EUROPE BOOK TOUR WEEK THREE
06/30/09
I arrived in Berlin and was up bright and early the next morning for a trip to the aquarium... one of my favorite places to visit. The Berlin Aquarium had the widest range of jellyfish I've ever seen in one place... so cool! I hear they are very hard creatures to take care of, so I was really happy to meet them all.
I got stung by a jellyfish when I was 5 in Mexico, so I've had a love/fear relationship with them for my whole life. But you have to respect that beauty, fierceness and fragility all in one. Such amazing creatures!
They also remind me of how the macro mimics the micro- space and the deap sea, galaxies and colliding atoms, and who knows... aliens and jellyfish??
Then it was upstairs to the reptiles, and we actually caught them right at feeding time! The glass was open and we were just standing like 3 feet from them.
Crazy bowl of dead mice.... just then a group of pre-schoolers walked up and watched the rest of the feeding with us. I guess you have to learn about life and death at some point eh?
Then I was off to my friend's gallery
Bongoût where they were exhibiting
Gregory Jacobsen. Pretty crazy and awesome artwork.
Anna working at the Bongoût Atelier with awesome wallpaper.
Then it out for some fun with artist
Maria Toyko, and Anna & Meeloo who run Bongoût together.
Then I found a lifesized foam DeLorean in a gallery right down the street. Sweet! Look out Doc!
Here I am at
Modern Graphics doin my thang...
I love the rad kids that show up and actually PLAY with the toys... this little guy had a whole lot of em!
Here I am with the Modern Graphics crew and my old friend
Texas Terri from LA that showed up. I painted
her a long time ago...
Always time for sharpie lovins!!
Then Texas Terri showed us her cock that's hung below her knee. Yeow!
Then i was off to Vienna, and right after landing I went over to my friend
Fefe Talavera's exhibition on the Street Art Passage in the Museums Quartier. She has the piece above the elevator and right next to it an awesome
Space Invader tiled wall.
Super crazy awesome 2 days with 4 events... fun fun!
The next was the signing at
Inoperable, Vienna's only street art gallery.
Tattoo/poster artist
Foerdl vogueing.
After the book signing at Inoperable we walked over to the toy shop
Sixxa where I did the Gamma Mutant Space Friends signing. (You can see my new back tattoo
Chris O'Donnell just finished... helping me become friends with Jellyfish again)
At the Sixxa shop!
Then i went to Bratislava in Slovakia the next day for some fun times with the guys from Happy Needles Tattoo. Crazy times at crazy places that I cant show you photo's of...
Manhole!
Then back in Vienna, right next to the Leopolds Museum that has the largest Egon Schiele collection, I found a cool fresco painted by
Stephane Blanquet. Vienna is such a great city for supporting artists!
The last night in Veinna I hung out while my friend
Rafael tattooed Fefe's husband, artist
Remed. Rock and roll!!!
