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5# Visiting Buenos Aires | Feria de Mataderos
If you are up for something different and not afraid to go to the outskirts of the city, try the FerÃa de Mataderos. This is a very nice market with all kinds of handicraft, homemade goods, leather ware and more from the countryside. There is a band playing, traditional dancing, you can eat (parilla of course) everywhere around the market square and there are (real) gaucho’s walking around (some on horseback). Every gaucho wheres clothes related to the region they (originally) come from. To learn more about the traditional gaucho lifestyle you can visit the Gaucho museum.
#4 Streetart meets branding on the facade
This time I encountered streetart in Palermo Soho. It is a mix of streetart and branding I guess. The first is a shop which had it’s front painted by an artist. The second is interesting because it is this time not paint, but a mozaic of little stones, glass etc. I found it in a [...]
1# Streetart
There are some streetartists active in BA who make nice drawings/paintings. I like this a lot, it’s not some scribbled down graffity in strange words which I’ve seen many times in Amsterdam for example. Much effort has been put into the drawings (or most of them). I’ll post more images of interesting graffiti-art drawings as soon as I’ve taken pictures again. » continue reading
[Bumper] stickers
This very funny post on the Stuff White People Like blog about bumperstickers reminded me of a “stickertrend” in Buenos Aires. There are a lot of people who place a Apple sticker (I think it comes with the I-pod) very prominently in the middle of the rear windshield of their car. I had never seen [...]
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