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.

 

Another perfect, sunny, October day in San Francisco. You'd almost think you were in San Jose. I went up to the Castro Street Fair. The trash cans there were subdivided into three categories: Landfill, Recycle and Compost. I liked how the regular trash cans were hermetically sealed forcing you to choose between the three. I think we humans don't deal well with too many choices. I saw people linger over the three cans wondering which was the proper receptacle.

I suspect recycling is a mostly symbolic gesture meant to assauge our guilty [liberal] consciences. Adding "compost" as a category seems to be taking things too far. I wanted to leave a big, steaming turd right there, altho that probably would've been more appropriate at the Folsom Street Fair last week.

An unsubtle parody of an unsubtle movie.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

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 I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures.

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