Thomas Locke Hobbs

Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots.

Pots & Succulents in the Garden

Some unrelated stuff...

Paraisopolis is the biggest favela in Sao Paulo. It's smack in the middle of Morumbi, one of the city's richest areas. It's surrounded on all sides by mansions and luxury highrises. I found this knock-out photo of the favela taken from one of said high rises. On Google Earth the favela appears as an intense cluster of urban density with the high rises indicated by their cast shadows in the satellite photo. That link is actually to Wikimapia which is a neat mash-up of Google Earth with a wiki and allows people to comment on places. The commenter, likely a non-native English speaker, awkwardly but perspicaciously describes the area as "a conglomerate of unwealthy people".

¡Atrévete Te, Te! [YouTube] is this catchy reggaeton song by the Puerto Rican group Calle 13. The song has a big gay following because of the first two lines, Atrévete, te, te, te. Salte del closet [translation: D-d-d-dare yourself to come out of the closet, full lyrics]. The rest of the song is not actually gay. The singer's trying to convince a good girl to go bad. Gays aren't the only ones trapped in repressive closets. Anyway, check out the video. The lead singer is really cute.

$2 bills for strippers and Nixon on a $1 coin. There's some funky mojo going on at the US Treasury.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Hi. I'm a 33 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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.