Steve Buchanan asked:


Barcelona is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. A few days is usually enough to get Barsa under your skin, but a few days is never enough to see all the beauty of this magical city. If you are planning a trip, why not consider staying in one of our apartments? They are centrally located, fully-furnished and equipped to suit your every need and whim. What’s more, they are perfect base for sight-seeing as they are within minutes walking distance from major city sites and attractions. We will be happy to assist you with any of your special needs or requirements in hope to make your stay in Barcelona an unforgettable one.

Rental apartments are becoming a popular option for many travellers as it provides:

- Best value for money.

- Comfort and space.

- You can feel like at home, for less money than in a hotel.

- You can enjoy the benefit of having a fully equipped house.

When you are planning a visit to the city of Barcelona, finding the perfect accommodation needn’t be chore. Whether you are going with your family, a group of friends, or your partner, vacation rentals can provide you with everything you need. Apartments can be as extravagant as a swanky hotel or just contain the basic essentials for your stay.

Not only this, it’s Mediterranean climate combined with the world famous architecture of Antoni Gaudí­ and the art of Dali, Miro and Picasso will delight you and make your stay always too short. In Barcelona you’ll discover countless museums, theatres, Europe’s second biggest opera house and numerous other musical venues, sports arenas including the incomparable Camp Nou, home to Barcelona FC, and an endless variety of bars, restaurants, shopping malls, a city beach and many amusement parks, all easily accessed from our rental apartments in the city’s famous and historic centre. Barcelona is one Europe’s most exciting cities, diverse, multicultural and friendly, it’s mix of history and modernity has all the vibrancy of a capital.

There is usually a correlation between price and standard of luxury when choosing rental accommodation, so once you have determined what your apartment needs are and how much you can afford, you will easily find a great apartment to rent in Barcelona. Do you want something close to the vibrancy of the city, perhaps along La Rambla, or a place a little quieter and further out of the city centre? Would you like to be near to the coast, perhaps with easy access to beach? If you are driving, or hiring a car at the airport, will the apartment have parking? All of these questions should help you decide what you need from a Barcelona apartment rental.

The advantages of an apartment include the amount of personal space you have. You don’t need to cram people into a hotel room, but can select an apartment with as many bedrooms, and the layout of beds that you need. You have communal space that is just for you and your group so you can sit together in privacy without having to perch on someone’s bed. All apartments have at least one full bathroom and one half bathrooms, so there will be less fighting over who uses the bathroom next. Rental apartment in Barcelona displays a selection of finest apartments available in the city, chosen because of exceptional features like a good value for money, location, attractiveness of the apartments, the building, and its surroundings.



STARN
Daly City
Mami_Cita427 asked:


Northwest California: between Daly City-Redwood City (farthest distance.)

TOOLSON
cahighwayman21 asked:


5 Car Millbrae/Caltrain Station Train arriving at the Daly City Station on 7/14/08. Yup you seeing the title. Right after Balboa Park the simple train destination “Millbrae” becomes “Millbrae/Caltrain Station”. A Dublin/Pleseanton Train waits to depart on Platform 1 (I uploaded the video of the same train arriving at this station). A SF/Richmond train arrives before the “Millbrae/Caltrain Station” Train arrives that train will eventually turn around, and head back to Richmond. The same destination signage is used when the Dublin/Pleseanton line extend to Millbrae weeknights, and weekends (and the same goes when the SFO line extend to Millbrae during the first, and last hour of BART service, during the last hour the Dublin/Pleseanton line terminates at Daly City, yes strange but Millbrae is only served by one line at a time.

BERNARDINO

RMalla asked:


Daly City, CA Brawl tournament 4/19/08 Serramonte Shopping Center Gamestop (seperate from the Huge Gamestop tourney thats still going on). Its the Finals between Sky Raiders’ Genesis Remix VS LuninSpectra (his gamertag was Beethoven for this tournament). This Round 2 of the best of 5 Finals. Sky Raiders Genesis Remix Signature Move: 1000 Slashes (B Tornado towards ceiling again….and again…AND AGAIN! If they try to run off to the side, get them back in with B Tornado and drag them back under the ceiling)

TANABE

Top four city museums in Spain

Filed Under Travel | Comments Off

Mike Mcdougall asked:


Spain, with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year. An area where this can be seen in particular is in its museums and galleries, a rich history of art and culture has left Spain a huge legacy in this department with names such as Dali, Picasso and Miro leading the list:

Guggenheim, Bilbao:

Now one of the most easily recognised buildings in Europe, the Guggenheim in Bilbao is a work of art itself. Opened in 1997 and designed by American architect Frank O. Gehry, the museum has been a lynchpin for the city’s redevelopment programme and in many ways the museum symbolises the new, modern Bilbao. Standing right in the city centre alongside the river the museum offers 11,000 sqm of exhibition space over three galleries. The museum has a body of permanent work always on display as well as large exhibitions which run for months at a time. Currently on View is the “Aztec Empire” comprising of a huge body of work from the pre-columbian civilization. Previous exhibitions have encompassed an eclectic blend of art with work from the likes of Matisse, Michelangelo, Reubens and Warhol having graced its corridors.

Dali Theatre-Museum, Figueres

Located in Figueres, the Dali Theatre-Museum is the broadest collection of his work in the world tracing his first artistic forays, the surrealist period and even including some of the last works painted before his death. Figueres also happens to be Dali’s hometown and the decision to build the museum from the ruins of the town’s Spanish civil war-damaged theatre, didn’t seem like a difficult one. Indeed, it was here as a boy where Dali first had the chance to display his work so is a fitting place to exhibit the cream of his life’s work. Dali himself supervised the building and creation of the museum turning it into a huge surrealist playground. Dali also created some works specifically for the museum itself - the “Mae West Room”, the “Wind Palace Room” and the “Monument to Francesc Pujols and the Rainy Cadillac” are larger than life and superb examples of Dali’s fertile imagination.

Reina Sofia, Madrid

One of Madrid’s most celebrated museums, the Reina Sofia houses a huge collection of contemporary art. Once the city’s San Carlos hospital, the museum was originally founded in 1986 but underwent a serious revamp in 1990 at the hands of British architect, Ian Ritchie. They envisioned creating something to rival the Tate in London and the Pompidou centre in Paris, and, with 36,000 sqm of exhibition space, it’s one of the world’s largest museums and an extremely impressive place. The most famous painting housed there is undoubtedly Picasso’s Guernica, an immense cubist work and war protest and probably the great painter’s most famous work. Visitors can also see the many preliminary sketches that he made for the work. Other great Spanish artists on display are Dali, Miro and Orteiz to name but a few as well as Spain’s most important artists of the last 20 years.

Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona

One of Spain’s most important artists and often overlooked due to the lure of Picasso and Dali, the Fundacio Joan Miro in the Montjuic area of Barcelona is well worth a visit. Spacious and set in its own grounds, the museum is a step away from the regular metropolitan museums and galleries - the white building built around an internal courtyard is typically Mediterranean. Huge amounts of natural light help to bring Miro’s surrealist works to life and the museum also houses some of his sculptures and ceramic works as well as the paintings he’s more famous for. The museum also has a permanent exhibition space in which the foundation gives special attention to Spain’s more experimental artists - not everyone’s cup of tea, granted, but worth a look if you’re visiting the museum.



CHINCHILLA
InventaTechnologies asked:


Zhang Dali is known for Demolitions, photographs of his graffiti work, as AK47, in which he made graffiti profiles on buildings that were in the process of being demolished, on walls, bridges and underpasses, all over Beijing. Zhang Dali’s pairs manipulated photographs from Mao-era China, with unaltered images from original negatives, showing how photography was used as a propaganda tool, exemplify the use of artistic censorship for political motives.

Biography of Zhang Dali

1963 Born in Harbin, China

1987 Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Beijing

Lives and works in Beijing.

Zhang Dali, also known as AK-47 and 18K, makes art that questions the official face of contemporary Chinese society through graffiti, sculpture and installation. As a young man, Zhang was a successful painter in a more traditional and acceptable way – abstract canvases and playful interactions with the characters of the Chinese language – however, he grew despondent with the lack of impact his work had in galleries and turned to graffiti in order to make his art more visible. Zhang’s best known project is ‘Dialogue’ in which he sprays stylised outlines of heads on condemned buildings around Beijing. This tagging highlights the swiftness with which the past is being turned to rubble in an attempt to transform the city into a modern metropolis at the sacrifice of almost all traditional architecture.

Zhang Dali’s intention throughout his body of work is to call attention to the changes taking place in Chinese society primarily due to the destruction of long standing communities. He wants to enter into a dialogue with his compatriots whom he sees as becoming increasingly estranged as the drive towards modernisation continues. His early graffiti work can still be seen all over the Chinese capital. His signature outline of a human head was found, among other places, on traditional courtyard houses marked for demolition. The artist called this graffiti work “Dialogue” and documented it by photography.

Zhang Dali’s work was shown in the 2002 Guangzhou Triennial, ARCO 2002, and Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China ,China Art Now (Singapore Art Museum), Contemporary Chinese Photography (Finland Museum of Photography, Helsinki), Hot Pot (Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo), Beijing in London (ICA), and **** Off (Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai). His work will be included in the fall at the Gwangiu Biennial, S. Korea and Duke University, as well as Kiang Gallery in Atlanta.

CONCLUSION

Zhang Dali, his sculptures are living taxonomy, a human version of insect samples (”biao ben”) except the specimens are live people. It is a documentation of the species at a specific moment in history.Zhang Dali wanted to bring these people and their hard, bitter lives to the attention of others.

Find More about Zhang Dali Paintings and Exhibitions at Saatchi-Gallery

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_dali.htm



LAGANA

Get Pr for your Trade Show Exhibit

Filed Under Marketing | Comments Off

Dick Wheeler asked:


If your company is planning to exhibit at a trade show and your firm has an intriguing new product or service to showcase, you may be able to generate thousands of dollars in free exposure by hiring a public relations specialist to get national and international media coverage. By hiring a public relations pro, you will be assured of getting releases to the industry trade media about that hot new product you are featuring. The trade show media will also be invited to your trade show booth for an interview with your company executive.

Be sure to keep in mind that a valuable and important publicity task is to create a comprehensive media kit. The kit should include background specifics on your company as well as an outline of your new product features and benefits. You should send this kit out in advance and also have it on hand to give to media trade show booth visitors. The press kit makes it easier for the media to write about the details of your story and learn why your news is meaningful to a broader audience.

Your trade show exhibit publicity campaign must begin with finding the right news hook or news angle.

Your publicity team will help you craft and package your trade show news that makes sense for the trade show media to cover. And, in order to obtain trade show exhibit coverage, you need to plan ahead. Your media relations contact needs time to identify the trade show media that will cover your upcoming trade show.

Sending out media invitations to a specified media list with an invitation to visit your trade show exhibit booth with an offer to interview your firm’s spokesperson is critical. Your publicity person also needs to establish advance contact with the trade show media staff to learn what information they are sending out. It is also helpful to obtain the trade show pr staff’s specific media list that covers trade show online, broadcast and print media.

It’s critical for your publicity person to learn the story angles that the trade show PR staff might be pitching. This helps your pr agent avoid making a duplicate pitch and gives them the opportunity to piggyback your specific news to the general trade show theme. If one of the trade show pr staff’s angles is compatible with your company, product or service, you can hitchhike on the trade show PR efforts. Distributing your company news to the trade show PR staff is also extremely valuable as they often field media requests. They then will be able to refer the trade show media to your trade show exhibit when a reporter is looking for a case study or a specific story.

According to Trisha Britt, owner of Britt & Associates, an award-winning trade show public relations agency based in Mill Valley, California, there are specific steps to follow when working with trade show media. They are:

Begin by preparing a press release to announce an intriguing aspect of your trade show exhibit. Be sure to include your trade show booth number. Give editors and producers specific reasons why they should visit your trade show booth and interview your company spokesperson.

Do you have a new product or service to announce, a new member of the management team to introduce or a point of view that you are taking on an industry issue?

Also, suggest setting up a specific time for an interview with an expert from your company. Prepare a list of topics your executive can cover. At the minimum, make your executive give you a two hour window of time to be available at your trade show booth. Try to schedule interviews about 20 minutes in length, and make sure your executive is suitably attired for a photo or video shoot.

Britt has handled a variety of clients in Oakland, San Jose, Fremont, Hayward, Cupertino, Milpitas, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Foster City, San Pablo, Daly City, San Diego, Sacramento and throughout California.

By having the media cover your trade show exhibit, you will expand your trade show exhibit story to a wider audience and develop ongoing contact with the trade show media for continuing news opportunities. It is a win/win situation.



HOSTETLER
jud3 asked:


2006 HIMIG NATIN fil-am battle of the bands held @ the Moose Lounge, daly city.

BIRGE

Daly City
keep_on_dancing asked:


What are some safe and affordable places to live in the SF Peninsula - Daly City, San Bruno, etc? Is it slightly more affordable than the city?

Thanks

INZER

Daly City
jojocircus3 asked:


I want one like this http://www.jcrew.com/AST/Browse/WomenBrowse/Women_Shop_By_Category/accessories/necessaryluxuries/PRDOVR~13933/13933.jsp but for a cheaper price I want to be able to find it locally in Daly City or San Francisco.

STETSON

Next Page →