This past Thursday I had a very important appointment, and now I'm waiting fingers-crossed for a positive answer. I'll let you know when I know. Anyway, this is how the day looked around Recoleta neighborhood. A truly gray, rainy, winter day.

I love the architecture around Recoleta. I like those old French looking houses, and the way some of them got stucked between two (relatively) new apartment buildings. That's very Buenos Aires.

Since Thursday I have an awful cold so I'll be sneezing and drinking chicken soup, the rest of you go on and have a lovely weekend!

Of Maps and Totes

 

I.

I love maps. I really, really do. My first grown-up job was in a dull office and one of the things I remember fondly was the DHL's map that I stared to everyday looking/picking a new imaginary destination for an imaginary trip. I that map I discovered some places I didn't know existed, like the Sandwich Islands.

II.

My friends V & O got married a week ago in London. Their wedding was really awesome and included a boat trip, a ninja band and a picnic. I couldn't attend but they asked me to design the wedding souvenirs and I was truly happy because it was the first time outside of school (where I used to draw the maps of that country formerly known as Venezuela) that I get to draw/imagine/create a map. They post the map on their web and printed a simplified version on canvas totes.

III.

Mr. Phill, also a friend of V & O, was the photographer at their wedding and he took the photos that you see in this post, along with some other awesome wedding pics. He also wrote on his blog a really nice story about the whole day. Have a look at his page and his blog, you'll enjoy it :)

Images belong to the 25-26 of June weekend, a year ago. Saturday morning I visited The Book Club and attended an Open Day at beautiful Goldsmiths University. In the afternoon, took a train to Castle Cary and traveled to wonderful/legendary/overwhelming Glastonbury Festival (photos here), expend there one night and one day and went back to London on Sunday night. Those were some really hectic 48 hours. I really going to miss British summer festivals this year!

As warned I'm in the retro-post mood. So this is what happened one year ago: I walked around the Southbank*, visited the Tate Modern and had several trouble with the focus of my camera (yes, even before I started drinking).


* In the webpage you can see right now the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela playing in the Southbank Centre this past Saturday. It is truly beautiful, worth having a look.