If ... Graffiti Artist

If “graffiti artist” wasn’t the contradiction in terms it so often is …
(Do click on the picture and view it full size!)
Graffiti artists + mezzo-American figures
The graffiti artists were snapped near my home one sunny autumn day, working on a now-demolished wall. The figures are posterised from some rather poor quality photos of mezzo-American figurines from the collection in the Louisiana Gallery of Modern Art just outside Copenhagen.

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Crass Punk Samurai

Crass punk samurai
Or: What if Crass had been Japanese?

This picture was a contribution to the Artwiculate word game on Twitter today. The Word of the Day was crass and that took my mind back to a certain punk rock group from my youth. (Turns out they’re still going – sort of.) A fellow Artwiculator from Japan had also tweeted about the death of punk and the death of samurais … that was enough.

(With a bit of luck, the Japanese actually reads “Crass punk samurai”!)

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Victorian Family

Victorian family
Victorian family

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Extended Family - Tones of Ochre

Extended Family Tones of Ochre
Extended Family – Tones of Ochre

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Extended Family Red and Green

Extended Family Red and Green
Extended Family – Red and Green

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Extended Family – Violet and Yellow

Extended Family Violet and Yellow
Extended Family – Violet and Yellow

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Narnia in 3D

Six Eyes sees 3DYesterday evening I went to see my very first 3D movie: Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I know, hopeless. Why did I not see Avatar? Or Tron?

Well, that’s the way it goes.

The experience was not as disturbing as I’d feared. I only had to leave the salon once, fighting nausea but I managed to return to see the rest of the film after visit to the loo. (And it may have been the steak tartar got up as hamburger that I ate just before visiting the cinema that was to blame.)

On the other hand, the experience was not as exciting or as beautiful as I’d hoped. One scene of snowflakes falling around Lucy was nice – otherwise I didn’t feel the 3D experience added anything. Still, I should probably try out a made-for-3D film before dismissing a whole technology.

I didn’t enjoy having to hold the extra glasses on my nose  (see picture). I obviously have a short nose. And I particularly didn’t like the subtitles hovering above the surface of the film – though perhaps that’s something one would get used to.

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And still it snows

After a month of snow, NOW we have winter. Snowing with a vengance and the thermometer hovering around zero.

Triptich: 5th January 2011

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The Supercargo transformed

I made this video last year for my Advent Calendar.

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Pariah

The Word of the Day on Artwiculate today was pariah which reminded me of this painting on a roadside hoarding in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo taken in September 2009.
Pariah dog, Bulgaria
In fact, while there were dozens of apparently homeless dogs wandering around Sofia, they all seemed pretty cheerful and well-fed. They were also very trusting of people, which suggests that Bulgarians are in general a dog-loving folk. The situation for cats though was quite the reverse. No pictures of pariah cats though – they were too quick to disappear when I pointed a camera at them.

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