Showing posts with label uruguay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uruguay. Show all posts

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011

Salt Water



By checking on the statistics on how people from so many different places in the World end up here in my blog (which made me infinitely happy) I found a wonderful quote from Karen Blixen I couldn't be more agree with:

"The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea."

I really would like to live closer to the ocean, it doesn't matter to me if it's tropical, cold, sandy or stoney, as long, of course, it is salty.



*Photos are from La Barra, Punta Ballena and José Ignacio in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Bye bye November


This are random photos of things that happened in November. My mom visited me and there was, of course, a lot of sightseeing in Buenos Aires, a delicious breakfast in Oui Oui, Punta del Este minitrip, Ale and Ceci working, Marilyn and Axl in San Telmo, a beer called like me, and a book I bought after reading Hila's post. Overall it was a good month. Hope December will be better though.

The bench photo was taken by Ale and the last one by Ceci :)

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Piriápolis I




Exactly one week ago I was wondering around Piriápolis in Uruguay. A little city near Punta del Este on the coast of Río de la Plata. On the photos you can see a little bit of the seaside and the Argentino Hotel. Between the years 1920 and 1930 that hotel was one of the biggest hotels of South America. Now, due to the declined popularity of Piriápolis as a resort and the lack of proper maintenance the luxurious hotel would fit perfectly as location of a summer version of The Shinning.

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Hace justamente una semana estaba paseando por Piriápolis en Uruguay, una pequeña ciudad cerca de Punta del Este en la costa del Río de la Plata. En las fotos pueden ver un poco de la costa y el Hotel Argentino. Entre los años 1920 y 1930 ese hotel fue uno de los más grandes de Suramérica. Ahora, por el descenso de popularidad de Piriápolis como balneario y por la falta de mantenimiento las instalaciones de tan lujoso hotel quedarían perfectas como una locación para una versión de verano de The Shinning.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Espantapájaros 10 (fragmento)

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Faro en José Ignacio. Punta del Este 2009.


¿Resultará más práctico dotarse de una epidermis de verruga que adquirir una psicología de colmillo cariado?

Aunque ya han transcurrido muchos años, lo recuerdo perfectamente. Acababa de formularme esta pregunta, cuando un tranvía me susurró al pasar: "En la vida hay que sublimarlo todo... no hay que dejar nada sin sublimar!".

Difícilmente otra revelación me hubiese encandilado con más violencia: fue como si me enfocaran, de pronto, todos los reflectores de la escuadra británica. Recién me iluminaba tanta sabiduría, cuando empecé a sublimar, cuando ya lo sublimaba todo, con un entusiasmo de rematador... de rematador sublime, se sobreentiende.

Desde entonces la vida tiene un significado distinto para mí. Lo que antes me resultaba grotesco o deleznable, ahora me parece sublime.

Oliverio Girondo.




Saturday, April 17, 2010

Up / Down

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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.


Bob Dylan.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Interdimensional doorway

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Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own.


Why not?


Sunday, November 15, 2009

Love and sun

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Is definitely all you need.



Fotos: José Ignacio y La Barra.
Punta del Este. Uruguay.