All Boys Puto

Walking near Parque Avellaneda I came across this pintada for Club Atletico All Boys, one of the neighborhood soccer teams. A supporter for a rival team scrawled "puto" [faggot, a very common epithet in sports here] right between the letters of "Boys". I also find it amusing the club's domain name is Caallboys.com.ar.

Lettuce Delivery

The morning vegetable delivery at a small verduleria or vegetable stand. I'm a fan of verdulerias. They're simple but the quality tends to be very good. Be sure, though, to wash everything first.

Ochava Shadow in Villa del Parque

Another ochava shadow. I wasn't gonna wait around until it got symetrical.

Kiosco Red & Blue

I seem to be on a color kick of late. It's hard to resist blue and red.

Mural by Abre

I liked this mural outside of a house in Colegiales. If you've got any info on the artist, please leave a comment. The name "Abre" which means "opens" in Spanish is a very ungoogleable name.

Sidewalk Asado

A wheelbarrow full of charcols, a steel rebar grill, and some tira de asado cooking under newspaper. I wanted to stay and hang out.

Mi Princesita

I love romantic graffiti. See also Gordita hermosa, sos todo.

Concrete Barriers

All the Jewish schools and religious institutions put up concrete barriers after the terrorist attacks on AMIA and the Israeli Embassy in the 1990s. It's hard to make them look pretty altho they at least tried here with the alternating colors.

White House in Villa Santa Rita

See also Casas in Caballito.

Fiats

This Fiat 600 has seen better days. What's odd is that it was clearly restored and tricked out before being left to decay.


You actually don't see too much sidewalk parking in Buenos Aires still I couldn't resist the powder blue. I like how it matches the color of the window blinds.

Blue Yellow Black Red and Gray

I liked the color palatte that presented itself in front of this parking garage in Floresta just off Rivadavia.

I can't get enough of parking lots. This one just off Avenida Warnes near Chacarita.

Pintada - Ghost Image

I like both the style of the lettering and the visible images of previous pintadas that have been painted over. Also, the transition zone at the top of the wall where it goes from white to brick, the result of successive paintings, big arcing swoops of a painters arm, remind me of the water line at a beach caused by chaotically overlapping waves.

Partido Obrero - Pintada Politica

With congressional elections coming up on June 28th there's been lots of fresh pintada politicas going up around the city. Here are three from the Partido Obrero. I like their slogan, let the capitalists pay for the crisis.

Forking Paths

The design on this house made me think of the Borges story The Garden of Forking Paths.

Caballito Train Yard

A couple of views from the new-ish overpass on Nicasio Oroño which goes over the rail yards of the Linea Sarmiento. The stadium belongs to Club Ferrocarril Oeste.

Bondi Tree

Bus stop in Parque Los Andes just outside of Chacarita Cemetery. Poor tree!

Vertical Green

Spiral staircase and Palo Borracho

Club Atletico Atlanta

Club Atletico Atlanta is one of a number of smaller neighborhood soccer/football clubs scattered around the city's barrios. According to their wikipedia page, there are competing versions of why they named it after ATL.

Ford Falcon Faceoff

Two Ford Falcons [stationwagons no less!] parked on the same block in Villa Crespo. See also Todo Ford Falcon, a fan site.

Chacarita Alone

On Jorge Newbery outside Chacarita Cemetery

Ugis for the Argentimes

For the last month or so I've been working as a photo editor for the local English language newspaper The Argentimes. Occasionally they send me out to shoot stories and my first one published is on my favorite pizzeria, Ugi's and their cult following. Here below are more photos including many which didn't make it into publication. Also of interest, my post from last March on Inflation and the Ugi's Index.

Jugá Limpio

I had to laugh at the city's anti-litter campaign [the green sticker on the trash can which says "Jugá Limpio"] juxtaposed with the city's own mess of police tape and piles of cobblestones from a delayed project in Las Cañitas.

Sidewalk Repair

The city is busy repairing sidewalks, curbs and public plazas in the run-up to the June 28th elections. I regularly follow the flickr stream of nif who posts photos of the subways and reprints any article relating to them or infrastructure. The other day he reposted an article in which former mayor and current congressional candidate Anibal Ibarra accuses current mayor Mauricio Macri of stopping construction of additional subway lines and using the money for so-called superficial projects such as sidewalk repair and park restoration. Even after 3 years in Argentina I don't feel qualified to comment on politics here altho it does strike me that repairing sidewalks is an easy job with quick results; just the kind of project a politician with a short time horizon is likely to pursue. Now if they could just do something about the dog poop...

Sunday walk in Colegiales, Chacarita, Paternal and Caballito

I spent Sunday afternoon chalet hunting with my medium format camera. It was cool and lightly cloudy, my favorite kind of weather for taking photographs. I spent four hours wandering across a large swath of the city from Belgrano to Caballito. Here are a few shots I took along the way with my small digital camera.

ArteBA - Santiago Garcia Pilotto

Artist Santiago Garcia Pilotto uses a mixture of paint and photo-collage to create city scapes of Buenos Aires. I really responded to his vision of the city. For me Buenos Aires is a jumbled mess of boxy buildings from the 1960s and 70s that stretches out to the horizon. I've always had an odd romance for the little studio apartment tucked away in some unassuming block of flats in a dense neighborhood like Caballito or Barrio Norte.

Black and Yellow

Black and yellow taxi & parking garage

Medialunas

Medialunas, because it's time for another food shot.