Thomas Locke Hobbs

Graffiti on palm trees on the beach in Santa Monica. The gray sky is the result of an ever present marine layer this time of year along the coast. European tourists wondered where CA's sunny reputation came from.

BLDGBLOG, which has fast become one of my favorite blogs about all things urbanistic and architecture-related interviews Mike Davis about his recent book, Planet of Slums. The Interview is in two parts: Part One, Part Two. Davis' writing often dwells in dire and apocalyptic scenarios of the future. It can be thrilling to read in the same way as a horror flick. A paragraph I particularly liked from part 2:

The one thing I’m firmly convinced of is that the larger, affluent middle classes in this country will never surrender their lifestyle and its privileges. If suddenly faced with a threat in which they may be made homeless by disaster, or killed by plagues, I think you can expect very, very irrational reactions – which of course will inscribe themselves in a spatial order, and probably in spectacular ways.

Sunday, May 28, 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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.