A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. Simply explained, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. Cameras using small apertures and the human eye in bright light both act like a pinhole camera. The smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image. Optimally, the size of the aperture should be 1/100 or less of the distance between it and the screen. A pinhole camera's shutter is usually manually operated because of the lengthy exposure times, and consists of a flap of some light-proof material to cover and uncover the pinhole. Typical exposures range from 5 seconds to hours and sometimes days.

Express dinning at Italy's most famous fettuccini. Coming back from Sicily with my long-time friend Aldo, we only had a few hours in Rome before catching the flight connection to Barcelona. The necessary stop: Il Vero ALFREDO di Roma! So simple, so f... good! The waiter, Marco, served us flawlessly, explaining us some of the restaurant's stories and even giving us some secret "gifts" (read ashtrays) to take home. As for Aldo...his attitude towards the golden fettuccini tells everything... ARRIVEDERCI!

When I arived in Paris for the first time, like most people, I was amazed by the charm of the City of Lights. The weather was perfect: 5 days of blue skies, but finding a uncrowded place out in the open was practically imposible. With the massive amount of tourists that visit Paris every year, this kind of disturbing, but still beautiful views, are the ones someone might have.

Some views of the 3rd biggest city in the wolrd, in moments when everything seems silent.

Going around by Bike in Barcelona you can doscover some amazing new scenaries...

With so many monuments, architectonical wonders from different ages of time, history and excitement, many of those who go around Barcelona don't even bother to notice the huge amount of active cranes that take part of the Barcelona landscape. Yellow, red, green, blue; big or small...they are everywhere! Like giant prehistorical birds that seem to have landed over the city, they look everything from above and built the future, as well as rebuilt the past. Some of them can already be considered mythicals, like the ones with their nest in the unfinished Sagrada Familia Temple, a masterpiece of Gaudi. Many of the thousands of tourists that take pictures of that church every day are not aware of the presence of the gruas in their composition. But there they are, precise and attent. Meanwhile, other ones do the job of lifting modern buildings on the developing areas of the catalan capital. These may be, in a few decades, the ones to be apreciated and studied by the ones who will pass by.

The wheel, considered by most people as history's greatest fudamental invent, has been spinning unmeasurable evolutionary processes in human destiny. During the period between 8.000 and 5.000 b.C., an age of colossal technological discoveries, in the strip of semi-arid countries between the Nile and Ganges rivers, the man invented the plow, the sail-boat, the metal's founding processes, jewels and the solar calendar. All these invents are based in the circular principle of the wheel. The first indication of the existance of the wheel being used as an auxiliary in transportation is registered in a clay plaque wich was found in Sumeria, a part of the ancient Mesopotamy, in the year 3.500 b.C. The cinema also showed all of this invention's power in the legendary movie "Modern Times", from 1936, brilliantly stared by Charles Chaplin. And one of the most pleasurous and diffunded uses of the wheel is, without a doubt, in a bicycle! It's kind of hard to precise its origin. In 1966, italian monks, while restauring some of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts, discovered drawings dated of 1490 that resemble a machine much similar to today's bikes, even including pedals and chain traction. In Germany, there is a model named Kassler bicycle, dated from the year of 1761. Still, it's true origin is yet unknown, as the french claim that this model was exported by them to that country. For some, it's a sport; for other, transport. Freedom, romance, action and pureness are often associated with bicycles. The wind on the face, the satisfatory balance that is needed, the inocent and clean way of moving that its pair of wheels gives us still put smiles in faces of every culture in the wolrd. And you, what was the last time you rode one? I've been using it almos everyday and I recomend...