well well well
I know I have been away too long.
Hope you missed me although my blog is not the most interesting blog you can read.
I have been very busy with producing new work with perspex and photography (sooooo expensive because the price of perspex is directly influenced by the price of oil)
I'm also having a new tattoo drawn to cover the tinyone on the shoulder. Maybe in my next set you can admire it. If they don't make me pink I'm afraid the next set would be the last.
Anyway. Just to cheer you up I'm adding these Godfather gadgets which I really really love.
Unfortunately the shipping costs are higher than the item's price. This is one of the reasons why I'd like to live in the US
enjoy it!
porpora

I just got the licence for my Vespa!
I'm sure I won't stand any other way of transport, especially automatic gear moped. They're for dull and grey people who don't enjoy riding bikes as a sport itself.
I can't wait till tomorrow, it's gonna be sunny in Rome and I'm going here and there changing gears wearing a scarf like a 60s lady.
Wish me luck, here is an old Vespa ad. Check this out!

I found this out this morning and I'm thinking I'll definitely have to make areservation there soon.
A hotel in France gives guests the chance to live like a hamster - where you can eat grain, run in a giant wheel and sleep on hay.
The rate is 99 euros a night, but is soon to go up as today's hamsters need wi-fi and a giant tv screen, according to the owners.
I'll bring my hedgehog over so that we can roll in the dust together,and maybe I'll shoot a set there for SuicideGirls!

This is a post about books...not exactly literature. In fact, we're talking about a crazy book where they teach you how to knit quite everything..
Ready to knit? If you don’t know how, Knitorama will teach you.
The number of images used are so cute - some of them just too funny, too, like the poses struck by some of the people modeling finished knitted pieces. The author look a bit dumb but this is part of the game: you'll say"if she's able to do that, I'll be up to it either!"
Witty comments surrounding the images makes the book more pleasurable.

Here is probably my favorite restaurant in london
Since I'm a veggie I was looking for something suitable and I found this amazing bus-restaurant called Rootmaster (play on word for Routemaster as the double decker buses were called)
LOve it love it

and here's the last of Claes Oldenburg's large scale sculptures that I was able to see. The one he did in Italy is probably the worst he ever did. Too bad..
However this is the one in Paris, the buried bicycle AWESOME!
The bicycle has close ties to France, having been invented there and celebrated in the Tour de France. Its parts have also been featured in art, from Picasso's bull's head made out of a bicycle seat and handlebars to Marcel Duchamp's bicycle wheel mounted on a stool.

here is the new sculpture in Cologne,maybe my favorite
and here's the case history
The city's skyline is filled with conical church spires, dominated by the enormous, brooding Dom Cathedral. At street level this motif is turned upside down in the form of large multicolored plastic cones that appear in front of ice cream parlors, which are very popular in Cologne.

following Oldenburg's first post,here is the second one, as promised.
This is the one in Barcelona, and can be found at a crossroad in an anonymous suburb.
A 68-foot-high sculpture based on a matchbook cover. Folded back so that the cover formed a base, the matches were bent, as if by use, with the exception of one erect, flaming match. Loose matches, some "burnt," were scattered over the site.

So basicly my blog is probably going to lean towards art and stuff I find cool being a visual artist myself.
Claes Oldenburg is my favorite sculptor. He does huge, stunning shapes in public areas around the world. I love planning trips to Europe just to see his artwork.
The original Houseball was based on the idea that one could gather all one's possessions in a large cloth and tie them up in the form of a ball that would roll -- thereby making any other transportation unnecessary -- to its next destination. The house was left behind; its contents became a house in itself.
Later I'm gonna post the sculpture in Barcelona.

There's no better way to start my blog than describing an exciting and different place to go.
The Doodle bar in London is a bar where anyone can go and draw on the white walls. Posca is the main sponsor, that's why they decided to take this direction.
BUT always make sure it's open before you get there and have a bad surprise, in fact, they're an events-only bar and are not always open. In case it's closed you can have a nice pic nic on the grass in Battersea Park, which is next to the bar. Or pay a visit to the Battersea power station famous for being on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals.