CONEY ISLAND HIGH

A balmy June evening 2010 spent at Coney Island with some friends. Could I be any fonder of these memories? Sitting on my own on a Sunday afternoon in Sydney, the summer after finishing my four year degree and looking back on four years of travel leaves a great deal of time idle to think about times like this which are now gone.

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PILL BOX, BLOCK HOUSE, BATTERY, OBSERVATION POST, NEST

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Images accompanied an essay by Paul Virilio. 

SKINHEAD TURF WAR - LEON

THERE IS A LIFE AND DEATH WAR GOING ON IN LEON ... BETWEEN TWO 15 YEAR OLD SKINHEADS.

ONE IS A RADICAL LEFT WING ANTI-RACIST SOCIALIST SKINHEAD S.H.A.R.P WITH ACADEMICS FOR PARENTS.

ONE IS A BALD KID WHO GOT ROBBED BY A 'MORO' (ARAB) ONCE.
THIS IS HOW THEY EXPRESS THEMSELVES:

A.C.A.B – ALWAYS CARRY A BIBLE.

MOST OF THESE MARKS ARE FOUND INSIDE THE OLD CITY, WITHIN THE BARRIERS OF THE ROMAN WALL. ALMOST ALL OF THESE MARKS ARE ON OR ADJACENT TO 500+ YEAR OLD BUILDINGS.

 THE ROMAN WALL AT LEON

SIGNS OF LEON

SIGNS OF LEON

WHEN NOT DISTRACTED BY ALL THE OTHER GOOD LOOKING THINGS IN SPAIN - THE BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE OF COURSE - I HAVE BEEN CATALOGING THE SIGNS THAT TAKE MY FANCY: