Canterbury and coffee

quick piece painted out in New Lynn today (peace to RCD)...
repping my first crew: UAC. Original Christchurch KINGS.
Much love to the Christchurch Fat Cappers a.k.a TNA!


On a less glorious note, this is a job using paint markers on a blackboard... good luck trying to ever clean that off lol! note the Mark Todd signature up in there, "Great cup of Bell"

too busy to blog?

damn what a slack guy. Actually busy guy! I have flicks to post from various painting jobs, but on a more musical note, me n Flex are on the airwaves every saturday 10am-midday on Radio Ponsonby.
Its only local broadcast so if you don't live in the cool area of the city (UPTOWN!!) you can listen to it streaming live on the site.

Flex is outta town this weekend so i'll be holding it down, yeeha! Last saturday was awesome, from Blues and Soul to Baltimore and UK funky, its an eclectic crate-diggin' adventure ;)

two real-life Zen kung fu stories

FYI: Zen stories are short parables which capsure the essence of Zen philosophy. recently, i've found myself as a character in them...


1. One day, after an intensive training session, Young Mega and 4Higher were relaxing with a discourse on hard versus soft. For example, what technique would win out of Sanda versus Tai Chi Chu'an.

"soft always beats hard", said 4Higher, "when you use the opponents own strength against them".

"But what if someone is too strong for the person to yield, and they connect a blow? Soft loses", argued Young Mega.

"that is a question of technique", replied 4Higher. "Look, which is harder, water or rock? Rock, but water can break and shape rock, as you see in nature."

Young Mega smiled and replied, "I'm pretty sure it's paper that beats rock".


2. After an evening meal following a long sparring session, Young Mega was beratting his training partner with claims of how strong his Kung Fu had become.

4Higher calmly set down his tea, turned to Mega and said, "it is not the squawking of its voice nor the flapping of it's wings that makes the eagle deadly".

Mega laughed and said ,"na, but its funny as!"