“Sightseeing” is a strange concept, premised seemingly upon the presumption that seeing is believing, that some things have to be seen through our very own eyeballs to be real and life-changing.
Perhaps so.
These are the sights I have beholden thus far. Not all of them have been “life changing” or significant in any way, but some were. Some helped me understand a little more about this city, about my own city - Melbourne, and about myself.
After all, that’s what it’s all about.
Ferry Building
Inside the Ferry Building, there is a shop that sells FUNGUS. Now how friggin cool is THAT?
SF skyline from a cruise.
Sea lions, living a life of hardship and toil.
Citylights Bookstore, aka. They-Don’t-Make'em-like-this-anymore.
SFMOMA
LOVED this.
Now here’s a museum made for people as opposed to art snobs: not so impossibly huge that you lose interest after 3 hours of walking past paintings endlessly (ahemLouvreahem), but not without substance either. Everything was arranged in chronological and thematic order. It was logical. It was passionate about its collections. It situated every piece of artwork within a social and artistic context.
It just made sense.
De Young.
If the intention was to construct a building that looked like a giant piece of rusting steel in the middle of a park, then congratulations Herzog & Maurion, you succeeded.
Mission Dolores
Castro Theatre
Another one to file under the “They-Don’t-Make'em-Like-This-Anymore” category.
We saw the Philadelphia Story. Between Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and our beautiful surroundings, life was fairly close to perfection.
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