Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Currently: Buenos Aires |
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| 80 year-old, wooden subway cars on Buenos Aires' Subte Linea A. The travel site Bootsnall has an article overviewing BA's subway and more pictures of the wooden cars. Completely unrelated, I found this flickrset of a favela tour of Rochina in Rio. I especially liked this photo, a wide angle shot. I went hang-gliding back in March off the mountains in the background. |
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| The Defense Ministry in Buenos Aires. I was always a little afraid that photographing this building would lead to my disappearance. I like the mansard roof with the Canary Island date palms. |
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| Che Marilyn. Buenos Aires has some great stencil graffiti, as I blogged last March. Expat blogger Line of Sight has a whole category devoted to stencils. Finally, randomly, here's a flickr set of Nicaraguan street murals. |
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| After six months in Brazil I returned for a week to Buenos Aires to see friends and eat steak. This is the Congress building in Buenos Aires. |
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| One last shot of Brazil. This was on the beach at Trinidade, a village near Parati in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Despite my general loathing of the sun and beaches I was won over by this scene from paradise. |
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| Rodoviaria Tiete, Sao Paulo's bus terminal. I left the city for a 33 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires. |
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| Feijoada. Stewed pork, sausage, black beans and other unidentified pork-type things. The tradition in Sao Paulo (perhaps the rest of Brasil?) is to eat feijoada on Wednesdays and Saturdays. |
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| I was watching breakdancers in Parque Ibirapuera one Sunday when four skateboarders dressed as the teletubbies came crashing in and started dancing. I didn't think Tinky Winky was aware of my presence but look again, he's looking right at you. |
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| Peddlers of subway and train passes in front of the Anhangabau station. Apparently there's a secondary market. I always meant to find out more about how it operates, tho I suspect it's some form of implicit social program. |
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| More street art from Sao Paulo. For those of you paying attention to the calendar on the top of the page, I arrived back in New York today. I still have another 2 weeks worth of Paulista photos, a week of Buenos Aires and even a couple of Bogota courtesy of Avianca and a 12 hour layover. Anyway, they're more interesting than the tired NYC Photoblogger-type photos I used to post. Update Jan 2006:This mural is by Os Gemeos, a Brazilian graffiti art duo. There is a Flickr group devoted to Os Gemeos and I also found this 8 page interview with a lot of photos of their work. |
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| In addition to the petroglyph style graffiti, there's also more traditional graffiti murals, especially in the neighborhood of Vila Madalena, where I took this shot. |
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| A pet shop near my house. It's not just hair salons that have murals. Most "typical" stores have murals representing their services. |
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| Largo da Batata (Potato Plaza, in English), near where I lived in Sao Paulo. The area is basically a big bus terminal. |
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| Jaba do Norte. A dried meat typical of the Northeast. There's lots of Northeasterners in Sao Paulo and where I live there are a number of shops catering to regional specialities. |
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| A typical lanchonette will have a display of greasy, usually stale, salty food. I usually order something cooked fresh. |
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| At the end of my street is a bus stop with a lot of camelôs, or peddlers. This one blasts out forró, an accordion-based music from the northeast, all day and night. |
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| A Churrasquinha near my house. I come here sometimes for a kebab of grilled beef of questionable hygiene. |
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| Hotel Unique. Designed by Ruy Ohtake, who also did the Ohtake Cultural that I blogged a month ago. The two pictures below were taken from the posh bar on the roof. |
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