times, I wish I could use something else. Sometimes it’s because of connectivity issues, sometimes it’s because my AirPods are low on juice, sometimes it’s because I want to use a nicer pair of headphones in my collection that aren’t Bluetooth. So no hate on my AirPods, I just hate that Apple took away the option.

docpop,
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@AnneMacro @futurebird audio sounded fine through the adapter. The problem was that I’d rarely have the adapter with me when I wanted to switch to a pair of wired headphones. Dongles are fine, when you remember to pack them.

docpop,
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@phi1997 when Apple ditched the headphone, I was totally ready to switch to Android. Particularly the Pixel line, which my partner loves, but then Google removed headphone jacks from Pixels too. Seems like a huge mistake for Google, because they could have siphoned off a lot of Apple's user base.

bentomn, (edited ) to random
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Steve Albini. Fond memories of the many times was in town. When there was time in the tour schedule, they would invite everyone back for pancakes on Sunday, and a morning show. It’s nice to see the letters, kranky takes, and tales of Bob Weston saving the day by salvaging a power supply to continue recording as scheduled. Guy was punk, and like many aging punks, needs more rest than they know. Fuck heart attacks.

docpop,
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@bentomn I appreciated this part “Albini hated being called a producer, despite having worked on multiple touchstone recordings. His detractors dragged him for being pedantic, but were rarely curious about why he preferred ‘engineer.’ … As Albini saw it, his job was to document a band at a specific point in their career, making the drums, especially, sound excellent. He wasn’t there to fix a song’s structure, or boldly suggest phase shifting everything during the song’s bridge.”

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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A warm night with great vibes in . So many bikes, pedestrians, and scooters out in the Mission on nights like this.

suldrew, to random
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NA of the day (and Funemployment hint????)

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docpop,
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@suldrew that looks awesome. I'll have to try it sometime. I've been enjoying Barrel Bros non-alcoholic options https://www.barrelbrothersbrewing.com/store#!/Craft-Non-Alcoholic-Beer/c/145311778

docpop,
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@pmonks @suldrew thanks for the suggestions! If you can get it, I suggest Barrel Bros "Beam Me Up IPA". They were made for beer week, so might be getting a little old by now, but they are still very tasty. https://www.barrelbrothersbrewing.com/store#!/Non-Alcoholic-Beam-Me-Up-4pk/p/628189329/category=145311778

docpop, to random
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Tipbaiting at the local coffee shop.

docpop, to random
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Steve Albini had a huge influence on me in my teens. Not just the records he produced, but also his strong opinions on art, DIY ethos, and fighting corporate culture.

Luckily, I didn't see the edgelord shit he was writing back in the 90s, because that probably would have influenced me too.

I think this twitter thread he wrote in 2021, where he expresses regret and says he should be held accountable, is worth a read. https://twitter.com/electricalWSOP/status/1448050175658713092

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"Make More Mistakes". SFGraffiti

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@docpop ping from Mastodon.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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Someone keeps parking their cybertruck in the crosswalk at Lombard and Mason every weekday "like clockwork". https://brokeassstuart.com/2024/05/08/san-francisco-cybertruck-crosswalk-parking/?utm_campaign=butts

docpop, to random
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Mission Comics asked me to design a t-shirt as part of their "Save Mission Comics" fundraiser. The shirt will be available in a few weeks, but you can sign up to get notified when they are available. All proceeds go to MC as part of the "Save Mission Comics" campaign. https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/5ed77483-3782-4824-8639-496cb83b8057/landing

docpop,
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@coyoty lol!

docpop,
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@jetton I didn't mean to throw MC under the bus in this post, I was just phrasing it in a silly way. They thought the idea was cool, but it was a little gruesome for their audience/vibe.

scott, to random
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The lesson from the center bikeway debacle: when you "compromise" in such a way that you lose the confidence of the people you're building FOR—cyclists, in this case—you fail.

While some of us now defend this bike lane as a partial improvement, no one loved it. It didn't boost bike riding, and made it hard for cyclists to pull over and stop at a business. So businesses got all the downsides and no upside. It didn't have to be this way.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/businesses-join-legal-battle-valencia-center-bike-lane/

docpop,
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@williampietri @scott the rollout was the worst part for sure. It took 6 weeks, when the project was clearly ready in 2. That bad start soured many cyclists on the whole project.

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@scott I hated the center lane at first, but have grown to really like it for many reasons. It's certainly a huge improvement from the non-existent bike lane we had before. I'd still prefer side running lanes though.

I'll also add that cyclists has increased and it sounds like local businesses can see a small uptick in sales, but both of those improvements were very modest. Side running would probably be a more singificant improvement for businesses and folks who use the bike lane.

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