Most people throw away their transfers, but not artist Faern, who we met last year. Faern has created some cool iphone cases from the lowly Muni transfer. You can get them at the dangerously addictive site, Society6.
Here’s one of her other designs.
Last year, we helped Faern source enough transfers to make other cool mixed media art.
Today my worlds collide in this one pair of shoes. While Instagram-surfing the other day, I happened upon emilyville‘s picture of these beyond-cool Converse Chuck Taylors, designed by Alán González. Even if you’re not a transit geek, how can you not love the fact that Converse made these San Francisco-edition shoes?
You can get these bad boys at Shoe Biz. The nice guys at Shoe Biz told me that they didn’t have a lot of sizes left, so if you’re a big-footed girl like me you should probably step to it. The Converse City Collection also features two other styles featuring the Golden Gate Bridge and the Giants. Shoe Biz says that all proceeds go to providing housing for homeless families. Pretty cool.
We were totally blown away earlier this month at Muni Diaries Live. And in case you weren’t able to make it, we wanted to share with you.
In January, Elyse sent us one of the sweetest diaries to date: Long story short, she left her wallet on the 33-Stanyan, and when she got it back, she also fell in love.
Fast-forward 10 months, and Mahsa the one-woman band/mime and Elyse delighted the audience at Muni Diaries, to put it mildly. Elyse retold their diary, this time in kill-me cute Dr. Seuss-like rhyme. Then Mahsa covered Prince’s “Kiss” while Elyse broke out into twirl. Mesmerizing and darling and put a bow on it already.
Last weekend was Dog Days of Summer at AT&T Park. For those of you with patient pets, Dog Days means your canine can join you in watching America’s pastime in scorching 65-degree heat. Sometimes (often), there are costumes. The annual event, this year benefiting the SPCA, proved once again that San Francisco loves dogs, (Giants) baseball, costumes, and dogs+baseball+costumes.
And transit. Let’s not forget transit.
A+ for craftsmanship and awesomeness goes to the corgi repping BART.
We just found Aaron’s rot-your-teeth-sweet wedding proposal on Caltrain! Aaron and Maggie actually first met on Caltrain in 2008. To propose to his special lady, Aaron packed a Caltrain car full of their friends and family for a super sweet surprise.
From Aaron: “After a month of scheming and trying to come up with an innocuous excuse for Maggie to ride on Caltrain, she decided to have a “Craft Day” with her painting buddies. Little did she know we had crafted another plan…
I had assembled friends and family to help celebrate my proposal to Maggie on Caltrain. At the 22nd St San Francisco station, we all began to sing “We Are Young” by Fun as Maggie boarded the car…”