HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!

I'm not exactly sure what she's saying... Or who she is... I really hope she's not a right-wing politician...But with the innocence of the language-barrier, I'm enjoying her swagger!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY today, to my Italo-Stallo Dream Come True! <3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SUNDAY SONG TIME

The 30 Day Song Challenge has been taking up the virtual-time of half of my Facebook friends, and while it looks fun, there's some questions I would waste wayyy too much brain power trying to decide on... Like "Day 01 - your favorite song"?! How anyone who loves music can decide that, definitively, is a total and utter mystery to me! It hurts my brain!
I'm just going to take inspiration, and make up some of my own too, every Sunday!

So... A SONG FROM MY EARLY CHILDHOOD - Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land - A song my Dad taught me to sing with him and his accoustic guitar. I even have it on cassette somewhere. Maybe one of these days I'll get around to digitising it. This one's for Poppa B!

TOTE THEM POLES!

Might get back on the case of the 3D paintings I started back in Den Haag. I just got word from a friend to say our Langweiligkeit wall murals are still standing!

ART(W)ROCK!

I was ordered to take a last-second portrait of my man, by his label-mates, for his new solo record - Upitup's first physical release, and a 12" vinyl at that!!! I took a load of snaps and they chose this one, and here's the finished design! :-)

WORSHIPPING THE VOLCANO!

Leaving the island today. For our last night, we went for a drink at a sea-edging cocktail bar. These cocktails were ridiculously good! The bar is known as the Island's best vantage point for seeing the neighbouring Island's lava displays! YES! The whole of the nearest island is an active volcano, which erupts every 15 minutes. Always. So we sat and watched it again and again, showering it's distant but unmissable orange-red glow into the blackness. Today I looked at the volcano again, its lava bleached from sight by the bright sun, and I thought about negative space, and light and dark, and what colour is!
And then I had to go and pack!

IL POSTINO!

Ending the holiday on Salina, at a too-swanky hotel! We are still eating the best food ever, and having funny adventures and rambles through rocky dusty terrain! Today we hired a car (littlest one, Alessia, had to sit on a knee so we all fit. Oops!) and all went out to see the mountainside house where the fantastic Italian film "Il Postino" was filmed! I LOVE this film, ever since my Dad bought me it on VHS, so was very star-struck and excited!
Me and Gia walked up the side of a vast, cloud-skimming mountain overlooking the house deciding to head back, only when it got too steep to carry on, and we realised that the two huge screeching birds of prey 30 ft above us were definitely sizing us up, and would probably win in a fight!