Apr
15
2009
Tea Party Protest
A “Tea Party” protest took place on 2009 April 15.
25 Photos
Apr
5
2009
Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Parade & Festival
This year’s Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Parade & Festival was on 2009 April 4.
Apr
4
2009
Wishing you a hateful Hate Week 2009!
In honor of Hate Week—during which, as Orwell notes, new slogans are introduced—I would like to offer the following. It may not be destined to become a classic, but it does honor the work the current “loyal opposition” is doing on the national scene:
Obstruction is Construction.
Your attention, please: a newsflash has this moment arrived from Airstrip One. Here is the newsflash:
Surveilance is Privacy.
Mar
15
2009
The Brides of March
The eleventh annual Brides of March took place on 2009 March 14.
59 Photos
(Event’s web site: THE Brides of March . Ruby Fuerza’s web site: ruby fuerza: me first and the shimmy shimmies.)
Feb
23
2009
Long Alerts 2009-02-23
Having need of a few long (5-20 second) unambiguous alert sounds, I created some.
Two more elaborate ones: BB B4W
One strident one: PS
And one happy one: AC
Released under terms of
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
If you want to redistribute any of this stuff, please include the file “stephanZielinski_longAlerts_2009-02-23_README.txt” from the .zip below.
If you end up using any of this stuff for anything cool, I’d enjoy hearing about it.
Archive including everything:
All seven Stephan Zielinski Long Alerts 2009-02-23 mp3 files (.zip archive, 908K)
Feb
9
2009
Chinese New Year Parade 2009 / Year of the Ox
Chinese New Year celebrations extend for about fifteen days– so although the Year of the Yin Earth Ox began in January, San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade took place on 2009 February 07.
Feb
6
2009
Write this
I’m trying to get some folks I know to write some fiction. Many of them are particularly good at puns– so just to make it hard, I’ve also included required lines that are to be followed by a play on words.
Jan
27
2009
Chinese New Year Flower Market Fair
On 2009 January 24, there was a “mini-parade” to mark the opening of the Chinese New Year festivities, winding its way through a flower market set up on the streets of Chinatown.
19 Photos
Jan
25
2009
Public viewing Obama’s inauguration
On 2009 January 20, San Francisco set up Jumbotrons in several places so people could watch the broadcast of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. These photographs are of members of the crowd at Yerba Buena Gardens.
21 Photos
Jan
11
2009
San Francisco Carnaval 2008
The parade for San Francisco’s 30th Carnaval took place on May 25th, 2008.
11 Photos