Josh Ellingson BART Art in BART Stations
Via Beth W. via Laughing Squid, we were informed of this triptastically awesome Ellingson art that’s popping up at area BART stations. Laughing Squid has more.
Category: BART
If Stanley Kubrick Had Directed a BART Ad
Via Akit, we found this amazing BART video, purportedly from 1982.
The transit system wasn’t exactly new at that point, but this ad sure presents it as if it were.
Trippy, to say the least.
SF Ballet Dancer Thwarts Would-be iPhone Thief on BART
Photo by annnna_
Via SF Weekly’s The Snitch, BART Diaries has learned of at least one iPhone owner who refused becoming another theft-victim:
“He hit me as hard as he could four times, and I just stood there, like dazed. I was like, you just got four free shots and you didn’t take me down. And then in a split second I decided I’m going to kill him. He unleashed the beast. I am basically 98-percent muscle, I’m a professional athlete, and all my muscle was on him. I pounced on him like a tiger.”
Read the whole story here.
BART Birthday Cake
BART rider and Glen Park resident Beth sends us this charming story of a 4-year-old boy who had a wish, and that wish was fulfilled.
Yes, please.
Just the other day, I was in a grocery store and remembered what a freaking joy it was each year to dream up what I wanted on my birthday cake. For me, it was things like the shark from Jaws or, more often than not, anything Star Wars-related. But this kid’s choice, well, takes the … cake?
Thx: Beth and Glen Park News
BART and Google Create New Map Tool
Andrew at Mission Mission tipped us off to this great innovation:
BART.gov just launched a new revamped trip planner that uses the Google Maps API. Now there’s an address tab in the QuickPlanner that allows you to enter addresses (or cross streets) in addition to mere BART stations in order to plan your Bay Area trips more precisely.
Read more at Mission Mission.
Oh, those sexy Sea Legs at Embarcadero
Photo by Miss_Colleen
Reader Catherine sends along this article on Barbara Shawcroft’s Sea Legs, which have been documented here on BART Diaries before.
Yet another instance of art and transit colliding in beautiful and strange ways …