Muni Headlines: Stabbing, Funding, Stun Guns, Skateboard Attacks

  • Fight On 14-Mission Muni Bus Ends In Stabbing (SF Appeal)
  • Muni operators ask feds to cut funding (SFGate)
  • BART considers buying additional stun guns (SFGate)
  • Major Transbay Tube BART delays on two weekends in May, June (BART)
  • Teens attack Muni driver with skateboard (SF Examiner) | 3 Suspects arrested (SF Appeal)
  • MacArthur BART Transit Village Project Finally Gets Under Way (SFist)
  • Husband of man killed by bus files wrongful-death lawsuit (SF Examiner)

Muni Media Map Art Show This Saturday

What are these good people doing, you ask? These are the participants of a Muni prom on the L for a project called Muni Media Map, where artists select a specific Muni line to explore in a medium of his choice. Zoe Burton picked the L line, where riders dressed in their finest prom wear and rode the train together.

From the organizers:

The Muni Media Map is a celebration of that glorious chaos: a collaborative multimedia exhibition organized by Revel Art Collective including 20+ Bay Area participants. Each artist selected a specific Muni line to explore in a medium of their choice, including sculpture, sound, music, mixed media collage, illustration, performance art, video, time lapse photography, interviews, comics, and participatory events. The Muni Media Map displays and integrates these investigations as a giant interpretive map of the city, transforming the gallery itself into an installation.

This Saturday you can see the Muni media map on display as a part of the 100 Days of Spring show.

Details:

Saturday, May 28th
5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
The Schoolhouse
1592 Market St. at Page and Franklin (map)

Update: What Would You Do With a Muni Window?

Out the window
Photo by Joshua Gatts

This morning we told you about an odd little ad on Craigslist that asked for an old Muni window. We got in touch with Tanya, the artist who posted the ad. Tanya says that she recently had a show at Galeria de la Raza where she projected images and video onto old windows in the store front. “I want to continue to work with windows this time for a show in a new gallery in the Inner Sunset…I want to use footage of Muni rides…as a joy ride that suddenly goes off track with some surprising places.”

Interesting idea!

Here’s a photo of Tanya’s project at Galeria de la Raza:

If, for some reason, you have a Muni window chillin’ in your basement or backyard, let us know.

Original post:
It sounded like an odd request to us at first, too. But when we read the Craigslist ad asking for Muni windows for an art installation, which Tanya posted to the Muni Diaries Facebook page, it suddenly made total sense.

Also, too, you should totally like Muni Diaries on Facebook.

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