Waiting, Leaving and Arriving

Always

Control

Happy Feet

Bamboo

Perfume

Green living

Water Source

Station Wagen

Those cars were parked on the street. But they are so clean. But they are so perfectly placed. It's all so ordered. It's German. 

This reminds me of this TV commercial we had in Europe after VolksWagen bought Seat. After the scenes showing you the car, or the story, there is always a final second where the name of the company is the only thing you can see, and the slogan. In this case it was "Pasión española. Tecnología alemana". I thougth it was nice, but some Spaniards got hurt by it. No wonder why.

Air particles

Hand-in-Hand

Okay, so those hands are not real. I mean, of course they are real, but they are not alive. It's not a painting, it's a sculpture. It's a detail of "Ugolino and his sons" sculpture, by Jean Baptiste Carpeux, 1857. I really find it astonishing.

The story itself is quite sad. Those hands belong to a son who is grabbing his father's legs... in hell. It's taken from Dante's Inferno book: Inferno is worse than you think, it is a place where this father is jailed with his sons, and they are all left there, they know they will die from starvation. You should see the angst face of the father... The children know they are going to die, so they ask they father not to hesitate to eat their bodies so at least he can survive.

Cap the Creus

You already saw a similar one (click HERE).
But now you see the sea, the Mediterranean. The Mare Nostrum.
And at the rear plan, the Pyrenees, the chain of Mountains dividing the Iberian Penninsula from France.

I rather like this combination of possibilities.

Fog News

The picture is of my walking home. I was coming back after a visit to the Lycée Français de New York (LFNY). It was quite a feeling, since I spent all my childhood in the Lycée Français de Barcelona (LFB), my hometown. There are obviously so many similarities, that you cannot go out without remembrances.

Impressionism

I also enjoyed those ones... It is amazing how beautiful those paintings can be when you have them in front of your nose. The first picture is "Le pont d'Argenteuil", by Gustave Caillebotte. The second and third picture are from Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat field with Cypresses and Women Picking Olives, both from 1889-1890.

More Metropolitan

More works form the Museum. This is called "Spectrum", by Ellsworth Kelly.

Break Time

There's also Modern art at the Metropolitan. It needs more reflection.

Metropolitan

I just came back from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I am still under the effects of the shock. It was simply amazing, unbelivable. This museum is certainly one of the best I have ever visited, or, at least, let's say that they have a lot of stuff, and of everything. Everyone can find some kind of happiness there... Waw, I simply look forward to next Friday to go there again.
I posted some of the paintings I liked the most... Forget about pictures today, just see the works of those artists. And if you can, go to the Metropolitan!

The paintings are, from lef to right, up to down:
1. Arabs crossing the Desert. Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1870
2. Jerusalem from the environs. Charles Théodore, 1881.
3. The Eruption of Vesuvius. Jean Christian Dahl, 1824.
4. The weeders. Jules Breton, 1868.

SkyLine

Roots

Step by Step

Waves

Colored Tree

Cold Metal, Warm Color

I know you've seen this before, but I keep liking it. No more, promised! The architect is called Frank Gehry, he also did the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Frozen Levitation

Beauty & Beast

1 picture, 1000 words

You're right, I never introduced this blog. But as some of you have asked me to, and I guess you are right, a little presentation cannot hurt.

Basically, these pictures are pictures of normal things. No Eiffel Tower, no Statute of Liberty. Well, okay, I must admit that some famous monuments or places have already been featured here, and moght be shown again. Never say never. However, my focus is trying to capture everyday life, everylife things. There is not only the picture, though. Many of those pictures cannot live without its title: I sometimes need words to revitalize the image. Like now.

Please, don't look further than that. Some of the pictures might have nothing special - but still, this is not about efficiency, it's just about a hobby and a feeling. Don't wonder "why", but rather "why not".

Let's see how it goes!

Aquarelle

Memorial

Lost and Translation

Conquest of the West

The Sky's Castle

For those who have seen Miyazaki's movie...

Sightseeing Skyscraping

Some Like it Hot

En castellano, "Con Faldas y a lo Loco". Doesn't she look like Tony Curtis?

A Room with a View

But it's not in a hotel in Florence, contrary to the original one depicted by Forster. That's the Frederick Weisman Art Museum, in front of the Mississippi River. And those are the Gopher's colors, by the way...

Funny Guy...

Rocks