when i moved to san francisco people asked me where i was from. since i consider myself to be from many different places i responded with where i was from most recently: los angeles. this would almost always guarantee a look up and down, change in tone from friendly inquiry to defense of territory, and some comment about why los angeles sucked.
i get it. LA does suck. but it is also amazing and filled with creative people whom i admire. some who grew up in the bay and magnetized me to their homeland.
needless to say these people annoyed me and i understood why others have their opinions of SF folk. but f_ck it, man. i didn’t want to play that us vs. them game. we’re all in this together.
i found conversation futile as they continued on their criticizing trajectory, and decided that convincing them different was out of the question. so, i ended the rivalry for myself.
Los Francisco San Angeles por vida!
suck on that.
suck on that.
i have this crazy idea that i would eventually make hats of these and stick secret agent friends in each city wearing the proper colors but repping for their friends in SoCal/NorCal, respectively. i’ll have to find the most graceful way to drop the plan... knowing that it might ruffle some feathers and, well, getting shot is not on my bucket list.
side note: without knowing it these became a font and color study. the SF logo gets it’s strength from their colors, the LA logo gets theirs from their font. orange and black LA stomps blue and white SF.
eventually i tossed the latter and the duel was no more.
acrylic on wood
january 2013
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