barcelona's odd behavio(u)r.

in keeping with never-ending surprises, it has been cloudy for the past two days in the catalan capital...and has been raining all day. i know what you're thinking. rain? remember the drought of 2007? it's feeling more like a crisp/wet fall day as i go to different neighborhoods looking at flats. i haven't seen many (more to come tomorrow), but all are typical 3 or 4 bedroom flats. my favorite so far being one occupied by a friendly girl from galicia, a proper british deb, and a french IT genius. the areas of sants & les corts (near my school) have a lot to offer in terms of affordable/shared/cute options.

for those curious...i'm including bcn construction updates straight from the Rambla del Raval, behind CCCB (a heine group), and la Barceloneta.

barceló raval hotel

library expansion

W hotel

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This is not a Morphallaxis

Don't worry, theCollective is far more meticulous than we may appear @ the moment. Undergoing a bit of alteration. 

Edit: HA! It seems the picture essay is under alteration as well. It has been removed do to the photographer's unreported digital manipulation. I still like it. 

While you wait, I recommend pondering Edgar Martin's haunting photo story for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. 

Edgar Martin for the New York Times Sunday Magazine. 

The series makes me wonder how much building and designing architects will do from nothing in the future. It seems pretty exciting to think that adaptive design will take on a whole new rich meaning. Gone is the "omg I'm so cool I live in a factory gentrification", and enter a whole new reality. What do you do twenty years from now with an unfinished multi-million dollar hotel complex, empty strip malls, malls, and unfinished suburbs?  Layers. Predicting better layers. 

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IT'S CHRISTMAS IN BARCA, YOU BITCHES

Have fun gettin some sleep with all dem lightz

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Barcelona to the Moon

Casey returns to BCN! Make him feel welcome. Caption this story board, make a prediction, suggest the inevitable etc... 1.2.3.4.5 go! Continue

happy fourth, guys.

from clemson, sc. Continue

Soaking Lima Beans STARTS@5:23

Introducing a new multi-local collaboration, SOAKING LIMA BEANS. For an indefinite period of time Andrew and Ros will be documenting the substance of human happiness, through time-lapse images and location-sensitive text. Soaking one, Black Beans. Two, Lima Beans. Next, pepper plants growing? Toes nails? Who knows. Make a suggestion & look out for live blogging.

(Print addition available, sometime when we decide to stop).

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a call for response: the collective does art.

how many different ticketytac things can you find?

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She could be a farmer in those clothes.

Clearly I've been spending too much time with my niece, because it only took 5min of watching the Contemporary Strawberry Shortcake Cartoon (She's not the girl you used to know, uh uh. She's a heartless greedy ho, who grows her strawberries with some sort of nuclear fertilizer until they're the size of small huts in Africa at the expense of the starving children living there) to realize some very obvious influences. 

1. Someone in charge of this re-vamp was either, apart of the Clueless generation, or has bigger dreams of being Raven Symone's stylist. 

2. A reincarnated demon from Toddlers & Tiaras.

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wake up

david bowie + arcade fire live. 2 tracks. get it while it's hot, ladies. Continue

vendi, venti, vintage: recent finds

1950s hat.

love.

50s house dress.

bought a sewing machine. shortened the sleeves and hemmed the bottom. j-crew silk scarf a la goodwill.

mama doesn't play.

move over, june.

1950s "marilyn" dress. needed minor repairs along zipper and various seams.

ruching. hot.

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make it graphic, kids!

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Bit Deliciousness

bit COMING SOON!  Continue

Bye Milano, Bye.

Milan posts have gone MIA, because frankly it was boring. Marni, Jil Sander, and of course Prada, were subtly all plenty innovative. It appeared that many more labels would be as well, with all the critics clamoring “omg real clothes, how interesting, etc…”. But it turns out "real clothes" aren’t that interesting.

After 200 or so years, I’d hope one could cut a suit with an espresso in one hand, and a smoke in the other. So, Paris onward! Current, stunning-non-boring-favorites: YSL and Kris Van Assche.

ysl van assche

Ciao!

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a penny for your thoughts folks...

keyword: obsession

go!


1. Obsession is the pivot point between power and weakness.
2. Obsessions are for the Gods.
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thank the travel deities!

new terminal T1 complete to further service that modest little coastal community of Barcelona. many of us remember the familiar slipping-on-the-floor/space-frame-bonanza/triangularly-jutting-terminals of the older Prat airport. however, thanks to a nice catalan postmodernist architect's vision, we can land and happily disembark via a silver-clad millennium falcon of a terminal.  ¡que todo me vaya bien cuando aterrizo en esa terminal tan desconocida! ¿ya habrán ampliado el metro para que llegue hasta la ciudad?... o por lo menos sants. jeje.

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Milano and go... Men's Shows Day 1

Ummm...Let's hope so because nothing can prevent the typical Guido-rache trippings of the Dolce & Gabbana boys from confusing us per usual. A tuxedo shirt with your speedo sir? Fraggle Rock Sweaters for spring? 

inspired looks coming monday...

                                                       

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Garamondella ella ella

Quickly becoming obsessed with the typeface that magically alluded my interest for years.  I have no idea how this happened, given that Garamond is about as pedestrian as Miss Miley (however far more expensive and literate). The most fun part is its clear case of an Identity Disorder. How else can you explain the fun spasms when italicized, & z (and these examples are in Georgia, but all the better to prove a point. See, she thinks she's Georgia. ) 

   

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testing

contributor info, links, and content coming soon. 

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