The corner apartment - Valencia, Spain

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Our first few days in Spain have been pretty normal so far but not to say it hasn’t been stimulating. Consisting mostly of time spent working in front of the computer and mostly at night since our brains are still connected to the Central Time Zone of the US – so until that pendulum starts to swing the other way, we’ll still be wide-eyed at 2 a.m. It’s strange being here in such a new place but continuing to live as we did just last week – but this trip isn’t a vacation, but a relocation for a breath of fresh air to our creative and wonder-lusting minds.

Rarely do I post a wallpaper from the same location that I’m currently in (mainly because I have too many old ones to post) but this image, taken from our apartment window this afternoon was worth it. Our apartment is in the oldest part of Valencia’s city center but remodeled with many modern conveniences – it’s nice to open the windows to hear the goings-on among the streets below…something that would be a bad idea back home right about now. Check out the listing on Airbnb and experience it for yourself someday!

Change is inevitable; we will always exist in the midst of it.
It is our choice whether we will be its victim or its architect.
Just make sure you are the one that flips the switch.

This wallpaper is dedicated to an old – and good friend of mine and if I remember correctly he was the one that pointed out this old light switch while we were on a video shoot in Brooklyn last year. We’ve been friends since the days of Blink 182 and the origional Matrix if that tells you anything.  I tend to carry in my mind a small list of people I think of when situations come up (…like a WWJD scenario but with people I actually know) and he’s the type of person I think of when I walk into a room filled with people I don’t know. He’s the inquisitive type, with an inviting openness to new or different ideas that make people comfortable. Always asking questions and actively listening is what gives him the ability to adapt to pretty much any situation. After a conversation with him either in person, on the phone or skype, I tend to find myself feeling more important and thus inspired to learn more and do more.

So now, his quest for knowledge and adventure has led him and his wife to become serial entrepreneurs, which recently has allowed them to move abroad and travel the world. They’re currently living in Chang Mai, Thailand where they recently signed a lease on a house (congrats!) You can catch up on their blogs about travels,  business and personal stuff.

As the quote above states – you can’t stop change, you can only be ahead of it, or behind it. Where you happen to be when it comes usually determines whether you’re an architect or victim. In this spirit, my girlfriend and I will be packing our backpacks again and relocating across the pond in Europe  for the journeying onward. Hopefully rolling with the changes as they come and supporting ourselves enough to keep going. But the best part will be that for our first month in Spain we will be joined by some amazing old friends fresh off the plane from Chang Mai, Thailand. This should be good….

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The Gold Souq room reflects the rich heritage of the Arabic gold trade – Dubai, UAE

A souq (pronounced sūq) is a commercial quarter in an Arab city used to designate a market where textiles, jewelery, spices, wooden sculptures and other valuable goods. In a modern sense, a souq can also mean an economic commodity (e.g., an Arab would speak of the souq in the old city just as the souq for oil in the free market).

In the shadow of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, The Dubai Mall which is also the largest in the world at the moment–fittingly holds the world’s largest gold market. An area with a collection of over 220 gold and jewelery retailers culminating into a single room – The Gold Souq. The traditional decorative gold and marble detailing honors the ancestral traveling merchants crossing the desert expanse to trade gold and other commodities in markets all over the ancient world. To say the least: an impressive room in the center of an impressive city.

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 The city of Córdoba lies in the Andalusia region of southern Spain and at one time over 1 million residence it was at the time considered to be the most populous city in the world. But now it has about 320,000 – making it only the 10th largest in Spain. The city’s incredibly diverse history is pretty extensive dating back to some of the first traces of human presence 32,000 years ago until the actual city was founded by the Romans in 169 B.C. Córdoba eventually became the city it is today because of the peaceful coexistence of three different cultures: Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Where in the world is this?? Check out where I shot this exact picture on Google Maps

November 24th, 2011

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While watching the snow come down in a flurry out my window yesterday, I became aware that it is time for winter’s imminent coming, and my inevitable going. November is usually the month I start planning to make my escape to somewhere (anywhere) other than here where flip-flops come with frostbite unless you’ve got some serious clothing.

But what I do like about winter; the quiet nights when the snow has just fallen and muffles the sound of the city – like a blanket over the world. And the air is crisp, the sky seems brighter and clearer so when the moon silently rises you hardly notice it until it makes the snow glow. These are the few times I am glad to be in winter and the scenery doesn’t get any better. But after that I’ll be making my escape to Mexico!

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