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International Volvo Photo Locations Part 515

2021 – Volvo S60 T6 AWD Inscription at the Hanbok mural by Royyal Dog at The Container Yard on Seaton St in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸.

Great photography for Volvo Cars magazine Edit by Patrik Olsson.

2019 – Hanbok mural by Royyal Dog at The Container Yard on Seaton St in Los Angeles, USA (Google Streetview).

2022 – Hanbok mural by Royyal Dog at The Container Yard on Seaton St in Los Angeles, USA (Google Streetview).

The Hanbok (Korean traditional dress) mural by Royyal Dog is located at the The Container Yard gallery on Seaton St in the Arts Distric, Los Angeles, USA.

Royyal Dog (Chris Changyang Shim, Korean: 심찬양, formerly Royal Dog), is a Korean graffiti writer and street artist. He is best known for his photorealistic murals of African American women in traditional Korean hanbok. Shim started gaining recognition in 2016 for his murals featuring rap icons and multiculturalism in the United States.

Shim studied cartoon animation at Chungkang College of Cultural Industries. Wanting to become a missionary to Africa, he began studies in 2011 at the International Evangelical College in the Philippines in Pastoral Studies, but left school in 2013 to pursue painting in Perth, Australia. He draws much of his inspiration from hip hop culture.

Other work from Royyal Dog:

“Flower Has Bloomed”, 2016 – The Container Yard, Los Angeles, CA
Michelle Obama, 2019 – 74th Street and Chappel Avenue, Chicago, IL
Kobe Bryant tribute, 2020 – 400 S. Alameda Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Royyal Dog currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and jindo/labrador retriever.

The artist Royyal Dog writes on Instagram: My life has changed after first painting at TCY. Always appreciate the help @vyalone the guy who supported painting a black woman in hanbok idea from the very beginning.
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Models @m_uera @imablackpearl @ta_russia
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Thanks for the support
Hanbok(Korean traditional dress) from @hanbok89 Hanbok Master Mrs. Park🙏🏼 : 박술녀 선생님 귀한 한복들 지원 항상 감사드립니다.
Reference photo by my man Dee @lionchrome00
Model from @platinummodels.korea
Sponsored by @sprayplanet 🔥🔥🔥 @thecontaineryard big thanks

The Arts District is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States. The city community planning boundaries are Alameda Street on the west which blends into Little Tokyo, First Street on the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and Violet Street on the south. Largely composed of industrial buildings dating from the early 20th century, the area has recently been revitalized, and its street scene slowly developed in the early the 21st century. New art galleries have increased recognition of the area amidst the entire downtown where other art museums are found.

In February 2020 the website la-artsdistrict.com was launched to highlight Arts District mural art and artists to the public. It includes a current map of the Arts District and professional photos of the mural artwork found here and in the surrounding downtown LA neighborhoods. The website also highlights local artists with art maps, interviews & photos specific to them.

Article with photo in the Swedish Volvo Magasin (link to volvocars.com).

More information at en.wikipedia.org, volvocars.com and royyaldog.com.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 514

2021 – Volvo S60 T6 AWD Inscription at Global Angel Wings mural by Colette Miller on S Hewitt Street in Arts District in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸.

2021 – Volvo S60 T6 AWD Inscription at Global Angel Wings mural by Colette Miller on S Hewitt Street in Arts District in Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸.

Great photography for Volvo Cars magazine Edit by Patrik Olsson.

2019 – Global Angel Wings mural by Colette Miller on S Hewitt Street in Arts District in Los Angeles, USA (Google Streetview)

2022 – Global Angel Wings mural by Colette Miller on S Hewitt Street in Arts District in Los Angeles, USA (Google Streetview)

Global Angel Wings mural by Colette Miller is located on S Hewitt Street in the Arts District in Los Angeles, USA.

Colette Miller created the “Global Angel Wings Project” in 2012. In the streets of Los Angeles, the city of Angels. They were painted to remind humanity that we are the angels of the earth. They are human sized interactive pubic art wings that people take photos with and thus become part of the artwork.

The first pair was just street art but the response was natural, immediate and spontainious – from people of all sorts and backgrounds. Colette has painted wings globally – Kenya, Australia, CEngland, Japan, France, Cuba, Juarez Mexico, Dubai, Taiwan, and more, and many in the USA.

Though some are commissioned and others gifted, the wings themselves are free to the world. Never owned by anyone, not even Colette, though they are of her provenance and work.

Artist Collete Miller writes on Instagram: These are the wings at the very first location I ever painted them. Downtown LA across from the American hotel . Way back in 2012 . The idea came into my mind as I drove throughLA. I’d been meditating a lot and I started envisioning and imagining huge wings on the walls of places- big enough to interact with . I decided to act on the vision – I thought they could remind humanity of our true selves our divine self- the higher natures of humanKIND- There was a festival that weekend in 2012 and people lined up and a friend, Rolo put a step for kids to use . Two friends who have since left earth helped me that night of painting and both ironically lived across the hall from each other at the #American . Stuart Noble- who also worked with Shepard Fairey helping him wheatpaste his work on the streets and my dearest friend of all Stevie Casual, who helped me not only that day but 18 years of my life everyday in some way ❤️❤️ and still does ❤️.

The Arts District is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States. The city community planning boundaries are Alameda Street on the west which blends into Little Tokyo, First Street on the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and Violet Street on the south. Largely composed of industrial buildings dating from the early 20th century, the area has recently been revitalized, and its street scene slowly developed in the early the 21st century. New art galleries have increased recognition of the area amidst the entire downtown where other art museums are found.

In February 2020 the website la-artsdistrict.com was launched to highlight Arts District mural art and artists to the public. It includes a current map of the Arts District and professional photos of the mural artwork found here and in the surrounding downtown LA neighborhoods. The website also highlights local artists with art maps, interviews & photos specific to them.

Cover of the Swedish Volvo Magasin (link to volvocars.com).

More information at globalangelwingsproject.com, volvocars.com and colettemiller.com.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 513

2021 – Volvo S60 T6 AWD Inscription at Park Blvd near Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree National Park, USA 🇺🇸.

Great photography for Volvo Cars magazine Edit by Patrik Olsson.

2022 – Park Blvd near Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree National Park, USA. (Google Streetview)

2022 – Park Blvd near Hidden Valley in Joshua Tree National Park, USA. (Google Streetview)

Park Blvd is located near Hidden Valley, south of the Boys Scout Parking and Intersection Rock, in Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA.

Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of San Bernardino and Los Angeles and north of Palm Springs. It is named after the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act.

Straddling San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains traverse the southwest edge of the park.

Several hiking trails are within the park, many of which can be accessed from a campground. Shorter trails, such as the one-mile hike through Hidden Valley, offer a chance to view the beauty of the park without straying too far into the desert. A section of the California Riding and Hiking Trail meanders for 56 km through the western side of the park. The lookout point at Keys View, towards the south of the park, offers views of the Coachella Valley, the Salton Sea, the San Andreas Fault, the Santa Rosa Mountains, and the city of Palm Springs.

Hidden Valley is a self-guiding, one-mile loop trail that winds among massive boulders through what was believed to be a legendary cattle rustlers’ hideout. It is one of the most popular and scenic hiking trails in Joshua Tree National Park. The area is also a popular rock-climbing area. Many visitors enjoy just watching the climbers in action.

Because of the Hidden Valley’s natural encasement, a unique micro-habitat brings together a wide range of plants and animals not typically found together in other sections of the Park. Healthy populations of Joshua Tree, pinyon, juniper and oak share space with mesquite, yucca, nolina, various cacti and other species.

Photo from the article in Volvo Magasin (link to volvocars.com).

According to various sources, In 1936, desert pioneer Bill Keys blasted a notch through the rocks walls to improve access for his cattle herds. Today this serves as Hidden Valley’s main access point.

A nearby campground is available for tenting and small RV’s, 25′ or less.

More information at en.wikipedia.org, volvocars.com and home.nps.gov/jotr.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 512

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2018 – Volvo V60 T6 AWD Inscription at Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town (Google Streetview)

2022 – Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town (Google Streetview)

2022 – Waalburg on Burg Street in Cape Town (Google Streetview)

Waalburg building is located at Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa.

Waalburg, Sanlam ‘s head office designed by the first Afrikaans architect, Wynand Louw, was built on this valuable plot on the corner of Waal and Burg Streets in Cape Town after the insurance company made an irresistible offer for the land to the shareholders of De Zuid-Afrikaan has.

De Zuid-Afrikaan was the first Dutch newspaper in the true sense of the word in South Africa, although it was preceded by the weekly De Verzamelaar (1826). The premises of the office and printing house of De Zuid-Afrikaan, on the corner of Burg and Waal Streets, became so valuable that the shareholders accepted an offer from the insurance company Sanlam to close the business. The building that Sanlam erected on the prestigious site later became Waalburg and Sanlam housed until the company built its new head office on the recycled Cape beach area, at the time the tallest building in Africa. It later became the headquarters of Naspers and became known as the Naspers Center.

The South African National Life Insurance Company (Sanlam) is a South African financial services group headquartered in Cape Town. It is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Namibian Stock Exchange.

Wynand Hendrik Louw was a South African architect and with Gerard Moerdijk, with whom he was in partnership for several years, the first major African architect. He played an important role in the architectural scene of the first four decades of the twentieth century and in time he was regarded by the Afrikaans-speaking members of this profession as a patriarchal figure. As the first Afrikaans-speaking architect with his early works, Louw laid a solid foundation for the later extensive contribution of Afrikaans speakers to this profession. The numerous assignments he often had to perform alone, such as the 69 cities and towns he had to perform in 1925 in the performance of his professional duties, are surely an unparalleled achievement.

Louws business buildings for insurance companies such as Sanlam at Waal Street, Cape Town (1932, the famous Waalburg), and the Old Mutual in Darling Street, Cape Town, are seen as his most successful projects.

The SANTAM and SANLAM Building (now known as ‘Waalburg’), completed to the designs of Louw and Louw in the same year as the Commercial Union Building, is a case in point. Rising sheer from the street to a height of seven storeys, the impression of a dominant verticality is reinforced by the treatment of the pilaster-like bays, which terminate in a step-pyramid configuration. The spandrels in the bays are decorated with a variety of low-relief bronze and pre-cast concrete decorative panels which repeat across both the Wale and Burg Street elevations, succeeding, according to Die Huisgenoot (September 1932:47), in counteracting the potential for ‘monotony’ latent in the ‘simplicity that distinguishes a.building like this one’. (source)

More information at sanlam.co.za, artefacts.co.za and af.wikipedia.org.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 511

2005 – Volvo S60 at Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport, on Convair Rd, Matroosfontein, Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.

2005 – Volvo S60 at Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport, on Convair Rd, Matroosfontein, Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.

2005 – Volvo S60 at Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport, on Convair Rd, Matroosfontein, Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.

2005 – Volvo S60 at Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport, on Convair Rd, Matroosfontein, Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town

2022 – Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town

2022 – Base 4 Aviation at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town

Base 4 Aviation is located at Cape Town International Airport, on Convair Rd in Matroosfontein, Cape Town in South Africa.

Base 4 Aviation is a group of companies made up of Aircraft Charter, Pilot Training, Maintenance, and Sales divisions and is fully licensed and accredited with the South African Civil Aviation Authority. The group was established in 2001 and has been delivering aviation services to the aviation industry, not only in South Africa, but also in its neighbouring countries Namibia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Angola, and beyond.

Cape Town International Airport is the primary international airport serving the city of Cape Town, and is the second-busiest airport in South Africa and fourth-busiest in Africa. Located approximately 20 kilometres from the city center, the airport was opened in 1954 to replace Cape Town’s previous airport, Wingfield Aerodrome. Cape Town International Airport is the only airport in the Cape Town metropolitan area that offers scheduled passenger services. The airport has domestic and international terminals, linked by a common central terminal.

The airport has direct flights from South Africa’s other two main urban areas, Johannesburg and Durban, as well as flights to smaller centres in South Africa. Internationally, it has direct flights to several destinations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. The air route between Cape Town and Johannesburg was the world’s ninth-busiest air route in 2011 with an estimated 4.5 million passengers.

Cape Town International Airport is approximately 20 kilometres from the city centre and is accessible from the N2 freeway, with Airport Approach Road providing a direct link between the N2 (at exit 16) and the airport. The airport can also be indirectly accessed from the R300 freeway via the M12, M10 and M22.

More information at base4.co.za and capetown-airport.com.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 510

2014 – Volvo S80 on Helen Suzman Blvd in Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.
(Great photography by Oscar Hyltbring / ThisisMade). Note that the photo was mirrored in post-production.

2014 – Volvo V70 on Helen Suzman Blvd in Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.
(Great photography by Oscar Hyltbring / ThisisMade. Note that the photo was mirrored in post-production.)

2014 – Volvo V70 on Helen Suzman Blvd in Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Helen Suzman Boulevard or M6 in De Waterkant in Cape Town, South Africa (Google Streetview)

2022 – Helen Suzman Boulevard or M6 in De Waterkant in Cape Town, South Africa (Google Streetview)

2007 – Volvo S80 V8 AWD on Helen Suzman Boulevard or M6 in De Waterkant in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Helen Suzman Boulevard or M6 in De Waterkant in Cape Town, South Africa (Google Streetview)

Helen Suzman Boulevard is a motorway next to Protea Hotel Victoria Junction and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Helen Suzman Boulevard has a length of 0.59 kilometres.
Part of the Helen Suzman Boulevard is abanded, the building of the flyover was stopped during development.

In 2011, the Western Boulevard was renamed to Helen Suzman Boulevard to honor Helen Suzman after the Eastern Boulevard was earlier renamed to Nelson Mandela Boulevard.

Helen Suzman was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician. She represented a series of liberal and centre-left opposition parties during her 36-year tenure in the whites-only, National Party-controlled House of Assembly of South Africa at the height of apartheid.

She hosted the meeting that founded the Progressive Party in 1959, and was its only MP in the 160-member House for thirteen years. She was the only member of the South African Parliament to consistently and unequivocally oppose all apartheid legislation.

Suzman was instrumental in improving prison conditions for members of the banned African National Congress including Nelson Mandela, despite her reservations about Mandela’s revolutionary policies, and was also known for using her parliamentary privilege to evade government censorship and pass information to the media about the worst abuses of apartheid. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Foreshore Freeway Bridge, also known as Cape Town’s Unfinished Bridge, is an incomplete section of what was intended to be the Eastern Boulevard Highway (now called the Helen Suzman Boulevard) in the city bowl of Cape Town, South Africa. Conceptualised and designed in the late 1960s, work began in the early 1970s with the freeway aimed at alleviating future traffic congestion in the city expected in the years to come. However, due to budget constraints in city expenditure at the time, the project never came to completion and has stood in its unfinished state since construction officially ended in 1977. While there has been much speculation in local press over the years regarding the freeway’s eventual conclusion, the city council has yet to come to a decision regarding the matter. The structure has become somewhat of a tourist attraction over the years and is also a popular movie and fashion shoot location.

The Transport for Cape Town initiative announced in 2012 sought the input of design students at the University of Cape Town to find an affordable solution to the unfinished bridge and during a presentation on April 14, 2014 at the Cape Town City Hall approximately 600 students exhibited their ideas. Some of these included planting trees on the overpass, turning it into a roller coaster or skate park, creating a street arcade below and also possibly some sort of waterway. Mayor Patricia de Lille, present at the exhibition said “it was important to use Cape Town’s designation as World Design Capital as an opportunity to think differently”. Once the exhibition closed UCT handed the students’ projects over to the Transport for Cape Town committee for evaluation with a decision yet to be announced.

More information at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshore_Freeway_Bridge and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Suzman.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 509

2002 – Volvo S80 at Afrikaans Language Monument on Gabbema Doordrift St in Paarl South Africa 🇿🇦.
(Great photography by Martijn Oort).

2022 – Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl

2022 – Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl

The Afrikaans Language Monument (or Afrikaanse Taalmonument) is located on a hill overlooking Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Officially opened on 10 October 1975, it commemorates the semicentenary of Afrikaans being declared an official language of South Africa separate from Dutch. Also, it was erected on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (the Society of Real Afrikaners) in Paarl, the organisation that helped strengthen Afrikaners’ identity and pride in their language. The monument was used as a filming location for the Twelfth series of Doctor Who.

The monument consists of various tapering structures of a convex and concave nature, symbolising the influences of different languages and cultures on Afrikaans itself, as well as political developments in South Africa, as follows:

Clear West – the European heritage of the language
Magical Africa – the African influences on the language
Bridge – between Europe and Africa
Afrikaans – the language itself
Republic – declared in 1961
Malay language and culture

Photo from BMW campaign titled ‘1955, 1936, 1956, Welcome to dontknowwhere, The other end…’ was published in Argentina in April, 2008. It was created for the BMW, by ad agency TBWA.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and taalmuseum.co.za.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 508

2008 – Volvo S60 at Iziko Old Town House Museum on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Iziko Old Town House Museum on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa (Google Streetview)

Iziko Old Town House Museum is located on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa.

Situated in the hub of Cape Town on Greenmarket Square, the Michaelis Collection is housed in the former City Hall (the Old Town House), which was built in 1755 in the Cape Rococo style.

Donated by Sir Max Michaelis in 1914, the Michaelis collection consists of a world-renowned selection of Netherlandish art from the seventeenth-century Golden Age. There are works by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Jacob van Ruisdael, Anthony van Dyck and numerous others.

The role played by building and collection in the cultural life of the Mother City is enhanced by its prominent position right in its historical centre on Greenmarket Square. But this role also continues after-hours, as the popular venue for chamber-music concerts and lectures on a variety of cultural topics, meetings by cultural organisations and receptions in the Van Dyck and Frans Hals Rooms or in the intimate courtyard behind the building.

And, in addition to the permanent collections, there is a consistent flow of special, temporary exhibitions widening the scope of the museum to cater for the cultural interests of all Capetonians and tourists alike. Thus, the Michaelis Collection in the Old Town House has become a place to which to return from time to time.

Greenmarket Square is a historical square in the centre of old Cape Town, South Africa. The square was built in 1696, when a burgher watch house was erected.

Over the years, the square has served as a slave market, a vegetable market, a parking lot and more recently, a flea market trading mainly African souvenirs, crafts and curios. Near the centre of the square is a hand-operated pump used to bring clean water to the surface from an underground river that runs through the city. During the apartheid era, Greenmarket Square was often the focus of political protests, due in part to its proximity to parliament, as well as the ethnicity of its traders and shoppers.

More information at iziko.org.za and en.wikipedia.org.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 507

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa

Old Mutual Gym West Campus is located on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands, Cape Town in South Africa.

As far as I know, the Newport Fittness Club sign was added in post-production and never existed on this location.

The Old Mutual Gym is part of Old Mutual Head Office, a pan-African investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.

Smuts was born to Afrikaner parents in the British Cape Colony. Smuts was an internationalist who played a key role in establishing and defining the League of Nations, United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and oldmutual.co.za.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 506

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD on Beach Road (near Sunset Beach) at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD on Beach Road (near Sunset Beach) at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Beach Road at Sea Point in Cape Town (Google Streetview)

Beach Road is located near Sunset Beach at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sea Point is one of Cape Town’s most affluent and densely populated suburbs, situated between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, a few kilometres to the west of Cape Town’s Central Business District (CBD). Moving from Sea Point to the CBD, one passes first through the small suburb of Three Anchor Bay, then Green Point. Seaward from Green Point is the area known as Mouille Point (pronounced MOO-lee), where the local lighthouse is situated. It borders to the southwest the suburb of Bantry Bay.

Sea Point is the only seaside suburb of Cape Town with significant high-rise development and this, along with other factors, has made it a very popular residential area, or for investing in first or second homes and apartments.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and thelifestylehunter.com.