I’m not much of an Art fan, but these street creations are FANTASTIC. 🙂
BEST EXAMPLES OF STREET ART IN 2012 (48 PICTURES)
Category: Art and beauty
walk the Louvre
A women walks in the Musée du Louvre, alone.
The museum is completely empty.
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Music : Sigur Rós
do you know Danxia?
Stone gate Danxia Landform in Chishui S.W. China Guizhou Province, China.
What an incredible landscape.
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Scary Beautiful shoes
… what women will suffer in the name of fashion.
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… The shoes—titled “Scary Beautiful”—were designed by artist Leanie van der Vyver, who teamed up with Dutch shoe designer René van den Berg.
A recent graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, “Scary Beautiful” were part of van der Vyver’s thesis, a commentary on today’s impossible beauty standards. …
Mike Sissons artwork
My old friend is an artist and art teacher.
Right now he’s working on art for a new book called In Retrospect by Ellen Larson.
… In the year 3324 the Rasakans have attacked the technologically superior Oku. The war is a stalemate until the Oku commander, General Zane, abruptly surrenders. …
Actually, that’s just the working cover.
Final art and animation are still in the works.
Ellen’s trying to get the writing funded through Kickstarter – $3000 goal.
Van Gogh to Rothko in 30 seconds
art.com video in support of their new iPad app.
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photos – Mexico City
The reputation is a polluted, dangerous mega-city.
But I find Mexico City to be tourist friendly & easy to navigate via the third busiest subway system in the world. (Stay out of the cabs.)
Having seen most of the tourist attractions in the past, this time I wandered some of the major green spaces including the largest university.
I arrived in Mexico City on Jan. 5, 2006. To my surprise the holiday lights were still up in the main square.
Jan. 6th was “Three Kings Day”.
The most popular hostel looks over the central plaza, an ideal location.
Quirky. A most appropriate word for this city. Cow statues line the largest park.
A most delicious snack outside the Museum of Anthropology
| A park spray foam battle.
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University City, one of the largest in the world with over 260,000 students.
The signature building on campus is a library, entirely covered by mosaics by Juan O’Gorman.
Mexican art is not always good, but it is often BIG.
1968 Olympic Stadium.
love the puma logo of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico).
Another huge building mural.
Life is Beautiful – New Zealand
Nov 22, 2002
I finally saw the charming film Life is Beautiful. The academy award for best actor to Italian Chaplin Roberto Benigni was well deserved.
I was convinced — if I played my cards right — I too could win a real life tank.
Life is beautiful. You simply need to put the right spin on things.
I have always been cheerfully skilled at self-delusion; looking for the positive, no regrets.
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Altadore Gym Club, Europe 1976, University of Calgary, Saskatoon, Mott the Hoople and the game of Life. Looking back it all seems right and wondrous to me.
Life is a beach too.
One of the best things in New Zealand is living on the sea shore — especially for me coming from the arid North American high prairie.
Strolling the flower strewn dunes of New Brighton beach. Bright sunshine. Cooling Pacific breeze. It is hard to beat.
At low tide, I often bike between home and the gym.
Did you celebrate Bonfire Night? For some reason beyond my ken, people here celebrate a terrorist named Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the King and British Parliament in the 1600s. New Brighton pier is the centre of Fawkian revelry.
It was very Apocalypse Now with helicopters trailing fireworks, blaring Ride of the Valkyries. Rockets mounted on the pier like mortars.
My neighbourhood is the wrong side of the tracks. Drunken vandalism, garbage can fires, graffiti and like hyjinks is a typical Saturday night. We have a huge police station nearby but I have yet to see a cop outside a police car.
When I mention where I live to Kiwis many grin broadly and recount one of a number of fantastic drunks they had in New Brighton. It was once the most popular beach in New Zealand being the only one open on Sundays. It is still famed for a good piss-up.
My last month working in Christchurch, I actually will miss many things in my neighbourhood — the best veggie burger in the world; (egg, pineapple, beet root, tomato) from New Brighton Burger Bar. Mr. Wong from Hong Kong has been slapping these together for over 40 years.
Hong Kong Take-a-ways for Chow Mien … and the Chang Rai Thai lunch special. The library, watching the surfers, Jackson’s Bakery.
Ah well, Thoreau told that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. I can move on. My stint at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics was … beautiful. It is a great life experience to live in another country.
Friends are arriving from Canada next week — I will join them December 21st on the NZ backpacker trail.
Looking forward to the holidays?
– Kiwi Rick
Photo — an elderly Chinese man traipsed across the artwork in the sand oblivious to the beauty underfoot. Can you see his shoes?
Rick McCharles 