random stuff that strikes me when I am really meant to be doing something else...
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castles in spain:4
That little boy is very very very high up. The pipers are playing, the crowd is cheering and I am standing there with tears streaming down my face trying to take pictures! Strange and very moving... but you gotta ask yerself... why?
Whether using wood and stone, bricks and glass, iron and steel, or the human body - we seem to have this irresistible desire to reach for the sky, sun, moon, stars...
Determination, difficulty and even pian is always involved, but we are undaunted...
I'm too old, too wasp, too middle-class and just too busy to understand what motivates graffiti artists to risk life and limb in pursuit of their thing... but I often love their work and (yes, yes, I know it's illegal) it so often makes a dull place interesting. I used to pass this one at Vauxhall every day on my way to work and it's still as striking as the first day I saw it. Whoever created it I just want them to know that I really appreciate this free gift and I'm glad the London Transport Police haven't been able to get their bleach on it. Can't get Jamie Lidell's Multiply out of my head today. He deserves to be a big star.
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Determination, difficulty and even pian is always involved, but we are undaunted...