Now to oil painting

30" x 48"

Beautiful table

For a chapel by Braga, Cerejeira Fontes Architects, Portugal.

1951 Alfa

My favourite Dinky Toy, in the flesh:

The 1951 Alfa Romeo Tipo 159 Alfetta

Today's:

My few rules: very few strokes, no messing with it, done in about 20 seconds with watery paint, one size brush and a palette knife, allow for the chance flow of paint, and only two colours.

Back to painting

One watercolour every morning is a sane way to start the day

How can this possibly be?

'Cancer' is excluded for compensation in the now passed Zadroga Health and Compensation Act for 9 11 responders. So many deaths were obviously attributable to their exposure during those months of selfless toil. Diabolical.

Thinking outside the box

Jurgen Maher H's Seville market cover is the largest wooden structure n the world.

LA Bridge and Franz Kline

Remarkable painterly abstract image of the bridge being torn down during Carmageddon.

Riot love

At least two people from Vancouver can score on the road.

Yugoslavian War Memorials

Tsunami mayhem

Containers flowing inland.

Double take

Relaxed handrail requirements? It's a 'sculpture' unfortunately.

Saving one's home

The flooding Mississippi has evoked some serious sandbanking

Structural Fail

From our breakfast table

Sometimes Vancouver can be beautiful

Electric Fail

Keltie, RIP

Getting good at lifting modular buildings

This is part of an apartment building in Vancouver.

The ferry home

There were a hundred dolphins alongside the ferry.

Old tube TV as it shuts down

Excellent photographs by Stephan Tillmans.

Underwater sculptures

I'll find the sculptor's name soon.

Bill and Hilary. Who'd have guessed?

Impressive Greenland National Gallery winner

I like BIG Architects' adherence to the modernist principle that walls are solid and voids are windows. No holes in walls. Not once. (Even Mies succumbed at the Barcelona Pavilion, in the 'other' building, or was that slipped in after, when it became a gift shop?)

A skylight trick that works every time

It's a matter of hiding the skylight by extending it far past the hole and reducing the apparent ceiling virtually to the thickness of drywall.

This one is the T House by Barqueretta.

Favourite 'Songs' 4

Steve Reich: Piano Phase

(Performed by Peter Aidu)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXy1FPTdvg

Favourite Songs 3

Post 2000

Black Lips: Cold Hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJojRf6Kf8o&feature=channel

Favourite Songs 2

Pre 2000

David Bowie: Heroes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYjBQKIOb-w

Favourite Songs 1

Pre 2000:

Talking Heads: Heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zNdMc6wGtU

The world's most expensive photograph

Andreas Gursky's "99 Cent 11 Dyptich" sold for $3.3 million in 2007.

Ralph's Garage

Ralph Lauren, that is.

And the odd hill climb

For that K2 cocktail party

Manhattan Traffic Jam

Merry Christmas to all

Feeding glass to mother architecture

In China

Largest killing creature?

Yes, the mosquito. Sharks, hippos, spiders, elephants etc. all rack up only about 100 per year each, compared to the untold numbers through the spreading of disease.