Yesterday, Steve and I went to see the deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park. I was pretty impressed by the museum, both inside and out. The building itself is impressive. It is made out of copper and I am not sure if I will like it as much after it’s petina starts showing, but for right now I loved the texture and the way it interacted with the light throughout the day.

I was impressed by the displays and I really like the layout of the gallery and open spaces. I was surprised that they used wood as the surface for all staircases, gallery floors and some ceilings.

After the museum, Steve and I walked through the park to Haight street, where we went looking for the Pork Store (which was not there any more) and watched the cultural mish-mash created by street kids, high-end boutiques and peace/love restaurants.

We missed our bus home, so decided to get coffee. I had spied Coffee to the People earlier and could not resist going in (ie my compulsion to try new independent coffee shops no matter my level of caffine-ation). Before we left, Steve and I conversed about a number of topics, but mostly about cosmology. He continued his quest to convince me that his Little Bang theory better explained the state of the universe than the Big Bang Theory. I thought the catatonic woman next to us, was going to jump in during the part about uniform-vs-nonuniform distribution of mass post-bang.

Today I will do alittle wandering. I would like to hike up twin peaks for some pictures and then I have to meet Dylan for a late lunch. Tomorrow Steve, I and maybe Gary will be hitting SF MOMA and Museum of African Diaspora.

Here are a few of the pictures from yesterday. I was not a big fan of the pictures I took yesterday, but they atleast so the highlights.

Steve outside the deYoung
My favorite shot. Out the window on the 2nd floor
Self Portrait 1
Self Portrait 2
Steve at the Stairs
Shadow Installation
deYoung building through the trees
Art shot of the trees
Steve with the deYoung
Steve again
Tea Garden foliage