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I wait for my bus every day staring at the Casa Batlló, I guess I am privileged.
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I envy you Mr Blonde! Unfortunately I am on the other side of the world, but at the end of the year I hope to head over to Spain, with the sole intention of seeing Gaudi's buildings. I have been obsessed with his work since I was about 12, borrowing whatever books on his work I could find. I particularly like his drawings, they are awe inspiring, and if anyone has any resource on his drawings, I would love to hear about it!
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rowan,
when standing on the corner in front of the Casa Milà, be sure to take the LEFT entrance to enter it. The right one lead me and my friends just through the first floor, where we saw drawings from Gaudi and others of his time. The other one lead through all the other floors.
I remember this so clearly, because this earned us much head shaking and some scorn from our local host, who's a proud catalan. He specifically told us to visit this building in the morning, but we took the wrong entrance! He couldn't understand it...
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A great post in a wonderful blog.
Thanks you very much, and best wishes from a catalan.
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A fine post, well written, well shot.
This makes me interested in going to Barcelona- some place which wasn't on my high list, until now.
I think Gaudi's Cathedral was in art the inspiration fro Thailand's top artist to build the Buddhist Temple shown
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Gaudi changed my mind about architecture. Barcelona is an amazingly vibrant city with its design and the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell are amazing feats.
Great post Avi.
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Great post. If you like Gaudi, why not check Lluís Muncunill, another great architect (and Gaudi's collaborator) who's not as known but has some impressive work? Just type "Lluís Muncunill" in google images...
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The picture of the angular, sorrowful figure is part of the Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia. This group of sculptures was designed after Gaudi's death by Josep Subirachs, and differs radically in style from everything else there. It's absolutely stunning in person! Here are some pictures from the artists
site.
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An excellent post, good one. You rendered exceptionally well Catalan names (and you have not used Spanish equivalents).
Greetings from a Catalan :-D
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Beautiful and unusual architecture. It's unfortunate that such organic shapes cannot be built as economically as rectangular buildings. That's why you see so few of the former and so many of the latter. That probably also accounts for the fact that construction of the cathedral has taken so long. But the result is undeniably impressive.
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Something about that cathedral makes me unfomfortable; it has a vaguely Lovecraftian look to it. As an aside, the first time I did LSD I saw a grocery store melt; it swelled up like a burning marshmallow, then collapsed into a liquid state.
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long time browser, first time comment - great post, love the site, so full of useful knowledge and interesting facts - i would almost say that Gaudi himself may have participated in some form of lysergic acid diethylamide; fore the images of his cathedral and earlier works screams of a psychotic nature. beautiful work, IMHO.
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Thanks for the comment Mango - glad you like DRB :)
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Wow, great architectural pieces!
Feel free to read mine at
http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Most-Striking-Must-See-Churches-in-the-World-1.152139
and
http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Architecture/The-Must-see-Most-Striking-Churches-in-the-World-2.152153
Thanks.
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Great post and hard to believe that it's even more magical in person. Thanks for always taking us to amazing places!
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Great post. I really enjoyed readng it.
Greetings from another proud Gaudí's fan... from Barelona:)
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Fell onto this page and loved your views, I was in Barcelona 3 Christmas's ago and made a beeline for the Catherdral.It is truely a work of Genius, the basement has a Museum and explains well Gaudi's design theories.He used a tree as the form for spreading weight downwards to 1 slender column.I bought the biggest book on Gaudi and read it before I returned to London,My son has been inspired by Gaudi to study to become An Architect!
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Paul Smyth - thank you - really inspiring architecture is like music sculpted in stone.
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The sepia picture associated with Parc Güell is not there but in the small coastal town of Garraf, 20 miles from Barcelona, right
here.
It's worth mentioning that "La Pedrera", the informal name of the Casa Milla, means "The Quarry".
I would add to the comment by Anonymous that the work by Subirachs on the Sagrada Familia should not even be part of it and that it would be better to exclude images of his disgraceful insult to Gaudi's work.
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The 3rd one is 'inspired' by a Dutch trademark called Droste, also a warm chocolat drink. http://www.infinitecat.com/imagesbits/droste-big.jpg
In the Dutch language there is a term called 'Droste effect'. The nurce is holding a can with the same picture, including herself holding a can with the same picture etc etc. E.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Droste-wikipedia.jpg/300px-Droste-wikipedia.jpg
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These posters are just so charming and creative, I really enjoy this type of art.
Thanks for all the fantastic images and such posted.
Keep up the great work!
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>There were no trademarks, no variety of flavors to choose from
Not true. You mess the ads from 20ies, when USSR had no industry running to speak of, and so only had one or two factories producing every type of goods, with what communists had by 60ies or 70ies.
There were enough trademarks or just sorts.
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so many of these are really beautiful. cept those creepy kid ones. wtf!
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Anyone know where I could buy some of these as posters? They'd look great around the apartment...
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The Kvas ad is from the Soviet period: the orthography is post-1917, it is made by 'Rospotrebsoyuz', and there is no brand name.
The cosmetic powder ad is from the pre-1917 period, since it's made by 't-vo A-Ralle & Co.' The second ad for rubber boots ('galoshi') is also from the pre-revolutionary period: they are made by 't-vo Provodnik', the orthography is pre-1917, and you can see the imperial coat of arms.
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I love old advertising posters. Wonder if it's possible to buy prints of some of these. The first ones have some beautiful artwork on them.
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Wonderful! But unfortunately ads from different times are mixed, and the ad from before 1917 is placed sided by side with an ad of no erlier than 1050-ies.
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Thanks a lot!
> most posters advertise a generic product
The reason is rather simple: in USSR the only product manufacturer was eventually the state itself; every factory was owned by the state. So, it was not matter, whose production citizens bought, in any case this was a way to pump up more money into the state budget.
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About "Bavarian Ravers"
It is not complicated. The dance is called the "Schuhplattler" and tells a story of fighting which resolves at the end in happiness when the women enter the dance.
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You can see it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBPA4ApF-J4
Its really freak.
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You have the neatest stuff.
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Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.
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Blogger BrianDeuelDotCom said...
Heh... only saw one Mac... the pyramid with the blue neon. The monitor is one of the old CRT Studio displays. It's probably an old G4.
soooooooooo what??????? its cool :D
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oh very superb where can i get this they are out of this world
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Temple of Nod case is awesome
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Re: Hackers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szl/2652826258/
he he
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Thats not an "Akira shaped bike". Akira's bike is a recumbent with a windscreen.
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The “ugliest piece of machinery” on a picture is not a machine but a Russian military field kitchen. Although it looks like it has been cooking some tar lately…
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Yikes! the one with the horse scary. It's obvious the horse fell in. Hope they got 'em out
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wow...it is stunning.
Good shots too.
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O_O I didn't know fog could do that!
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Re: Presto
WALL-E - FINAL Trailer TRUE-HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC86heBo0d4
I saw a new YouTube feature here, under the playing of this video. Suddenly a small window was popuped that says -> "Click here for this Music Track" oopps
There is everebody who saw this ?
Re: Interview with Avi Abrams
Cool man thanks :-)
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This brings back many memories. Born and raised in the town of Malmoe I am. Seen this crane for some 35 years of my life. I don't miss it. Yes, it was most impressive and a highly visibly landmark. You cannot however linger in sentimetnality. We got new landmaks now since we got rid of this ugly monster of a crane. Calatrava's Turning Torso would be the most well known of these.
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Proud to see a Singapore vessel, the Asian Hercules, helped in the operation.
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Has anybody noticed the small crane on top of the upper plate of the huge crane being dismantled? I only noticed it when i checked it the second time XD. Awesome!!!
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The picture of the wine with the corkscrewers comes from an ad from Finca La Linda, an argentine wine maker.
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the romanian cemetery was in the Michael palin series on the BBC. i think it is called the happy cemetery?
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Is that really a picture of a woman being hit by a car on one of those tombstones?
Loved the Google image search idea BTW... I predict this will be a huge meme soon!
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