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Cheetah in the garden
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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.
25 photos | 14,357 views
items are from between 15 Jun 2007 & 03 Feb 2008.