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the roof of the night

So, the fog was moving in because that’s what fog does. I looked out the hotel room window and the top of this building was completely obscured. And then, approximately one second later, it looked like this.

And, because I want to be reasonably accurate with this stuff, I looked up the building – it was easy to find because our cab driver had told us (correctly) that it was the tallest building in the city. And that’s how I learned this most amazing thing:

The crown of the tower features a nine-story electronic sculpture, “Day for Night”, created by artist Jim Campbell that features low resolution, abstract videos of San Francisco that will be filmed each day. At its activation on May 21, 2018, it was considered the tallest public art piece in the world.

So that blue part at the top is art! Amazing. And it explains why one night the top of the building looked like blue watery reflections and on another night, there were (large)(VERY) silhouettes of dancers, as you can see from this in-and-out-of-focus video:

It was way cool!

Salesforce Tower
San Francisco, California
photographed 4.16.2019

ALSO: Important Announcement – this is my 2,748th post here at One Day | One Image, and it’s first time video made by the Patient Spouse has been included.

Fishing

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The part of the River Walk that’s known as the Museum Reach has art installations at every bridge crossing; the most famous is the one called F.I.S.H., buy Donald Lipski, which is installed on the underside of the Interstate 35 overpass. These fiberglass fish are replicas of native long-eared sunfish.

San Antonio River Walk Museum Reach
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015