I fell in love with San Francisco at first site, the buildings and the light, so much grooviness to dig. The signature building style I call “Wonkatecture” -a kaleidoscopic hodgepodge of giddy pioneer freedom and gilded age excess. It’s a modernists nightmare! A prime example is The Vedanta Society HQ, built in 1903 to house a religious sect which fostered a multifold path to God and reflected its openness architecturally. More more more.
Website
sfvedanta.org
Address
Vedanta Society, 2323 Vallejo Street, San Francisco, United States
Current city: San Francisco
Michael Gillette is a British born San Francisco based artist, who has spent the last 20 years translating the visceral thrill of music in to arresting images. He has been sought  out by  many including  Beck, The Beastie Boys, MGMT and Paul McCartney. He is currently working on a Monograph “Drawn in Stereo ” to be published in 2012.
 

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Worker-owned, hole in the wall bakery worth waiting in line for.
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#1 in the city for old book smell and creaky wooden floors. Too small to find anything specific you’re looking for, good enough that you’ll find something else instead.
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Dense eucalyptus forest on a hill. Great hike on foggy San Francisco days.
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You have a lot of hills to choose from in San Francisco but in my opinion the best (and most varied) views are from Bernal Hill. Bonus: from my kitchen table I can watch tiny blobs moving around on this hill-- slow blobs are people, fast blobs are dogs.
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By appointment only. Large archive of lettering, typography and calligraphy.
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