phenomenology 4: FLASHING EPHEMERAL (a)
I have seen plenty of just-so-so or bluntly bad-and-horrible graffiti tags in Reykjavík, and quite a few gems. But only two of them stand as the ones that dazzled me…
phenomenology 3: KESOG (c)
So… yes, that wall, Autumn 2016: And the same one in late Summer 2017: And only years later I have realized the small black tag was jut the wonderful rounded…
phenomenology 3: KESOG (b)
And here is one of the (not the only one!) recent re-discoveries of this tag on screening through the photo archive. And it belongs all the way back to the…
phenomenology 3: KESOG (a)
The extent to which the COVID-19 quarantined our lives is amazing… Difficult to understand how until today I have been unable to continue one of the most valuable sections (and…
ash and elm
Another little gem I found recently in the bookstore. Yes, “just” one more, more recent, book on the so called Viking Age, but for me just as compelling (not to…
Island Zombie
I also recently found in my Peking bookstore this lyrical book about Iceland!:
¡Por fin un Ayllón en las alturas!
Esto es lo que me dijo mi hermano Fernando (Ayllón es nuestro primer apellido) cuando di la noticia el lunes pasado. Y añadió entre paréntesis: “aunque sea en el Cielo…
Oksi
One day a few weeks ago, strolling around a shopping center here in my neighbourhood for a bit of entertainment, I stumbled upon this very intriguingly amusing surprise. I was…
no, I did not travel, sure…
This video came already with quite a lot of delay when I recorded it on the 18th of November of 2023, but… And, yes, it was intended as announcing that…
‘cute style’ Chinese (?) murals
I am almost getting tired of repeating this, but only because reality is constantly surprising me: after documenting for several consecutive years Reykjavík street art, I never ever could imagine…
Taikoo Li North “guided murals” 2
Second and last episode documenting this example of (to what extent?) idiosyncratically Chinese style of street murals I found just north of the Beijing busy posh commercial area Taikoo Li…
belén de fin de año 2023
Oh, yes, in the previous post I announced that the following one would be the second part of the theme I introduced with it. But I today improvise this digression…