Rockets Coming to San Francisco

[Monster Dave]

Saw today:



Here's what was posted:

The 40-foot-tall art piece, The Raygun Gothic Rocketship, offers rococo-futuristic, highly-stylized vision of space travel circa 1930's-1940's science fiction and is the latest in a series of temporary public art exhibitions sponsored by BRAF with the aim of enlivening and activating public spaces. The installation first landed at Burning Man 2009, and has subsequently appeared at NASA Ames for Yuri's Night, and at Maker Faire. The piece is comprised of a single rocketship, poised as if to board passengers for a typical run to a nearby stellar destination. When installed in San Francisco, the sculpture will be accompanied by a descriptive exhibit, a "rocket stop", which tells the story of the rocketship, provides route, schedule and other information. The installation will be illuminated for nighttime viewing.

[Michael Moore]

I saw that at the Maker Faire. Very cool, very Buck Rogers.

[Drunken Monkey]

My co-worker / buddy Don did a bunch of work on this.

So cool that's it's going to down by the ferry building for over a year.

[MendoDave]

I think that's very cool. i don't think I will be in the city then to check it out though. At first i thought that BARF was involved in this. I'm not sure who BRAF is, but my guess is that they don't wheelie R1's in traffic.

[desmoquattro]

They had that thing at the Maker Faire. It's also a staple at Burning Man, apparently.