Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently: Buenos Aires, also check out www.BuenosAiresPhotographer.com

 

This building is on Avenida 9 de Julho near the Centro. It has been totally abandoned and covered with pichações, this blocky graffiti script that is indigenous to Brazil. I´ve blogged this before, see 2005.07.11. I only learned the name for this style of graffiti thanks to Graffiti Brasil, a book I stumbled upon in a museum bookstore. I quite like the building itself with its 1940s deco stylings. If São Paulo ever experienced a wave of gentrification I could easily see this building converted back into the luxury apartments it once was. For now this area is a no man´s land at night and not terribly safe by day. It´s also just down the street from my apartment, São Paulo, like New York, being a city of abrupt neighborhood transitions between good and not-so-good.

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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Hi. I'm a 32 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.

Friends Luc Garcia, Bryan Chin, Vagner Cardoso, Aaron Holsberg, Jesse on the Brink, Overheard in NY, nblinks, Ted Gideonse, David Ruiz. Buenos Aires Good Aires, A Texan in Argentina, Go Where the Taxista Takes You, Line of Sight, Albano Garcia Blog Highlights Portraits [2004, 2005, 2006, 2007], Portugal, Sao Paulo Gay Pride, Sao Paulo Skyline, More Sao Paulo [1, 2, 3, 4], Buenos Aires [1, 2, 3], Mexico City, Curitiba, The Gates, Paris, Morocco [1, 2, 3, 4], NYC Gay Pride [2006, 2007, 2008] Other Stuff My Flickr Stream and BuenosAiresPhotographer my other blog. Archives 2003.06, 2003.07, 2003.08, 2003.09, 2003.10, 2003.11, 2003.12, 2004.01, 2004.02, 2004.03, 2004.04, 2004.05, 2004.06, 2004.07, 2004.08, 2004.09, 2004.10, 2004.11, 2004.12, 2005.01, 2005.02, 2005.03, 2005.04, 2005.05, 2005.06, 2005.07, 2005.08, 2005.09, 2005.10, 2005.11, 2005.12, 2006.01, 2006.02, 2006.03, 2006.04, 2006.05, 2006.06, 2006.07, 2006.08, 2006.09, 2006.10, 2006.11, 2006.12, 2007.01, 2007.02, 2007.03, 2007.04, 2007.05, 2007.06, 2007.07, 2007.08, 2007.09, 2007.10, 2007.11, 2007.12, 2008.01, 2008.02, 2008.03, 2008.04, 2008.05, 2008.06, 2008.07, 2008.08, 2008.09, RSS Feed (let me know if it doesn't work) Contact thobbs at gmail dot com does spelling it out really prevent spam?