December 07, 2025
Garden glove. Photo: Robert Gumpert 28 November 2025
Foggy morning on the San Francisco Embaracadaro. Swedish-American pop-artist Claes Oldenburg designed the 64-foot tall “Cupid’s Span” which landed on SF’s Embarcadero. in 2002. Photo: Robert Gumpert 8 November 2025
The USNS John Glen, an Expeditionary Transfer Dock, docked near Jack London Square, Oakland, CA. as seen from the ferry. Jack London Square in Oakland, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 4 November 2025
San Francisco’s 105 year old fire station, a historic landmark at Pier 22 1/2, sits the new floating station. The new station with 3 fireboats, a dive boat and marine rescue craft, is better suited to the department's maritime needs and seismic challenges. Behind Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 November 2025
Readings, Viewing, Listening
The Converts, Simulating Iraq, In Training - Claire Beckett
Not in our name - Vincenza Falletti, edited Sam Haselby - Aeon
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever (podcast) - Ezra Klein
PHOTO PHNOM PENH FESTIVAL 2025 – 16TH EDITION
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms - Dell Cameron - Wired
The hidden details in Turner’s “The Battle of Trafalgar” - Royal Museums Greenwich
Why Is Africa Feeding Us? - The Food Programme (podcast)
Maria Ressa: The information apocalypse is threatening democracy - The Interview (podcast)
Where the Waters Are Rough, a Fishing Town Confronts Trump’s Priorities - Anna Griffin Photographs and Video by Ruth Fremson - NYT
Why Your Kitchen Looks Like That - Rachel Wharton - NYT
OpenAI’s Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings - Sharon Adarlo - futurism
The Deepest South - Ana Lucia Araujo - Aeon
About Place: How Public Art Tells the Story of San Francisco - Max Blue - SF/Arts
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