Black Swan
I went to see Black Swan last night and came back horrified. How could the director, Darren Aronofsky, have ... Hang on. If you haven't seen the film and plan do do so, you'd better stop here, and come...
On irony & lies
Act 1 - An academician, Francisco Rico, writes an article in El Pais, criticising aspects of new anti-smoking legislation. He ends the piece "And I have smoked just one cigarette in my whole life". Immediate...
Fashion Notes
Observed in the carpark of Barcelona's mainline station, Estació de Sants ... I particularly liked the semi-shorn dreadlocks: made her look like a radicalised sea-urchin. I recognised the Sita Murt jacket...
The 3D Tag Cloud
Presentation on screen can be merely decorative, or it can reveal and/or manipulate the nature of the ideas presented. Thinking along these lines, how could 3D presentation help to communicate meaning...
Tag cloud chat
Social networks are the crest of the internet wave at the moment. They're even being credited with revolutions - literal ones like Tunisia, not just metaphorical. Personally, I've never really felt the...
On FIZZ
Getting the English B website launched last week was one of those Big Moments that turn out to be ... er ... rather small. The world, of course, did not actually stop turning, and there was not a stunned...
Image & language
We've just had local government elections here in Catalonia. The campaign itself is restricted by law to a two-week period, but even before then we were being subjected to a deluge of political propaganda...
Castellers in the air
UNESCO has just announced that the catalan tradition of castellers has been added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (check out the UNESCO announcement here). If you've never...
Graffitti
I live in Sitges, a charming, elegant resort near Barcelona, but for administrative purposes due to a kink in local government frontiers, I am registered in St Pere de Ribes, the town next door. St...
On knacks and tranquillos
On the beach ... just enough breeze to take the oven out of the heat ... there's three boys playing with a surf board (or is it 'bodyboard' - broad and sort of ovoid?). They sling the board across the...