In case you missed it. this last Saturday, the 16th was the "Parachute factory" show which was put on by Yeller Studio, Sezio and Mindgruve. This art show was held in a shut down 2 story factory in downtown san diego that used to manufacture parachutes for soldiers during WWII. And with the end of the war also came the end of the factory. We arnt sure whats been going on in there since its close , but apparently this building is going to be the new office headquarters for Mindgruve.Before the factory gets remodeled the people at Mindgruve decided to let some of SD's most talented artists to paint the walls inside and put on a massive artshow. Now i knew the show was going to be big, by Saturday almost everyone i ran into was talking about it, however i had no idea just how many people would show up and how big the inside of this place actually was. We showed up acouple hours after the show started to find a line of people that was about an entire city block long and the venue completely packed to the brim.Thanks to some characters painted across the street by "SURGE", the people outside at least had some nice art to look at to pass the time.I\ However i wasnt trying to sit and check it out just yet ,so after quickly pulling some strings we were let in (thanks NEKO). After walking up a tight staircase that led up to the factory we started navigating around the massive maze of art that was this place. The first floor had countless rooms that each had their own theme,some by graffiti artists, some by local wheatpasters(what you might call "street artists") and some had crazy video/audio installations.The second floor was upstairs and had a few huge rooms with a different artist on each large wall. There was a DJ and a sort of light show that turned the biggest room,which overlooked the street downstairs into a "club" type environment with people dancing while the graffiti writers in attendance were given free reign to write on any open spot left because, after all, the place was about to be ripped apart anyways in a few days. By the end of the night the place was totally bombed out with tags from about 100 different writers on everything and i couldn't help being bummed at the thought that this amazing artwork was going to be gone soon. We snapped some more quick shots while being kicked out and found everyone outside in the parking lot making plans for the rest of the night. One by one the car/taxi loads of people left to different bars and after parties in the area,and just like that the block was back to normal and for us the night was over
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