Writing on the Wall

3 Wall Sections of an Abandoned Building in Paris

Post Your Bills

He Knows You Know

If you look down at the train tracks coming out of Estació de  França, the walls are decorated with brightly colored graffiti.  The passing train seems to have gotten made up as well.

Doors to Nowhere

When building fall into ruin or get abandoned, they usually end up getting squatted for a time.  Once the neighborhood complains enough, the city gets involved and blocks off the physical entries to the buildings. In some cases, for historical reasons, the facade of the building stands while the building is gutted and hauled away.  Here are some doors from Poblenou where the true entrance has been blocked, but the door still stands.

Street Art: Creative Parking Lot

In Poblenou, we encountered a dirt parking lot with this graffiti.  A free and creative space.

The Lost City

While we walked around the hillside to St. George's Castle in Lisbon, we came across this area which looked like a forgotten part of the city.  Maybe it was someone's estate or something, but there was nothing left except for the outer walls.  Some of the graffiti was beautiful.

Random Day

I was flipping through recent pictures and found these two.  They made me laugh a little bit, and hopefully will you as well.

Maybe a little drastic, but sometimes it does feel that way.

Gotta do whatcha gotta do.

If the Walls Could Speak

I wonder what stories are contained in the walls of Barcelona.  I've read Zafon's "Shadow of the Wind" and "The Angel's Game" and am further intrigued.  Barcelona is a beautiful and mysterious city.  This little section of wall typifies that for me.  Who knows what has taken place here?  If the walls could speak.

Street Art Pt 2

I love seeing really large graffiti on buildings.  Sometimes it doesn't really mean anything (that I can figure out), but I am impressed by the sheer effort it took to get it done.

Walking through the Gothic near the Rambla and the Ancient Roman cemetery we saw this building completely covered in art.  It is likely an anarchist squatted building, or was until the government sealed the entrance.  

A typical scene on the Rambla, but someone has painted "IDIOT" on the very top of the building, only visible through these trees.

This building is one of the ugliest I've seen in Barcelona, probably built in the 70's and has no character.  This is on the garage door to the building.

This is the left side of a pit.  A whole building was removed and this is what remains.  You can see the wall broken on the far left.  It's been sitting like this for as long as I can remember.

Street Art

In the big city I tend to walk around focused on the ground or the people around me, making sure not to trip or bump into someone.  I love it when I remember to look up and at my surroundings. I can't get enough of street art.  Truly there are some amazing pieces around Barcelona.  These are a few that I saw the other day that I loved.  

I wanted to utilize the mirror in the art and take a picture of myself.  So, if you look really hard, you can see me, or at least the red strap of my backpack.