Streets, walls and the world at large

Behind Blue Eyes... says Who?

2006-04-14T19:41:00.000-07:00

I discovered a secret garden with a hidden alcove with a lost moss-covered fountain and a big laughing elf with huge blue eyes - now I know why its called Serendip. At Bevis Bawa's Brief Garden near Bentota, Sri Lanka.

The lost Shaolin temple

2006-04-14T19:27:00.000-07:00

You could almost miss it if it weren't for the prince that turned into a stone toad... Brief Garden by Bevis Bawa is AliceinWonderlandesque!

Call a spade a spade? or an eagle!

2006-04-12T08:27:00.000-07:00

At Paradise Road, Gallery Cafe in Colombo - a perched eagle made of spades. Don't miss the rakes for claws!

Art at work... go figure!

2005-10-02T12:32:00.000-07:00

Papier mache art installation in the KPMG lobby at Salisbury Square, London

Window art... quite literally!

2005-10-02T12:30:00.000-07:00

Artist inside a window display at Selfridges in London

Forgotten hieroglyphics

2005-08-20T06:21:00.000-07:00

Inside a forgotten pyramid in Cairo, Egypt

Art for 5 days!

2005-08-20T06:19:00.000-07:00

(c) Shouren Datta
Pandal art at Durga Puja in Calcutta - this mural is made from clay and hemp. This festival sees a mindboggling array of talent, for all of a fleeting 5 days.

Drain covers for directions

2005-08-20T06:16:00.000-07:00

Every drain cover in Cologne, Germany tells you exactly where you are

More drain cover art - London

2005-08-20T06:15:00.000-07:00

Memorial Walk for Diana - Princess of Wales

Writer's walk at Syndey Harbor

2005-08-20T06:13:00.000-07:00

Every drain cover along this walk commemorates a famous writer

It's all coming back to me now...

2005-08-20T06:12:00.000-07:00

Aboriginal women playing the boomerang. At Katoomba Valley in the Blue Mountains, Australia

Wine bottle art - at a boutique winery in Hunter Valley, Australia

2005-08-20T06:09:00.000-07:00

Aromas are reminiscent of cinnamon and raisins, with a hint of sweet red apples on the palate. The Vin de Vie is the ideal aperitif or accompaniment to your favourite winter dessert. Visit www.peppertreewines.com.au for more info

Don't scrap it

2005-08-14T00:16:00.000-07:00

In a park in Sausalito

Another brick in the wall

2005-08-14T00:13:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam graffiti

2005-08-14T00:08:00.000-07:00

A weight off my head

2005-08-13T23:51:00.000-07:00

An embellished version of Henry Purcell sits quietly in the corner of a London park

Calypso captured?

2005-08-13T23:48:00.000-07:00

Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to
The things that you've shown us
The stories you tell
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well

Blog of the Week

2005-06-25T00:26:00.000-07:00

What started out as a humble blog and more a fanciful hobby, was recently voted as "Blog of the Week" by the Times of India.

Lover of life, singer of songs

2005-06-25T00:11:00.000-07:00

"If you want to find peace, go to Montreux."

Didn't have a digicam when I saw this one, so took the liberty of picking this off the net - courtesy: www.satriani.com.

Rowling's wall art

2005-06-25T00:06:00.000-07:00

At King's Cross station in London

More fictitious walls?

2005-06-24T23:57:00.000-07:00

At Baker Street station in London

Om mani padme hum

2005-06-24T23:16:00.000-07:00

Mani stones and a mandala near the outpost guarding the road to Siachen glacier

Pink bench art...

2005-06-24T13:01:00.000-07:00

...deserves pink attire, eh? Outside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Vintage hand pump in Berlin

2005-06-24T12:53:00.000-07:00

Creepy?

2005-06-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

Creeping vines but creeping wine bottles?

From the outside looking in

2005-06-24T12:21:00.000-07:00

Art through a window - one is meant to peer through windows at this gallery in Rothenburg

My orange car and...

2005-06-24T12:08:00.000-07:00

...my orange house

2005-06-24T12:07:00.000-07:00

Keeping time

2005-06-24T12:06:00.000-07:00

Somewhere in Black Forest - a sun dial house

Waiting to catch a bus to Calais...

2005-06-24T12:01:00.000-07:00

... these women sit patiently outside the Oostende train station

Droogle says you get a Flying Bull...

2005-06-24T11:54:00.000-07:00

...if you mix a peg of dark rum, a peg of light rum and a Red Bull.

Egocentrically delicious

2005-06-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

The tagline says it all

Art commemorating those exterminated at Dachau

2005-06-03T23:12:00.000-07:00

The concentration camp at Dachau near Munich leaves one numb and speechless as the ghost of the atrocities committed here play havoc with the senses...

Drain cover art - Tokyo

2005-06-03T23:02:00.000-07:00

Photos courtesy Arjun Bali

Tokyo is a treasure trove of drain cover art - I suppose as you walk with your eyes peeled to the ground, the sky will most definitely fall on your head!

Stairwell art

2005-06-03T22:52:00.000-07:00

In Australian wine country

The new age man

2005-06-03T22:49:00.000-07:00

"Two blocks down George Street, take a right, another block and then a left... you'll find the best chap in Sydney to grease your joints"

Someone's watching over you

2005-06-03T22:38:00.000-07:00

In downtown Sydney. Someone tell me who that is?

More rock art

2005-06-03T22:31:00.000-07:00

Sign outside the ladies rest rooms at Dr Jurd's Jungle Juice in wine country north of Syndey. Legend has it that Dr Jurd went from winery to winery to collect wines from spittoons and blended, bottled and branded them Dr Jurd's Jungle Juice!

Rock art rocks

2005-06-03T22:27:00.000-07:00

On a rock near the gorilla pen in Taronga Zoo in Sydney. The lazy King Kong is so aweinspiring in its size, the artist probably just dropped this knapsack on this rock which also froze in fear.

Sailor's outpost at The Rocks in Sydney

2005-06-03T22:24:00.000-07:00

You could almost miss them as you saunter past...

What's in your head?

2005-06-03T22:22:00.000-07:00

Exquisite street art found on the internet. Copyright: Zhang Dali

Cologne: Remembering the Crucifixion

2005-01-23T03:48:00.000-08:00

Photo by Sandeep Chopra

Notice the exquisite charcoal rendition against purple skies! Cologne is a visual delight. If you're lost, one must only look for the brass square drain covers - measuring a foot square, they have embossed on them the map of a half kilometer radius...

Brussels - the comic world's bastion?

2005-01-22T22:09:00.000-08:00

Every corner you round in Brussels, make sure you take a 360 degree look lest you miss one of these!

More Brussels

2005-01-22T21:13:00.000-08:00

And then some...

2005-01-22T21:10:00.000-08:00

Yet more Brussels...

Guarding the Museum of Comic Arts, Brussels

2005-01-22T12:07:00.000-08:00

Did you know Herge barely stepped out of Brussels and yet Tintin travelled the globe on his adventures? There's an entire book on how...

Quintessential Amsterdam

2005-01-20T23:50:00.000-08:00

It doesn't get more complete than this - a Van Gogh collage on Prinsengracht, Delftware tiles on the yellow power box, quirky window displays, reflection of gables and yours truly sillhouetted on the brown cafe glass...

Amsterdam in stone on an Amsterdam wall

2005-01-20T21:09:00.000-08:00

Another tiny find...

On a wall in Amsterdam

2005-01-20T21:00:00.000-08:00

Is this the Batenburg Castle? Perhaps... Intriguing that it should adorn a wall in Amsterdam. Note the silver coins in and gold out!

A piece of the Berlin Wall

2005-01-19T20:58:00.000-08:00

Walls… the word evokes in us a sense of boundaries, partitions, barriers, barbed wire fences, borders, fortification, confinement, imprisonment, captivity… walls…

The Great Wall of wonder in China. Wailing walls of faith in Jerusalem. Political walls dividing Berlin and West Bank. And unmitigated lawless liberal graffiti. Freedom of expression on walls that are the very antithesis of freedom… in a world of inherent contradictions.

One such slice of the past here, now relegated to being a mere tourist attraction.

Berlin Berlin

2005-01-19T20:56:00.000-08:00

A temporary art installation near Checkpoint Charlie.

Berlin's Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station

2005-01-19T15:49:00.000-08:00

Vintage advertisements adorn this underground station in Berlin. Did you know Opel started with the mass production of sewing machines?

Inviting Black Forest

2005-01-15T23:56:00.000-08:00

Bergsee, Black Forest

These signposts vie with each other to entice tourists at Bergsee.

Porcupine pie, porcupine pie

2005-01-15T21:57:00.000-08:00

Budapest - May 2004

Now what was this shop all about? I just had eyes for the signpost... watch this space for more such...

Signpost in Amsterdam

2005-01-15T21:01:00.000-08:00

...advertising a store selling office furniture!

The Heidelberg welcome

2005-01-15T11:53:00.000-08:00

Straight out of Empire Strikes Back, this contraption is a delight for the sci-fi aficionado but a virtual assault to the medieval art lover. It's all in-your-face as you step out of the train station at Heidelberg.

Singapore

2005-01-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

Now where on earth did I see this? Help needed :)

Coffee and holiday cheer on the broadside of a bus

2005-01-14T23:30:00.000-08:00

Union Square, San Francisco

I have a clan of gingerbread men
Here a man
There a man
Lots of gingerbread men
You can take one if you wish
They're on the dish

... Syd Barrett

Seattle mosaic

2005-01-14T23:20:00.000-08:00

The ground beneath your feet as you look out to Puget Sound... crustacean and piscean inlays indicate proximity to the Pike Place Market - smells oh so fishy and divvvine!!!