Cokelusion

final days on coke job were on Takapuna beach, on the North Shore. Stunning weekend weather, looking forward now to getting into the new year!

cheers to all the crew, particularly my fellow artist on this job Chevy Rameka, miss u already ehoa. Lesson learned: wrap-up parties before early morning flights are a dangerous combination... erk

coked out

probably not the coked-up new years others experienced... I was on the Coca-Cola summer break trip to Mount Maunganui (which i am now calling Miami-Iti; as in mini-Miami) and Whangamata.

not the same mad tour as last year, a stripped back version with fewer dates and no rock 'n' roll, but once again, it was me n Chevy drawing temporary tatts with paint markers on beach-goers. behold:
chevy did this one, but i love it:

dedicated to a different Jonny, but worth a flick:
Chev always gets carried away on the big pieces, check these:

this one was super difficult..







Thanks heaps to the homie James Dhalsem GZR who took most of those flicks.

just so you know we were well accomidated, here's a sunset view east out my Tauranga hotel room..
and Sunrise:
and though i couldn't take a competent photo... at about 3am on New Years, i looked out the hotel window to see a red new moon rising over the horizon, due east, flanked by Venus. love to know what type of omen this is! i went down to the beach to try take the photo, a passing local reveller says, "thats what we locals call a Catcher's Moon, when the new moon rises like that, its perfect for fishing". Ever seen it look red before? "na man. happy new year!!!"

this is how we living...



happy 2011 friends!! looking forward to a whole bunch new adventures :)

that Miami dream

a quick mini piece also in Miami, i didn't get a photo of it n just ripped this off Rimoni's "The Miami Dream" photo essay documenting our trip, nice one Uso!

Miami + Nor Cal adventure

So... off went the TMD's to the Primary Flight graf jam in Miami, FL. I didn't think i would get my new passport or get ticket money together in time, but somehow it all came together at the last minute.

Here's the extreme piece i painted at the jam:
Looking west from out back of our rental apartment towards Miami city:

Luckily, we were staying in picturesque South Beach, the world's greatest Art Deco archetecture spot. This is the tropical-like beach...
the water and weather were delightfully warm despite it being "winter". Looking down Washington Ave:
Ocean Drive:
They love thier custom rides too
On the way back to NZ i stopped for 4 days at San Francisco, stayed out in "The Valley" again with my LORDS crew familia. This is the freight yard in the day before the rain came
Talk of the town Barber shop hooked me up with the "Nor Cal" cut lol
this is a wall in Modesto done by me alongside Lords Rebuke, Ziek, Obses, Lerk, Kres, and Roka, spelling out LORDS many times over. it's not 100% finished due to rain but should get sent the finished flicks soon.

on my last day, Lord Obses took me sightsseing around San Fran, i love hanging out there, good times. This is me on their famous windiest street :)

recent jobs

a spa in Te Atatu (painted with the delicious M94 pint, now in Auckland!) and a reataurant bathroom and a billboard in good ol' Fielding.

just when i thought i'd been every where...

Elliot says, "can we go to Herald Island?!" I never heard of ya! but been there n done that now ay
thats the island behind him. and here we is on said island!behold the wharf etchings, from the air force. The third line is "Harmonic 01". hmmm... Bruce Cathy anyone?

South Island tour final chapter: Mt Cook to Chch

from the Otago coast, we headed back inland past the hydro power lakes. this is oldest dam of the three, Aviemore i think its called.. the water was the most amazing colour.

further on, we stopped at a river salmon farm where you can feed the fish! and then buy some fish to feed us :)
me before NZ's largest mountain, Aoraki (mount Cook).. spectack!
we stayed at Lake Tekapo for the last nite on the road, and ate some of that fresh alpine river salmon for dinner... yum!next morn, on Lake Tekapo, the famous Church of the Good Shepard... looks spectacular when its not cloudy
road-weary traveller:our last alpine vista, the Rakaia gorge. West Canterburyyy!
we finally arrived back in Christchurch, where i was born and raised. we stayed at my dad's place in scenic port Lyttelton:
there's been enough coverage of the Chch 7.1 earthquake for me to do it. we felt some gnarly aftershocks and got to see plenty of damage... its really fucked the place up i'm sorry to say

Cybela with her cousin Aska... cuties
had to get some work done too, here's some chch hell pizza shops i souped up

had to catch up with the Chch homies of course... for some night action!
and that was our South Island Tour. the end!