Snapped up by Octoferret, this bit of amber graffiti is also a spooky optical illusion! GRADE: B-......

Photo by Darwin Bell/Flickr Wow, this sure is arty. It's probably one of those acclaimed pieces we're supposed to know about -- and we're sure some of your AAC kids can chide us accordingly if that's the case -- but we don't. Because painting is (arguably) a dead medium. But we mean that in a good way. Sort of. We digress. By itself the piece gets a solid B, but since this whimsical bit......

We encountered this penis piercing an iPod at Sutter and Leavenworth on Monday. Penis drawings never get old, but we could use some more vagina to balance things out. The bottom half of the drawing looks like a fish, but the top half looks pretty impressive. We were thinking of recycling our geriatric, four-year-old ("fourth-generation") iPod for a ten-percent discount on a Nano when it gave us a very nasty sad-face last month. We thought......

Photo by TheJosephBoys This is all kinds of awesome. Seriously. And we hope Ritual Roasters doesn't 409 this choice bit of vandalism. Grade: A-.......

Photo by ekai/Flickr Oh gosh. This feels like it could be divisive, so we're not sure how to grade it. Although we aren't too keen on derivative '80s "art" that white people swoon over, we love little Spotty here. And we're concerned. Look how sad you made Spotty. You let him out of the can, and he died. Sob. Readers, what say you: love or hate? Horrible anti-First Amendment poster, or top drawer pro-SF......

Photo by Georgio Heh.......

Pedaling to the train station this morning, we noticed a few fluorescent additions to the asphalt: bright stencils of monstrous creatures calling attention to the various pits and potholes of Townsend Street. We would have snapped our own picture of the menacing neon jaws and claws, but because we were booted from the 8:44 bike car twice last week, we preferred not to dawdle. There are more pictures on Flickr and video on NBC11's......

Photo credit: Christopher Roberts Here we see a simple blue Sharpie--and judging by the whimsy of the "i," written by a female--used to express affection for another person or, though it's doubtful, the Muni train itself. We believe the graffiti speaks to another person since any love for Muni is suggestive of psychosis. Anyway, it's kind of nice to see graffiti on the outside of a Muni car instead of tagged on a window;......

Nothing says "welcome to our neighborhood in which you will never be able to afford a house" quite like graffiti of a veined penis stating, "Tupac Lives." On the Yerba Buena approach to St. Francis Wood (or "The Wood" as neighboring residents like to call it) from Westwood Highlands, this cuddly pee pee full of personality says, "Wassup" to drivers and pedestrians alike. And while we would expect such a display from the West Portal......

God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see, the city of Santa Ana (oy) wants to help parents determine, via the graphic above, whether or not their child is a rat bastard tagger. The city of Santa Ana's site explains their accusatory and unfair image, along with the final......

Grade F: tsk, tsk.......

Photo credit goes to Kevin Montreuil. One of the federal buildings in the Tenderloin is thoughtlessly tagged with some thoughtful graffiti. According to livinintheloin: I live right on UN Plaza, so my walk to the BART hole is a short one...[t]his morning as I round my building, I noticed the smell of urine, and something else. I don’t actually LOL that often, but today I did. The door on the side of the building......

We found ourselves asking ourselves lots of questions when we decided to post this piece of urban art that SFist reader Mike found on the corner of Sutter and Larkin last week. We were like, is this not suitable for work? It's just graffiti, and it looks just like all the beautiful vagina clichés that are cliché for a reason. It's like a lovely clam, or a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, or a head......

Happening on Castro and State streets over the weekend, where Gus Van Sant's Milk is currently shooting, it started out with the words "Harvey + George" (with a hearts!), "The Penn is lying" (Leigh Wolf, say it ain't so!), and the oddly and for no reason URL-y "Dan White.com, faggotkiller." Then, it turned into the bathroom wall at the Lexington, but not nearly as amusing, collapsing in on itself with to much text and......

This philosophic message/challenge adorning/"besmirching" Caffe Trieste's bathroom wall in North Beach last November comes to us from Seven Morris via the "sfist" and "found" tags. Sometimes a blank wall is miles more eloquent than anything that might besmirch it. Well, the wall is no longer blank though, is it? Oh, you clever, bathroom philosopher/ tagger, you. Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them "sfist" and "found" on Flickr!......

Before & After Save for the tagging still remaining on Obscura Digital's door--leave them be, racialists!--the Neo-Nazi public art has all but disappeared. Sigh, we hardly knew ye. The culprit of this week's spray paint melee was possibly uncovered and hotly debated by our fantastic sleuth readers. While we won't point any fingers as to who decorated Stillman Street with eye-popping Neo-Nazi flair, and the Vacaville-based MySpace page supposedly harboring the young hate monger's identity......

Well, this was unnerving. We came across these, um, public art pieces while walking down Stillman Street. Shot earlier this evening, the paint was fresh yet gooey. If we had to guess, one to two days old, maybe? What these images lack in whimsical mischief--like last November's bout of graffiti that marred a Los Gatos church, which somehow made Bay Area headlines--they make up for in fear and fright. Anyway, we're curious: what exactly......

What? Come on, cats are %100 swell. (Crazy cat lady syndrome be damned!) In fact, felines kicking it in windowsills should have its own site as far as we're concerned. Very SF. This image was taken in Nob Hill. And the added touches of graffiti and cheap Levelor horizontal blinds (in Nob Hill!) make it that more melancholic. Image credit: SFist's Leanne Maxwell......

-- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact, are. Burlesque troupe Kitty Kitty Bang Bang and DJ Ross Hogg's hip hop, dancehall, roots reggae, and dub sounds intertwine with a night of 'stache championing. Tonight's bash will feature a mustache pageant, a beer foam retention test, a mustache haiku......

We're not one to laugh at church vandalism. Ever. But the following story in today's Mercury News is goddamn hilarious. And hilariously bad. Los Gatos police believe the suspects who scrawled swastikas and anti-gay messages on two churches and a pharmacy last weekend probably live in town, and investigators are hoping someone will turn them in. In some ways ... the vandal - or vandals - who hit St. Mary's Catholic Church, United Methodist......

Photo of a daylight graffiti artist on Haight Street...

We have incredibly exciting news about bus shelters! The city just reached an agreement with Clear Channel, your favorite company, to provide bus shelters and advertising and revenue. It's a complicated relationship, and totally boring -- like, alt-weekly-level boring -- but here's what it all means to you, the common man on the street: - New shelters will speak NextMuni information out loud, will have a beacon for waiting passengers to notify approaching vehicles, will......

Ah, beautiful Diviz. Is there no boulevard more perfect, more blissful? When we think "nice places to take an afternoon constitutional," we are drawn instantly to its divine charm. It is, simply put, an Eden. To alter it would be to play God. But SOME PEOPLE want to change all that. The out-of-touch bureaucrats in City Hall think that the stretch from Haight to Geary needs to be improved. Strange terms like "greening" and......

Members of the exclusive Norteño gang in the Mission District got capped with a civil injunction today, barring them from hanging out each other in a 60-square-block area and from loitering after 10 p.m., according to a report in the Chronicle. Those who are subject to the preliminary injunction...can be arrested in the 60-square-block zone -- and face up to six months in jail -- if they engage in one of a number of......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Hey, someone spilled alcohol on our issue! Or at least we hope it's only alcohol.... We're now only gingerly turning the pages. Please don't be pee. Letters: Someone hates Chris Daly. You can't talk to MUNI head Nat Ford when he's in the john? (Cartoon at left.) Cover article: The Treasure Island Music Fest is gonna be awesome!!!!!!! (We have got to remember to pick up tickets for it......

Ann Sherry's North Beach mural "Gold Mountain," a work that depicts Chinese influence to San Francisco and American history, fell victim to hooligan defacing. Specifically, the recent addition of Betty Ong, a San Francisco flight attendant who died in the World Trade Center attacks. While it doesn't seem like an intentional hit on Ong's heroism, 9/11-ness, or whatever -- because murals in this city get defaced the second the paint starts drying -- it is......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

As part of a proposed $185 million dollar bond issued to help revitalize our parks, Park & Rec head cheese Yomi Agunbiade, announced that a major emphasis of the bond measure will be brining in new bathrooms. The reason for such a decision is the obvious third-worldyness of current park bathrooms. Twenty points for Gryffindor. ...

Photo of a now-pristine wall at the formerly graffiti-laden Warm Water Cove....

Photos from the graffiti paint out at Warm Water Cove...