Barcelona art

French Band busking in Park Guell.

Leonardo.

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frank gehry.

Matt's Balda baldina.

Rob Machado.

WORKING ON A NEW SERIES OF PAINTINGS -> 'INSIDE THE COFFEE POT' |

AND BOOK ->'AS BLUE EYES START TO FADE'

Snoopers Paradise

7-8 Kensington Gardens
Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4AL
01273 602 558

At first I disregarded the crowded windows and unorganised chaotic displays as a wasted space filed with unwanted junk and a lingering musty smell. But something lured me in as I saw other onlookers stray from the bustling side streets of Brighton with an intent to satisfy a nagging insistence that a certain object was waiting to catch their eye and speak to them alone from amongst the disorderly stacks of forgotten things. It is literally insane, every gap is filled with piles of jewellery, records, photographs, slides, toys, lamps, clocks, clothing, ornaments, suitcases and guitars, an endless lists of ‘things’ that make up a visual evidence of a persons life. You can wander at ease around the different rooms, carefully organised despite the jumble of objects. It is a maze of space bulging with trinkets and ‘bits and bobs’ that could supply endless inspirations for fashion shoots, paintings and interior styling. Aptly named, you can snoop through another’s past, dipping in to a paradise pool of stories. Recommended for an inquisitive mind seeking inspiration or if you want to replace your old junk with someone else’s!

BRITISH POLLUTERS -poem inspired by greenpeace's latest campaign against BP'S lack of responsibility in oil spill crisis

'It's ok'

Don't you worry your pretty little head.

Its not your fault the earth is dead.

FUCK IT!

Stomp your carbon boots about!

blacken the oceans, murder the trout.

iT'S OK!- ... so you don't like green?

you'd rather sit just in between.

Don't you worry, we have loads of trees,

It's not your fault the ice won't freeze.

Push it under your cooperate rug,

lay out excuses. Go on! feel smug!

It's OK!- ...so your empty inside?

Dont let your conscience overrule your pride!

Christine Pettman

inspired by long analytical conversations with the girlies, special thanks to K.B! XOX

Relationships. A wireless connection?

After a secret indulgent few hours of sex and the city re runs, I noted that even in the last series the importance of technology in relationships is completely brushed over. Yes that sounds clinical and inhumane almost, but it’s a rather guilty truth that rests beneath our sub-consciousness and supposedly moral superiority as women who ‘have it all’. Yet surely our adamant dismissal only re enforces our obvious avoidance of the fact, that we have more reliance than ever on technology to help us form and sustain relationships?

In life generally the ease of communication is so readily available, so effortless that we barely acknowledge our use of it. My grandparents’ generation waste hours in pre-arrangements to rendezvous at a later date, working themselves in to a bickering turmoil of potential times and places. I agonisingly listen, fully aware that this triviality of pre arrangement can be cut out completely through a simple text. Technology can make spontaneity more than just a thought in our crammed days, but a realistic possibility. An unexpected phone call and free window of time at the right moment can delightfully shift the flow of your day in to a new path. For general practicality then, it keeps things efficient and makes time for sudden opportunities to arise and experiences to be had.

But with relationships it makes things tricky. A generation that never turns off their phones and are constantly reachable through this permanently open portal of communication, leave little space for solitude and uninterrupted time with their own thoughts or even with a real person...

(for full article email christinepettman@hotmail.com)

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Final major for uni; a book on street culture in Barcelona, and my personal experience upon finding it. Blog is a work in progress, watch this space!

http://thecolourofbarcelona.blogspot.com/