Samoan Pyramid?!

no shit!

Ok, i know there's pyramids in Egypt, Central and South America... and even in China... and comparabile mounds throughout Europe.

But Polynesia? I didn't know any Polynesian peoples made structures of stone (except Easter Islanders). I guess this is interesting to me because Pyramids are pretty much everywhere, built round the same time by cultures that apparently weren't in contact with each other and didn't have large earth moving technology.

Convential archeology says that they are burial mounds or tombs. or astrological observation platforms. could be right... the star-gazing Polynesians had the most advanced knowledge of navigation of any ancient people. real talk.

I know so many people that have been to Samoa but never heard any one mention a Pyramid.

well this ain't a theory, its a fact, check it out:
on wikipedia

or there's a great article here

the white man brought huge change to the islanders, and i think its tragic how their traditional religions and their knowledge of the world is unrecorded and now all but gone forever. Like the Central and South American Cultures. The biggest Pyramid in the world is in Mexico and 90% of it is unexcavated... because the murderous Conquistadores built a Catholic Church on it which is now considered a national monument that can't be moved. I have almost finished reading the whole Bible and i still can't understand how Christian ideology led to centuries of oppression, genocide, supression of science and culture.. don't get me started!

one-way trip

in this latest store mural, I painted the mythological river Styx that you cross when you die to get to the "underworld", "netherworld", "Hades", or "realm of the dead". Anubis is there on the boat that takes you over. it wasn't necessarily a good or bad place.

This myth predates the concept of heaven and hell by thousands of years in greek and egyptian mythology among others... even the old testament mentions the "realm of the dead" many times as opposed to damnation or paradise. According to some scriptures, Jesus went there and met the other prophets during the 3 day passover before his ressurection!

by the way, the correct translation of the Greek "Hades" is actually "hole", "cave", "pit", or "grave", rather than "secret underground world where go when you die to live forever getting tortured if you're a baddy".

Believe what you like, i just paint the pictures :)

hell out west

here's another pizza shop, switched it up a bit...
I've done plenty of evil grim reaper characters in some of the other shops, here he is at a dinner party. as you can see by his expression he's a liitle shy because he doesn't eat, but he's loving being a part of the social occasion (which doesn't happen very often).

yo ho ho

I finished the Malibu contract, here's the last of em:


see that winged sun disc at the top? its one of the oldest symbols in the world and is used by many cultures with different meanings attached. powerful!

in this one the monkey reminds me of my lil' daughter, he he!..:
getting back to the Hell pizza stores now, doin one that should be finished up tonite. here's a random photo from a unusual party last week, he he

Canterbury represent

Here's a couple walls at the Canterbury of NZ (CCC) office in town that i finished today :)

drawing on what?

hey jettsetters, if you're heading abroad watch out for me in the airport at the DFS store... i'm working on a Malibu promotion, drawing on posters and bottles with markers in only orange, yellow, brown and blue.

as you can see I been doing this for a couple weeks already. A pilot told me i had a cool job! I thought they were the coolest

Umami pushers... now in NZ!

There's always been a lot of negative press about MSG a.k.a. flavour enhancer 621 (also its friends 627 and 635). The flavour foundations of instant noodles and Oxo cubes.

check out where you can find MSG.. yum check out that US KFC menu! heaps of stuff we don't get here. yum?

Apparently MSG not bad for you in small amounts, despite reports of some people being allergic to it, even addicted to it... its called the "umami effect".

oh yes... how bout those delicious "tasty" new Dorito chips that have just been launched in NZ? read this lifted from the link above:

"... And note that they don't think they can even come close to the MSG hit young men take when they eat Doritos. The "umami" pushers will continue to add straight MSG to Doritos, because they are afraid of a "riot" should the young men get less glutamate in their "umami bomb" snacks."

now in NZ!