A Direct-able Stream

I have been thinking about developing Newsletters posts for the 101 access idea.  This would be a “direct-able stream” where I identify appropriate content.  However, I have decided that this would be too difficult to engineer without heavy editing and I wouldn’t know how to easily identify specific streets posts.  Hence, I think that I should continue using the NA because it essentially does the same thing since there doesn’t seem to be a way to incorporate this blog’s principles into my other blogs.

So instead I have been developing an assessment of the blog.  I made a list of the different content providers and then looked at one specific class—the galleries at 49 Geary—to figure out how to improve their representation.  For both of my recent trips to the galleries I made a post.

I wrote in my notebook on 060514 that I left work, rode BART to Montgomery and left my bike at the White House Garage.  I walked to 49 Geary and starting on the fifth floor, I looked first at the fifth floor and descended to the bottom.  I only saw one or two things I liked.  Haines Gallery had a great set of wooden hangings made out of fishing line by Alme Mpano.  Later I went to Visuvio, where I know the bartender Dave pretty well.  I also talked to a guy who is a flight steward for a living with a major airline.  Later, across the street, I bumped into a waitress at Specs that thought she knew me.

On 071014 I got off of work at around 4:10 and visited 49 Geary.  I went to Haines.  They were having an opening for a Japanese artist.  There were many bronze castings.  I also got a flier and some pins for the Ai Wei Wei exhibit at Treasure Island.  I then went to Elins-Eagles-Smith.  They had had the same paintings up since the last time I had come by.  I liked them—they were gray scale and somewhat impressionistic.  Meanwhile, I noted that Freankel had a lot of artists and a lot of visitors.  I liked the subject matter but it was hard to focus on it.  I sprinted through most of the rest of the galleries there.

Later I went to Visuvio, where I saw Dave the bartender and interacted with locals.  I gave him one of my Ai Wei Wei pins.  I stayed until Jenna the bar back left and watched a little of the A’s/Giants game.