goodbye barcelona. until next time…hopefully within the year. we’ll see. (click on the image for a slideshow of the photos)

graffiti near the waterfront, barcelona and…somewhere, someone in the apartment building where i am on carrer casp is playing “numb” by portishead. that warms my cold heart.

graffiti in barcelona, a gehry beach fish and a flying toilet

magazine stand in the barceloneta ‘hood, barcelona, spain

stairs to a side street and a trash-filled field next to torre agbar, barcelona.

this month, these posters are everywhere.  i like the poster in all of its dark and disturbing glory. i saw a group of them yesterday on avinguda paral.lel next to the theater where “into the woods” (bosco endins) is playing. i fired up rhapsody to listen to amaral and so far, i like the poster [...]

high above the city in the ‘hood next to montjuic. barcelona

raúlrsalinas in la ribera, barcelona or if morrisey could cry

put your eye to it construction area near plaça de castella in el raval district near MACBA and CCCB, barcelona, spain

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the daily photo is a slideshow because yesterday was la pedrera and then a night walk to torre agbar.  i don’t like torre agbar but it fascinates me. i see it everyday because there is a clear view of it from where i’m staying on carre casp. it looks like a giant suppository. i didn’t [...]

my 1999 cuba slideshow growing up in florida, the presence of the cuba was somehow always in the air. whether it be from the the radios blaring another arrival of cubanos on the shores, the blaring voices of exiles castrating castro on the airwaves or just the smells that are common to the most tropical [...]