You know that rad five-story mural that went up near Fourth and Mission in February by anonymous muralist Believe In People (BiP)? Well he's been hanging around the Bay Area quite a bit, and he's just completed another monumental piece on the side of a wall next to the club Jones, on the building at Geary and Jones that houses the Hotel Alise whose Pineapple Hospitality group sponsored the mural.
It's the third mural he's done in San Francisco, including this one near Civic Center at Larkin and Eddy completed in March 2015, and the fourth overall in the Bay Area.
Amusingly, BiP was working on outlining the mural during Juanita More!'s Pride party two weeks ago, and posted this video as he poked out from behind a tarp just as the party was starting. Those in attendance might recall the mostly blank wall facing the patio that day.
As Curbed notes, BiP came into the public eye in Boston about seven years back doing guerrilla-style murals, and he's chosen to remain anonymous though obviously has been open to legal, above-board, private commissions.
In March, BiP posted the sad news that the subject of his Oakland mural, Emma, which he completed in May 2016, had passed away. The mural, titled "Vintage," shows Emma in a joyous, upturned gaze holding up a record that's titled "Steel and Fire: A Decade of Thrash Metal." BiP recalls, "She was an incredible friend. you guys don't see behind the scenes but when I screwed up the color study, she had to pose her part all over again and the second time she did it even harder. she wanted a good mural even in her health, maybe that's the best way to describe what kind of soul she had to me."
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