9 November 2007 · Comment
Picture Explosion Part Two
More pictures! Neat.
This is a wall decoration from a restaurant called “Flash Flash” which is decorated like an Austin Powers movie and it is neat. The guidebook said they sell millions of kinds of tortillas, which are those delicious potato omelettes, so I was pretty psyched but unfortunately I got sick in England and still couldn’t taste anything, so I gotta go back when I return to Barcelona next week. Also, I asked the waiter what he recommended for vegetarians and he was like, aww, we don’t have anything for vegetarians. And I was all like, really? And he was like, yeah, all we have is this huge section of vegetarian tortillas so that was weird but then he didn’t even recommend one of them. You are useless to me! Okay I’m over it.
This is the plaza outside Barcelona’s modern art museum. Parts of it were really neat, like some paintings by Kandinsky and an American propaganda cartoon from World War II about why you should buy government bonds, but most of it was intended to be all surreal and freak the viewer out and that it did very, very well.
Ha ha, fart means revolted in Catalan. In other news, I have the sense of humor of a twelve year old.
A wire sculpture that looks like doodles.
More shadow art that I think looks really neat because it’s like they nested the projectors. The things are dish detergent bottles and the exhibit was called something like “The Woman’s Place” or something else that I found sort of offensive but not offensive enough to remember it.
A ring of rocks thing in the lobby of the museum. Yup.
The museum plaza before I went in. Yeah, I don’t know if I like this picture but it’s kind of neat.
Same with this one, yar.
A random apartment building in the old-town area that was covered with neat little cat paintings.
Some tiny people trapping a giant shoe monster! Action shot.
Hahahahahahaha. That’s not something I would advertise. Also it reminds me of this one time in high school when Chris used his computer’s text reading program to say “Just because I am a robot does not mean I do not feel love” in a robot voice and it was so awesome.
Whoa now, moving a little fast, don’t you think?
A neat siesta cover for a store called Desigual that is farrrr too fashionable for me to pull off any of their clothes. The siesta covers get decorated really prettily here, maybe because they close all the stores when people most want to get their shopping done, so it’s like, sorry we’re closed at super inconvenient times but here, have a pretty picture to look at! Not to sound bitter or anything.
Happy Pills is one of the best names for a candy store.
So much candy! The only sad thing about this picture is how I can never eat pick n mix candy after working in a candy store for a summer. Because the thing is, little kids come into the store with their parents and they are 100% guaranteed to stick their hands in the containers and lick the candy and all sort of other disgusting things and there’s nothing you can do about it unless you want to like, follow them around the store and that’s not so much socially acceptable. Also you don’t know how old the candy is and alsooo bugs get into the gummy candy and (at least in my store, which is thankfully shut down by now, possibly for health code violations) the owners just wipe them out and keep selling the bug-infected gummy candy. Sick!
Some Barcelonan antennae.
Some buildings in the Gothic Quarter, yup.
A rainspout gargoyle that is holding his mouth open to a comically huge size.
A pretty little courtyard near the Museum of the City, which there are no pictures of because they didn’t allow photography. Blast! Foiled again.
Courtyard courtyard courtyard.
Courtyard!
A door in the courtyard. Wish I had some facts about said courtyard and its historical significance, but I do not.
The entrance to the Museum of the City. It’s really neat because they have a huge section of underground Roman ruins underneath the plaza. and you get to walk through them and neat.
Is that really the most enthusiastic name you could come up with? Come on, people.
Ugggh, hate these mannequins with the freakishly huge mouths. Some store in Berkeley has them and they give me the heebie jeebies.
Some umbrellas decorating a hotel on Las Ramblas. I like. Internet’s almost running out so there’s no time for dumb little vignettes, boo.
A jungle gym that we pass every day on the train ride into Barcelona. Awesome.
A lizard! That was on our terrace wall when Jovanna and I got back from our trips (mine to England and hers to the south of Spain) last Monday.
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