Amerikan John

Amerikan John

Photos and tales from around the globe.

Posts Tagged ‘art’

Maltese Buses

You only need to be on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta for a few minutes before you notice one of their main tourist attractions: the public buses.  The buses of Malta are driver-owned and heavily customized, usually involving fine detail brushwork,the names of children or saints, or velvet interior.  I love the idea of [...]

"Desire"

Jeju Love Land

As a outsider living in the innocent/sexually repressed culture of suburban Seoul, I expected that any museum called “Love Land” would feature sculptures of people holding hands, or maybe a photography exhibition on “coupling” (when couples were matching outfits).  Boy was I wrong.  Jeju Love Land Sculpture Theme Park is a real life XXX sculpture [...]