Malaysia part I - the art of George Town

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July 19th 2018

Published: November 11th 2018

We love cats - and so do the artists in George Town apparently George Town is situated on Penang Island in North East of mainland Malaysia. It is an interesting place on its own and we are going to tell you more about that in the next blog entry. Here we are going to focus on just one aspect of George Town - the city is full of street art. We have written about street art before. There is a re... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Woman with sticks

Many famous characters - and a cat

From left to right: An alien, Mickey Mouse, Salvador Dali, the Cheshire Cat, Marilyn Monroe, Unknown man, Homer Simpson, Albert Einstein and Darth Vader. Yep, there is actually a cat in there. Photo number 13 of a cat.

Two men and a bicycle

Emma interacts with a painting

Emma is not the first one playing with this

Anti smoking campain?

Boy on motorcycle

The painted boy "sits" on a genuine motorcycle.

A Bon Jovi quote

On the elevator in the hotel we saw this Bon Jovi quote. It doesn't qualify as art but we throw it in nevertheless. But it is not our favorite Bon Jovi quote. That is "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all"

We did see at least one real cat in George Town

We finish as we started, with a photo of a cat. That must be photo number 14 with a cat in it.

12th November 2018

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Creative flair
Love this blog! We got one of those maps and went street art hunting when we were there in 2014... it was heaps of fun. The original 2d / 3d combination ones where commissioned pieces done by Ernest Zacharevic (kids on bicycle, boy on chair, boy on motorbike etc.), and they were so popular that copy cat ones like the kids on a swing and kids leaning out of the bakery window started emerging. Lovely to see that so many of the ones we enjoyed looking at are still hanging on. We loved the cat ones too, but just couldn't get into the metal sculpture ones. Looking forward to your thoughts on George Town :)

12th November 2018

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thanks for your comment
Glad to hear that you enjoyed reading the blog. The cat theme we didn't notice until we came home actually. When we looked through the pictures we realized there were a lot of cats there. /Ake

12th November 2018

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Entering in
Wonderful collection of street art from Georgetown. Love that some are interactive and others like this one beg for 3D props. Many favourites but this one is definitely reaching up there for me.

12th November 2018

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

It was great fun hunting them all down
It was good fun to walk around and try to find them all. I think my favourite is the two children reaching out through a window trying to steal bread from a bicycle outside. The two children are appararently the shop owners own children. /Ake

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