Camera Obscura!

I wrote about Fort Point here and over there, there is a camera obscura! On this post I am explaining why the image turns over!

In the past, the people didn't have cameras to take pictures, so the solution to record things was by drawing!

If you escaped of the physical lessons, don't worry, The first image that I put,  can help you to understand what I'm going to explain. When you're in a room with a small hole, the image gets in, and after that it turns over and ends up upside down!! It is a optical phenomenon and that's exactly what happened on the second pic!

I promised that I had come back to the Fort Point and I'd taken a picture inside the camera obscura! So, the second photo is the Golden Gate Bridge upside down! That experience for me was strange because it looked like a painting in motion! It's unique!

This exhibition in the Fort Point is over, however there is a camera obscura near Cliff House!

Hope you got my explanation! @sanfranotes

Free Monthly Museums Day!

Free Museums on Tuesday 12/04/2012:

• SF Museum of Modern Art (MOMA):

Where: 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
What time: 11am - 5:45pm
Exhibition: Modern art including paintings, sculpture, photography, design, architecture and like so on.
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Fq15q

• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA):

Where: 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

What time: 12pm - 8pm

Exhibition: focused on contemporary and emerging artists, performances, film/video and community engagement programs.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/oZiJQ

• Contemporary Jewish Museum

Where: 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

What time: 11am - 5pm

Exhibition: audiences and programs that explore the Jewish culture, history art and ideas. 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/4AiJ9

• Conservatory of Flowers

Where: 100 John F Kennedy Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118-4504 (at Golden Gate Park)

What time: 10am - 4:30pm (last entry at 4pm)

Exhibition: there are over 1,700 species of rare, exotic and endangered plants from different countries.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/PBTp8

Other post about it: here

• de Young Museum

Where: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

What time: 9:30am - 5:15pm

Exhibition: collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Besides, art from Africa and the Pacific. 

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/3NKFd

• Legion of Honor

Where: 100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121

What time: 9:30am - 5pm

Exhibition: displays of collections of 4,000 years ago of ancient and European art.

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/Ni1tu

Map with all locations is right here! 

Hope it's useful! Hope you have fun today! :)

Asian Art Museum - Pictures!!!

Heey! I went to the Asian Art Museum on the last sunday! Here are some pics! I took about 100 pics, but here are just a couple of them! It's hard to choose my favorite, because they are all amazing! Follow me @sanfranotes !

Hey! Free Museums!

Today is the first sunday of this month, and the Asian Art Museum is free! Almost every museum in SF has a day that they get free. Some of them get free on the first saturday of each month, others on the first wednesday and like so on. Here is a list of the day that each museum gets free: http://sf.funcheap.com/city-guide/monthly-free-museum-days/ !

I have been in California Academy of Sciences once, and that was very interesting because the museum offers different kinds of exposed materials. However, I had to wait like three hours in line to get in there. So, if you wanna go, I recommend that you get there early! That museum, specifically, is one of the hardest to visit, because it only gets free four times a year! Then, if you get the change, enjoy!

Have you been to any museum on free days?! Tell me, if so.
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Check the link above and enjoy the free days! :)

Fort Point!

Fort Point is a National Historical Landmark which was built between 1853 and 1861. It was a important place for SF 'cause it used to defend SF Bay of against hostiles warships. It is at the southern side of the Golden Gate Bridge, exactly here.
I have been there and if you go, I recommend, get a jacket because the wind is too strong over there!
The place is really interesting, at the total of four floors and on each one of them you can appreciate differently! For example, there has been a exhibition called International Orange and 16 artists created their way to approach the bridge. Each one of them in their different points of view. I didn't see all of the works, but all of that I saw were interesting. I saw and recommend the camera obscure and on first floor there is a special area for short videos and some materials in exhibitions. This is a special exhibition in celebration of the anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge and the works will be in exhibition until October 28.


Ps: I took pictures inside the camera obscure, but any picture of mine was good enough to publish here... unfortunately. 


Anyway, I recommend! Don't forget a jacket and everything will be ok!


Enjoy it!

Golden Gate Bridge 75 Anniversary!

Tomorrow is Golden Gate Bridge 75 Anniversary! 
Do you know the reason of this name!? Golden Gate is the name of the division between the Pacific Ocean and SF Bay Area! This strait is also known like North America Strait! Looking at the first picture you can see that.
Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) has been declared one of the modern  wonders of the world?! YES, by the American Society of Civil Engineers, GGB is one of the wonders of the modern world! Now, you have another reason to appreciate that! 
Would you like to riddle what is the bridge most photographed in the world!? You got right if you had answered GGB! I can't imagine this fact, I mean, I live so close one of the most photographed, and possibly the most beautiful, bridges in the world! I can't have notion about that!
It's on the list of Landmarks in SF and on the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks!
Tomorrow, there will have fireworks to celebrate the anniversary! It will start at 9:30 pm and it will end at 9:50 pm. I read that the fireworks will be possible to see since pier 39. 


More informations on http://www.goldengatebridge75.org/ 

Enjoy it and take lots of pictures!

Lost & Found!

My first post about an exhibition! Lost & Found is an exhibition in Arc Studios and Gallery. It is about some works of arts made with lost objects! It is cool, isn't it?! When I went there, I could see and get in a studio! The second picture from the top is into the studio. You can visit the exhibition for free!  The works of art were made from thirteen artists. To see more information, visit: http://www.arc-sf.com/lost--found.html


I have to confess that this exhibition's subject is at least funny and interesting!


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