2006 buenos Aires slideshow

[12.18.06]

a good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
lao tza
to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
freya stark
a good travel is one that is spent among peple whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
jb priestly
the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
rudyad kipling
the whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
gk chesterton
all journeys have secret destination of which the traveller is unaware.
martin buber
it is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.
paul theroux
he who would travel happily must travel light.
antoine de saint-exupery
far travellers may lie with authority.
anonymous
the true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then he sits down a lot of the time.
colette
i travel alot; i hate having my life disrupted by routine.
caskie stinett
life is short and the world is wide.
simon rowe
we wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.
hilaire belloc
if you reject the food, ignore the customs fear the religion and avoid the people you might better stay home.
james michener
we are all travellers in the wolderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
robert louis stevenson
we should consider every day lost in which we do not dance at least once.
nietzsche

[12.11.06]

donde esta?

[12.05.06]
been forever, i know.
spent last weekend in Rosario Argentina... leigh and albie turned into ike and tina turner, but i think all is well. we asado(ed) on a island in the parana and saw a alvaro siza building and a few rafael iglesia buildings.
i've attached a link to some pictures documenting our thanksgiving dinner at our apartment - which we successfully managed some turkey, stuffing, potatoes and pumpkin pie. this was before the neighbors dumped water on us.
who would have thought there's only 3 weeks left...

picasa web album

[11.06.06]

back from brazil.
selected pics below.

picasa web album

[10.18.06]

Midreview is on Friday.
We leave for Brazil on Saturday morning at 3 am!
We'll be there for two weeks, travelling to Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ilha Grande (where we'll lay on the beach all day long) and then off to see the falls that upon seeing, Eleanor Roosevelt said "Watch out Niagra"

I'll check in two weeks.

[10.5.06]

old but funny

[9.26.06]

my new favorite place

sketch trip to recoleta. visited the biblioteca nacional, one of the few examples of brutalist architecture in buenos aires by clorido testa.

the uncertain city
architects serach desperately for images of a complete closed and pre-defined city, aim for a certain control level over the precise form and certain work conditions. they should strive to gather the principles of its ever-changing soul.

[9.21.06]

Scott Hanson

quoteable gabe: autumn is coming or is here already or starts today. i am not quite sure what day exactly autumn begins because my calendar is still on march (march had the best picture so far). but there are definitely signs it is definitely getting to be not summer anymore; like

football games
walgreens' ridiculous supply of candy treats and and motion activated spook skulls
cold weather chills
head colds
raspy voices
halloween shaped sprinkles
squirrels and their love for digging oh so my holes everywhere
dusting off your cold weather flip flops
kleenex prices are on the rise

good thing it's the first day of spring in buenos aires.

seen recently in buenos aires

Edward Burtnsky

Currently the world's largest engineering and construction site, the Three Gorges Dam project along the Yangtze River in Hubei province China, has displaced over 1.2 million people and destroyed 11 cities (in less than 6 months). The resulting 400 mile long reservoir will supply enough water to generate 84 billion kilowatts-per-hour of electricity.

[9.16.06]

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me

www.bansky.co.uk

"Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw wherever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody, not just the estate agents and the barons of big business. Imagine a city like that a stop leaning against the wall - it's wet."