San Francisco fun

So I went out to San Francisco last week to do a commission mural. The mural was the same one that I did for Art Basel down in Miami, but this time it was going to be permanent, so I was excited that the piece found a permanent home.

So the deal was that I paid for the flight out there, and the guy paid for my hotel. Little did i know that this would end up being a better deal than I had anticipated. The 'hotel' if you can call it that, was the Residential Suites at the Ritz Carlton. For those of you that dont know what the Ritz Carlton is, it is a luxury hotel with various locations. So the Residential Suites are like the hotel on steroids. We had a 24-hour concierge. So if we wanted chocolate chip pancakes at 4 in the morning, we could call down and they would find them. it was nuts. Only problem is that I have a hard time asking someone else to do something that I am capable of, so we never used them, but it was nice to know they were there!. We had 3 bathrooms in this 'hotel'! ha! the tubs were so big that you could have dumped 4 bodies in there, and they wouldn't flow over the top. it was nuts. Even though we were in San Francisco, we stayed in the place for 90% of the time. we have 3 TV sets, and a full library of DVD's at the front desk. I couldn't decide if it was the lap of luxury or the epitome of decadence. All i know is that it was fun.


So this was our bed. who in the world needs 8 pillows? is the world so full of weak necked people that 8 pillows are actually necessary these days?





The best part of the trip was that I was able to bring my son and girlfriend with me. We gave Sailor (my son) his first 'real' bath. As you can see from the photo below, he had a great time.






Here was the view we had from our room(s)









Now on to the mural. I was really happy with the way the mural came out, in spite of how the whole thing started. It started when my paint didnt arrive in time to begin. This put me in the position of having to run around the city to find a place that carried decent paint. After I had that, i taped the wall off, and made a little bubble of plastic around me to contain the fumes. apparently the plastic bubble worked cause it kept the fumes in side, and funneled them directly up to the ceiling, right into the smoke alarm. yup, that means that the whole fire alarm system for the apartment went off, and let me tell you, the Ritz Carlton must be full of deaf people cause they made these alarms extra loud. i know cause I was there. So i had to rip open my plastic bubble and try and fan the fumes out to turn off the alarm. That didnt really work, but what did work was the plastic bubble. I know it worked cause when I opened it up to fan the fumes, all the paint dust that had been contained was then fanned all over the apartment. the place looked good until i opened up. After that, the entire place had a fine layer of paint dust on it. it looked like the way a town looks after a volcano erupts. after all that the piece came out good and everybody was happy.

Unfortunately it was impossible to get a good picture of the mural without a fisheye lens, which i didnt have, so this is the best I could do. Enjoy