Residents of Casa Pasco

Ruth and Lauren, both from Leicester, England






Gus from Buenos Aires








Mette and Anika from Denmark and Germany, respectively






German from Montevideo, Uruguay








Petros from London







Tigre from Buenos Aires




Olivier from Lille, France

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business...man

I haven't been updating this blog as regularly as before because I have been UNBELIEVABLY busy with two entrepeneurial ventures: Bucketfeet and Ojo Photos. For those of you that don't know, for the past couple years I've had a small-scale custom shoe design business (www.bucketfeet.com), and it has taken off a bit down here in Argentina.


My other, newer venture, is nightlife photography. Since working with the Buenos Aires Pubcrawl, I have been the unofficial, official photographer. The work I've done with them has encouraged me to go out on my own and start a company that essentially documents the ridiculous nightlife of Buenos Aires. My good friend Julian Walter, who in his own right is an amazing photographer, came down here to help me set it up, mostly with getting the website up. The two of us have very different styles of taking pictures so we compliment each other very well, both can learn a lot from one another. In any case it is very, very exciting and I will only be getting busier, but it's a GREAT kind of busy. The website is: www.ojophotos.com. Check it out, there will be new updates regularly!

Aside from these new developments, life is generally the same here. I'm hoping to get out of the city for a couple days next week, maybe hit up the beach in Mar del Plata, or go to Uruguay for a day or so. This massive concrete jungle can suck you in.

Manu Chao live in Bs As

The second I found out about Manu Chao was coming to Buenos Aires, I rushed down to the local locura to get my ticket. At 70 pesos (3.6 to the dollar) I could not pass it up and after his playing for nearly 3 and a half straight hours, made it a huge bargain. It was good I got them when I did because they ended up selling out really, really quickly and a lot of my friends were pretty bummed they couldn't go. In all honesty it wasn't really anyone's fault it wasn't advertised very well. I heard about it word of mouth, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it till it was too late. I saw Manu Chao at the Outsidelands Festival in SF in August and while it was great, I have to say the atmosphere was a bit different here. Everyone knew all the words to every song, there was a lot of OLE OLE OLE OLE, MAAAANU...MAAANU! Here is a 10 minute video compilation of the footage I got with my digital camera.