Round the outside....

It's not just the outside of our selves we like to "dress up" - we also like to have some say in the decorating of our homes.  And if we happen to live and work at the same place, well.....all the better!
Wellington Tattoo studio Underground Arts has found a new home, right on the corner of Vivian and Victoria Streets, and owner Steve Maddock has set about ensuring that his building is "dressed" to his taste.  The results are going to be spectacular when finished, but already this is one place that is hard to miss!

I must add too, that I am insanely jealous of anyone who can say "I'd like a dragon on the outside of my place", and then has the ability to realize that dream!  I myself, was someone who:

a)    dreamed of being a famous guitarist………………..but never quite got   round to learning how to play guitar…..something my dream required, and
b)  yearned to be a prima ballerina....................but had terminally flat feet, and

c)   always wanted to express my deepest thoughts, to lay all my feelings out in paint on canvas………………but didn’t have the ability to draw a convincing stickman, let alone a vase of sunflowers!

Thus thwarted in my own ambitions, I have to settle with appreciating....and sharing....the work of other, more talented, people.  Hello Steve..................

xxo

(PS. How strange it was to finish this post, only to find a "Learn to Play Guitar Now" advertisement flashing up on my Google Dashboard  ;-)  ........)

Colour crazy.....

The international runways have spoken, and 'colour' is what we will all be wearing next season* - colour......crazy, delightful colour;

Hopefully, along with this colour will also come the innate ability to get our pant up to our waists?  Surely not too much to hope for ;-) ?)

xxo

*(although we all know that kiwis don't roll like that....  No - kiwis wear what they want, when they want!  But still.....colour - that's what we should all want to wear!)

Street Style

The first one I saw was in Paris this summer.  It caught my eye, & I took a photo, but thought nothing of it. Then, in London's Soho, while sailing under the Pillars of Hercules, I looked up & found myself staring at a familiar image - another mosaic 'Space Invader'!!  Curiouser & curiouser!

And THEN, the other night while out & about (read: quite drunk), I witnessed yet another invasion!! 

 Coz that's what these are!  It turns out, according to Google, that they are all the work of a Parisian Street Artist named 'Invader', who has been invading cities all around the world with his tiled creations since around 1998!  He has even "invaded" the letters of the Hollywood sign!

Now that's what I call street style!

xxo