Friday, 4 July 2008

venice beach



...rocks my socks.
see here:  THE PHOTOS





having bemoaned the lack of a place where i feel hippie dippy and close to nature, i have now found a place full of beautiful little tattooed gum-chewing freaks. (name that movie, go!)

it's like the northern quarter moved to the side of the ocean, and got some sunlight, and a healthy injection of tourism.

or the big chill splayed along a promenade, a little more commercialised.


street sellers, performers, dancers, jewellery makers, dress designers, pot smokers, artists, musicians and crazies of every variety patrol the streets. and you can lie on the beach if you get tired of it. aaaand there are a bunch of tattooists along the promenade too.   :)


i actually saw a couple on rollerblades in swimwear walking their dog.
and a guy dressed as...a bush? a monster? on stilts..

loads of rastafarians --
assorted hippies--
girls in US flag bikinis--
pierced and illustrated people galore--


















it was great. i love them all. made me want to pierce innumberable parts of myself and get tattoos all over my arms. and dreadlocks. bleach blonde ones. [i didn't. yet.]

and there was so much i wanted to buy! am definitely going back, it's an easy bus journey.
all in all a really lovely day :D
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