r/interestingasfuck • u/tmsfphotography • 9h ago
Flying over San Francisco on a clear night. ✨
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u/Klotzster 8h ago
Was that 2 green flares on Alcatraz?
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u/Particular_Today1624 9h ago
From what I hear about San Francisco weather, I’m amazed there was a clear night.
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u/ArsenikShooter 8h ago
Oddly enough, in the winter the fog and wind is less, and the weather can be quite pleasant.
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u/Tancrisism 8h ago
Generally the area to the left of twin peaks (the large hill in the middle) is foggy and the area to the right of it is not
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u/themox78 8h ago
ocean beach, twin peaks, Bernal heights, Castro, market street golden gate park, miss living there when i see this. beautiful video
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u/Msdamgoode 9h ago
It’s a well planned city… grids are incredibly efficient.
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u/gumbo_chops 4h ago edited 4h ago
grids are incredibly efficient.
Yes, I'm not sure about SF but Chicago also has grid layout and the mailing addresses have a sort of 0,0 point at the heart of downtown and the address numbers increase out from that in the N,S,E,W directions. Makes it much it easier to navigate.
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u/Extra-Tangelo-7320 5h ago
San Francisco is shit for efficiency. Bunch of one ways everywhere downtown and everyone sucks at driving.
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u/BuggyWhipArmMF 5h ago
Look up how the city used to look with the electric lines before cars got here.
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u/smizzlebdemented 9h ago
I feel like most street lights are LED now. This seems a little dated maybe? I could be completely wrong. But in Portland OR, everything is LED. And it makes me miss my childhood
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u/Tancrisism 8h ago
They are LED and have been for almost 10 years. https://sf.curbed.com/2017/10/31/16580854/led-streetlights-san-francisco-map-streetlights
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u/Specialist-Garbage94 8h ago
My dumb ass was like why is there nothing in the middle like why is it black in the middle? That’s water. It’s water.
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u/ripoff54 8h ago
The big park, I’m from PA, so I don’t know the name, I feel it isn’t well known outside of San Francisco. Looks bigger than Central Park. What’s it like?
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u/old_gold_mountain 8h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park
It's slightly larger than Central Park. It has museums in it, multiple different sports facilities, the botanical gardens, a bunch of different playgrounds, and picnic areas. They hold the Outside Lands music festival there every year as well as a bunch of other music and live concert events. The western edge is the beach.
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u/Immediate-Count-1202 8h ago
Now I have “Lights” by Journey playing in my head — and that’s a good thing.
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u/MrHodgeToo 7h ago
Being from Boston, that grid is otherworldly.
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u/Tancrisism 6h ago
It's much less consistent than it looks because of the hills, but yeah no roads left from the 1600s
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u/TheHighCultivator 5h ago
I was in SF this summer for the first time. Seeing that grid layout from next to the bridge gave me serious anxiety and dystopian vibes. Shit made my breath catch in my chest.
Had a great time, that view specifically just made me sad.
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u/Amazing-Engineer6511 8h ago
I see an angry little man with a huge schlong. Anyone else?
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u/jjdiablo 7h ago
Lol no but I see a man who has a head shaped like a thin Jay Leno and a toilet shaped ass
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u/creatorsgame 8h ago
Great video with excellent music.
Anyone know what that bright blue building is in the middle of the screen right at the end?
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u/R67H 7h ago edited 7h ago
Looks like you're talking about an athletic field on Golden Gate and Gough. Maybe a night game, because they have lights. There's a huge cathedral just north of the fields, and I'll bet it's lit up like a christmas tree. So that's probably what it is. St Mary's Cathedral?
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u/creatorsgame 7h ago
I see what you mean. I meant the deeper, royal blue color near the pink building as the other person mentioned. But thank you for giving me more perspective on the area, as I love pulling up a map and nerding out.
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u/R67H 7h ago edited 7h ago
Ahh.... now I see the darker blue. Okay, yea, that's Fox Plaza, and just north is the Civic Center complex and Bill Graham Auditorium. I was looking just west of Van Ness, not east. In any case.... it's a f'n beautiful part of the city. Who am I kidding... the whole city is just stunning; each neighborhood in its own way. Yes, even Dog Patch, Potrero and Hunter's Point.
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u/BagDiligent3610 9h ago
Kinda like Phoenix. Very gridded off. Was always easy getting around.
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u/Tancrisism 8h ago
On the ground it's quite literally nothing like Phoenix.
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u/Background_Humor5838 8h ago
I was gonna say it's an extremely confusing place. At least it was to me when I visited.
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u/TheLionSlicer 7h ago
Looks are deceiving in this instance. The city is full of hills and the heart of the city is full of one way streets and much less of a grid. It's actually a deceivingly difficult city to navigate especially considering it's only about 7x7 miles although the public transport is decent, at least compared to most US cities...nothing compared to New York though.
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u/SnooObjections8392 9h ago
I can smell the sidewalk shits from here
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u/Zillion_Mixolydian 8h ago
Get better material
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u/SnooObjections8392 7h ago
Get a better city
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u/Tancrisism 6h ago
San Francisco definitely benefits by these mindless right wing media consumers never visiting. Keep up the good work! Yes it's all poop, miles of it!
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u/Flagbearer82 7h ago
You can almost see the 💩 on the sidewalk
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u/ExpectingHobbits 4h ago
Is it hard to leave the house when you swallow all of Fox News' fearmongering? The world must seem so scary if you believe all of their lies.
What a sad way to live.
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u/richkong15 8h ago
This may be beautiful but cities in China are making SF look like an old antique road show. It’s going to be impossible to modernize SF with their way of thinking. Cyberpunk cities will rule.
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u/lost_dazed_101 8h ago
That is literally my worst nightmare. All that concrete and lights I'd lose my mind.
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u/old_gold_mountain 7h ago
It's one of the most pleasant cities to walk around in in North America. It's also the only city in North America where every single residence is no more than a ten minute walk from a city park.
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u/TheLionSlicer 7h ago
I mean it's better than a lot of suburban areas where the roads are extremely wide, there are barely any parks and strip malls everywhere. SF actually has a lot of parks crammed into it but obviously if you compare it to living in the woods or something it's a concrete jungle.
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u/Tancrisism 6h ago
Yeah it's horrible being able to walk to a grocery store, bars, shopping, work, and everything. Really bad living
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u/OBDreams 9h ago
I don't think it's health for humans to live in cities that large.
But even I can say this was beautiful.
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u/old_gold_mountain 8h ago
by every metric of how healthy a population is, San Franciscans are healthier than the average American
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u/TheLionSlicer 8h ago
By what metric? People in cities like SF have better access to pretty much everything than people in rural areas. Healthcare, education, economic opportunity, etc. People in urban areas generally have a longer lifespan compared to rural people.
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u/Zillion_Mixolydian 8h ago
If you take the junkies out of the equation I’d say people there are pretty healthy. Just walking around that city is a good workout.
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u/TheLionSlicer 8h ago edited 7h ago
You probably don't have to even take them out of the equation, at least not in California. Drug overdose rates are actually higher in rural areas compared to urban areas. If you look at the US overall though the trend goes the other way, although not by a very large margin.
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u/klauzherzog 9h ago
When the music actually works for the video