Milde's Smoking Lounge

[MildeStoner]

Thanks man!

Here are some shots from a beautiful winters day last week, I took a wander along the coast, hopped on and off a train, snapping a few graffiti photos and such. First, inside a wholecar looking out, nice contrast between picturesque ocean and chromed out windows:

Recently, these herbal medicine practitioners have been popping up left right and centre, usually accompanied by a ridiculous claim:

Oh I do like to be beside the sea side..

Quick Killers:

 

[MildeStoner]

Continued:

2 unusual signs:

 

[shokdee]

Wow! your fotos bring back memories of tiptoeing around the pine forests at the foot of Table Mountain. Say, have a look at my gallery (I've lots more pics, hee hee).

I really love the wacky signs, at least someone has a sense of humour. Your local graffiti is totally dwanky man, ultrazef!

I trust your own tag looks better

 

[MildeStoner]

Hey, had a look at the funghi in your gallery, all are unfamiliar to me, only know a bit abouit our local edibles, Thailand is another story..
More pics a bit later, about to wake and bake some organic indoor exodus bubble, mmmmm

 

[MildeStoner]

A few shots from last weekend's escape to a natural hot spring, resident peacocks:

 

[noyd666]

sawmill I worked in many years ago had peacocks wild through the valley, and they used to copy the chainsaw sounds perfectly, noisy fuckers.

 

[MildeStoner]

Yeah these were oddly silent, not a peep out of them in the few days we were up there.

Thought I posted these earlier, round 2, the baths themselves:

A lichen speckled rock:

More than meets the eye:

Desolate karoo:

A friend outstanding in this field:

 

[MildeStoner]

Mmmmm, lack of stimulating conversation and over abundance of pictures and my own posts lead to this threads premature demise. RIP!

 

[shokdee]

Win some, lose sum apparently!

Better luck next time, boet.

What's up yo sleeve...? hee hee

CYA

Shokdee

 

[sutra1]

I really enjoy reading this thread! Inspired me to acquire some more cacti & succulents. And I've learned more about South Africa. Please Milde keep it going..........

 

[MildeStoner]

Glad to have inspired a fellow cactus fiend! Will try and pop in with an update now and then, but I think it might be akin to Frankensteins ill-fated attempts to breath life into the lifeless

 

[Stoner4Life]

you seem to be our resident tagger Milde, when I found this I thought of your thread. This is wickedly shitty news.



http://news.yahoo.com/miami-teen-graffiti-artist-dies-being-shot-police-171309825.html

MIAMI BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Miami Beach, Florida, police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old graffiti artist who died after being shot with a Taser during a pre-dawn chase with officers who said they caught him spray-painting a building.

Israel Hernandez-Llach, known by his so-called tag name as "Reefa," won notice for his graffiti work as well as for sculpture and painting.

"He did it a lot," said Hernandez-Llach's friend Rafael Lynch, referring to his graffiti. "He wasn't a bad person at all; the cops didn't like him or what he looked like," he added, saying his friend was also an avid skateboarder.

The two hung out at a Miami Beach skateboard shop where Lynch works.

"To me, right now, he's still here. I hung out with him so much I couldn't imagine him dead," Lynch said.

Miami Beach Police Chief Raymond Martinez said Hernandez-Llach fled after being seen "vandalizing private property" shortly before dawn on Tuesday in Miami Beach.

He was chased by police and ignored commands to stop running, at which point an officer used his Taser electroshock gun, Martinez said in a statement.

Once in custody, the Colombian-born artist "displayed signs of medical duress" and was pronounced dead soon after.

"At this time, the cause of death has not been determined by the medical examiner's office. Autopsy and toxicology results are still pending as well," Martinez said, while offering condolences to the artist's family.

Poor kid, why tazer him, so dangerous he had to be off the streets??? do we all feel safer now??? won't be long, people will be taking back the streets.......



I'm sure more of his art can be Googled/Binged.

 

[shokdee]

Thanks stoners

R.I.P Reefa

 

[tea_is_back]

thx stoner,

...fcking cps
r.i.p. reefa

 

[Stoner4Life]

this kid looks like he weighs about 125#'s, a threat to no one.

R.I.P. Reefa

 

[MildeStoner]

Ahhh that's rough, poor kid. The climate down here is even less friendly, many writers who paint trains have multiple accounts of being shot at, a friend had a shot miss him and hit his bag, exploding black spraypaint all over his face in a chase once. Have recently renewed my interest in painting my name on other peoples stuff, hopefully I'll avoid situations of this ilk, at least for the meanwhile

 

[shokdee]

and that vdo: DON'T TASER ME BRO!!!

Taser, pepper spray, rubber bullet, water canon, etc etc..

"non-lethal weapons"



Take care MildeStoner! Maybe you can start a thread only about cacti, for the lovers of spiny things!

$hokdee

 

[Donald Mallard]

yep i love the spiny fellas too,
the contrast between the gnarly spiny deal,
and the delicate flowers is amazing ...

 

[shokdee]

But no love for the King of gnarly, durian, hey Ducky.

Oh no, the spiny one smells too bad! :holds nose:

To bad!!

I love ALL things gnarly, spiny, twisty and spikey.

Hey, MildeStoner, what about it? A thread about cacti and succulents.

Your collection's incredible and you're well informed.

$hokdee

 

[shokdee]

Howzit mildestoner china, thinking of you and trust you are feeling zef today, and tomrrow!

Good luck with your off-line life. Say hey, if you get the urge to tag public property, you could get into trouble. I again urge you to use the SPRAYCAN tool of your fav graphics package and submit digital doodles for >old timers< like Ducky, Stoner and Noydie to gaggle about!

You have many cyber friends ready to lend a helping hand...so keep you karma kleen!

Or it'll get you on the flipside.

$hokdee