Happy Friday! Have a look at what we're reading, viewing, and gawking at on the internet.
A Sutro Tower coat rack? Yes, please. (Kickstarter)
Pounding the concrete jungle everyday can be wearing, that's why we love San Francisco's parks. To learn a little bit more about our natural environment, check out these short "Naturalist Tour" videos of the City by Josiah Clark. (YouTube)
Got a light? We wish we owned a few of these vintage San Francisco matchbooks. (Inside Scoop SF)
There were some grandiose plans for S.F. that never came to fruition. We're kind of bummed some of these places don't exist. (The Bold Italic)
Alright folks, so we get that you're tired of Valentine's Day "news" barraging your Facebook and Twitter feeds, but it's time to wipe those broken-heart shaped tears off your face, take a seat, and get comfortable, because we've discovered a love-themed spectacle worth your while.
Play Content and Production -- a Los Angeles-based side venture of San Francisco's Swirl -- challenges the relationship between science and love in its first project: Less Than One, a short film and interactive website experience. Director Arturo Perez Jr. and art director Samantha Siegel, who happen to be dating, co-wrote the script for the video, and worked with a team to produce this unique piece that applies a scientific perspective to love.
"At first we thought of just blasting out the video on YouTube or Vimeo, but we thought it'd be more interesting to create a personalized web experience around it," Siegel says. "We wanted it to resonate with a bunch of people, and we wanted it to come out around Valentine's Day."
"I am saddened for Charles Darwin, leading so many others astray with his philosophies."
The woman who proclaims this at the beginning of the YouTube video promoting the upcoming HBO documentary Questioning Darwin seems genuinely concerned as she purses her red-lipsticked lips together and knits her brow to show her sadness for poor, misled Charles Darwin.
Any number of themes may be found percolating within the 2014 IndieFest -- "Sweet Sixteen" is the official one, on account of it being the 16th annual -- but this year's event seems to be especially and encouragingly full of feminist undertones. Which isn't to say feminism is a first-priority programming agenda, necessarily, or that men and their various concerns aren't represented among the festival's dozens of relatively diverse films. (As is regrettably still so often the case with these things, maleness, well, dominates.) But for viewers in search of women's stories, there is a lot going on here.
