The sidewalks of Buenos Aires
A trip to Buenos Aires is what threw me to the Urban Odyssey side. The city’s sidewalks were the most impressionable character that I left with. Besides wondrous Street Cookie, the most memorable part of strolling down the sidewalks of Buenos Aires was the dog shit. It’s everywhere; brown little shrines left here and there. Their shapes were varied, from perfectly round droppings that made you think of spilled chocolate gumballs, and (even grosser, get ready), when it was smeared it reminded me of the dulce de leche found in almost every BA dessert. The sidewalks of Buenos Aires – continue reading …
Urban Tree Series
Thorn tree in Buenos Aires- they also had large cocoon like sacks hanging from branches that burst into cotton balls. Very alien-like.
We’re here to protect you
I salute all people who bear a uniform to protect the citizens of our country and cities. That generality stated, this Buenos Aires street art is called for in light of recent tragic news from NYC in the killing of a black off-duty police officer. Argentina has its own special history with the military and police.
~ Translation: “We’re here to protect you.”
Buenos Aires, 2008Urban Trees Series
Trees make or break a city block. So let’s give some respect to urban trees.
Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires
2008
Street Cookie: Legions
This cookie isn’t going anywhere. It broke free from a sidewalk-concrete-other-dimension to speak to me with its demon eyes and herald in the arrival of this blog. It has the uncanny ability to haunt you once you set eyes on it. Street Cookie must come from the legion of demons that conjure strategized chaos. I unfortunately witnessed a fellow human being crack the other day, and the first thing that came to mind was this cookie. If any of you want to play a mean joke on me if I wind up in the looney bin one day- bring me a box of these cookies.
So here are some street cookie equivalents–characters or people that follow Street Cookie’s philosophy and spirit. Please add to this list!
V for Vendetta mask.
The Comedian’s pin from the Watchers (reflective of the Comedian himself)
Because LL says so: The Gingerbread Man from Shrek (who had a leg pulled off).
Imagine this image: little blonde haired girl on scooter rolling past Holy Name Church on Upper West Side, in a flowery spring dress to match the season and pink jelly sandals, with a skull mask over her face. Random, Twilight Zone shit that I’m not making up!
What do we want?
Buenos Aires Graffiti 2008
Translation: “We want a dignified education already! Enough of the destroyed schools.”
Where is paradise?
Street Graffiti in Buenos Aires, Palermo, perhaps Hollywood. Translation not for the faint of heart or very religious:
“You exchanged the paradise of God for the paradise between my legs”.
Just the messenger.
Note the ubiquitous dog poop on the sidewalk-plopped, splattered and smeared for a nice sidewalk coating. Blog on this to come. Still love you BA- one of the most enjoyable cities I’ve visited.
