Tokyo — I was on my way to run some errands in Ginza but it was far too cold to go by bike, so I ventured down into the tube (something I rarely do). I settled into my favorite seat (at the end of the carriage, left arm over the window, right arm free to draw). I took out this little paper sample “book” (a fan of paper samples, really) someone gave me for free and has become one of my favorite sketchbook...
Istanbul — One of those kinds of Sundays. We woke up early, went to the farmer’s market. Bought things and then too many things: eggs, tomatoes, leeks, mushrooms, and a single, unidentifiable squash. Kate had t...
New york — I grew up in a small town in post-communist Eastern Europe, where, as a local song puts it, “there is not much to do besides falling in love”. The next best thing was to hear your friends tell you: “L...
Lyon — I love Christmas. It is a cosy moment we can share and enjoy with our family or closest friends. But each year, after Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, in the first days of January, I used to se...
What happened?
a memoir of a Jim Dandy day
Christmas is over. And it's quite sad to see all those abandoned Christmas trees lying on the pavement.
Service Box Art
Street #1
Somestimes when you enjoy a cigarette break, you feel like surrounded by shadows growing behind you. But... you continue smoking
bring in the grasses
Happy to report that B.Merwan & Co. is not only not shut but as you can see still quite busy.
Closed doors
The picture of a picture cast over the stone of the medieval Avila's Wall, "la Muralla de Ávila"http://eseldisparador.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/retrato-petreo.html
Italian coffee at Florence, Italy. http://eseldisparador.blogspot.com.es/2014/09/cafe-en-florencia.html
Just passing by
Meeting a musical soul as he busks his way across Europe
Random train redirections; on foot.
sayonara beta — a new day — 新しい日
Plywood box
"Eres un animal"
every night;
The city life will never bore
Has Jakarta changed so much or I have moved on; I hardly recognise it anymore...?
Today's view from Cherry Blossom Heights 今日のさくらハイツから見た景色
The path to the good stuff
If the devil comes to take me, tell him I am drawing strangers on the Hibiya line.
Shoe shine and physical newspaper in 2014. No wonder the dog is bemused.
Portico
The days last light, transforming a local street...
Lobster boats in one of America's last commercial fishing ports.
Street at Night
on our way to the prado museum
Kelewele
Vibrant facades, beautiful doors & balconies, overhanging vines, bring the European air in the Caribbean
Cold hands...don't paint.
short-cut to the 2nd last city brew for the year
Heavy snow
Fly to the moon
Street
Togo's beach is clean
the train's going no further, time to walk, laneway blur
Well, that's a first!
Minami Aoyama. The West Village of Tokyo.