I am supposed to be writing about something else today, but I simply cannot resist the call of my screen saver and its seemingly endless supply of street art images. Today it is GregosArt’s disembodied heads that have made an … Continue reading Gregos Art
So what’s with these bi-fold advertising boards scattered around the city of London? It is downright otherworldly what you can learn on the streets of this city. The upside is that you can save a fortune in psychiatrists fees. Particularly … Continue reading Good question
A new mural is going up in Oahu on the eastbound side of the H1, the main thoroughfare that runs between Waikiki and Honolulu. Once finished, Kamea Hadar’s latest portrait will command a sweeping view of the city with its … Continue reading There’s a New Face in Town
Have you ever managed to survive something so very stupid, that the thought bubbles above everyone else’s heads are still screaming, “You are too dumb to exist. Please give your seat to the next available person with an IQ over … Continue reading Did you ever do something so stupid . . .
There are millions of cats and almost as many images of them inhabiting the world of art. These self-indulgent power animals expect love and comfort, total deference to their beauty and, of course, undying respect. If you have … Continue reading CATS rule!
As an unrepentant street art-aholic I admit to two things. The first step is that I will go almost anywhere to find urban artwork and the second is that where I start my mission around ten a.m. is rarely where I … Continue reading HANG-UP and hang out
Is there anything that makes you want to jump off a cliff more often than having to download a whole new and diverse batch of photos and then try to conjure up yet another logical way of integrating them into your existing collection? To quote a librarian,: “You have created your own personal hell.” “Good luck.” Such a reassuring observation coming from a professional curator inspired me to accept that the jumble is unavoidable and therefore I can re-shelf my imaginary prozac and confidently press “save” and send my images into two-terabyte void. Apparently a subjective and ever-changing filing system … Continue reading Predictably . . . unpredictable.
Did you hear about the four Trollstation pranksters (aged 20-29) who were sentenced for faking an art heist at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, UK in 2015? It was a dangerous pubescent stunt that sent art enthusiasts running for the exits and four young men to jail. The act was marginally original but what I really wanted to know was which paintings did they ‘fake’ steal? Continue reading Trolling . . . the National Portrait Gallery
No matter which images pop up on public walls, from the mammoth scissor-lift, highly narrative commissions of the mega popular to the miniature two-minute paste-up-and-run, there resides in every piece a comment on the human condition. In recording these quick knock-off pieces there are an overwhelming number of images that deal with total dejection and hopelessness. Some pieces demand acknowledgment of their pain while others speculate on whether suicide is a preferable alternative to their current situation. There are aggressive calls for political activism, as well as the opposite view, total resignation accompanied by only a slight glimmer of hope … Continue reading Desperate Lines
Recently a friend of mine lamented, “. . . for the first time in 18 years I’m suffering from a bad case of “island fever”. I so wish I still lived in London!” I know how she feels. I am a Londoner too . . . sometimes. For quite a long time I’ve been surviving extremes of culture and weather by popping London into my travelling merry-go-round circuit. In the past, my choices were most often populated with Canadian horror stories involving ice storms, impassable roads and abandoned winter streets. Conversely, when hanging out in the South Pacific, I was occasionally blinded … Continue reading Where to find art in London? You are kidding . . . right?
I thought that it was the end. With it’s emblematic heroine, Amy Winehouse, now long gone, the recent early morning fire in Camden sparked my fear that this was going to be a catastrophe for this youthful and trendy area. It is the fourth largest tourist destination in London and now it joins the horrible line-up of this year’s fire victims. It follows the harrowing residential 24-storey Grenfell Tower fire in Kensington that killed an estimated 80 people, and the more recent Marco Polo condo fire in Honolulu that left 3 dead and several injured. Even … Continue reading Camden town was burning down, burning down . . .
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