I love a good information graphic and this is a great one.
Go to the link and work your way through the layers…
and to think your mortgage/credit card debt was an issue?!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/23/sunday-review/an-overview-of-the-euro-crisis.html
I love raw concrete but have always thought it expensive and difficult to create.
It never occurred to me that internal feature walls could be built easily…until I walked into the Hub furniture showroom.
Simple partition walls have been built with besser blocks and left raw. Feature pillars have been built usingbthe same technique; it looks bloody fantastic.
While I was looking for images of luggage I came across this fantastic sculpture at Sacramento Airport.
It’s by an artist called Brian Goggin……his site reads….
“SAMSON” is two 23-foot tall pillars constructed of over 700 pieces of refurbished luggage dating from the conceptual genesis of the airplane to the present. At the base of the towers of luggage are large carts, designed to emulate the luggage carts which are used by personnel to haul suitcases from the airport to the airplane. To the disoriented traveler, the proliferation of baggage is toweringly awesome. (http://www.metaphorm.org/)
Excess baggage be damned.
I arrived early and expected a smooth move through the airport system…but ‘oh no!’
That will be $639 for excess baggage madam.
Cabin baggage was 12 not 7
Main baggage was 27 not 20.
After choking on my ‘i’m an easy, sensible, understanding customer’ expression, I moved away and adjusted.
You would think 12 kilos would be a shitfight to hide; but this is how you do it….
Get everything heavy that is allowed into carry on and put it to one side.
Buy a newspaper and ask for the biggest available duty free bag at any price…$1.
Hang anything with a string, strap or lanyard around your neck.
Shove everything else of weight into the dutyfree bag.
My luggage came in at 21 and that was deemed acceptable.
Downstairs, despite looking like a scarecrow, the man only weighted my cabin luggage…..7.5… That’s fine.
Then, once through; get the camera, the laptop, the books, the heavy chargers and shove them back in the cabbinluggage with wheels…..never to be weighed again.
But I will now reassess my luggage.
It’s no longer sturdy, strong wheeled elegance but light lockable plastic for me….and a very large groovy totesque handbag.
ps: having written up this post; I was walking up the mall keeping an eye out for a luggage shop. There was one, coincidentally (or as expected) promoting light luggage….just as I clicked ye olde iPhone, I caught the reflection of a man walking along tugging his luggage. What a nice omen for the day.
On that note, I bought a ‘scratch ‘n’win’ ticket….it didn’t win!
La China is an oriental restaurant next door to Bar Lobo.
I only walked past but tried to get a photo of the amazing light sculpture inside.
This paper dragon is about 10m long and runs the length of the restaurant facade…if you look closely, you can see a lady on the left to help understand the beauty in the sheer scale.
Bar Lobo is just off La Ramblas.
Great breakfast, great design and really comfortable (pompous waitress aside).
The menus hang on a great Seles coat rack, pendant lights swarm alongside feature lights made from old atlases. The condiments are stacked in wooden crates against a curved wall covered in gig posters. The placemat and menus are raw screenprinted affairs.
Apparently there is art and Japanese food upstairs and DJ’s after hours in the main.
The Café de L’Academia lived up to expectation…simple, tasty, nice looking and in a beautiful spot – Plaça Sant Just.
We had sunlight casting shadows on the 15th century medeival walls, which helped!
We had a tuna salad and a rocket and pear salad for entree. Standard fare but beautifully presented.
Then came calamari rings drizzled in oils and ink alongside beef patties with heady toppings….the duck liver pate was intense alone but unstoppable paired with the juicy mince.
The Mercat Del Encants in the
Plaça de les Glories Catalanes…basically catch the Metro to Glories then head across the big old roundabout. It seems, at first, an industrial wasteland but persevere and find it.
Apparently ‘One of Barcelona’s largest and best loved flea markets, this place is bizarre! All items are sold, old and new, and I mean all items, you get power tools next to antiques next to cosmetics. There is a lot of rubbish (and oddly a lot of “adult” videos and stuff) and some of the vendors just pour all their stuff onto a cloth in front of them.’
Antique auctions take place at 07:00, when all the commercial buyers are there, and again at 12:00 when all the unsold goods drop in price. The furniture in the big hall to the side of the market is incredible and worth a look in.
I had all but entered the Pearly Gates when sanity reminded me that you can only carry so much shit in one suitcase; especially with no specific project to justify collecting it all and using a shipping container……later later.
Here are some pics but I’ll add some illustrations from the books I found in the next few weeks.
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