Category Archives: Barcelona Life

Let math and design mingle

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ButanglasanimationRicard Marxer Piñón is an artist who combines the mathematics of signal processing with the esthetics of font, fotos and sound. On a highly abstract level he e.g. uses reduced letters to create new shapes out of words.

The animation on the right side is a processed picture of burning gas in a glass. He is also working with the (to me, until now, unknown) programming language Processing I recommend his highly entertaining website ricardmarxer.com.

I got to now him about a common friend who is an astrophysicist. Oh, it’s nice when the worlds blend..

Internet plus free coffee – Electric Barcelona

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Electric BarcelonaA Stylewalker-recommendation: The best internet café (and of the cheapest) in central Barcelona is “Electric“. Situated right next to the cathedral, on Missa Ferrer it has a very modern and industrial style.
Since they opened only two weeks ago, it is still quite minimally decorated and right now the two owners (cool guys from Berlin!) are talking to artists to decorate the place.

Members pay 1,20€ an hour and get coffee or tee for free!
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Catalounge in Cold Russian Barcelona

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The nordic cold is coming down to Barcelona and we are surprised with nasty cold and windy rain. Yesterday, I had ice in my hair!
Well, concerning that back in Berlin they have their river frozen, it is still pretty cozy.

Anyway, this does not really lift my mood for going to a conncert. Even less, when it is like a journey with the metro, but I really want to see them. Their name is Catalounge and the reason I want to go basically is that I met one of the musicians at Bread and butter and we had very good time working the cables there..

Their concept is nice (and pretty fashionable as well, I must admit): “Electro mestizaje” – It’s a very broad and versatile mix of all sorts of lounge, drum’n’bass, down and breakbeat spheres with snippets of guitars and minimal vocals. I especially liked their track Sound Icon Encantador de serpientes.

Tonight they play in Hospitalet which is not exactly Barcelona, but I’ll still go. They better be good!! I wanted to go tomorrow but the police shut down the place where they were supposed to play. Man, Barcelona really is getting conservative..

Bread and butter in full action

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It’s the second day of the “tradeshow for selected brands” here in Barcelona and I think it is a big success. It is sunny and warm, people carry their coats in their hands and I know that 30 000 new people in their database make the organizers happy. Bread and butter peopleA busy murmuring is in the air and the fashion people seem not to be too impressed by each others style.

Big sunglasses, baggy jeans that look vintage but cost a fortune, suits that do not look like suits and surprisingly similar haircuts are the visitors trademarks. Although those people deal with selected brands and individuality in general, they look astonishingly alike. It’s a very focused scene: There are the buyers for fashion stores and chains, independent designers who produce for their own little brands and also the big corporate machine players with their inescapable position terms like chief of marketing, brand manager or creative director. And they are all in the database..

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Cableguy for Bread&Butter Barcelona

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Right now, I am in front of a bunch of hundreds of metres of messy ethernet cables. “Unwire them and then put them nicely into groups of 3, 5, 7 and 10 metres. Later you can assemble wall enclosures” my boss told me. I am the cable guy. I am a hand for constructing the Bread&Butter Barcelona which will take place from 18th to 20th of january. And I am glad to have a job. I guess I will be posting now and then some pictures from the construction site. It’s great, already many people working to put together one of the styliest fashion events in Europe. Stylewalker will be part of it.
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Nitsaclub

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NitsacardSince september I am the proud owner of a Nitsa card. This card gives the owner discount in Barcelona’s best club, Nitsa in Apollo. The motto is “electrotechno use only” but actually it is less hard than it sounds. Quality electronic club music would be a good description as well.

The club is located in an old theatre and the guys, who also organize the excellent Primavera Sound Festival, invite fine and innovative DJs. I don’t know if I go out tonight, to the rather harsh electro DMX crew, but for sure I will enjoy the magnificent Dominik Eulberg january 21st.

You can apply to getting a card answering a few questions. If you are cool enough, like me, they’ll send it to you. The form is on their website, behind the little “plastic”-icon.