check out 'Murga" Buenos Aires on you tube...

Street Art

La Boca

Buenos Aires

Some people chase storms,

i now chase 'Murgas'

My second weekend

 hunting down these

carnivals Argentininan

style. (also Uruguay)

I'm in love. These

groups are fabulous!

The drums - bombos-

with the cymbal on top

are feet-itch-ingly

fabulous. I can't get

enough of this. i will

be out next week-end at another location to get my fix of these groups. 

The costumes are fabulous, the dancing hypnotic and the sound

 and sight of these carnival-iers is totalmente addictive.

You Tube 'Murga' and become entranced! would love to do something

 like this in Dunedin...so calling all Murga wanna-be's...

and dust off  your favouite costumes and whistles and drums and sequins 

and feathers and drum and and and...

introducing.....La Florista...

Avenida Federico Lacroze

Belgrano

Buenos Aires

Hola mi amigos

i am now working

for a couple of

weeks while Julio,

el florista is away

on vacations

somewhere in 

Uruguay.

So i am officially

La Florista. Two days solo now, busy selling flowers in Spanish with pointing fingers. Luckily a lot of people speak some English too, but it is improving my Spanish

 (hopefully) in the meantime.

I paint pictures on the footpath with poinsettia plants. Yesterday was a '?', today i think i will make an "@"

Parque Memoria

Parque Memoria

Memorial Park

Costanera Norte

North Coast

Buenos Aires

A sculpture set in

the murky waters

of the Rio de la

Plata. It

memorializes the

thousands of people

whose bodies were

thrown into the river

during the military

dictatorship of the 70's.

Parque Memoria, Buenos Aires

Memorial Park

Costanera Norte

North Coast

Buenos Aires

Road signs 

advising directions

taken. Not forgotten.

It is a chilling

installation dedicated

to remembering

and dealing with

the past.

complicit

Costanera Norte

North Coast

Buenos Aires

Another road sign

in the installation.

I have to 

remember my

blog posts work

backwards.

See the post

two postcards

on and all will

be revealed.

But this is the sign that advertises US complicity and designs for Latin America. It's notorious School of the Americas.

homage to the disappeared

Costanera Norte.

North coast of

Buenos Aires.

A road sign to 

the disappeared.

One of a collection

of signs in an 

installation situated

in the Memorial

Park.

An estimated 30,000

people 'disappeared'

during the military

dictatorship.

Parque Memorial....

The Memorial Park on the

North coast of 

Buenos Aires city.

This is the back end view 

of an art installation

 that uses the format

 of road signs

to explore 

Argentina's dark history

under the millitary

dictatorship in the 70's.

It is a powerful 

and thoughtful

 collaborative work.

The park has a number of installations that explore this theme. I have a link that i will post that explains the brief and the artists response. But i have left that at home..

an aficionado of signs

Somewhere near the coast

just off busy Avenida

Liberatador,

Buenos Aires.

Whizzing past on my bike

i screeched  to a halt

and back peddled

when i saw this sign.

I wonder how much it

costs for a night at

Hotel Etc. Etc?

mi bici......my bike

This is my bike. Well my loaned bike

from Gustavo, a student from

last year.

The pic was taken during

that fateful adventure.

Now, however, i hoon

around the mad streets of

Buenos Aires, looking

both ways, side ways and

nowdays, up.

Last week i got poo-ed on

by an anonymous bird.

It hit me heavily and warmly

with some degree of splatter.

'Its is lucky,' everyone

said. I'm not sure of the

size of the bird, but judging

by the remains, i'm sure it must have been a pterodactyl.

It's quite lovely biking around the wide tree laned streets with my picnic lunch and a book, exploring the city and dodging the traffic. I have set myself the task of photographing lots of graffiti art that populates and invigorates the neighborhoods. Yesterday i got lost in Chacarita, a huge sprawling cemetery, and was fearful of not getting out before closing time and having to spend the night locked in with all the spooks. Got out just in time to be caught in the middle of a Tormenta! A big kick-arse storm they have here. Totally soaking wet in a matter of minutes. Fabulous!