And that it's supposedly a lot more freak-friendly than LA.
Ohoho yes... a good 50% of the customers who come through at work are gay, a large portion of those very flamingly so. I also see a handful of transgenders on a weekly basis, but those are just the clockable ones. No one really bats an eyelash when two girls (regularly) come into the store with full-spectrum rainbow hair and neon-psychedelic wardrobe to match. (We call them the Rainbow Brite twins.) One coworker of mine lives at Infinite Kaos, the nuhippy art-performance collective where I go and spin poi every week, and another lives in a house full of strange, kink-ridden artists who put giant rubber tentacles in their entryway, painted their bathroom black and added glow-in-the-dark stars to the walls. Outside said house, in the alley, they also have weekly fire-spinning practice. And that's just things somehow pertaining to where I work. :>
So yes, be careful of coming here, 'cuz SAN FRANCISCO WILL OWN YOUR FREAK-LOVING SOUL.
However, in all job-related seriousness, if you're still hunting for animation gigs, SF proper is not the place to be looking. Our economy is getting better, but there's not much need for animators, as there's not much production of animation that I'm aware of. Of the handful of animators I used to know around here, all were laid off and/or unable to find steady work, and at least one moved to - yep - LA, in search of better prospects. >_<
You might be better off looking for work down the peninsula (San Jose, etc.). If you're interested in game design or more generic graphic design jobs, I see ads here and there for companies in the south bay that need people for those kinds of positions.
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Date: 2004-08-17 12:02 pm (UTC)Ohoho yes... a good 50% of the customers who come through at work are gay, a large portion of those very flamingly so. I also see a handful of transgenders on a weekly basis, but those are just the clockable ones. No one really bats an eyelash when two girls (regularly) come into the store with full-spectrum rainbow hair and neon-psychedelic wardrobe to match. (We call them the Rainbow Brite twins.) One coworker of mine lives at Infinite Kaos, the nuhippy art-performance collective where I go and spin poi every week, and another lives in a house full of strange, kink-ridden artists who put giant rubber tentacles in their entryway, painted their bathroom black and added glow-in-the-dark stars to the walls. Outside said house, in the alley, they also have weekly fire-spinning practice. And that's just things somehow pertaining to where I work. :>
So yes, be careful of coming here, 'cuz SAN FRANCISCO WILL OWN YOUR FREAK-LOVING SOUL.
However, in all job-related seriousness, if you're still hunting for animation gigs, SF proper is not the place to be looking. Our economy is getting better, but there's not much need for animators, as there's not much production of animation that I'm aware of. Of the handful of animators I used to know around here, all were laid off and/or unable to find steady work, and at least one moved to - yep - LA, in search of better prospects. >_<
You might be better off looking for work down the peninsula (San Jose, etc.). If you're interested in game design or more generic graphic design jobs, I see ads here and there for companies in the south bay that need people for those kinds of positions.