Valparaiso Has the Best Street Art in the World
Valparaiso is the best street art city in the world. That’s a bold claim from someone who isn’t in the art world in any shape or form, nor have I gone to all the cities in...
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The Famous Delft Blue Pottery – As Street Art!
One negative thing about the efficient Dutch public transport network – it made me complacent. I thought I should go to Delft on my final weekend in the Netherlands, since it’s supposed to be...
Mondrian in The Hague: Celebrating Dutch Street Art
For a couple of weeks in 2017 I was in the Netherlands, neither a tourist nor just in town for meetings. I had the opportunity to switch offices, and work with colleagues there for...
KL Forest Eco Park: The Surprisingly Real Rainforest
I always assumed that the hill is called ‘Bukit Nanas’ because there used to be pineapples planted on the slopes (nanas = pineapple). That’s what KL Forest Eco Park was known as, you know,...
Gasing Hill: Explore an Urban Forest Hike near KL
If you’ve somehow run out of things to do in KL, you can pop across into the adjacent Malaysian state of Selangor. Bukit Gasing (or Gasing Hill) in Petaling Jaya is a rare bit...
Looking Back to Penang Street Art in Historic George Town
I arrived in Penang (that’s Pulau Pinang to locals) by plane. I was there on a long weekend from Kuala Lumpur, specifically to see for myself the Penang street art that had recently exploded...
Looking For My Art Heart in Kuala Lumpur
You know how you sometimes snap random photos of things, just because? I decided I’m going to keep a running gallery post just to collate such things on the theme of Art that I saw...
Cracked Open
There are gargoyles guarding The hospital doors. The wounded may come in as long as They don’t get blood on to the floors. So in order to visit the sick I go where they...
