here are a few quick shots from the 2011 8th Annual Temescal Street Fair:
four square on telegraph ave
four square on telegraph ave
bakesale betty stayed open on Sunday to accommodate eaters:
bakesale betty: sandwich assembly
bakesale betty chicken sandwich
East Bay Mini Maker Faire was rainy but fun. The mini-sized faire made for a much more manageable experience than the gigantor (but awesome) hodgepodge of overstimulation that is the full-scale bay area version. it was held at the park day school in temescal. originally scheduled to be mostly outside, the planners did an excellent job with the rain contingency plan.
Lilypad arduino – part of the woven futures digital quilt project
park day school lighting
LED skull
the eggbot does pumpkins for halloween as well. It looks like the marker holder is hinged so that it just rests on the surface, which is helpful for not-quite-round surfaces like little pumpkins and gourds.
Photos of components of the world’s smallest post service kit from leafcutter designs. Pretty awesome idea. They send you a real letter with teeny writing and a magnifying glass for reading. Comes with a custom wax seal, stamp and all. check out their video.
forging knives via the crucible
ice brain by anja ulfeldt
such a cool project – it’s a growing (and shrinking) ice brain. Refrigeration coils form the brain and water vapor in the air condenses and then freezes onto the coils.
This year’s Taste of Temescal was Tuesday, September 14th. For $30 (proceeds went to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center, Good Cents for Oakland, Lion’s Center for the Blind, Emerson Elementary School, Claremont Middle School and the Oakland Tech PTO) you got about 20 tastings of enough tasty food to get painfully full – if you chose to eat it all yourself. (Note to self: split the ticket next year)
Los Malcriados, playing in front of Aunt Mary’s Cafe:
“Texas Caviar” (black-eyed peas), salpicon (shredded beef? pork?), and a sweet potato bar from Aunt Mary’s Cafe:
Remedy, serving scones, some of Ritual‘s La Folie drip coffee, and artful barista poses:
Chioke from The Dime
DJ Crimson and The Dime in front of Kasper’s Hot Dogs on 46th:
Raciel from Tara’s Organic Ice Cream serving a variety of flavors – vanilla bean, chocolate, lemon verbena, turkish coffee, blueberry mint, and strawberry and mango sorbets. Blueberry mint’s my favorite, but I went with the sorbet this time.
Barlata had paella again..
The akido institute was not serving food.
Scream Sorbet, who are opening their store “soon”. (it’s all good, they’re still at the farmers markets) I had a delicious citrus fennel sorbet.
Bakesale Betty. I had their chicken pot pie and banana bread, but only ended up with a picture of coffee cups. they are so damned nice.
photo from remedy coffee in temescal (4316 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA)
remedy drip coffee
update: you can expect to see some wild-looking mugs at miam.maim: http://www.unitedbrands.us/miam/miammiam-mugs/fallseries.html
yet-to-open cafe/lounge miam.miam (5856 college ave) just posted a huge blue bottle banner in their window. after having a banner in the window promising frozen yogurt in “summer 2009″ and then “holiday 2009″ from peeks into their front door, it looks like they’re finally getting closer to opening. The huge banner is a little misleading – the size of it makes you think that blue bottle is actually opening at that location, but not so.
Bittersweet, just down the street also serves blue bottle (or at least they did last time I was there), so miam.miam isn’t alone.
this gets me to thinking – blue bottle’s got a pretty strong brand going if cafes are clamoring to serve their coffee and use it in their advertising, right?
on a slightly related note, scream sorbet is opening up a shop at 51st and telegraph in temescal (5030 telegraph ave), 2 doors down from bakesale betty. they’re scheduled to open in June, according to a not-fake poster.
they’ve got a hilarious set of fake posters in the window:
scream sorbet posters
hilarious fake ads and websites:
“squidazzle! Bringing squid and squid-based technologies to the greater bay area since early 2010. We’ll make you aware what the squid has to share”
“the root seller: your year-roud source for roots and tubers”
“the mauve emporium: love mauve? so do we! finally, the store that’s nothing but mauve. If it’s arguably mauve… we’ve got it!”
“TROUGH: food by the minute – Grand opening special!!! Only $9.99 for 10 minutes! That’s less than a dollar a minute!!” (looks like landing page is broken)
“MARZIPAN MADNESS – The DIY almond paste sensation that’s sweeping the nation!”
