:: BerDerp™ ::

watchful. present. waiting for something

who gets fed first.

guess they could share sunflower seeds?

I like to look up, not down.

Currently at Ever Gold Gallery, infamous acid blotter art historian/collector Mark McCloud has an exhibit running that features some truly unique pieces of the psychedelic sub-culture. Of course the pieces at Ever Gold are un-dipped, but the graphics and pieces themselves are surely interesting to see. There is even a perforating machine.

Mark McCloud is officially the Father of Blotter Art. He has been collecting blotter paper art for over 30 years, he has been twice busted, and twice acquitted. He unequivocally has the largest and most diverse collection of blotter paper in the world.

You can see more of the Ever Gold Gallery pics here, and another site here has a lengthy story (with more amazing pictures) about his early 2000 bust, the trial, and clean-up after-math of where the government had hoped they had their hands on a major LSD distributor, and not some guy with 33,000 pieces of perforated art sitting in his basement & attic.

this wall on a particular corner of Leavenworth in the TenderNob of SF, always features a fairly frequent rotating wheat paste image. This is new as of this past week.

Brilliant sun rays bounce off a building in downtown SF.

VBN as seen somewhere in SF.

As seen recently in Dogpatch

“..Freeway riding down the freeway…cruisin’ now we’re really cruisin.. “

A lonely breakfast at Silver Crest Donuts

Raygun Gothic Rocket

as seen at the Embarcadero, near Pier 14

next stop, Andromeda, please take your seats.

SF Embarcadero & Ferry Building

This past Saturday night, August 7th, the last commuter line on AC Transit left the original (now closed) Transbay Terminal at 12:15am. I thought this would make a good opportunity to create a photo-archive of what could be considered, the end of a commuting era for San Francisco & the Bay Area in general. Even as of just recently this complex served as a hub for 6 various local transportation services, its heyday was in WWII when it served 26 million passengers annually.

In 1958 the train tracks that served the center were removed, and the Transbay Terminal was turned into a bus only commuter center.

Below, the AC transit driver, who’s name I think was Fred, gets ready to depart the terminal. It’s hard for me to tell how he felt about being the very last driver to leave this complex; an epicenter of commuter hectic frenzied citizens which once saw 10 car trains arrive every 63.5 seconds.

In 1993 the center started getting locked up at night to keep some 300+ homeless people from sleeping on the long wooden benches

This gentleman’s name is Lou, he used to live in San Francisco in the middle of last century, but has since been in Dublin, California for the past 40+ years.

This shoe shine station was originally ran by 2 guys for more than 60 years. It sat forgotten in the basement until recently it was brought back upstairs

The Terminal’s drunk tank

You can get more information here on the new Transbay Transit Center.

You can see more SF Transbay Terminal pics here.

as seen recently in SoMA.

A ‘City SightSeeing’ tour guide is sitting at a light..and another pulls up to him and says….

click here to view in lightbox

recently captured kiss-a-thon in Union Square on Bastille Day

… in this backseat

Am I missing something? Since when do people put quarters in their ears?

saw this couple over the weekend out cruisin’ Ocean Beach. They were pushing a big ol’ car as you can see by the nobs on their radio.

He was OK with the picture .. she clearly was not.

my photo take on popular site “ThereIFixedIt”.com

Born Free Die Free – America –

spotted on Spear street. There’s a large shoe shining station under there.

“wake up to find out you have the Eyes of the World..”

Captured on a recent photowalk, this friendly gentleman started telling me about his younger days of shooting with Hasselblad’s in Paris.

he even offered to be my tour guide there. I wonder if the Hasselblad’s were in the cases he is sitting on.

Plus, how gangster are his snake-skin-sandals? sheeeeeeeeet.

just another sunset in the Sunset

Hundreds of people each week run to the far West end of Crissy Field, past the Warming Hut and on towards Fort Point. They continue all the way along the breaking waves of the Bay until the reach a fence with a plaque on it featuring a set of hands. Not just any hands – but Hopper’s Hands.

“Hopper’s Hands” gets it’s name from a Golden Gate Bridge IronWorker named Ken Hopper.  Ken has been working on the Golden Gate Bridge for over 20 years. He not only does repairs on the bridge, but he is listed as a first-responder and on the rescue-call list for suicide attempts off the Bridge.

Nevertheless, over the years, Ken kept seeing runners come up to the gate at Fort Point, touch it with their hands, and turn around. He asked a worker to paint a set of hands and a pair of dog paws after seeing a lady get her dog to touch the fence.

If you would like to read more about Ken and the IronWorkers here is a great SFGate article. Additionally, here is a good feature on NPR about him and another IronWorker.

A ship containing 3 container cranes went underneath the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge this morning, headed to the port of Oakland. Towering at 235 feet each, they were carried on a special ship that is able to lower itself into the water to account for narrow squeezes such as this.

This particular maneuver was done twice before now – once in 2002 and again in 2005. Engineers would have preferred a different passing time under the bridges, but Tuesday morning presented the lowest tide possible for the ship to pass safely underneath.

It is said that the distance between the cranes and the Bay Bridge could be about 5 feet.  The cranes came all the way from Shanghai.

taken this past Saturday in the Sunset District