“…you will get a hundred Baht per hour.” “Really? Nice. I’ll do anything for three hundred Baht. Do they want me to get nude?” “No! No, no, no. It is a portrait class. They will only be painting your face.” “Oh. OK… I don’t mind getting nude…” “Everywhere I go in Thailand people stare at…
“…Now this is good art. You can see what the fuck the picture is about” he huffs. “The political themes in the abstract work are interesting though” I venture. “Sure. Politics. Well that’s another thing. I almost got shut down twice in the last few months. I hung some work that someone didn’t like, and…
Joe picks me up on his scooter and we head out to the band’s share house in Krabi’s outer suburbs. The guys all live in two small rooms, and the third room is set up as a make-shift studio. Joe’s little brother is the producer and operates the computer. We sit on the tiled floor, playing and singing. It is just too much fun…
…The place is like the inside of James Bond’s basement. Rack after rack of high tech assault rifles, sub machine guns and pistols line the walls… The highlights of Malaga, Spain: the Picasso Museum and the most awesome toy shop I’ve ever seen. Guns. Walking into the city to see the Picasso Museum,…
In the old part of Strasbourg the enclosed bridge is under renovation. There are a whole lot of ceramic gargoyles sitting in groups, in various states of repair.
Walking to Strasbourg’s centre is a short stroll in morning sunshine. The city is compact, but not crowded. The people look handsome and relaxed. The old part of the city is superbly preserved, in contrast to the towns of northern France that were so devastated by the second world war. The cathedral is awesome. …
I kept running my camera battery flat in Paris. So many pics. Here’s a bunch more of them. (There are so many beautiful artifacts from the ancient world in the Louvre. Some of them remind you what a prudish age we live in now.) (Pan) (A pallid mediaeval lady.) (Up close and personal with Michelangelo’s…
Across the square from Chateaux Ducal in Caen, is the city’s equally venerable 13th century cathedral. It has been painstakingly restored over the past 6 years, and was also substantially reconstructed in the 1940s after Caen was reduced to rubble in WW2. The complexity and artistry of the masonry is awe inspiring. Hundreds of…
Rock pools @ Jervis Bay NSW, Australia.
Confest is outrageous. I’ve been to three now, and I go every chance I get. What is it? It’s a festival. It’s a party. It’s a love-in. It’s a new age spiritual pilgrimage…