tim asked:


Where can i do volunteer work for Christmas in the San francisco bay area? Preferably closer to Daly City / South San francisco

LASKY

Stephen W Tizzard asked:


Anyone coming to Barcelona for the first time is in for a pleasant surprise. The city is quite small regarding other European cities such as London and Paris but that’s where Barcelona’s real charm lies.

 

There is so much to do here and you could never get bored easily. When I first moved to Barcelona I enrolled in one of the best schools for learning Spanish – the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas near the port area of Drassanes. I quickly discovered Barcelona’s charm as I went for walks around the gothic quarter after school drinking cortados (small coffees) in the many quaint little bars and cafés Barcelona has to offer.

 

Barcelona has one of the best markets in Spain if not Europe for fresh fish, meat and vegetables. It’s called La Boqueria and is extremely popular with the locals as well as tourists. You’ll find it just off Las Ramblas near the famous Liceu theatre. It even has its own website in five languages including Japanese!

 

If you’re a lover of architecture you are in for a real treat. Barcelona is home to Antoni Gaudi’s masterpiece – La Sagrada Familia Church. Other noted works by this Catalan architect are “La Pedrera” “La Casa Batllò” and his famous “Parc Guell” which is a fantastic park to stroll through on any day of the year.

 

One of my favourite museums is the Picasso Museum and a trip outside Barcelona to Figueres and you could visit the Salvador Dalí Museum – one of Catalonia’s finest if not most extravagant of painters.

 

For the football fans among us there is Barcelona Football Club’s Camp Nou stadium with its fantastic trophy room full of silverware.

 

Getting to Barcelona these days has never been easier. With the low-cost airlines flying both to Barcelona’s El Prat airport and the smaller airport in Girona, visiting the city for a week or a short city weekend break has never been better.

 

A 25 minute ride by taxi from El Prat gets you into the city centre whereas an hour and a half on the coach will do the same thing if coming from Girona.

 

Barcelona is also home to many foreign students and travellers who have been captivated by its charm and find it difficult to leave. A teacher at the school I went to mentioned above once told me that if a foreigner stays in Barcelona for a few years, he or she would find it very difficult to go back home. How right he was! Barcelona is a very captivating city and enjoys a freedom that is not appreciated anywhere else in Europe



KUNZLER

Jay-ops asked:


My cousin is visiting from texas soon and he told me to look for a place to buy turntables from where can i buy turntables i live in daly city

ROSENZWEIG

victoria j asked:


he used to own a manila deli the year 1973

MURTHA

Baby Dario due 3/30! asked:


I wanted to buy my mother in law a tree because she likes lemons, but it’s very rainy and overcast there, being so close to the ocean. We have some in San Bruno, but it seems to be more sunnier there.

KERFOOT

Kristy H asked:


I have really curly hair and i want it straight. Where can i go to get straightening perm near Daly City, California?

BOWER

rakizta asked:


is it fall…the season after summer?

LEMELIN

Smart asked:


can you think of animals that are easy to find around Daly City? NOT pets like fish, cat or dog.. The animals should be found only at outside.. not at zoo like monkey, tiger or lion… not at disney channel like panda, polar bear…
They have to be found easily, outside, natural animal..such as … pigeon, bee, spiders… plz tell me other than that… NEED TO FINISH MY ASSIGNMENT!!!

STAMM

HaNnA bAnAnA lOl asked:


does anyone know where i can get a really cheap hall rental??? less than $100.00 dollars an hour???…. but it has to look good because my grandma is turning 80 and it’s going to be a surprise party!!! i really want this party to be something she will never forget!!! thanks you guys i really appreciate it!! oh yah it doesn’t have to be in daly city but altleast from daly city- south san francisco!

FAIVRE

Saatchi-gallery asked:


Zhang Dali was born on 1963 and Born in Harbin, China. Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies. They are often hung upside down, indicating the uncertainty of their life and their powerlessness in changing their own fates.

The scrawled profiles of a human head are the work of 18K (aka AK47) - the artist formerly known as Zhang Dali. You wouldn’t notice them in a Western city because the simple drawings would be quickly sprayed over with graffiti done by thousands of other lay abouts, vandals, artists and political groups.18K was born in Heilongjiang 36 years ago and came to Beijing after middle school to attend the prestigious Central Academy of Art and Design. He majored in traditional Chinese ink-and-brush painting but soon began producing abstract works and experimenting with different materials. In the late 1980s, 18K was the first artist to move to the village near Yuanmingyuan that later became a thriving colony of artists and bohemians until it was closed by Beijing authorities in the early 1990s. In 1988, 18K was one of several artists featured in independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (Liulang Beijin)

In fact, many of 18K’s tags are intentionally placed right next to “chai” characters. Not only is graffiti painted onto walls that will soon be rubble unlikely to stir the police into action, 18K also has artistic reasons for associating his heads with condemned structures: the work is an attempt to engage in a dialogue with Beijing, a city where buildings come down faster than they did in wartime Berlin and London. Like many young people involved in the arts, 18K left Beijing in 1989. He went to Italy where he spent six years living in different cities and working as an artist. On his return to Beijing in 1993 he conceived of his long running graffiti project which he entitles Dialogue because the intention is that the graffiti along with photographs and articles that document and criticize it will together comprise a dialogue about the changing face of Beijing

Selected EXHIBITIONS-

2006

• A Second History curated by Wu Hung, Walsh Gallery, Chicago

2005

• Sublimation curated by Wu Hung, Beijing Commune, China

2004

• Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

2003

• Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy

2002

• Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London

Conclusions:

Zhang Dali has portrayed 100 immigrant workers in life-size resin sculptures of various postures, with a designated number, the artist’s signature and the work’s title “Chinese Offspring” tattooed onto each of their bodies.

What to Do Next…

If you want any information about Zhang Huan or looking for his paintings please visit us on http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_dali.htm



ARMITAGE