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My point of view #10
MY POINT OF VIEW #10 (By Tatiana Sisquella)
To start with, a statistic: on a world-wide basis there are now more mobile phones than people. Putting your mobile phone into your bag or your jacket pocket has become as much an everyday act as cleaning your teeth (correction: there are more people who remember to take their mobile with them than who remember to clean their teeth, but that’s another question).
Having a mobile phone is no longer a privilege in our society. Making a phone-call is no longer an act that is the result of a conscious thought process: we often call first and think later. It is quite clear that our relationship with telephones has radically changed in a very short space of time. And within this maelstrom there is one element in the picture which has silently and discreetly passed from having a leading role to becoming just an extra, walking alone at the back of the set. How does an actor feel when, after years of fame and glory, he is relegated to the most complete anonymity? What can it feel like to be a star who was in the limelight for years but who overnight is suddenly no longer noticed any more by the general public? Well, lift the receiver of a public telephone-box and ask it.
My point of view #9
MY POINT OF VIEW #9 (by Tatiana Sisquella)
The article I’m going to write today is to be read out in a low voice or in a whisper.
With your permission, I’m going to take the liberty of taking you by the hand and leading you to one of my favourite spots in Barcelona. I only have one request to make: don’t raise your voice, because we’re going to one of the quietest places in the open air in the whole city: the Plaça Sant Felip Neri.
Sshhhh…
If you’ve been to Barcelona before, you’re bound to have been very near this square, which lies on top of a former medieval cemetery. Maybe this is the reason why, when you walk into it, you are filled with a feeling of peace and serenity that is difficult to find in other areas of the city. The Plaça Sant Felip Neri is right in the middle of it all, between the Cathedral and the Plaça Sant Jaume, in the heart of the Old City. Of course you could also have seen it without ever having come to Barcelona. The film “PERFUME” and the Evanescence videoclip for “MY IMMORTAL” both chose it as a backdrop.
My point of view #8
MY POINT OF VIEW #10 (By Tatiana Sisquella)
The other day I was walking along one of Barcelona’s many crowded streets. More specifically, I was coming out of my regular workplace in the Plaça Francesc Macià and I was going to the next street down to get my car…Yes, I know that in a city like Barcelona I should use public transport to get around because it’s more sustainable and all the rest of it, but that´s another subject…
We had had a pretty good day at work that day: a good atmosphere, lots of giggles all round, not much work to do .…in fact, it had been one of those rare days when going to work doesn’t seem like an obligation. So there I was, walking out into the street wrapped in a sort of patina of good will to all men, with a smile on my lips and much more of a spring in my step than is usual for me, and suddenly, out of nowhere, an almost imperceptible sound came out of my mouth.
My point of view #7
MY POINT OF VIEW #7 (by Tatiana Sisquella)
How is it possible to be so modern without dying in the attempt? I already knew that Barcelona as a city was cosmopolitan, modern, eclectic, contradictory, expensive, environmentally and acoustically polluted…in other words, that it had all the ingredients necessary to form part of the world elite of top-level cities, but the latest thing that has just come out beats anything that has happened so far or is likely to do in the future. For two weeks now we’ve had our very own edition of Time Out…
My point of view #6
MY POINT OF VIEW #6 (by Tatiana Sisquella)
Barcelona can be a city of many colours. The different tones depend on the weather, the city's inhabitants, its festivals and even on whether the streets have risen in a good mood or not on that particular day.
But for the last three years the first week of February in Barcelona has been strictly black. I'm not making any metaphor here, no, I'm just announcing that once again 'BCNegra', the city's annual crime fiction event is just about to take place.
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