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TACTELGRAPHICS // Galería Cosma @ Enric Granados, 3
El mes pasado publicamos una foto en la página 8 que enseñó una “ola de casetes”.
Esa ola forma parte de una obra de Tactelgraphics, un equipo multidisciplinar formado
por Ismael Chappaz (Técnico superior en fotografía artística, EASD Valencia) y Juanma
Menero ( Licenciado en Bellas Artes por la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).
Más información en ismaelyjuanma.com y tactelgraphics.com.
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EDITORS' LETTER
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Being fans of all things great and small in Barcelona, but particularly of the great
talent that comes in unobtrusive packages, BCN Week looks for every possible
opportunity to support artists, especially starving ones. This month we present
to you our first annual writing and illustration contest, Dues Tintes. We asked
for writer/illustrator pairs to form equipos and create an obra in one week
based on pautas that were assigned randomly. Each team submission had to reflect
a genre (like terror, western, or fantasy); each illustrator had to incorporate
the style of a visual artist (like Banksy, Matisse, or Klee), and a physical line that
we assigned them; and each writer had to incorporate the style of another writer
(like Bolaño, Cervantes, or Joyce), and a written line (eg, “It ain’t over ‘til the fat
lady sings.”). The winning pair is the one that incorporated all the pautas while
simultaneously impressing us with its originality and skillz.
We learned quite a few things during the judging period, chief among them
that either we give terrible directions, or people are terrible at reading directions.
It’s probably some combination of the two, but there were quite a few entries
that were neck and neck in terms of quality, but that we had to eliminate
from the running because of a failure to include one or more of the pautas assigned.
So, to the contestants: you were all great, we apologize if we confused
you, and we’re going to revamp some things for next year. We’ve included as
many of the best entries as we could in this edition, because you all created
something (and sometimes many things) worthy of publication.
To our lovely readers: this is BCN Week’s last edition for the summer. We’re
taking off in August for far-off lands (or at least Sant Pol de Mar) in the desperate
hope that somewhere, somehow, we can escape the heat. Join us back
again in September, write us while we’re gone so that we find our inboxes full
when we return, and don’t spend too much time having dirty beach sex. In the
meantime, enjoy these fruits of rushed labor while sunning yourself on a terraza,
and we hope you’ll join the fray next year for Dues Tintes 2011.
Los Editors
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CIVISME DE VERITAT
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QUEJAS
Summertime is here again, and with it the Ajuntament’s
annual campaign to make us behave better.
In some ways, it’s reasonable: dog shit and human
piss on the sidewalk does smell worse in July, and
there are more drunken tourists bumping into things,
which I guess is how the urban furniture gets broken?
But we have to draw the line at the new fines for
bicycling on sidewalks less than 5 metres wide. Ours
is not so much a complaint about the fear behind the
delito - after all, if someone on a bicycle ran over my
heel while on the sidewalk, I would probably roll
back and smack the shit out of him - but about the
tone of the poster, which seems to equate being on a
bicycle on the sidewalk, regardless of whether anyone
is around, with destroying public property and
urinating in corners.
Let’s get one thing crystal, shall we? No cyclist
would CHOOSE to be on the sidewalk if there were
another reasonable option. Pedestrians are to bikers
what those huge grates on country roads are to cows:
something to be avoided at all costs. Once again, Barcelona,
a city that trots out its huge numbers of bikers
everytime it has to wave its “green” flag, continues
to talk snidely to us at home. To the poster’s
proclamation that there are 147 km of carrils bici that
we could be on instead of the cera, we would ask the
following questions:
1) Is the city still counting both directions of the
bike lanes as separate lengths, thus falsely doubling
the number of km of bike lanes?
2) Since, even if we accepted this figure of 147 km
of bike lanes, it still compares to some 1,328 linear
km of roads, will we be fined only one out of every
ten times we are caught on the sidewalk?
3) Could we get the numbers on how many pedestrians
were killed and/or wounded last year by a
bicycle on the sidewalk, as opposed to how many cyclists
were killed and/or wounded last year while biking
on a street without a bike lane?
4) And finally, why, for a full month of this campaign,
have these signs only been written in Castellano?
Doesn’t that kind of undermine the entire language
policy of Catalunya?
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