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In 1974, Qantas hired the celebrated fashion designer Emilio Pucci (1914–92) to create new, high-fashion uniform designs for flight crews and ground staff. For female flight attendants, Pucci designed a floral pattern dress. #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.
Smocks and aprons are a crucial yet often overlooked part of a flight attendant’s uniform and can vary wildly in design from one airline or era to another. Browse our collection of over one hundred smocks & aprons in our online database: https://t.co/pUb01199b1 #crewlife #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.
The artwork depicts the dual experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. According to the artist, Norie Sato, “’Air Over Under’ is about perception, relativity and how our position and situations are never static.” #PublicArt #NorieSato @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.
“Air Over Under” is comprised of a grid of 120 pieces of laminated glass panels. The laminated panels are comprised of a layer of glass with hand-painted glass enamels and another layer that includes a silkscreened pixilated image in white. #PublicArt #NorieSato @SFAC This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.
📸 2/2: flight attendant smock: Braniff International; 1968 Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 2001.016.081 a b https://t.co/LAit576DRy This tweet was posted on July 18, 2022.
For Qantas’ flight service staff, Pucci designed a uniform of bright orange jackets with canary dress shirts and striped ties. Check out the detail work on the button! #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 19, 2022.
In 1912, at age 21, Stinson was the 4th woman in the U.S. to obtain a pilot’s certification. Called “the Flying School Girl,” she quickly became a star aerobatic performer. She was the first woman to perform an aerial loop and the first to fly U.S. airmail. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.
Its greatest archeological ruins include the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe, built entirely from stone beginning in the eleventh century. Now a World Heritage site, extensive stone structures once sheltered thousands of inhabitants. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.
Much of Zimbabwe, a landlocked country that is slightly smaller than California, is located on a plateau in southeastern Africa. The primary languages spoken by its approximately fifteen million inhabitants include English, Shona, and Ndebele. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.
Zimbabwe serves as a gateway to Victoria Falls, the world’s largest waterfall and one of the seven natural world wonders. The country’s largest wildlife sanctuary, Hwange National Park, includes one of the largest elephant populations in Africa. #ZimbabweSculpture This tweet was posted on July 20, 2022.
A quick weaver’s knot joins the thread; a tail that is cut off creates a single, nearly seamless thread. Hand knotting fibers together requires the utmost care so that the fibers do not break. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
As a reminder of the eternal life of plastic in this all-cardboard short film, award-winning theater and film director Robin Frohardt (@robinfrohardt) illustrates the journey of a plastic bag from the present day to the distant future. https://t.co/S4WYdcHT6g #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/RJZA2VyZ3w This tweet was posted on July 21, 2022.
Piña may be blended with silk, abaca (closely related to banana fiber), or cotton to strengthen the fabric without sacrificing sheerness. Blending also yields a more affordable finished product. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
The thread is then wrapped back & forth between pegs on a wooden cylinder or flat board in preparation for setting up the warp on a hand loom. Warping enough filament for weaving fabric 24 to 32 inches wide may require 15 to 20 days. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
To maintain the fineness of piña fiber after it is extracted from the leaf and processed, individual three- to four-foot fibers are painstakingly knotted together by hand rather than spun on a wheel. #PineappletoPina #piña This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
Weavers use bamboo looms to weave piña fibers into cloth. A spinner winds the continuous thread onto small reels with the aid of a spinning wheel. #PineappletoPina #pinaygonewild This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
City officials signed a three-year lease for 150 acres of cattle-grazing land from Ogden Mills, and less than two months later on May 7, a 5,770-foot-long, dirt-surfaced runway was dedicated at Mills Field Municipal Airport of San Francisco. #AvGeek #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
During the mid-1920s, San Francisco leaders envisioned their city as the western terminus of a new transcontinental air mail system. In March 1927 the city negotiated with Boeing Air Transport to fly mail from Chicago to SF—provided an airfield was operational by July 1. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
See "From Pineapple to Piña: A Philippine Textile Treasure" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/WWq06Yg2xJ #PineappletoPina #piña #pineapple #lace #fashion #design #Phillipines This tweet was posted on July 25, 2022.
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) realized a future in which high-quality design could merge with machine production. He enjoyed a prolific career, designing everything from wallpaper to furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
Dresser instructed that more patterns, such as these designs, and color could adorn the ceiling as it did not serve as a background like the walls or floor. #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper #WallpaperWednesday This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
In his experimental film exploring the miniature world of insects, French filmmaker Thomas Blanchard employs brilliant colors to highlight rare phenomena, such as the metamorphosis of a butterfly and carnivorous plants hunting. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/6q1wfy152l This tweet was posted on July 28, 2022.
Inspired to learn to fly by her sister Katherine, Marjorie Stinson trained at the Wright School in 1914 at the age of 18 & became the 9th woman in the U.S. to earn a pilot’s license. In 1915, she was the only woman flying in the U.S. Aviation Reserve Corps. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on July 26, 2022.
“Why not then, have beautiful ceilings, especially as they can be seen complete, while the wall is part hidden by furniture and pictures?….We glory in a clear blue sky overhead…Why then make our ceilings white?” - Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) #VictorianPaperedWall #Wallpaper This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
Castro Camera served as Milk’s headquarters for his political campaigns. A plaque has been installed on the sidewalk in front of the shop dedicated to Harvey Milk and his legacy. Have you ever visited the location of Castro Camera? #HarveyMilk #HarveyMilkExhibition #SFHistory This tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
Harvey Milk opened Castro Camera in 1972 with his romantic partner Scott Smith shortly after moving to San Francisco. The shop soon became a de facto welcome center for new arrivals and an important gathering place for the local gay community. #HarveyMilk #HarveyMilkExhibition This tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
In many cases, the original aircraft are lost to history, but these small-scale representations remain as a reminder of that innovative past. #AvGeek #ModelAirplane This tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
Model aircraft play a unique role in the imagination of aviation enthusiasts of all ages. They help contextualize the heroic stories and technological triumphs of flight. #AvGeek #ModelAirplane This tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
Today, in the former location of Castro Camera at 575 Castro Street, a mural of Harvey Milk stands in the window of the apartment he and Scott shared above the store front. #HarveyMilk #HarveyMilkExhibition This tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
In 1912, Julia Clark became the third woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license. Michigan-born Clark (1880–1912) became interested in aviation in 1911, when she attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on August 03, 2022.
The Aviation Museum & Library will close today at 1:00pm for a private event. All other exhibitions are open. For more information, please visit our website: https://t.co/6kBaiGiHxZ This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.
Unimpressed with lightly colored, commercially available clays, Edith Heath of @heathceramics in Sausalito formulated clay bodies from rich deposits left by a prehistoric inland sea near Lincoln, CA, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains foothills. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #EdithHeath This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.
📸: Edith Heath at a potter’s wheel c. late-1940s–50s Courtesy @ArchivesAmerArt - Coupe salad plate c. 1950s Designed by Edith Heath (1911–2005) & Vase c. 1950 Edith Heath (1911–2005 Heath Ceramics | Sausalito, California ceramic, glaze Courtesy of the Modern i Shop This tweet was posted on August 02, 2022.
Clark overcame the reluctance of Glenn Curtiss to accept her as a student and trained at the Curtiss School of Aviation in North Island, San Diego. After earning her pilot's license, she joined the Curtiss exhibition team billed as "The Daring Bird-Girl." #EarlyWomenAviators This tweet was posted on August 03, 2022.
In Ray de Mesa’s first-year graduate film at San Francisco State University, a drag artist discovers an unexpectedly deep connection with a woman in exchange for a free dress. #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO @sfsu @SFSUCinemaDept https://t.co/2ENS3GcAzF This tweet was posted on August 05, 2022.
McDonnell Douglas portrayed their DC-10 as the widebody for the middle-class family in a promotional poster. American's inaugural DC-10 service operated from Los Angeles to Chicago. Have you ever flown on a DC-10? #DC10 #AmericanAir #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 05, 2022.