A wonderful initiative just started in Barcelona by a group of inventive and energetic parents brings together kids aged 6 to 14 for a hands-on experience in hacking technology. See Teo and other kids at play at the Makers Lab last week, assembling some of their first gadgets.
Did you know that bananas are decent electricity conductors?
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Back in the spring, on one of our walks with Teo in the hills that surround Barcelona we found a mysterious hard pod resembling a frog. We brought it home and left it at that. A few days later, it popped open, and little by little these silky seeds started making their way out of the crack.
La Diada. September 11, 2015. Barcelona
September 11, 2014. The National Day of Catalonia (La Diada Nacional de Catalunya) Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain. After the massive demonstrations of the Big “V” were over, Teo and I were walking home, when we spotted this subway vent on Passeig de Gràcia, not far from Gaudí’s Casa Milà, and all the jolly activities that ensue when you mix a bit of wind with a spirit of elated togetherness.
Antoni Gaudí. 1906-10. L'Eixample, Barcelona
Carrer d’Astúries, Gràcia, Barcelona
Over Siberian Arctic and the Wild West of the USA
Lighstcapes created with panning and zooming at an abandoned barn in Iceland
An abandoned barn in an open field in Iceland
Teo playing the piano at 'Piano Man' in Gracia
A 7-hour 10+ km nigh hike around Mount Tibidabo with a group of photography enthusiasts armed with various light-emitting gadgets, yielded these playful experimental images.
Festa Major de Gràcia 'correfoc' or fire run.
You are never alone in Barcelona... You are always looked over by buildings with faces...
Gar+Fitti! is what I call these street paintings covering garage and storefront doors all over Barcelona. Barely any surface is left alone. Instead, they are a canvas for both a carefully crafted painting and a brash spontaneous brush and spray-work.
