An underwater photographer and the most decadent invention: here in the Haight.
First up: Night Life's event this week (Thursday at 6) is a Gallery Crawl, which is awesome enough on its own. To up the ante, we got a tip that a San Francisco-based underwater photographer will be showing 6 of her (amazing) images. Her name is Erena Shimoda, and her photos are creepy underwater nods to Japanese Folklore. Here's a taste:
Her website explains these images:
First up: Night Life's event this week (Thursday at 6) is a Gallery Crawl, which is awesome enough on its own. To up the ante, we got a tip that a San Francisco-based underwater photographer will be showing 6 of her (amazing) images. Her name is Erena Shimoda, and her photos are creepy underwater nods to Japanese Folklore. Here's a taste:
Kuchisake Onna (slit-mouthed woman) is a frightfully gory-looking ghoul. The original legend from about 1,000 years ago tells of a woman who was married to a samurai. She was extremely vain and proud, and he was jealous and distrustful. He believed she was cheating on him, so he slit her mouth from ear to ear. "Who will find you beautiful now?", he asked her. Following her death she roamed the countryside with a fan covering her face, asking passersby if they found her beautiful. If the traveler answered, "no" she would immediately kill them. If they answered, "yes" she would move the obstructing fan to reveal her gaping, bloody wound. Upon showing her true self, she would ask the question again. If they answered, "no", she would slice them from ear to ear. If they answered, "yes", she would let them go, only to follow them home and kill them at their abode.So make sure you don't miss that. And speaking of water, it was brought to our attention that water beds were invented in the Haight in - wait for it - the 1960's? Design student Charlie Hall made the first one in his Haight-Ashbury flat, and was soon delivering them to Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Hefner, and the like. Quoth the Gray Lady:
Hall built the demo model in his house in Haight-Ashbury and invited his design class from San Francisco State University to stop by and critique his project. “Somebody got a bottle of wine,” Hall says. “The party didn’t stop until everybody got too tired and went home.” It was 1968, just after the Summer of Love, and he had created a heated bed that undulated, seeming to hold you in its embrace.Uh huh. Read the whole article here. And stay dry out there.
