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Was in SF a day early for a conference, place I was crashing at was right next to golden gate park so I went to hippie hill to go hang out. Cute couple invites
by monster_truck 11mo ago
Was in SF a day early for a conference, place I was crashing at was right next to golden gate park so I went to hippie hill to go hang out. Cute couple invites me to smoke with them, so I offered them beers. We spoke for a very long time, I don't remember much of it. He mentioned he went to art school, was having his first solo exhibition that week and showed me some of his stuff, which I genuinely thought was great.
When he heard that I had just moved cross country for work, he insisted on giving me one of his originals and some signed prints he just had made, as a housewarming gift. I joked about how badass it was that he had signed prints, he shrugged and played it off like they were only using school supplies to make a little fun money. It was just an A4 sized watercolor, it hung on my fridge for years with the prints
A decade later I had a friend over and they were asking about them, I couldn't remember anything so they reverse image searched on their phone. His exhibition was at fucking MoMA. His career took off after that and it is worth a decent chunk of change. I went and got it properly framed the very next day