Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco
 
Found in an old box. Totally unrelated to "recent events".
 
 
The greenhouse in Mom's backyard.

Cool Flickr: Western China, carnival rides at night, long exposures, Niemeyer in SP, Azteca in TJ.

Raven Maps Mexico. Just published.

Halloween in Harlem. Kids. Twilight.

Alec Soth on what equipment he uses. Big 8x10 cameras.

 
 
My profound cheapness and extreme whiteness found their perfect union while shopping at the 99 cent store: my brand of sunblock! for a buck! I said deme dos! **

The bottle in the middle I bought at Walmart for $7.

** During the late 1970s Argentina had a very strong currency relative to the dollar. It was known as la plata dulce or sweet money. Tourists would fly to Miami on shopping trips and upon seeing how cheap things were say, "deme dos" or "I'll take two". The phrase was resurrected in the 1990s when Argentina's currency was again very strong. Ironically, since their devaluation in 2001 it's the foreigners in Buenos Aires who've been using the phrase. I've also heard it refer to Venezuelans during the oil booms of the 1970s and today. Oddly I couldn't find any definition in English of "deme dos" on the first few pages of Google so maybe this'll be it.

 
 
Sonoma Wine Tasting
Me after a few sips of wine. My friend Courtney invited me along for a day of wine tasting and took this photo. He'll make it on the blog at some point, if he allows it. I'm sorry if the pics have been a little so-so recently. A family member has been borrowing my SLR and has been lazy about returning it.
 
 
San Jose City Hall
San Jose City Hall. Richard Meier designed. A mere $382 million. The design is supposed to represent openness and transparency of government. In other news, San Jose mayor arraigned on bribery, conspiracy charges. Ahh, the limits of architecture.

The second photo is of these mist fountains which cool the harsh, barren, desolate plaza leading into the city hall. I guess they didn't want trees messing up the view/transparency/openness.

 



photo of thomas locke hobbs For more about me, please go visit my old geocities page.


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