I'm in Miami, bitch.

Not a great title for the blog but it just about captures the essence of Miami. Miami is loud, brash and all about 'glamour', parties, getting crunk and lying on the beach with thousands of fat Americans. No offense to slim Americans but, well, there really are a lot of very large ones in Miami.

The best selling t-shirt in Miami really does have the words 'I'm in Miami, bitch' written on it in big letters.

It's a real party, holiday town where the filthy rich meet the just plain filthy. It's kinda like Las Vegas on the beach, without the casinos.

Here's the take off from LA, spent a few days in there in Venice and Santa Monica, surfed every day, sweet.....

Touch down in Miami....

The only flight that worked for my schedule was American Airlines, possibly the worst airline in the world. If you want to eat something on the 5 hour flight to Miami from LA, you gotta pay for it. $6 for a sandwich and $6 for a beer. How fucking low rent can you get. They can't even afford paint for their shitty planes, most of it is bare aluminium.....!

Aw yeah, I'm not in Hong Kong now.....

Blue skies every day but one heck of a boring beach....

Outside of the beach and the nightclubs, there is a great little art scene, to which I've just contributed with a solo exhibition which opened last week.

The show was at a great new art space called AE District which is run by Max Pierre and his crew, possibly the nicest bunch you'll ever meet. The opening turned into a party with an awesome new band from NYC playing called 'Rick Lucy' (google them, they're on MySpace).

The show was a great success which was a relief because America is really hurting from the financial crisis.

myself with gallery owner Max..

Your boy, Simon Birch.....

The opening was sponsored by a vodka company and they made a special cocktail just for me!

It was yummy of course!

While in Miami I checked out some cool stuff, these first 2 from the Museum of contemporary Art who has a trippy abstract video art show on:

But more impressive than the state run museum was this private museum owned by some super rich family called Rubell. This is their own museum, double the size of the MOCA, and just an amazing collection of work. The show I saw was of 30 black artists, just wonderful stuff:

And that concludes todays blog

I'll try to do a report this week on the Hong Kong Art Fair. It opens today and is on until Sunday at the convention centre in Wan Chai. It's awesome!!! and my work is on display there too!!