Have you been seeing the Bitcoin signs posted on ATMs around San Francisco? In the past several weeks, Bitcoin signs and stickers have been seen adorning various ATMs and Apple buses all around the city, presumably as a reaction to Apple mysteriously dropping Blockchain, the most popular Bitcoin app, from the App Store on iTunes.
Bitcoins are an electronic form of currency which people can send to each other and use to pay for goods and services--anonymously. No banks or banking services are involved in Bitcoin transactions, which makes it a preferable way to transfer money for some, and a controversial one for others.
One night after a San Francisco dance performance, artist Beth Fein considered just how much money went into productions, even on the smallest scale. She thought of the cost of the theater, the lighting, the costumes and everything. Fein saw opportunity for a new type of performance where the art of dance could be experienced without the manufacturing of sets and costumes.
"I kinda of whimsically said, 'What if we all just stopped and danced,'" Fein says. "And from there it grew." And grow it did.
Dance Anywhere, a public art performance, is in its tenth year and has spread across 50 countries and more than 432 cities. Friday, March 28, Fein, along with dancers, artists and performers of all types and abilities join at noon to take a break from society -- and dance.
It is a public performance that mixes improvisation with choreographed performances to mostly an unsuspecting audience in an intimate and unique experience.
We're not sure how the person pulled off this proposal; how do you explain a car full of lighter fluid to a significant other?
Did he/she drop to one knee and say, "My love for you burns like an eternal flame."? We kind of hope so.
And while we cringe any time someone substitute "U" for "you," we will give this proposal, first spotted on Reddit, points for being original.
We can only imagine the pyrotechnics at this wedding.
When photographer Christopher Dydyk arrived in San Francisco in 2012, the beauty of the city compelled him to shoot anything and everything. The serenity of the trees and buildings presented a sheer opposition against the bustling of the city's people -- and he had to capture it. Dydyk's initial approach of taking single snapshots lacked the totality of the scene's energy, however. He decided to re-visit double exposure, a technique he used often when he worked with film, but add a digital twist.
"Trees have always been my passion," Dydyk says. "So my first attempt was the Conservatory Palm. I decided to make the palm tree the center of the picture and walk around it."
