Fat Ballerinas

this is where i work everyday, a giant in a world where everything is children sized. i love it. bright colours and simple concepts. everything i need to know i learned in kindergarten, and now i get to teach everyday.

a giant piece of lit up pasta? in barcelona, even this doesn’t surprise me. but it did make me take a photo and go and look up the explanation…barcelona this year, along with new christmas decorations and lights on the major shopping streets, have installed sculpture pieces representing the holidays. pasta? not my first [...]

the barcelona public biking system…more often than not you will find that your bike is broken in some way, but it beats trying to find parking. plus better for the environment.

while on a recent trip driving through minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes i kept seeing caution signs for horse and buggy. wasn’t sure the reason until i passed this gentleman on the road. it is a bit reassuring that even in this electronic age that there are those that still manage to live simply.

i have decided to add a new spot to my ramblings in order to ensure that poor fat ballerinas never again goes through such a long hiatus.
today’s snapshot is a staple on the table while i am writing these posts. in fact it factors into almost every day. it may be small but doesn’t [...]

maybe you read about the daytime portion of our Berlin trip over on Gatos en Espana, well now for the nightlife!
i know it is a little bit of a stretch, but i am putting this post under art. our visit to Berlin did have an architectural theme, and all of the bars below [...]

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the line that separates one country, state, province, etc., from another
the frontier of civilization
brink; verge
an outer part or edge

this week i planned my first “meetup” event. we went to the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona (CCCB), to see an exhibition called Fronteres (Borders). the exhibition was designed as a journey through passage ways [...]

actually “nits de MACBA” means nights of art at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. it is a pretty cool museum. we started out the night with some drinks on their rooftop terrace, with Magrite-esque umbrellas and candles in glass everywhere. i like a museum that lets you get drunk before the exhibit.

I don’t mean in the christian salvation way….I mean I saw Jesus walking down the street in a burlap tunic carrying a nice leather briefcase. Not exactly something you see everyday….a scrubby looking guy wearing next to nothing looking as though he has given away all his worldly possessions, well all but the briefcase. [...]