BARCELONA

Well, well. I am not more rested than before but I have a little bit of time before the night starts.

This is a wonderful city! it has electric energy that charges even the death...or the very tired like myself. It´can be 3 am and there are people in the streets, you can eat whatever whenever and it feels generally safe in the very public places.

I have found Barcelona to be the city of details, everything is in the details. Walk for a while around the streets and pay attention and you will see all sorts of beautiful, odd, horrible but always creative detailing on buildings.


See what I mean, all in the details!! 



Things like window frames, AMAZING doors, unexpected gargoiles, beautiful concrete engraving on buildings called esgraciado, art nouveau catalan por todos lados y los magnificos edificions de Antoni Gaudi.


door detail. Restaurant signage in catalan art nuvo 


I am sure that his work is not everyone`s cup of tea, the aesthetic is so different and unusual and unexpected that it creates some kind of visual indigestion that needs to be nurtured with some AlkaSeltzer, ok, that sounds bad but I don´t mean it in a bad way. I love it, i love that it is is concepual, that it mixes art, craft and architecture and nature. I love the colours and mostly to me it seems unpretentious and fun, seems that the guy was just having plain fun and what is even better is that he was left alone to do his work, his way. I wonder if in Vancouver or other cities that creativity would be allowed to develop.


La Pedrera. Gaudi. 


Another Gaudi building 

The part Guell is beautiful, it looks like a Tim Burton movie, I wonder how much of Tim burtons inspiration comes from gaudi´s work. It is wonky, it seems that it is going to star moving at any moment.


Detalle de las banca I like that it is a ¨"mountain " park, not a flat one, and there are some sort of balconies that look they were made with wet sand "bolitas" some of them are scary, like from a scary movie. The houses, like the Pedrera are amazing. The roof top is quite something, but I could´t see it all as I got a horrendous vertigo attack. It has been getting worse, I am worried about it, perhaps it is time for me to go skydiving again.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.