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Meeting

Here’s the view from the meeting room we are currently sitting in. I will miss the UN house.

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Glimpses of Barcelona

As promised, I give you some random insights into my Barcelona life, through pictures from my old phone.
Photos are taken between January and August 2011.

Hey room

Dare me

Park

Si no le contesto

Radiohead nights

Toros vivos

#SPANISHREVOLUTION

Drum & Bass

Hippie sundays

Wing Tsun

La Paradeta

Policia

Apollo

Hip Hap

Dancing

Mutt & Generic ft. Kevin King – Forget
(2010)

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Oh, the places you’ll go!

Based on Dr. Seuss‘s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011.

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Artsy

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Ai Weiwei, Andreas Gursky

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Buttons and stuff

Found my Chinese beanie, it’s not very pretty but it keeps my brain warm. Haha, happy Friday!

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Value for money

I bought my black classic havaianas when I was in Brazil in 2008. I remember it felt wrong to pay almost 5€ for a pair of flip flops when I knew I could get a pair for one fifth of that, but I really liked how simple they were and everything else seemed to either have colourful glitter on it or look like bad havaiana copies.

So I bought the original ones. And then I walked. Through Brazil. Through Bolivia and all the way to Lima in Peru. And when I was working at the World Expo in Spain some months later I had to mark the soles with nail polish because a girl I was living with had a pair looking almost the same.. Later I wore them in the South of China where it wasn’t too cold. And they officially survived all of 2008.

The next year they went with me for a month around the Balkans and in 2010 I walked Israel and Palestine.. damn, they even survived dusty and hot India.

2011 was easy. Citybrowsing and beach hangout in Barcelona followed by being only the “going to the shower” footwear here in Copenhagen. And still, they look just as they did the day I bought them, you really can’t see how much they have had to endure except for some sand in between the letters in the logo, and some nailpolish on the soles.

Now it’s 2012 with some serious adventure walking coming up, the havaianas are a mandatory part of my luggage – and I can’t believe I ever hesitated.

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El Clásico

Twitter tells me there’s an ongoing el Clásico game and I am thrown into nostalgia and memories of how I used to open my balcony to enjoy the echoing sound of people cheering all over the city. We were there when Barcelona won the Champions League, actually I just took this picture from Daneffs phone when she was here this weekend.

It feels like that moment and my life in Barcelona was years ago. I have so many of these small and big moments that are worth remembering many times over. I see them as reasons to be happy and reminding myself that complaining never is an option.

I have so many random mobile photos from Barcelona that they deserve their own blogpost. Soon. If you want to.

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SAVE THE INTERNET

I love the Internet. Damn, I’m completely addicted to it. I use it to stay in touch with friends and relatives, to double-check information and “Gaah.. what was the name of that dogdragon in the NeverEnding Story movies?”, to stay updated with current events and international affairs, to find new music, gadgets and people – and to procrastinate. Internet has been a huge part of my life since I first got a computer in the late 90’s and waited for my dial-up modem to connect so that I could let Lissa teach me the basics of HTML and understand the lyrics of my favourite songs.

I built my first homepage when I was 12. It was about poodles, it had little blue dogpaws floating around and there was a song playing in the background. It might be incredibly annoying, but illegal?

The internet as we know it is changing, and many of the things we take for granted today might suddenly disappear if the new PIPA and SOPA bills are passed in the US. The legislation endangers not only our freedom of expression, but also our online security and general prosperity. Information is for educating and sharing, restricting that is just insanely contra productive for all sorts of positive and necessary development.

A clip by Fight For the Future explains what PIPA will do if it is passed on the 24th of January. Since then, the bill has been adjusted and the implications will be even worse than said in the beginning – please watch to the end, and please share.