A double rainbow with a dark calling between, through a grey sky underlined by a nail clipping of earth. In the middle, a white building like some kind of ship. The rainbow finds a beginning and an end with another larger building on the right side, 4 smokestacks bending in - and to be - kind.

Another kind of sailing on, the very top of a building with 4 smokestacks, the fading memory of a rainbow exhausted from the fourth into the blue-grey sky, holding on the best it can and giving the rest to the clouds above.

But that's just two ways of looking at it.

I didn't have anything to give away, but I wanted to give something just the same.

If you’re curious…all text is alt text.

This video is a document of my worst tourist transgression during my visit to Barcelona. The worst, that is, that I am at this time willing to post online. Stay tuned.

Gràcia is a lovely neighborhood of Barcelona that I wish I had spent more time in. Living in New York City, the shops and restaurants of Gràcia make me want to equate it to certain neighborhoods in the Village, but Gràcia really has a unique feeling all its own: a sophisticated, family-friendly bohemia that is calming and subtly surprising with a curiosity that you feel inspired to match.

And much of it is reasonably quiet, most of the time.

However, our last stop before we left was El Jardí del Silenci, a wonderful community garden that on that day was also a wonderful source of irony. Across the street from this garden of silence was a very loud musical concert for children that happened to be blaring a Catalan version of the “Hokey Pokey”, “El Hoogie Boogie”. And I couldn't help but put my whole self in everyone’s way and document it all about.

Ei, Hoogie Boogie. D'això es tracta.