HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Best wishes for a happy, healthy new year, everyone! And here's a bit of San Francisco fun: look what I found on the corner of 19th and Guerrero during my last run of 2009!

Yup, A Saturday in the Park With Friends, by Georges Seurat--but not! I could not find a signature, but this is a San Francisco artist's take on the famous Seurat, using Dolores Park as the backdrop and populated with modern San Francisco characters--hipsters with boomboxes, modern strollers, people of color, an obese American, the churches of the Mission and Downtown San Francisco in the background, etc. I thought it was really fantastic! He/she managed to create an amazing level of detail on the side of the building, to the point that I wasn't the only one repeatedly walking towards and away from it to appreciate the effect of the pointilism.

Here's the original, for comparison's sake, courtesy of kmkz.com. Pretty cool, huh?