Look Down: Floors of Barcelona, Paris and Venice!

If you walk around Barcelona, don’t forget to look down from time to time: you may be standing on a marvel of design.

Artist Sebastian Erras took photos of marvellous floors at Barcelona, Paris and Venice. This facinating project shows us importance of details in our everyday life and importance of the unity of arts and crafts!

Check some examples here:

Barcelona Floor:

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Parisian Floors:

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Venetian Floors:

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Bonus: Floor of my grandmother’s house 🙂

What a Bloody Screw-up: Venice Syndrome

 

Venice Syndrome brilliantly tells the story of a city turning to be a museum and loosing its soul by loosing its citizens.

 

What a Bloody Screw-up: Venice Syndrome

 

Director: Andreas Pichler
Release: 2012 (imdb)

From the synopsis:

Twenty million foreigners visited the city last year. That’s an average of 60,000 day. And this year it will be more still. By comparison, there are only 58,000 inhabitants, the same amount as they were after the Great Plague of 1438. And next year it will be fewer still.
For the city is becoming uninhabitable. Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed; it scarcely still exists.

The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of tourist service industries; a port for monstrous cruisers which is waiting to be expanded; Venetians who are moving to the mainland as there are no longer affordable apartments to be found; an aged noblewoman who treats the municipal council with scorn; a realtor who is considering abandoning the sinking ship.

A Requiem for a still grand city.
An illustration of how common property becomes the prey of few.
An elegy to the last Venetians, their humour and their hearts. (venicesyndrome.com)