What is the purpose of street art? I found myself occupied by this question while sat on the train to Shoreditch (the unofficial capital of London street art culture) with Herself this Saturday. Over the last several years, I have photographed thousands of works of street art around the UK and abroad. I’ve stumbled across…
Tag: Travel
We were tired in Whitstable
We were tired and fattened and half drunk from dinner, but the early evening was warm and calm. Before the train back to London, we walked down along the shore to catch the last light that Whitstable Bay could spare. It was beautiful. We could have spent the night sleeping right there on the sand, but she’d already paid for the return tickets.
Guinness and Illicit Affairs in Dublin City
I can’t escape the feeling that I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on this posting platform in apology for not posting enough. I fear that this might be another such occasion. However, I am not without my reasons/excuses. In the last 3 months I have changed jobs (yet again), moved to a new…
Violence, sleaze, drugs, and filth in Hollywood
An itemized list of my impressions of Los Angeles There’s very little I can tell you about Los Angeles that hasn’t been already been said countless times before. There is no new revelation to be found in repeated tales of shattered dreams and careless degeneracy in the Hollywood Hills. You know all about that stuff already, everybody knows it….
Take Courage – Travel in London
The weather has been almost intolerably warm in the capital these last few weeks. To be honest, I’ve been struggling. It’s rare that I don’t get a funny look when I confess to my distaste for hot weather, but it’s the truth. A sun worshipper, I am most definitely not. In fact, I was never…
A more complimentary picture of Cannes
I feel like I owe Cannes an apology for not enjoying the place as much as I could have on account of the terrible week of weather she threw at me. Truth be told, despite the torrents of wind and rain, it really was a most intoxicating and luxurious place to visit. I even managed…
Words to hear your first time in Cannes
“I’ve been coming to Cannes for 16 years and this is the worst weather I’ve ever seen here.” I’m not sure why it had to rain so appallingly for my first visit to Cannes. If I was the suspicious kind, a paranoid Alex Jones or David Ike type, I would almost put it down to some elaborate…
London England in the Extreme Siberian Super Blast Beast from the East Blizzard
London – The city is four days into this particular spot of unusual weather and I’m yet to bore of it. The morning opened mildly with a fair portion of the last few days of snow almost completely melted. Nevertheless, the wind was still perishing and it wasn’t long before the electroplating fired back up. The…
Winter travels – Photodump
I haven’t posted anything in quite a while, and as I don’t have a huge amount of free time at the moment, I thought that a photo-centric post would better communicate what I’ve been up to recently. It also helps that Herself gifted me with a rather entertaining telephoto lens for Christmas. We spent our…
A Mural in Westbourne Park
Just a quick one today. I recently started a journalism course near Westbourne Park, West London. On my way to class last week, I caught site of this impressive mural on an otherwise wholly unremarkable street. I’ll post something more substantial in the the next week or so. You can now follow my increasingly strange…
You are the victim of your own rules
Summer is coming to an end in London, and so we took a train to Camden Town for the afternoon before the cold and miserable days are the best we can expect from this city. I brought my camera for the trip and am happy to report that some new street art works have been put up around the neighbourhood. Here are all the pieces that we were…
Do I feel lucky?
I cannot recall ever visiting a place as covered in graffiti as I encountered while travelling through Athens last week. Barely a single surface in the city has been spared the spray can and while the overwhelming majority of jottings extend to little more than tags, anarchist slogans and profanity, there is without doubt a whole stack talented artists producing street…
Press to reset the world
It’s been quite a few weeks since I published anything, so please accept my apologies. We were in East London at the weekend and had time to photograph the new street art on display for your pleasure. Just a short post today as I’ve been having trouble typing recently. Hopefully the pictures will speak for themselves….
Faked it, made it.
We took a train to the east side of the city this weekend and I brought my camera along for good measure. Here’s the new street art that I spotted around Brick Lane. Just a short post today. I’ll be putting up something more substantial at the end of the week. I realise that I…
Street art gallery – Berlin edition
Herself and I are just back from a four day trip to Berlin and while I will save the details of the excursion (and my thoughts about the city) to another post, I am eager to show you some of the street art that we spotted in this most unusual of European capitals. It took most of our Saturday…