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5/23/03:

Tonight I've happened upon the most wonderful site I've seen in a good long while.

Rua Vista is a photo site organised in Rio de Janeiro and dedicated to the love of the stroll and the uncanny little punctums that turn up along the way. While I've certainly come across plenty of sites with this sensibility in mind (and I could never find enough of them) this one is extraordinarily cool not only in its Latin American centricity but the author's and contributors' often quirky sense of consistency - love hotels in Rio, Tree adverts in Argentina, uncannily deserted streets one morning in Sao Paulo, 150-year old painted signs persistently painted along the brick walls in Paris, and photos filed as documents of Rio's Rocinha favela, but tellingly shot from the eagle-eye of one of the neighbouring mountains (quite probably the quite tourist friendly hills of Santa Teresa).

And finally, the short video Cruel en el carto by Argentine documentarian Raul Manrupe is a touchingly sad, yet defiantly ridiculous tour of billboards, fetishes, and propaganda in Buenos Aries.

Who'da thought dry typology could be this amusing.

posted by jeremy @ 12:25 AM

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