Holiday with Pops

ATB meets The Punisher

Wellington

The other morning as I was walking up to work through the Allenby Tce shortcut, I was offered some coffee or orange juice. This seemed quite odd given the fact that there was a whole bunch of people just standing around in the middle of the path. The guy who offered me the coffee then apologised to me saying that there had been a small delay but that my scene would start soon. As I was about to ask him what he was going on about, he must've seen a complete blank expression on my face and then asked me if I was an actor or just a passerby. It all made sense now, they were filming something but by the size of the crew and by the the way they were organized, I think we can scratch out the possibility of it being a movie or a commercial. I wouldn't be surprised it it were a local tv show production.

A few years back as I was returning home one night, I saw a guy running around the streets with only a towel around his waist. At the time I thought he must've been drunk or something for it was quite a cold night and it was around 1 or 2 am at the time. I recall thinking that in Wellington you can find the oddest people sometimes considering how small the city is. A few months later, I saw the scene replayed on the tv, the show was The Insider's Guide to Love. They had been filming in the vecinity of my home and yet you would've only noticed it had you walked directly where they were filming.

Back in Mexico City, there were a few neighborhoods that were always being used in the filming industry. Regardless of what it was, video, movie or commercial, there would be a crew shooting something. There would be a lot of people who would just come around and watch and the place would be swarming with activity. It was hard to miss. Trucks full of equipment, catering and security vehicles would be all over the place so that would also make it hard to keep it a secret. So it was nice to see how by comparison things are so simple here, no fuss, all relaxed and just having a good time.

I wonder what they were filming.

The winds have been picking up lately and you can find broken umbrellas all over the place. Nothing new really except that the numbers of broken umbrella sightings have increased quite dramatically. Here's just an example of what the wind can do, it's not very impressive for Wellington standards but it still made me take a photograph. You can see how the sign is dangling by only one pole from the roof. Glad nobody got hurt!!

Spring is in the air!

Spring has sprung! We're enjoying really nice warm days and to celebrate this the city has started the Spring Festival. They don't do anything grand but the exhibition they put up at the Botanical Gardens is quite spectacular. Just look at all those tulips!

Working again & street art

It feels like it's been ages since I last posted something. With my computer going crazy and I catching a cold, things weren't really looking too good. Fortunately I have my computer running now and even though it's not anywhere close to the way I wanted it setup, I can finally start posting again. Woohoo!

So here are a few more shots of street art I took in the past couple of weeks. I stumbled upon most of them whilst walking through one of the numerous secret walkways that Wellington has. They're not really secret, they're there in front of everybody's view, it's just that they don;t seem to exist. Confusing? Picture the scene from the movie "The Labyrinth" where Jennifer Connelly is looking for an entrance to the labyrinth and all she sees is a loooooong passageway with no entrances. Thanks to a worm that lives in one of the crevices, she's told to observe and not to presume things. Thus, she finds that there are entrances all around. So are the walkways or shortcuts in Wellington, you'd never guess where they are or where they lead to until you start walking down one.

Anyway, these guys here were taken on a shortcut that lead to a friend's house. It's not a walkway that I normally take although I used to walk it quite frequently. The one I normally use runs parallel to this one so it was a nice surprise to see that this shortcut also had street art and that it even has a familiar character!

I wonder if those red creatures are a cactus?

You'll have to excuse the quality of the pictures, it was raining when I took them so I just wanted to take them quickly. In my haste I didn't notice that the cable of my headphones was in the way of the camera. Apart from that, I'm really happy with my iPhone, I can take pictures whenever and wherever.