Japan’s fourth-largest city, Sapporo, is famed for it’s beer and it’s February Snow Festival but we arrived during Christmas week with a clear mind and no expectations of what was in store for us. As our plane touched down on the bleak, snow-covered tarmac we were […]
Room with a view. Niseko, Japan. January 2013
A red poinsettia framed in the window sill greets the Boxing Day sore heads as beech trees are weighed down by yet another overnight snowfall in the picturesque ski resort of Niseko. In some of the coldest reaches of north western Japan on the island of […]
Window shopping. NoHo, New York. September 2010
The Windows. Oh, The Windows. I’m not the sort of person any of my friends would call a ‘shopper’. I barely update my wardrobe, I wear the same old 4 pairs of shoes all the time. It’s now September 2014 and I’m wearing the same […]
Mapplethorpe at MOMA. New York. September 2010
Robert Mapplethorpe at the Museum of Modern Art. Does it get any more ‘New York’ than this?
Guggenheim Annex, New York 2010
Visiting the Guggenheim Museum was one of the most exciting, and most disappointing, experiences of our first trip to New York. Having been HUGE fans of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture for a very long time, this museum was number ONE on our list to visit. Little […]
Murray’s Cheese, Bleecker Street, New York. September 2010
New York is famed for it’s walking and while the subway is the most efficient and colourful way to get around the larger city, the individual neighbourhoods are best planned to allow several hours (or days) of exploration on foot. We spent a day in Bleecker Street […]
East Village bird, New York. September 2010.
Walking around East Village on Manhattan’s lower east side is to discover the true history of old New York. The East Village itself is a raw mix of old drugstores and dive bars alongside groovy tattoo shops, hipster ice creameries, vintage punk stores and queues outside David Chang’s […]
Twist and Amaze, Bowery & Houston Wall, New York. September 2010
The famous Bowery & Houston Wall is a street corner exhibition space curated by The Hole art gallery in SoHo, NYC. Internationally renowned artists to have featured, dedications to or exhibited here include Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey and Dash Snow. We visited the mural wall for the […]