Istegade

Old shop signage painted onto the wall.

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).

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!

Graffiti to interact with

Wandering drunkenly to Noa's one night, I stopped and had a chat with this bit of great stencil work on Roxburgh St. This McCahonesque addition seen on Oriental Tce.

On the Street

I have no idea what this is or was.

New York

Viewing art at MoMA.


Botticelli's Birth of Venus on a Greenwich sidewalk.


Communication in the Meatpacking District.


In the Subway.