Ajuntament de Barcelona

George Orwell, the author of “1984” and “Homage to Catalonia” is turning in his grave:

The Municipality of Barcelona - Zone under surveillance

Reality – Oh Your God

This is a sign for tourists that explains about the Banias archaeological site in the Golan Heights. Take a closer look here:

Notice that someone vandalized this sign and corrected “GOD PAN” to “gOD PAN”. My guess is that it was a person who found it offensive that a Greek god is called a “God” with a capital letter and he wanted to tell that it’s just a meaningless pagan lesser god. The text is in all-caps, so capital and small letters are not supposed to be different, but they did matter to that vandal in some way.

By a coincidence—or maybe not?—this is similar to the name of the band dEUS, whose recently released new album “Vantage Point” is surprisingly good.

Reality – June 06

These stickers have become quite common lately on walls and cars:

“Till when June 2006?! G. Shalit”. It refers to a graffiti which is common in public toilets in Israel as well as at military bases. It expresses the frustration of a draft soldier that wants to get demobilized, although the date in such graffiti is usually the date he started his service. Shalit’s draft date is July 2005 and indeed, his friends were demobilized a few days ago. June 2006 is the date Hammas kidnapped him.

Reality – Forbiding

Well, at least it’s not forboding.

Reality – Tel-Aviv – Vegas

I’m liberal, but Tel-Aviv is bad enough without becoming a cheap Vegas knock-off.

Cats on the Wing 1

“Nini doesn’t go into the bedroom when we’re not home”.

Hadar, who has a Master’s degree in physics, has solved Schrödinger’s cat paradox.

Reality – The Brand, part 2

“Elite. Institutional cocoa.”

Sometimes branding is funny. And sometimes people just give up on branding completely, although i thought that it happened only in Soviet Russia.

Reality – The Brand

Thanks for buying one of Hamutag’s products – a line of products from the best manufacturers in Israel and in the World.

I am seeing these quite a lot lately. Own-brands are not so new in Israel. The funny thing about this one is that the word Hamutag simply means “The Brand”.

Hidden Mickey

Find the Hidden Mickey.

Reality – Nikolai

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol in form of graffiti in Jerusalem.