I love lamp

I bought 2 of these today. They are cool. They are also from a cool place.
The light market!
Light Market: A market with light shops, only light shops and lots of light shops. With so many lovely lights.

Will transport anything Walla.

the Holi effect

A little old lady with purple hair.

Elephant trafficing

I realise it's a little cliched showing elephants on main roads in India, but even after 2 years, it still blows my mind. This ellie was sitting in traffic like the rest of us.

New bench, I love you

Our new balcony bench. How beautiful is it?
In a city where barker lounges are still cool, a furniture and wood lover needs a little trick to make home, well, home. This is from one of my favourite place in Delhi. It seems to be the 'source of the Nile' (as my dad calls it) for all the antique furniture shops around the world.

The coolest cats on the promenade

I HAD to post this photo. Even though it's not in Delhi, it kinda has an Indian comfort-ability about it. 'I am me and I will do what I want, even if it's going for a walk in my boxers on the Cape town promenade with a big brown umbrella.'

I respect Pedestrian's right

I love this sign.

Firstly, only one right? Which right? the right to freedom of speech? The right to cross the road to get to the other side? The right to be knocked over? Anyway, it doesn't matter which it is, there is still only one of them. And I respect it too.

Secondly, in Delhi respecting pedestrians is unusual. I think this might be because of the huge population and the seeming little respect for life in Delhi. I have personally almost be knocked over a lot of times.

Party time.

The cat threw a party. No one came

Dawgs

Let them lie.


Let them swim.

One day...

I love how people recycle things, give them a new use that I would never expect. This photo was taken on MG road - from Delhi to Gurgain - a crappy road, under the new metro, which isn't crappy. One day, I will have this in my house.

What a shirt!

Mighty

I have just launched my brand Mighty - Handbags and other awesome things.
The launch event and Pop-up shop is in Cape Town this week.
See flyer!
& blog and website.

www.mighty.withtank.com/

www.mighty-popularcasecentre.blogspot.com

Handbags

I have been designing a range of handbags and here are 3 of the prototypes. More exciting stuff to come. ALL THESE DESIGNS ARE COPYRIGHT, SO BEWARE COPYCATS.

Meh.

It's interesting how a year ago, these things were amazing and now... just ordinary.

The Holi war

By 8pm Monday the first of March 2010, Elite Squadron D100 declared a defeat in the war and retreated from the battlefield. No lives were lots, but soldiers went home without their dignity and there were many multicoloured injuries.

...if it wasn't for those meddling kids

Sergeant Adam's amazing tactics for winning the Holi war:

how-to-win-a-fight-against-twenty-children

MAYDAY MAYDAY

Captains log: 1300 hours. 26.02.2010

*csh*
Mayday Mayday, this is Captain van Embden Berkowitz. Position Saket, New Delhi, India.
I believe I am in grave and imminent danger and require immediate assistance.

I have been abandoned by Lieutenant Dan Berk who has been relocated on a special mission in London for the duration of Holi*. I am now manning the Indian Home Front Barricks alone, which has taken numerous hits.

I am surrounded by hostile neighbourhood children, armed with an artillery of water balloons.
I am doing all that I can, but the junior hostiles have infiltrated the precautionary barriers. I am being attacked from all sides, the roof tops have been over run and all balconies are occupied by the enemy.

I am running low on supplies and leopard crawling through the backstreets to the local market is getting too dangerous.

Private Annalisa and Sargeant Adam are expected to report for duty to head up the counter attack on Monday.
But the battle rages on and additional re-enforcements and artillery are required.
As a matter of urgency, wire a defensive strategy, and a plan for a counter attack.
I am surrounded, repeat, surrounded. Emergency, evasive tactics need to be employed.

OVER AND OUT
*csh*




Holi also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival. The main day is celebrated by people throwing colored powder and colored water at each other.

Wedding Dancing

Ganga's wedding

Ganga (more about her and the awesome food she cooks still coming) invited Laura, Dan and I to her brother in law's wedding.
Unfortunately Laura was in London and Dan had to work, so I nervously ventured over on my lonesome.
I went to Ganga's home before the ceremony to watch the family's preparations. I arrived at 7 and watched everyone get ready. The groom dressed without letting his feet touch the floor, his sisters adorned him with money wreaths, there was a walking band and there was dancing and dancing and dancing.
We were meant to arrive at the Bride's house at 8:30 for the ceremony, but 11:30 rolls around and we are still in the street, groom waiting patiently in his horse drawn carriage, lights lining the road and still half a kilometer to go.
I was advised that the bride and groom would only meet (and this meeting would be the meeting for the first time) in 3 hours, which was just too long for me after 4 and a half hours of celebrating. I'd had my fun and my dancing shoes needed to return to the cupboard.

What I took from my small participation in this wedding was the realisation that I have never truly celebrated. The colours, the dancing, the laughing and the effort put towards making a mad procession out of the whole thing was mind blowing. The family was dancing for hours and went on dancing long after I dragged myself home. And then 2 more days after that. The stamina...

Here are some photos.