Blurry eyed with a thermos of coffee as the sky brightens and that huge warm orange dot lifts above the horizon. When was the last time you caught a sunrise?

This morning at Corona Heights Park in San Francisco

RSVP on Facebook for Saturday's opening of The Diamond Sea @FFDG. Preview inquires, email: info(at)ffdg.net

Looking for graffiti/ tagging supplies here in San Francisco?

Art Primo, sellers of spray paint/ markers/ etc, is opening up a shop here in the Tendernob (1124 Sutter St.) with a show opening celebration on Friday featuring works from Bay Area taggers and will be open on Saturday as well (9am-2pm). ~Details | here's a look at their NYC store.

Melbourne --- Australian artist and friend of ours Hamishi, who participated in 11.11.11 last year, curated the group show "Sup Brow" at Melbourne's 1(h)ree Gallery. Unfortunately the show has concluded, but here are some images from works by Henry Gunderson, Tom O'Hern, Hiroyasu Tsuri (TwoOne), Dylan Martorell, Miso, Lola Dupre, Sean Morris, and Hamishi.

Where is the middle ground between high and lowbrow art in Australia's regressive commercial contemporary art scene? "Sup Brow?" is an exhibition presenting an informed discussion on the relevance of "Juxtapoz Art" in contemporary art and the border between Lowbrow and Mainstream Australian painting through the lens of Australian and international painters, illustrators and mixed practice artists.

Thanks to Stance Socks for mailing us a few pairs of their new collab with Cycle Zombies. We'll be giving away a pair to this week's Free Fridayz winner.

Detroit native Martin McMurray opens a show of new paintings at Gallery 16 on October 5th. Love the works.

Today, Friday Oct 5th, and tomorrow, Saturday, are the last two days to view Henry Gunderson & Eric Shaw's show Glint @FFDG.

Saturday from 5-7pm we will be hosting a book signing with Tiffany Bozic to celebrate her new book Drawn Instinct published through Gingko Press.

Not in San Francisco and want a signed copy? We are taking orders today and tomorrow only here: shop.fecalface.com/product/instinct-signed-copy

Final days to view Glint at FFDG

OAKLAND -- The great silk screen printing service/ shop in Oakland, Bloom Press, will be hosting a Jeremy Fish silk screen exhibit on Friday, Oct 4th. 2310 Telegraph Oakland

Via Jeremy Fish, *for the better part of the last decade i printed almost all my screen prints with my buddy nat, at BLOOM PRESS in oakland. this friday evening i will be there selling some recent prints. please stop by and say hi! -- It's also Art Murmur on Friday in the neighborhood, so it's going to be going off with art events and general street craziness, so don't plan on driving.

Our long time friend Travis Jensen, who has his own corner on Fecal Face, opens the solo show of his photographs entitled "Our City. Our Life" this Thursday in downtown San Francisco at Galette 88 - 88 Hardie Place (off Kearny St, between Sutter and Bush streets). All proceeds of sales going to the American Cancer Society (ACS).

Travis Jensen captures the people of San Francisco on and off the streets getting up close and personal with his subjects. From the bum and the gangster to the socialite and the business man, Travis has a way of capturing a thoughtful humanity in each of them. Click here for a little taste of his work. ~show details

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mark Benson's "Get the Flu" at Ever Gold Gallery (ran through Sept 28th) has been lolling around my brain. Benson staged a performance by the same name during the show's opening, in which, for $50 a person, a registered nurse administered this season's flu shots and Benson gave out an editioned certificate of authenticity. Though I wanted to participate in Benson's flu shot piece, I didn't. Growing up in Berkeley, California ingrained a reflexive fear of common American medical customs, which I shun openly while lacking confidence in the science that vilifies them. I realize that seems wishy-washy verging on willful ignorance, but whatever. What would disturb my be-mulleted alternative doctors about a flu shots is precisely why "Get the Flu is great art: the flu antibodies injected last until you die, though their efficacy in preventing the flu diminishes in months, your resistance causes the virus to evolve (Time, Immunization Action Coalition.) ~continue reading

Get your flu shots during the opening

SAN FRANCISCO -- On Saturday, Oct 6th, FFDG will host a book signing (5-7pm) with Tiffany Bozic to celebrate her new beautiful 192 paged book "Drawn by Instinct" published through Gingko Press.

Mark your calendar for this Saturday, October 6th, so that you can have your own signed copy of Bozic's first book which thoroughly explores her entire painting career. $40. Beer & wine will be available.

ORDER YOUR SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Tiffany Bozic Book Signing
Sat, Oct 6th
@FFDG, San Francisco
2277 Mission St @19th
RSVP on Facebook

Tiffany Bozic will be signing copies of her new book on Saturday, Oct 6th at FFDG in San Francisco.

The Fecal Face softball team Poo's on First just concluded its 4th season, and we've notched 2 wins under our belt (wonderful moments indeed). We may not be the best coed team in the San Francisco Soft Ball League, but damn it, we have fun playing and are getting better every game.

So, here it is. If you're a SF lady who wants to join the good times, we're looking to fill a few spots. All you need is some sporting ability (swing bat, throw/ catch a ball), are reliable to show up Tuesday evenings for our games and/ or practice (games are either 6:30, 7:40, or 8:50). It's a fun way to break up the week, maybe catch a post game beer and scratch your competitive spirit. If interested, email our buddy Mike at: mmidden(at)salon.com

The Fecal Face softball team was formed through a Fecal Face twitter post last year. We were all strangers when we started playing together. Join the fun.

You can get a taste of what it's like from when we played Park Life last year ~PICS

Last night we Bart'd over to Oakland for the sold out Bay Area premiere of Stacy Peralta's newest documentary Bones Brigade - the story of the Bones Brigade skate team of the 80s launching the careers of Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero and Mike McGill. The film gives the viewer an insiders look into the legendary skateboarding team that reveolutionized modern skateboarding. In attendance last night were Steve Caballero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Tommy Guerrero, and George Powell.

Tommy Guerrero (eyes closed, sorry), George Powell, Mike McGill, and Tony Hawk post screening

We grew up watching The Search for Animal Chin, and the film takes you back almost 10 years before Chin when the team was first formed, when Tony Hawk & Steve Caballero were somewhere around 12 years old and just starting their professional careers... The film is a trip down memory lane but also helps to remind us how great skateboarding is and how great a lot of the personalities in skateboarding are... Some sections could be edited down a bit (think it's still a work in progess). In any case, do see it, and check out some photos we got of some of the classic crew.

Thanks to the help from Joe Magnano who's volunteering his time, we're welcoming back Free Fridayz going back up on a weekly basis beginning Friday, Oct 5th.

Be sure to get your drawing emailed in with the theme: Welcome Back, Free Fridayz by Friday, Oct 5th. Email them to: freefridayz(at)fecalface.com

If you have no hell what we're talking about, click here for a taste.

>>> prize announced soon <<<

Not exactly the most joyous anniversary we've celebrated, but today marks the 1 year anniversary of our fire at our old location on Fillmore at Haight.

Was a hectic year, to say the least, but in the end we're in a larger space on Mission and 19th and are hopefully at the end of our insane transient gallery nomad status... One lesson learned, it's good to have insurance and it doesn't hurt to have friends who live across the street and on the street (Upper Playground, Mike Midden & Stephanie). Thanks to them we were able to save a lot of work that otherwise would have been ruined.

To see some video and pics from that bummer of days, click here.

The Fillmore & Haight St fire happened last year today.