Monday 26 January 2009

Taggity tag

I got tagged by the lovely Scandinavian girl living in The Netherlands who writes Love And Youth to present you with the 4th picture of my 4th sub-folder.
Oooops, problem there.

You see, I am a Virgo and an architect. Which roughly translates to "I like to be super organized", especially about my pictures. So, I have all my picture folders named in a
year.month.day-place format. And all the pictures inside each folder year.month.day-place-ascending number.jpg... That way everything is automatically organized in chronological order and I always remember the event or the place.
Yes, I am that anal about it... It's under control. I think.
So, the 4th folder happens to be pictures taken during the summer of 2003 (yeah, I'm old too). I do not wish this blog to turn into Fashion Architect: Swimsuit Edition, so I am forced to bend the rules in order to play the game.

Presenting to you the 132th picture of the 5th folder...

Lopi in the Diagonal Park in Barcelona, during an architecture school trip in spring 2004.

The park was designed by EMBT Architects, aka the
husband and wife architecture duo Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue. A sad story lies beneath, as Enric Miralles died in 2000 at age 45 by a brain tumor. He was buried in the Igualada Cemetery, which he designed himself in 1984. Wikipedia describes the Igualada Cemetery as one of the most poetic works of twentieth century Catalan architecture. His wife continues the EMBT architectural practice till this day.

As usually, I am of the last ones to catch on a tagging "trend", so I don't know many people who haven't done the 4th picture/4th file thing. But I've already broke one rule, so I really can't skip this one, can I?

I'm tagging
Saray
Raquel
Yasemin
Chloe in the sky

Good luck girls!

11 comments:

Raquel said...

haha I already got this tag but I'll bend the rules too and post another :P
aw! barcelona! I'm going there in March!! can't wait for it.
as for my friend, you must know that she was erasmus student last year in Tessaloniki and loved it. I showed her your blog today and she loved it too haha :)
xx

Frances Davison said...

I'm so sure that's not true, the skirt is a mess! But thanks anyhow! (And good for you for breaking the rules haha... you'd have a fit if you saw the chaos of my photo folders.)

Anonymous said...

What a poignant story - I'm glad to hear the wife is still practicing. (Have I ever told you my dad is a landscape architect? In Chicago, Dan Weinbach. He rocks.)

Thanks for giving us a little blast from your personal past!

yasemin said...

Thank you so much for the tag lopi:)
This 4th folder thing was my first tag but I will be happy to do it once again:)( I hope the folders have changed!)lovezz

Alecca Rox said...

aw this tagging thing... i said i'll play it fair and square and ended up posting a picture of.. my tortoise! ur pic is so sweet. was very interesting to read all the background info too. you were top of my list to tag next but errr... someone else got there before me!

Mirka said...

cool picture and story behind it, and you sound as organised as me (also a virgo)! xx

Rebecca, A Clothes Horse said...

Fun picture, you are super organized!
P.S. Thank you for your sweet comment. I do rather know how to roll with the punches, leaving and going isn't so frightening...it's only when I don't know when I am going somewhere else that I start to get nervouse!

DaisyChain said...

Your pictures are always amazing =)

Elena said...

Final Thesis in 1 month? GOOD LUCK!

Mary said...

Barcelona! Barcelona!!!!
*dies of envy..*
I can't wait until summer.

Wanderlusting said...

Hahaha that's an awesome way around it! But really, we wanna see the Bikini pics! I'm old too!

Love Barcelona :)