Daniel demonstrates one way to spend twelve euros.
Don't forget your hat!
David, South Park lover.
Here David ponders life.
Fernando y Ruben, friends for 10+ years and the friendliest dudes around.
Last night at Paral-lel
Saw some interesting things at night off this balcony.
Top = What my mind felt like at the end of this part of the trip, Bottom = The first stages of my feet beginning to hate me.
Myself, David, Daniel. The whole city could be seen from this vantage point, I hope I never forget how the lights look beside the Mediterranean.
Views from above. Parc Guell.
David: Front Nose.
Daniel.
All the film that was shot over the past three weeks should be back from the lab in about a week, hopefully less, but I'll be posting some digitals from my Sojourn during that time. Up first is Barcelona, a dream come true for me. All the myths you hear are true, pretty much the entire city is a skatepark, although the police have started to crack down at certain spots, MACBA being the hardest hit. Looking back at these shots really brings a smile to my face, big ups to Daniel and David: hope the clouds aren't brown back home in Sweden!
Seeing the wall in person is pretty hard to describe. Feelings of happiness, sadness, awe, and goosebumps. Self Expression on a structure that was there to oppress the mind was something to see indeed.
Some how these two buses were not informed of some gas line work on Oxford street and got into a pretty serious accident. If you can see in the photo on the left, the bus has driven into the actual bus stop, some of the frame still in the front windshield. Good thing the driver is on the right hand side. No one was hurt, but shaken up for sure.
Surbiton Flyer has some explaining to do.
I've never seen any of Ed Templeton's work before, aside from his graphics for Toy Machine. 'Drink the Kool-Aid', was a great introduction. He has an interesting mind, for sure. His use of layout in the book 'Deformer' really makes you look at everything on the page. Going through this book is as if you are in a time machine located within Templeton's head.
Hoping the Airport X-rays have not fogged any of these. New book in the works, stay tuned..
Two weeks of skateboarding for ten hours a day will make your feet hate you. I am hoping my ten digits forgive me, they did well.
Nike's European Escapades book 'Fluff' made it's way into my arms. Filled with whit, traveling triumphs and failures, and some damn good flicks. 600 pages of suga, now to figure out how to get it home..
Due to verbal abuse & flatspots, the green lanterns have been retired.
When we see something new and different, it seems like it is almost instinct to search for something in our own worlds we can relate it too; something that makes us feel more comfortable with the surroundings. Far too many times in history has one culture arrived on the shores of another's and made themselves at home, i.e. pushing everything previous out of the way, making room for themselves.
The native peoples who welcome all living things that breathe, and even some that don't into their hearts, cherish the land they walk upon, for it a living, breathing being itself that needs the inhabitants just as much as they need it, are stripped of this sacred ground they have been living on for thousands of years because they are not 'civilized' in the eyes of the newcomers. Those concerned with building empires and fulfilling manifest destiny find these peoples to be archaic and savage. From their ways of living off the land without settling into one place to their way of prayer and beings worshiped, their life is founded and based off of tradition. Tradition is so heavy in culture that the concept of time does not exist, not even in their vocabulary.
Instead of trying to understand and learn from these peoples; especially their knowledge of the game, land, and waterways, these 'explorers' slaughter the people's way of life. Taking the land from them, jamming religions and ideals into their ears to make them 'civilized', and forcing these people to comply with ideas that go against thousands of years or spoken tradition.
Who now, would be considered the savage?
[I realized this topic has been discussed many times, but upon reading Wade Davis's The Wayfinders, Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, I felt like I had to post something about it. These images were taken in Prague and Berlin, while I was reading this work. Davis wrote the book for a series of lectures for CDC Radio and Massey College at the University of Toronto, which were commissioned and broadcast over the radio waves. Davis's lectures were broadcast in November of 2009.
It has been a very long time since something has hit me so strongly and made me really think about the current state of living and what we are doing to ourselves. It feels like we are cutting the very cloth that covers civilization as it used to be. The new has not grown from the old, but replaced it, the root is no existent. Can a tree really just float? If you can get your hands on this work by way of second hand book story or library, I would highly recommend it. Remember, the ground you walk on is pulsing with life. Take it in, and breathe right back into it.]
don't forget where you come from, so you can be aware of where you might be headed..
