Environment
A Gorgeous, Dreamlike Tribute to San Francisco's Fog
Step into a world of ghostly shapes and meditative music with Hey Karl.
If you live in San Francisco you hear a lot about Karl messing up your commute and making you wet. Heâs not some dude snarling traffic by crashing into fire hydrants, but the cityâs iconic fog, supposedly named by a Twitter parodist after the lonely giant in Tim Burtonâs Big Fish.
Karl can be a soupy nuisance for commuters, but San Francisco wouldnât be complete without his dreamlike, transcendent qualities. Thanks to Dann Petty, theyâre now on glorious display in Hey Karl, a moody, glitchlike short that shows how Pacific moisture can imbue the land with the dark beauty of a Kurosawa film.