Graffiti in Southbank London

Some well done graffiti I prefer to see as a form of art. As the definition of “art” is anything that causes you any kind of feelings. First time I heard this, I was sitting next to the prettiest girl at school and I had to bite my tongue to not whisper in her ears that she was an absolute form of art because she made me feel all kinds of stuff.

Anyways, the definition of art can be really complex and polemic,  even though they say it’s something that transmits ‘any kind of feeling‘ (even bad and disgusting ones), I feel like disagreeing that those roughly done lines sprayed over walls are anything more than vandalism.

Mine can be not the better made in the world, but is fruit of loads of work, since taking the pictures, treating them on photoshop, cutting the stencils for finally apply over a free-graffiti area in London. Just a small parenthesis: How cool and democratic is a city that offers a ‘free graffiti area’ for its citizens?

Lawrence’s Bike

Tailor made by George Brough a cutting edge 1930’s design costed £170 in 1932. Breath taker and well… life taker. Owned by Lawerence of Arabia until his very last day.

Check more details on the poster attached.

Photos taken on Imperial War Museum London 16/10/09

Sky Art

Absolutely everything happens in this town. That’s the main reason I’m in love with London. Well, I saw a great ad in the tube about a Lord Kitchener and a good advert copy which made me very up to check the real thing out. When I finally found it in the room 23 of the Portrait Gallery, I got really disappointed. There is only this portrait and 5 lousy lines about it. I mean, with the ad copy I could have absolutely the same amount of information than the plate in the museum. So, you can check the photo on this post and save a trip there, is not much more than that.

Anyways, the cool part began when I was about to leave the National Portrait Gallery, I saw a TV screening a reporter showing and commenting an art book. Until there nothing new but when I left the building towards Trafalgar Square, I saw a small crowd around… the same woman reading the art book.  A Sky Art, life transmission from Trafalgar Sqr, in front of the National Gallery. Pretty cool. The channel also build there a studio for their show One&Other.( http://www.oneandother.co.uk/ ).

Well here you go the pictures of this new slice of my life.

Bikes

In this category I’ll publish the pictures of bikes and motorcycles I bump into and don’t resist to take some photos of.

These ones were taken in Cassis a town in South of France. The place was so beautiful that deserved some photos as well.

Funky Monkey Story

I’ve been going to Oxford St. lately and one of these days I saw this really weird gorilla advertising tuning and waxing. I thought it was a quite aggressive and somehow ingenuous marketing move. I could imagine the shop owner thinking: “I do waxing and tuning, why shouldn’t I put a man dressed as a hairy and black gorilla on Oxford Street? It will call attention! I’m such a genius!”. On the next day,  some one of course haven’t liked the joke and called the police. But on the third day, there he was taking photos with people.

Well, from that I learned the lesson, “Forget everything you learned on the adversing school!”