Meandering Around the Murals of Main Street in Vancouver
Lately I’ve been walking around Vancouver’s neighbourhoods checking out the murals. Plus any other oddball thing that catches my attention. I made my way down Broadway past the old Bow […]
Lately I’ve been walking around Vancouver’s neighbourhoods checking out the murals. Plus any other oddball thing that catches my attention. I made my way down Broadway past the old Bow […]
This decorative painted style, very popular in Buenos Aires, is called ‘Fileteado Porteño’, ‘porteños’ being what the inhabitants of Buenos Aires call themselves. The colourful style, with its painted swirls […]
The Mexican Revolution, a civil war that raged from 1910 to 1920, ousted the hated dictator Porfirio Díaz and created a new era with the government being in the hands […]
Belgium is famous for its array of comic books, and in Brussels there is not only a Comic Museum but also a walking tour where the many fanciful characters escape the […]
A collection of walls from around the world. In Hue, the royal city of Vietnam, the walls of the palace are painted imperial yellow. In nearby Hoi An it appears […]
In Denmark it seemed as if there were more portraits than in other places. I’m not sure if that’s true but here are a few I noticed in particular. Family […]
Although we must have flint in Canada I have only ever seen flint beaches in Europe where I couldn’t resist picking up a few as souvenirs. One part of the […]
Although some countries have had ‘murals’ for thousands of years (cave paintings, Mexico, Egypt come to mind) there now seems to be a world mural craze, and Vancouver jumped in […]
Murals are trending in cities around the world right now. Mexico got a head start on murals. I’m fond of their modern-day murals which often contain the magic of the […]
Lying down, looking up. What were they doing? It turned out that they were looking up at one of José Orozco’s masterpieces, the ‘Man of Fire’ that graced the domed […]
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