Fabric maps of many kinds! Seep City, Lake Merritt, not just shower curtains anymore…

[Joel Pomerantz]

Hello showerer!

There are three (3) or four (4) kinds of new water maps to (2) be had! 

Do the math! Come & get ‘em! See photo below!

I’ve told you about the Seep City Water History Map printed on a shower curtain. You may even have seen the movie (https://youtu.be/DLm9m7c8J00). And now…

The biggest news: end of a run

A few weeks ago, fine friend Bill Stender, after decades making signs of all kinds, has gone out of business. Who? He’s the guy that was allowing me to use his fabulous fabric-printing equipment. Another covid casualty. His quintillion dollar investment in giant printing machines—which he taught me to use—is “trickling down” to the creditors.

That means I've made my last hand-created curtain print. Sigh. And I was just getting good at it!

I still have a couple dozen in stock. Please make a sizeable donation to support my research and public education so you can have (or gift) a Seep City shower curtain. FYI: They are amazing, high quality, machine washable, bleach-safe, etc.

This can be done at seepcity.org, or arrange to come by Seymour Street, SF to pick from the 8 (ate) available colors. Yum!

Also big news: Lake Merritt Watershed shower curtains! (see photo)

I fab-printed, just before the equipment became unavailable, a few curtain experiments of an entirely different map—from Oakland. It’s a collaboration with map-maker Scott Oliver and artist Veronica Graham. I contributed some color, design, and shape adjustments. This extended a project that they did as a one-off.

The only two perfect curtains that hold the final design are gifts for my Merrittorious collaborators. If you want one of the six test curtains (also perfect, except numbers on the mile scale are almost invisible), please contact me…while supplies last.

The biggest little big news: tapestry-type map prints in three (3) sizes

Haven’t got a need for a shower curtain? I have tapestry-style fabric maps of both Seep City and Lake Merritt Watershed which you can hang on your wall.

approx 35” x 35” (some details too small to see, nevertheless fine looking)

approx 125” x 125” (that too big to fit in most universes)

approx 72” x 72” (similar in size to show curtains)

I'll sew a hem if you wish, making it easier to hang. 

4 colors available. Contact me if interested.

Or if you want a custom Thinkwalk for your group.

Or to wish me happy solstice, which also happens to be my birthday almost every year since I was born on the 21st & 22nd.

Thank you *so* much to everyone who contributed to and supported my work in 2023. 

Hey! Come walk in the Night Parade!!

Dec 16th, 5 or 6pm (~five or ~six) from Precita Park (SF) to Mission Playground.

Since I went to last year’s Night Parade, I’ve been very impatient for the dark months to return so I could be at another one! In fact, I call for abolishing the sun so we can have this kind of event all day every day. Some of the art is amazing, and it’s nicely participatory. I decorated my bicycle with flashypoo blinkeywah!

https://rainingchainsaws.org/event/

Happy Solstice to you. For real. And I wish for a happy future to us all!

Joel

thinkwalks.org under the 501(c)(3) nonprofit umbrella of Musick Creek Confluence

seepcity.org 

415-505-8255 (flip phone)