Who's up to leafing through old photo albums?
If you want to join me in this activity come and look into the ones I have found. There is a whole bag, full of these old-fashioned memory treasure chests, but I took out just a couple of them. I knew which exact photo I wanted to find and why. The trigger? A song I heard a few days ago that made me start a trip down memory lane. Back to one evening when a photo was taken, of me, pretending to be someone else. I know I don't even resemble that person in the physical aspect, not to mention the brilliance that this man possessed. I can only try to be a little crazy sometimes, but a true genius - Salvador Dalí is unsurpassed.
The photo...
I think I would like to post it in this hidden way, maybe there are sensible people around or children, not to scare them away with my gaze haha. I took a strand of my hair and used it as a moustache. For the rest, please switch on the imagination.
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The song!
"Eungenio" Salvador Dalí. That's the name of the song I listened to a few days ago, first as a cover and then the original one several times.
Mecano, one the most iconic pop bands in Spain wrote and released this song when the famous artist, painter, writer... in one word - the genius of surrealism, Salvador Dalí was already more than 80 years old. The lyrics "suggest" to him - If you reincarnate as a thing, do it in pencil or brush.
Beauty was compressed in his mind, as also one of the lines in the song says. There is so much truth in this phrase! Artists have all their work in their beautiful minds, the trick is to find a way to reach it and express it, through their means and own style. They need a muse for that, of course, and Dalí had his own one. Gala.
{little intermezzo, but I guess just the Spanish speakers will understand. Do you know what the name "Eungenio" in the title of this song represents? Seems that it is because Dalí e(s) un genio ;D}
My journey through one of these photo albums doesn't finish with just that photo. You see that I was just pretending there, but the real meeting with this artist (through his works) happened on one school excursion. It was a trip that we (from the music high school) made together with the students from the arts high school. The aim was to visit museums and historical places for nine days in Italy, France and Spain. One day was spent in Figueras.
We stepped out of the bus, wrinkled and tired, but happy. Imagine our faces seeing a building that had huge eggs on the roof. It was Dalí Theatre and Museum that we visited. The interior brought a lot of excitement, we found ourselves in a very peculiar world - it was like walking inside Salvador's mind.
That's me, in the photo below (dark hair, in the right bottom corner) observing one of the artworks.
Some other pictures found their way to this post too. Do you see those in the background? You don't? Let's bring them a bit closer...
With a friend, inside The Olympic Stadium Barcelona. The Summer Olympic Games were held there in 1992.
But where are all the people and the athletes?
Oh, it seems we went just a bit late to that event as we found it empty.
Maybe just a few years late, but that is something I leave as a guessing game. The year I visited this place? Maybe a little reward will come if you give the correct answer or just play for fun if you fancy it.
Late or not for the Olympic Games, the thing is that one song went there with me, to Barcelona. I heard the name of this city for the first time through these marvellous voices when I was small. Years passed and then the excursion came and I met Barcelona in real. There I made a wish, that somehow came true (many years later).
My first (maybe there will be more of these) little journey through photographs from old photo albums finishes here. However, we decided to make a writing initiative from this idea. From time to time will we will launch some challenges again, and this is one of them.
The only thing you have to do is find your old-fashioned photo albums. Choose a photo (or more of them) you want to show us, tell the story behind it and how it is connected to a musical experience.
The photo can be crazy, funny, normal or from your childhood, anything that brings you some memories you would like to share with us.
The story behind the photo and the connection with the track/song or composition can be a real story/memory, a dream or fiction, it's up to you. But let's go together on these photo trips through music.
It is an open invitation, there is no deadline and you can join in as many times as you want.
What do you say? Would you like to bring your contribution to the challenge?