February 10, 2005
student loan souvenirs
Bishop and I hatched a plan a few years ago, dismayed by the dismal selection of really COOL souvenirs of our cool city. How fun would it to make a bunch of San Francisco souvenirs that young, hip travelers might actually want, instead of the ubiquitous cheesy cursive San Francisco sweatshirt or the cable car spoonrest? We also needed money for our student loans. Badly. We had a really fun day in the summer of 2003 driving around San Francisco, armed with digital cameras, shooting photo reference of all the familiar sites. As residents, we don't visit these touristy places often, but it was really fun to hit them all at once -- Coit tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, Chinatown...
The plan was put on hold for various reasons, but recently we've started talking about it again, and I've started production on some artwork with our future student loan souvenirs empire in mind. Here is an in-progress piece for an Ocean Beach/Cliff House image.
