free hugs

people places play spaces

Beer-crate stack climbing, public painting, low-lit serenity and Dr Pong, the table tennis bar.

natural history

The Natural History Museum in London is pretty incredible. You'd need a few visits to see everything but I was especially taken by the almost architectural textures and shapes in the geology section.

london scenes

back stages

A back shed at the superb Combe House Hotel in Devon, England. This place is an exquisite English manor house. Rolling green hills and Devonshire tea to boot.

overseas art

Families in action under one of the huge wall pieces outside the Tate Modern. They're about 7 stories high!
What a great gallery the Tate is. Again and again. One of the special exhibitions on was Street & Studio, which looks at the history of street photography and studio photography.

Another great gallery was in Kyoto, Japan. Imura Art Gallery, showing at the time the beautiful work of Chihiro Nagashima. A fantastic escape from the insane summer heat!

overseas art

A window in Berlin...


There are so many art spaces in Berlin. This is an abandoned building transformed into a working studio/gallery. Awesome.
Also checked out an amazing series photography exhibitions at the CO in Berlin.


The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef at the Hayward Gallery London.


One incredible work in The Tunnel (the London Cans Festival) featuring the world's best street artists.


My favorite exhibition overseas,'Pyscho Buildings' at the Hayward Gallery in London. Amazing, huge playful installations that the audience can walk through, sit on, row around and climb.

overseas art

Walls in Berlin - always a treat. The Rotterdamse Kunst had a bunch of fantastic shows, as well as being an amazing building in its own right. Also saw a great groups show in Rotterdam about food - marshmellow rooms, baking on ikea lights, salami sculptures...

winter beach

Attack of the Evil Chi and Other Recent Events

A stunning chest-pulling, smile-giving evening at the Myer Music Bowl for the Yelling At Stars show (congratulations to all involved), surrounded by fog and concrete cold, we pumped our hams down to the Corner Hotel to see the Eddy Current Suppression Ring album launch, hard and loud and pulse-filled play. A warehouse of friends and fire-side burning. Misty-eyed morning.
And it is baby-blessings and engagement parties, such ADULT play, rinked with tea-lights in graters and patches for quilts.
And it is out for food, in a small well-lit delicacy that sits on your tongue.
And it is sewing and preparing and letting patterns play their own way out.
A drive in the country. Winery.Gallery.Lookout. Bathing in sparkling mineral water as the knots are kneaded out of the back.
And back. Blasted by the wind.
THERE'S NO FUN IN THIS. So ill. Poison in every muscle. Bedridden as the waking-dead. Fever dreams of soap-opera dramatic dying. Too many episodes of Arrested Development. The Bluth company will tear my head open.
Attack of the evil chi. Boo.