Cheetah in the garden

A few weeks ago I went to the Cans Festival, around the corner from Waterloo station in London. I took a few pictures and put them on Flickr, including some work by Minneapolis artist Broken Crow.

A day or so later, Broken Crow (real name, John) added some photos to his Flickr favourites, so I dropped him a flickrmail, telling him how much I enjoyed the show and jokingly suggested that if he's ever in London again and needs a wall to paint, then he's welcome to paint my house.

John asked me to send him a photo of my wall, said it was perfect and that he had a spare day between visiting relatives in London and painting some commissions in Paris. Three weeks later he's here, in my garden, with his fiancee Christin, painting a 12x15ft mural.

We had a great day - the weather was perfect and I can't quite believe it happened (I got up early this morning to look out the window and check that it's really there and now I can't type for more than five minutes before shooting a glance towards the cheetah to check again).

Huge thanks to John and Christin - the nicest strangers I've ever met! I couldn't thank you two enough. Hope you have a great time in Paris.

The wall was painted on June 14, 2008.

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items are from between 15 Jun 2007 & 03 Feb 2008.