But not fast enough. Talk to me @sacredmural #np #nonprofit #retweet pls!
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Kickstarter X Sparkmuse: Mission D Mural
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Revealing SF's Hidden Mural
Last updated 3 minutes ago - REVIVE HIDDEN HISTORY + BEAUTIFY THE NEIGHBORHOOD
We hope to commission other murals on the sides of businesses in the San Francisco Mission District. We are trying to get funding via Kckstarter,...
Problem
94 years after the mural was first discovered by policeman Charles Fennell as he watched workmen “buttressing the walls of the building” and noticed streaks of color, according to a San Francisco Examiner article from 1918 — the mural is no closer to being restored. Instead, it continues to fade and flake.
Mural paraphernalia is no longer sold at the gift shop. Andrew Galvan, the curator of Mission Dolores, said the cost of restoring the mural outweighs the benefits to the community. Producing the paraphernalia is also a cost the Church can’t afford as people showed no interest to acquire it.
Historians said the issue is the expense and difficulty of moving an 18th-century altarpiece that was set in front of the mural in 1796. Ben Wood and Eric Blind have become advocates for its restoration. One option is to restore the mural digitally, but only a 20-by-5-foot stretch of the 32-by-20-foot mural can be photographed; wood beams prohibit access to the lower portion.
Today, the biggest threat to the mural is that most people have forgotten about it, Wood said.
Further, we need advice on how to get traction with a crowdfunded (Kickstarter) non profit project like this.
Solution
REVIVE HIDDEN HISTORY + BEAUTIFY THE NEIGHBORHOOD
We hope to commission other murals on the sides of businesses in the San Francisco Mission District. We are trying to get funding via Kckstarter, but its slow, and not nearly enough > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missiondoloresmural/mission-dolores-mural-revealing-sfs-hidden-mural?ref=email
The Mission Dolores Mural is the perfect first step in this direction. This mural will tell San Francisco’s oldest story in a very public place, free to be seen by thousands of residents and visitors in the Mission District every day.
Part of the mural will be recreated by famed local muralists from the Mission District bring individual and complementary styles and perspectives. The combination of their talents will make the recreation of the Mission Dolores Mural a brilliant piece of public art and a long-term attraction to historians, artists, and community members alike.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
Quora vs. StackExchange: Reputation Measurement
What I have been saying for the last eight months: our entries/votes should be weighted, recommendations and degrees certified, and the full gamut of the reputation management issue dealt with by a professional (i.e. LinkedIn, Quora, StackExchange, Facebook app "Branchout," etc.) social media platform. This will provide tremendous value to users who evaluate each other regularly.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
#JpQuake: Better Info From Twitter
"All I can say is that the government and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric) are totally behind the curve," said Yuichi Iwai, a 39-year old IT engineer.
"The confusion is made worse by the sensational media coverage. Under such conditions I tend to get better information through Twitter."
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Reuters) – Public trust in the Japanese government faces its biggest test since World War Two over the handling of the nation's nuclear crisis, raising concerns that a breakdown in confidence could fuel panic and chaos if appeals for calm go unheeded.
Foreigners are leaving Tokyo, or shutting themselves indoors, and supermarket shelves are running empty despite authorities assuring citizens there is no need to panic from the crisis unfolding at a quake-stricken nuclear power plant.
The government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan was already unpopular before the disasters.
"This government is useless," Masako Kitajima, a Tokyo office worker in her 50s, said as radiation levels ticked up in the city of around 12 million people, more than 200 km south of the nuclear plant where officials battled to avert disaster.
Tokyo resident Masashi Yoshida, 53, agreed.
When asked for his assessment of the government's performance, he replied: "It's been awful."
"They've been giving information far too late. They should have consulted with other countries and experts. They tried too hard to do it all themselves. I think they panicked themselves, and couldn't think straight. Japan would be better off if we went without politicians for 10 years."
Even the local mayor of a town close to the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex complained that the government had failed to keep his office updated on the situation.
"We've been asking the prefecture and the government to give us information quickly but we've been having to force information out of them," said Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma.
Public trust in the government and nuclear authorities is critical to ensuring against undue panic, experts said.
"It's a matter of legitimacy and how much you believe in the organization," said Chuo University professor Steven Reed.
"What it means is that people don't necessarily cooperate when the government asks them to do something."
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"
Some local media have also started to adopt a critical tone of the government and especially the stricken nuclear plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co, for failing to keep the public well informed on the situation.
Tokyo Electric officials has given numerous news conferences, but they speak rapidly and use terms beyond ordinary people's grasp.
"Information is the essence of crisis management," said a Mainichi newspaper editorial pointing to poor coordination among the prime minister, nuclear safety officials and Tokyo Electric.
"Based on real-time information, it is vital for the government to join as one with experts in nuclear power and radiation, crisis managers and experts in public relations and risk communication to work to make information available."
The Yomiuri newspaper -- no fan of Kan's government at the best of times -- was far harsher, charging that anxiety was rising due to a total lack of government plan.
Struggling with a rapidly worsening situations, Kan blasted Tokyo Electric officials for failing to keep him informed.
"Televisions reported an explosion. But nothing was said to the premier's office for about an hour," Kyodo news agency quoted him as telling company executives at their head office.
"What the hell is going on?"
But not everyone has lost faith in the authorities.
Analysts said the government was doing the best it could do in a difficult and rapidly changing situation.
"They are doing their best to give a constant stream of information," said Deborah Hayden, managing partner at consultancy Kreab Gavin Anderson, noting that the spread of social media like Twitter made it hard to keep rumors from spreading, undermining confidence in official accounts.
Top government spokesman Yukio Edano has done a relatively good job, experts said, giving frequent televised briefings, using easy-to-understand terms to give the latest information, though in the first days he sometimes appeared behind the curve.
"I want to believe the government," said Hiroto Yanuma, a first-year's grad student in chemistry who said he was worried about social turmoil if things went badly wrong.
"I want them to do a good job and I think they're really trying hard. I see Kan and Edano on TV all the time and wonder when they sleep."
But many others are less flattering.
"All I can say is that the government and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric) are totally behind the curve," said Yuichi Iwai, a 39-year old IT engineer.
"The confusion is made worse by the sensational media coverage. Under such conditions I tend to get better information through Twitter."
Survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also frustrated.
"The state and the electricity firm were saying the volume (of radiation) is insignificant, but I think they're taking this situation so lightly," 80-year old Haruhide Tamamoto from Hiroshima was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
株式会社インキュビー @pantherrabbit #SanFran でのアメリカ設立インキュベーション #jabiSV
IncuBee, Inc.
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バーチャルインキュベーションとして、米国での事業を現地社員なしでも日本から管理できるようバーチャルオフィスの提供、日々の実務作業も経験豊かなオペレーションチームで行います。
IncuBee provides operation services to support business expansion or to set up an entity at various business offices or incubation facilities in the San Francisco area.
We carry out the tasks necessary for daily operations such as human resources, accounting, general administration, sales and R&D support for start-ups or small and medium-sized companies to decrease their indirect costs and focus on their core business.
As a virtual incubation, we offer virtual offices so that our clients can manage business from Japan without local employees. The daily operation tasks are managed by an experienced operation team.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Revitalizing #SanFran #Mission District #Twitter X #Quora X #Kickstarter @SacredMural #Klout
The SF Mart building has been empty for years. It's huge and it makes an entire block feel empty. It's between 10th and 9th on Market. Ed Lee and the Supervisors are trying to get Twitter to move into the building instead of moving out of the city. This is in hopes that other companies will also move into the neighborhood.
This mural is not simply art, but a sacred device to connect the numerous groups of native people with the divine. Icons depicted, images of a heart pierced by a sword and a heart pierced by three daggers, may represent the sorrowful mother Mary and her son Jesus, designed suitably for this mission which lay on the banks of the stream, "Our Lady of Sorrows Creek", once located at Albion and Camp Street. The mural could be considered a visual prayer that embodies the key messages and tenets of the doctrine of Catholicism. It's a montage of both the native California Indian religion and the religion brought to them by the friars. The native California people brought their own world view to beautify the church.
A twenty by five foot section of the original art will be faithfully recreated as a permanent mural and piece of public art for all to see. Using over 250 photographs that were captured in 2004 by lowering a camera on a rope-and-pulley system behind the altar, the top section of the mural will be reproduced with the same colors, abstract decorative patterns and designs that exist in the original. It will include a rendering of the niche, or recessed cove, abstract decorative designs and two hearts, encircled by golden bands. Jet Martinez, a co-organizer of the Clarion Alley Mural project, had had the wall in mind for his own Oaxacan-inspired mural design. He helped propose the idea of the mural to Mission Community Market organizer Jeremy Shaw. Meanwhile Megan Wilson, advocated for recent "Laser Ca" muralists Bonnie Reiss and Ezra Li Eismont as perfect artists for the project.Jeremy Shaw obtained permission from the property owner and the project has now been made possible.
Bartlett Street recently a venue for a new, weekly outdoor community market of fresh foods and community activities is located between 21st and 22nd street. The location of the mural at the site of a community market is a direct way of sharing the unknown mural with the diverse population frequenting Mission Market each week. It will be a long-term attraction for artists, historians, tourists, and community members alike.
The Dolores mural will be accompanied by a contemporary mural designed by Jet Martinezto sympathetically integrated within the building's façade, as well, acting as a guardian of the sacred mural. Decorative motifs found throughout the old mission will also be used to unify to two murals. A descriptive legend will retell the story.
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What are the details of Ed Lee's plan to revitalize the mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco?
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and just one block from Artists Television Access, a mural is being
planned for the Mission Market exterior wall.
This spring three local muralists will start painting a mural that has
not been seen in this area since the 1790's when Franciscan Friars, at
the newly built Mission Dolores, had the mural painted by native
peoples.
Two young men, one an artist, the other an archaeologist, crawled over the ancient redwood beams of San Francisco, CA Dolores earlier this month, opened a trap door, lowered an electric light into a space behind the main altar -- and stared into the 18th century. There, in a space thick with the dust of centuries and dark as a tomb, is a wall of nearly forgotten religious murals, painted in red, black and yellow by Native Americans in 1791 and hidden from public view for 208 years.
Bartlett Street recently a venue for a new, weekly outdoor community
market of fresh foods and community activities is located between 21st and 22nd street. The location of the mural at the site of a community market is a direct way of sharing the unknown mural with the diverse population frequenting Mission Market each week. It will be a long-term attraction for artists, historians, tourists, and community members alike.
The Dolores mural will be accompanied by a contemporary mural designed by Jet Martinezto sympathetically integrated within the building's façade, as well, acting as a guardian of the sacred mural. Decorative motifs found throughout the old mission will also be used to unify to two murals. A descriptive legend will retell the story.
People involved expect this first mural to only 'open the door' for other mural projects, led by Ben Wood (et al) to be launched in The Mission (San Francisco neighborhood) District, and are just about to - this week - launch the Kickstarter Crowdfunding campaign to raise the minimal project costs needed.
In Twitter, the project is @SacredMural and media coverage Ben and his group have include these articles, already published (more in the works), by category/topic:
California Missions
http://missionlocal.org/2010/10/...
http://foundsf.org/index.php?tit...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs
/inthemission/detail?entry_id=74924
MIT Media Lab
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/104...
http://www.kqed.org/arts/program...
Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2004...
U.S. Senate
http://boxer.senate.gov/en/press...
Archeology
http://www.archaeology.org/0405/...
Documentaries
http://www.othercinema.com/other... Saul Fleischman • Delete • 3:01pm
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