Stockholm

Deprived of my usual lots of people contact here in København (basically, I have no friends her - wha wha poor me), I headed over to Stockholm to catch up with an old friend who I hadn't seen since I was 18. Thankfully, it was as if no time at all had passed since we last saw eachother. A wonderful time.

Stockholm is a very beautiful city, very different from København in that it's all rather hilly. Black rocks jutting out all over the place with (somewhat evil) Disney-like black towers and coloured buildings. There's more aesthetic variety there, and some great mens clothes.

Also saw a PRB show at the Nationalmuseum called Prerafaeliterna. Beautifully put together, well displayed and quite enjoyable.

Street art on Skånegatan.


Södermalm public sculpture - too cold even for a bronze mother and baby!


St George's Princess, Köpmantorget. The unnamed princess is seen as an embodyment of Sweeden - so what was the person who put the condom in her hands saying I wonder?


Packhausgränd, Gamla Stan


Södermalm.


Stortorget, the square of the Svenska Akademien (the Sweedish Académie Française).

Random København shots

So I'm dumping a bunch of pictures here at first, and will add to them more systematically as time goes on ...
Frederiksberg Have - bird nests on the bird island.

Frederiksberg Have tree - yeah, I like trees...

Frederiksberg Slot and tobogganists.

Tree in Fredericksberg Have.

The back stairs. They're bloody steep and a bit WW2 like - especially when you see the place next door's back door plaque ...

Gunner Hansen - the neighbours back door plaque. So WW2.

Ok, so I was a bit pizzled, and the trees were so pretty. This is outside David's work, and we'd just played some pretty hardcore foosball, which I never though I'd do, but it really is fun!

The Black Diamond building from Knippelsbro at sunset.

The view from our bedroom window.

Off to get Jack. Like kids, we sat in the front of the Metro train, which have no drivers (it's all automatic) so it kinda felt like a Disney ride, or a PlayStation game!

Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Cut-Out Trompe I'Oeil Easel with Fruit Piece, 1670-72 & Trompe I'oeil. The Reverse of a Framed Painting, 1670.

These are cool. Old Dutch art that questions the nature of painting. Seen at the Statens Museum for Kunst

Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen, Please, keep quiet, 2003 (detail).

A hospital ward transplanetd into the Statens Museum for Kunst. Beautiful - feeds into the work I wanna do on mascunlity and mortality ... There's more photo's, but I love how much this works into the Grant Lingard sickness stuff.

The Lakes on a beautiful, if bloody cold, day

Enghavevej. Round the corner from us.


David and I on Frederiksberg Alle.

Early stuff up...

So I went to delete another blog I had, and got rid of this one instead. Will post photo's here starting tomorrow (yeah yeah) ...

In the mean time here are some pics of Istegade, the street we live just off.

Lots of love

London January 2009

Didn't take that many pics in London this time. Will post some older pics of Oxford and stuff later...

Entry to Dominique Gonzalez-Foerester, TH.2058, 2008. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. see more here


David and Valentine in the back of Pete's wagon - yes, they actually stayed in the back all closed up and bouncing around all the way home!


Profile (Alex)

New York City (2004 & 2009)

W. 22nd Street - 10th Precinct.


More tree'n'snow action. Oh, and a cemetery too.


Jeff Koons, The Red Balloon Flower, (1995-2000) 7 WTC. Ice dags!


Jeff Koons, The Red Balloon Flower, (1995-2000). See Jeff Koons art-speaking his way through it here


Juicy Lucy's - for Rachael.


W. 14th Street - why are divorces more expensive? Funny America.


Jodie and Me - yeah I'm real pink (sunburn and LOTS of pink about). I wonder if I should photoshop it? It's a great pic of The Girl though.


Go-Go Boy at Küte at the G-Lounge.


Tree (Montague, Mass.), 2004


Victor Matthews, Beyond Metamorphisis, 2004. Battery Park.


Belvedere Castle in Central Park (2004)

January 2009 in NZ

Some pretty (and not so pretty pics) of my last month in NZ ...


WELLINGTON:

Flying out North Island & South Island

The view from Ewa's.



Nice street art.


Deluxe.


Oriental Bay.


CHRISTCHURCH:

The clouds look like UFOs.


INVERCARGILL:
The town I was born in. It's like it was a successful city between 1880 and 1920, and has never recovered (or rebuilt) since. The colours on most the buildings are the same as they were when I was a kid, except now, they are flaked, peeling, and full of decay.


Dee Street, Invercargill

Brunt out Road Knights House.


Up an alley somewhere off Dee Street.


Christmas decorations on Dee Street - they have been the same since I was a kid.


How did the swan ever survive and still look so good?


Southland - a land of very big skies.


The coolest cow ever.


Moeraki Beach.


If this is too wrong, let me know and I'll get rig of it!