Tag archive for graffiti (RSS)

Decadent graffiti art at nursery entrance in Carmelo, Barcelona

Posted: January 18th 2010 15:36. Last modified: January 18th 2010 15:45

The artist speaks.

Tags: art criticism, Barcelona, blowing bubbles, bubble, Carmel, Carmelo, Coves d'en Cimany, Disney, fairy, graffiti, meringue, Monte Carmelo, nursery, primary school, school, sugar, sun, sylph
Categories: Les bourgeois, Of decorating with pictures, Pagans, Small flying creatures

Mysterious Spanish game

Posted: January 11th 2010 11:22. Last modified: February 5th 2010 19:51

What is the man doing? Why is step 4 missing?

Tags: 5 steps, Barcelona, game, graffiti, hopping, hopscotch, Spain, tossing coin, walking
Categories: Dance, Les bourgeois, Of decorating with pictures, War and amusements

On-line fraud

Posted: April 19th 2009 22:33.

Birdies that ain’t.

Tags: Barcelona, Carmel, Carmelo, Collserola, feet, graffiti, pigs, shoes, swallows, Turó de la Rovira, walking, Zona Franca
Categories: Birds, Les bourgeois, Mountains

Sperm!

Posted: April 12th 2009 11:45. Last modified: April 12th 2009 16:46

During the building of the Agbar water company’s new giant penis office, urban legend had it that a fountain would spout from the tip. That might have prevented this.

Tags: Agbar tower, Barcelona, graffiti, Rovira
Categories: Buildings, Les bourgeois

Aragón = libre!!

Posted: March 10th 2009 15:27.

But of what?

Tags: Aragon, graffiti, Huesca, nationalism, Spain
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

Absent presence: shadow without cat

Posted: August 18th 2008 13:25. Last modified: April 19th 2009 22:29

“Nosferatu in Bremen is essentially a flitting liminality … the German soul instinctively prefers twilight to daylight.” Way too many bloody Teutonic incorporeal materialist graffiteros lurking around on c/ Molist, Barcelona.

Tags: Barcelona, cats, Dracula, graffiti, Nosferatu, picture, shadows
Categories: Les bourgeois, Wild beasts

My 5% bookstore - new stuff

Spanish history

EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€
LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€
CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€

Modern Spanish fiction

EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€
LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€
DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€

Spanish classics

TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€
LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€
INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€

On this day

Barcelona

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

14 de març de 1918 Ara, finalment, dóna gust de viure a Catalunya. La unanimitat és completa. Tothom està d’acord. Tots hem tingut, tenim o tindrem, indefectiblement, la grip. Fa quatre o cinc anys que llegeixo, cada dia, el Glosari de Xènius. En aquest moment no sembla pas haver-hi, per a la secció d’Eugeni d’Ors, tant d’entendriment com en altres èpoques. [...]
14 de març de 1919 L’agitació obrera torna a abrivar-se. Tothom afirma que els conflictes que hi ha en porta tindran unes proporcions mai no vistes. A través dels diaris és impossible de saber exactament el que es discuteix. La informació és confusa, difusa i controlada. L’obscuritat és total. Molts tramvies són accionats ja per soldats. A les gabelles, la [...]