with painting by Melody L., Kaiulani W., stencils by Micco F., photography by Ben Chun, and writing and drawings by other students.

This painting is part of a group artistic exploration of San Francisco that I have been working on at Galileo Academy. Students ideas about the Tenderloin Neighborhood and parts of SOMA are collaged together into this cityscape.

One student wrote, as part of an affiliated 'zine project, "i have no problem walking through sixth street. i always walk by and no on gives me trouble. i know a few people from sixth street and its not that bad. and all this stuff about TL being violent is untrue. if you don't mess with people, they don't mess with you. the beefing stuff with TL and sixth street don't even matter cuz its not like they stop you and ask you where your from."

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San Francisco
Galileo High School
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Urban Landscape

Lead artists - Micco F.
Layout by Kaiulani W. and Amy W.

Various students at Galileo drew pictures of to represent a San Francisco in harmony with nature to celebrate Earth Day. Micco collaged these drawings together, then added many drawings of his own to create a complete collective vision.

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Students each wrote "Love is" on a piece of painted cardboard. Jeff, Sterling, Raymond and Jonathon organized the pieces into a heart shape and Melodie created the sign. This will be displayed next to the Gay-Straight Alliance marriage booth in the courtyard of Galileo Academy on Valentine's Day. Each piece will be sold as Art-Valentines.

Love is the strongest defense you can have.
Love is sexy.
Love is hurt.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Love is everything.
Love is memories.
Love is feeling.
Love is when you put up with their ****. When you know that you don't
have to but regardless you love them.
Love is a relationship which lasts forever.
Love is hope.
Love is the absence of hate.
Love is for my wifey.
Love is full of chocolate kisses.
Love is corny.
Love is my best friend.
Love is mahal.
Love is when you give up your only cupcake when you haven't eaten all day.
Love is always patient & kind. It is never jealous.
Love is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to execute, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Love is boobs.
Love is perfect and wonderful.
Love is falling for the unexpected.
Love is speechless.
Love is an animal cracker.
Love is mi koala.
Love is best.
Love is sexy.
Love is a knife, you can cut fruit for a loved one but you can also kill a loved one.
Love is me and you.
Love is give never take.
Love is opposite love or friends love.
Love will not last forever.
Love is forgiving.
Love is giving.
Love is sun, warm your heart.
Love is me monkeys.
Love is cute.
Love is life.
Love is killer.
Love is selfish.
Love is rose.
Love is smile.
Love is family.
Love is for people that are ugly or cute.
Love is a special feeling.
Love is a chore.
Love is sensational.
Love is unity.
Love is a reason to live.
Love is like a war, easy to give but hard to end.
Love is experience.
Love is indescribable.
Love is so wonderful, happy, amazing, hurtful, sometimes and in the end.
Love is class of '08.
What is love? Baby don't hurt me no more.
Love is a deep feeling, from your heart that you want to contribute yourself, you cannot stop thinking and listening and you cannot give up easily.
Love is a battle to win the other persons heart. Love is unforgettable.
Love is when they are constantly on your mind.
Love is giving, cherish, and sharing.
Love is forgiving.
Love is care with heart and contribution.
Love is the gift of nature.
Love is not counting the times you keep helping a person.
Love is selfish.
Love is special, especially when they love you back.
Love is someone that takes your breath away.
Love is the fire in the orchard that warms the people around it.
Love is forever.
Love is a feeling you have when you cant stop caring or thinking about the person.
Love is a trap you want to be captured in.
Love is beautiful sometimes.
Love is what you make of it.
Love is eternal.
I love you.
Love is a burden.
Love is you want.
Love is cheap.
Love is do with heart.
Love is dat is warming.
Love is compassion and patience.
Love is a smile when you read the text message.
Love is joy.
Love is the key that opens the gate to happiness.
Love is for all kinds of people.
Love is confusing.
Love is when two people feel the same.
Love is pain in the hiney.
Love is what everyone should have in their life.
Roses are red, cheese is yellow, and you're a nice fellow.
Love is [chinese character for love].
Love is a gift of nature.
Love is my anti-drug.
Love is dangerous.
Love is money.
Love takings risks.
Love is a Battlefield.
Love is a relationship which lasts forever.
Love is war.
Love is sex.
Love is undescribable.
Love is ?????

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This drawing by Melodie is to help advertise the collaborative, educational, decorative art project we are conducting in the Galileo Academy Library.

Students draw something that they are afraid of, then hang that drawing by books that are about that topic. This helps students learn how to find books as they decorate the library. Once they find these books, the students can then read about their fears and overcome those fears through with knowledge. See the drawings in the "Fear in the Library" gallery on this site.

This is the "drawing" of the week for October 14-20, 2007.

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The Prophe-See TV, which displays the future of our own creation, continues to develop at Galileo Academy. It sits here in the new art studio of the Galileo Library. Students continue to draw their ideas about the future - like Lee's Mars colony dome.

This is the "drawing" of the week for September 23-29, 2007.

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For three years (2002, 2003 and 2005)I attended Burning Man as part of Yum Camp. We operated the Taste Wagon - purveyors of Every Flavor in the Known Universe. It is a magical experience to serve up a taste on demand in the middle of the desert. We knew we would not be returning to Black Rock City in 2006, and were dispirited at the thought that the much-loved Taste Wagon would not return.

But the playa would provide.

We met Sam who agreed to carry on the tradition. Through great trials and despite the best efforts of U-Haul, Sam brought the Taste Wagon to the desert in 2006, and built the Yum Cart to deliver flavor in 2007. On a Friday afternoon during a vicious dust storm, I stood back to back with Sam and served tastes.

Then there was a rainbow.

This is the art of the week for August 26 - September 1, 2007.

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I helped paint and collage on this collaborative mural in progress as part of the larger Create Peace Project.

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At a Young Nonprofit Professionals Network party to thank their volunteers, the art didn't stop. The young nonprofit professionals brainstormed about connections with markers on a piece of paper hung on the wall while I painted their ideas onto the canvas.

I don't know exactly how to read it - but it seems that the super volunteer is providing free beer, with love, to other volunteers who are greening business (utilizing the power of trends) which is also driving (or being driven by) other institutions while government seems mired in elitism and others work on building bridges.

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I was a drawer at Southern Exposure's 7th Annual Monster Drawing Rally. This is a view from the drawing table created using ideas suggested by the jam-packed crowd of on-lookers.

I put out a piece of paper asking for words to describe the event replies included: "Beer Breath," "Stuffed," "Energized," "Sex (so it will sell)," and "Great People Watching" - and things that need to be included in a drawing of the monster rally. Some ideas people wrote were: "Unicorns," "Monsters!," "Monster sitting on a toad stool," "Lobster," "Space," and "An Elephant Drawing," all of which I kept adding to the drawing until I realized that it was 9 O'clock and my turn was up. John Casey's drawing hand also appears in this drawing (he's not the elephant).

This is the drawing of the week for February 18-24, 2007.

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Southern Exposure
Animals
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Hanging at Zeitgeist on my birthday, I had friends and other fellow beer-gardeners draw pictures on paper of either "A force in the world," a "representation of their soul" or "whatever".

I painted these drawings onto a canvas which will create an image of the meaning on life.

By request, I have created a mini-poster of this image which can be bought at The Art Don't Stop on Stuff, my new CafePress store. As with all collaborative art on this site, if anyone buys the original canvas, a portion of the money will go to an appropriate charity or political cause.

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Bars
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$400 - $600 Paintings
Collective Visions