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What is the connection (if any) between the symbol on this house in Sin, Huesca, and that of the Día supermarket chain?
(
Sin really does exist. Here’s the sign:

One would obviously like to live in it, at least for a while, but owners are reluctant to sell.
)

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Pietre dure

There’s some excellent decorative stonework in the posher parts of Barcelona’s Eixample, but the Italians are in a different league.

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“When I arrived in Seseña there was just this guy with a donkey”

Paco “El pocero”–in Wales he’d be called Jones the Drains–is Francisco Hernando, the 57-year-old illiterate building a €6B, 13,500-house development, Spain’s largest ever, in a village near Madrid, whether the mayor likes it or not, and he doesn’t. The mayor, Manuel Fuentes, is receiving police protection, and Alfredo Urdaci wants to know what happened to [...]

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Sinful alien redheads: Roda-soques and Nathalie Borgé

Recognising an urgent need, Barcelona’s excellent Institut Français has undertaken to explain love to the Catalans (translation Googlebotted for style, steam, and speed):

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Ramos strikes again

John Chappell writes that “Only [Rafael Ramos] could somehow establish a comparison between a 1930s realist painter and the Iraq war.” What, Barcelona’s leading illiterate plagiarist with an original idea? John might change his mind if he checked Jonathan Jones’ Guardian article, published last week. In fact, all that Ramos (search) adds to the sum [...]

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Dirty dolls

Apparently the fine children’s illustrator Honor Appleton (1879-1951) was not such a good girl after all:

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(illustration for previous post)

The scan below (100K) is of the front cover of Gil de Rusena’s El Memorialista Català, cited in the previous post. All I know of the artist, “Robert”, is that he worked for Salvador Bonavia and other publishers on a number of other books, including folklore collections. Bonavia’s old shop is just down the road [...]

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Cock and bull

I just don’t get it. While one bunch of nutters has finally managed to destroy Catalunya’s last Osborne bull for being too Spanish, another bunch of crazies is going round putting up things that look pretty damn Gallic to me:

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The way of all busts

Featuring Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, Uncle Joe Stalin and the Singh brothers from Mohali.

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spam art

Tom Coates has ’shopped that top-10 spam meme, Unrelenting C*cks Destroy Innocent Pussies.

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és tot una mentida (menys l’emoció humana, evidentment)

Aquesta foto d’en Marc, fet per un tub de cartró, és una imitació de Le faux miroir (1935) d’en Magritte, que possiblement estava pensant en la Porte fenêtre a Collioure (1914) d’en Matisse. Altre bon exemplar d’aquesta època és la Venus B (1933) de Kazimierz Podsadecki, i peces modernes que m’agraden inclouen aquesta foto anònima [...]

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Dalí vs Turner (ii)

Naar aanleiding van een post over Dalí, vergeleek ik hem de andere dag met Turner. Nu blijkt dat dhr Snor echt een hekel had aan mijn landgenoot:
Een totale ramp, het hoogtepunt van romantische sentimentaliteit, en het tastbare bewijs dat het onmogelijk is om tegelijkertijd Engelsman en grote schilder te zijn.
Wat ik niet snap is hoe [...]

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catalaanse grottenkunst

Veel prehistorische Catalaanse grottenkunst vertoont onmiskenbare Franse invloeden. Wat echter erg boeiend is aan dit slijmerige voorbeeld is dat het, al bewegend, precies voorspelt hoe lang het gaat duren voordat links weer aan de macht komt bij de noorderburen.
Gezien tijdens deze wandeling. Koop Slower Than a Snail (Hello Math Reader-Level 2):

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treinen: dalí vs turner

Toen ik in Londen werkte, nam ik af en toe een paar uurtjes vrij onder het smoesje van een vergadering met partners in Covent Garden. En dan kon ik mooi naar het National Gallery (nog steeds gratis) en Turner. En die kon nou echt een treintje schilderen.

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benvinguts a dalí central

Josep M Huertas en la Vanguardia d’ahir:
Quince años después de su muerte, el pintor Salvador Dalí entrará definitivamente en el nomenclátor de Barcelona. No será ni en la plaza Nova ni en la calle Duc de la Victòria, nombres que se habían barajado en distintos momentos. El alcalde Joan Clos ha aprobado que el nombre [...]

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Barcelona still gets a substantial volume of stag and hen traffic. This party consisted of a dozen supermen and a dozen ladies done out in Southend style. Note to tourists: Catalonia is not Krypton.
zorro and some blue superhero don't know how to get to barcelona

This seems a bit harsh on the Barça president but the comparison is a standard feature of any Spanish debate:

People I know are voting for the motion of censure on Sunday to fack this one off rather than in the expectation that the next one will be less of a mafioso. Some of the family are nice so there’s hope yet.

A malfunction of the public address system produces a rather pleasing strobe:

At the end of this clip, a crude example of the wagon wheel effect, caused by what the brain, fooled by the camera, takes to be a succession of evenly spaced, identical Quercus ilex:

More educational train journeys here.

The May monsoon endowed plants with a Made-In-China verisimilitude:
poppy

Knee-scratching thistles are now several metres high, and Karik and Valya could have told you all about the monstrous dragonflies:

In the spot where just a moment or two ago there had lain a tiny dragonfly, there now moved a thick, long, log-like, jointed body with a huge hook at the end of it. The brown body, covered with turquoise blue splashes, was contracting in spasms. The joints moved, sometimes sliding over each other, sometimes turning sideways. Four huge transparent wings, covered with a dense web of
glittering threads, trembled in the air. A monstrous head hammered upon the window-sill.

  • Michael Meyer, Life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed in Destruction of old Peking
  • Yan Larry, The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Valya in Poppy
  • Anon, The Acts and Negotiations, Together with the Particular Articles at Large, of the General Peace, Concluded at Ryswick, by the Most Illustrious Confederates wit the French King. To which is premised, The Negotiations and Articles of the Peace, concluded at Turin, between the same Prince and the Duke of Savoy in Siege of Barcelona by the French in 1697

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