The Happier the Hotelier, The Happier the Guest
It is an old one, but this timeless post of haha.nu has a brilliant collection of unusual statues around the world. And mind you. This post has 1075 comments!
I like these 3 most:
1) Somewhere in Sweden:
2) Somewhere in Brussels, Belgium:
2) Potsdam, Germany:
First i didn’t notice it,
but when looking twice I spotted a car,
a vintage French Citroen
a Citroen Deux Cheveaux (or 2CV)
The second a vintage British
Pinin Farina designed Triumph Herald.
They are on the opposite sides of the street a 50 meters apart.
Recently I was touring the Greek Isle of Kos on a scooter and came by two shops in a little city outside the city Kos. I lost the name of the place, but am sure it will come back to me.
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A wonderful combination of sustainably preserving vintage cabrio cars and guerrilla marketing.
This post is especially devoted to us, my wife and me, because a Ciroen 2CV (or Ugly Duck) was my first own car and the one we got married in and traveled in for our honeymoon and also devoted to a fellow TrendHunter who is “Unamused by the complexities of coaxing a 40 year old car through it’s MOT” while her car ( a Triumph Herald) is in far better state than this one, LOL.
Your’s Truly spent a couple of days in London covering modern art and design, but this Doggy Street Artist in the neighborhood of Covent Garden made his day today.
It seems Google has gobbled Digg (Goobled a good term?)
The original Vermeer painting “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” is to admire here in The Hague in the museum Mauritshuis. It is featured on their homepage as well.
Not until he used this example, I noticed Scott Wade’s Dirty Car Art.
Like any reasonably creative and curious human, Scott can’t resist a dirty rear car window. We suspect that Scott started off with clever sayings, like, “wash me.” Probably his first image was the ubiquitous smiley face. Unlike most folks, however, Scott lives on a mile and a half of dirt road – caliche, as the locals call it, road-base: a blend of limestone dust and gravel and clay. Driving over this surface results in a fine, white dust that billows up behind any vehicle driven faster than a galloping turtle, coating the rear window. Being an experienced artist (and let’s face it, a little … different), it wasn’t long before Scott was experimenting with techniques to achieve these amazingly detailed and shaded drawings.
To see on his site are many photo’s of his Dirt Art applied on a Mini, also our favorite vehicle.