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Not much else from this. We went out and had some bowling with my colleagues an then we went to a pub afterwards and had some drinks...

Friday night. Fun night.

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Some use to call it the third age, but it's actually a third youth... specially when you find a group of chaps having fun and behaving like if they were all 18 when they look much older.

Enjoy =)

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It happens that the new facade of the "Instituto Nacional de Estadística" building (the spanish demographics stats bureau), which emerged as a result from the comprehensive refurbish held by architect César Ruiz Larrea during the last couple of years, has some sort of hidden simphony beneath its walls, which is written with colors and numbers. It has been called "Diafragma Decafónico de Dígitos" and was authored by sculptor Cruz Novillo.

Each color represents a number (1 is red, 2 is for orange, 3 for light green, 4 is pink, 5 for yellow, 6 for dark green, 7 for purple, 8 for blue and finally 9 for skyblue and/or brown), and also each color has it's own particular sound, as well (red is C, orange is D bemol / C sustained, light green is D, pink is E bemol / D sustained, yellow is E, green is F, purple is G bemol / F sustained, blue is G, skyblue is A bemol / G sustained and brown B). Then colors have been randomly sepparated by 58 different demographic facts pulled from the spanish reality at the time of reconstruction.

The objective of the entire project was, supposedly, to reflect the existig differences on the spanish demographics universe and how these affect and define the culture of the entire country. Also being able to perceive a single art piece (a building in this case) through different senses.

Sculpture meets music, then music meets color, then color meets maths, then maths meets architecture, then architecture meets sculpture, and so on...

Read more about Diafragma Decafónico de Dígitos, or download the PDF from INE's website [in spanish].

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Nope. It's not a mirror =)

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Well... it's evident I went to the supermarket today. I was running out of milk, and then took the chance to buy other stuff missing and grab some beer, of course =D

143 ;-*

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I haven't got any subject to photograph today, so I've decided to take a picture of what surrounds my thoughts most of the times when I'm wondering why my mind has left blank. This is what I frequently end up watching at when I don't have anything else in my head: nothing to say, nothing to do, nowhere to go...

Would be like the snapshot of how intricate (or how simple) my emptiness can become... sometimes =)

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Second positive observation this year of the crescent moon in the western sky after sunset.

Latitude 40°37'3.89"N

Longitude 3°36'4.97"W

Part of the Institute of Physics MoonWatch project.

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Today I [finally] got my wall repaired from some moisture damages caused by one of my neighbours. I can't even tell how it looked a couple months ago...

Get damaged. Get repaired. Get relaxed. =)

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I went out yesterday to shoot my 38th 'Project 365' pic but then, suddenly, I've found some unexpected audience which resulted in a sort of planning rethink...

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Yesterday NASA beamed the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" to the space, by aiming a giant antenna in Robledo de Chavela (Madrid, Spain) at Polaris.

The transmission is being aimed at the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light years away from Earth. The song will travel across the universe at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney expressed excitement that the tune, which was principally written by fellow Beatle John Lennon, was being beamed into the cosmos.

"Amazing! Well done, NASA!" McCartney said in a message to the space agency. "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."

Today I've been there...

Across The Universe

The Beatles

Jai guru deva

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Looks like someone's monitor stopped from working these days around here...

Thanks for the help on the title inspiration.

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Demonstration against FARC Guerrilla and criminal narco-terrorist organisation, held in Madrid's main square and more than 130 cities around the globe simultaneously.

Yes Mr. Oliver Stone: all of this, might be a shame.

www.colombiasoyyo.org

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Not a nice weather out there, but a perfect time for diving into some of the forgotten books I have spread all around home...

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I've brought home today some new glasses I have been wanting for months: 'Sidra' and 'Chiquito' glasses as they used to be called here. Plain simple but beautiful at the same time.

Sometimes empty glasses remind me of white papers yet to be written...

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That's the way february found me...

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Yup.

A month later we went out for Christmas Dinner with some friends and colleagues, after finding out that it was impossible to find a decent place where to meet and have dinner in Madrid during December. So we went to a charming place called Lucca.

...and, it also worked quite well as my brother's birthday gathering =)

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So I've picked up today my car's brand new key with remote opening buttons included, as the original key was broken a few months ago. I've paid them 135€ for it.

Might be an expensive keychain they have attached the key to...

=)

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I've spent most of my evening today putting together a bulk of different-sized invoices, so this picture is kind of what I've been looking at over the last few hours.

VAT time is knocking at my door...

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Working on a self portrait all the day today, I've found myself on a self non-portrait with a nice "hairundo".

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Quite a lovely place where to have a soft hot colombian coffe blend or a [hard] drink, after (or before) visiting the famous San Lorenzo de Escorial Monastery, also known by some of the people around as "the hell's door".

Magic performances are scheduled on fridays at this venue; cool!

(...quite a noisy picture might be expected when shooting at ISO 1600 =)

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Fresh paint on a park chair near my workplace... hope it works fine for week 4, on my 2008 weekies challenge: "fresh".

Lucky that I've found this around, as it was kind of driving me a bit crazy =)

Jo and Adrian at Fox glacier scenic lookout

Adrian and the Takahe statue in Te Anau

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Just wondering if it would be worth attending Madrid's Rock In Rio this summer... too many people does not means the same as quite a good show.

I don't have anything to "cap" the lead on the right hand side. Any suggestions?

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"Dedos" (Fingers) by chilean sculptor Mario Irarrazabal, at Parque Juan Carlos I, Madrid, Spain.

Hope it could apply as my second "week 1" weekies challenge (Hands), even though I've already submitted my shoes for the weekie challenge of the first week... of 2007?

Anyway =)

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Well... I went out today to the car repair service in order to have my car's usual oil change done, and then I came back home with no ideas for the 365 project, till the moment I found the oil bottle standing on a corner.

That was the beginning of what became offcially my first "stock photo" essay.

Heres's the result =)

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A different approach on how to watch time passing by, yet to be improved...

Made out from 60 different shots, this can be considered as the demo version of what would become a 'time' picture project, maybe sometime in the future.

For now it's just a picture project inside a picture project.

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Today it was my "back to school" day, in terms of practicing some golf swings I've left out forgotten somewhere during last summer... shame they didn't went quite well as I expected.

But glad Real Madrid won over Atlético de Madrid a bit afterwards =)

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Cinema night =)

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I had no other chance... was trying to find a place to dinner, but then the only parking slot available was right next here =)

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Brought to you by Sotch Whisky Jameson. Probably the best low-budget single malt out there.

Sala Clamores on 16.01.2008 right before Fundación Codespa's benefit concert, which featured Miss Laura González (shortly to be featured as well on these pages).

Found here: http://twitter.com/saschalobo

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I guess I've spent about two out of three parts of the day today between traffic jams, red lights and looking for a place where to park my car... this is, almost for sure, the image that represents the day today as I've been looking at it for most of the day.

Glad it ended... tomorrow will be [lucky] another day =)

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2008 Weeklies -- Week TWO: Toys.

''The only difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys".

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Shoot whilst looking out for the first IoP MoonWatch of 2008. A picture project snapshot, from a moon observation project... that's a project inside a project.

Latitude 40°35'2.94"N

Longitude 3°35'32.72"W

Cool =)

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First weekly challenge of 2008: our shoes.

A bit too late =)

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A street. A woman. A camera.

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Today was the day I have found the last Christmas gift waiting inside my mailbox, when I came back home after trying to take today's picture for my Project 365.

It's simply the most amazing bundle pack of CD + bonus DVD, full of outstanding live music performances by the best and (probably) the one and only spanish-spoken real rock band all around the globe.

Highly recommended!!!

Of course, as it can be noticed, original plans for today's Project 365 shoot have changed at the last minute =)

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January 7th: the day Christmas season came to its end in Madrid and other spanish regions with the first bank holiday of the year. Will have to wait till the end of march in order to enjoy the next day off... bye bye 2007!!!

It looks like tomorrow everything will get back to normal all around, starting with the worldwide well-known spanish sales period.

Time for spending now...