Joel Rendall's Blog

La Boca is the more artistic (and apparently, dangerous) part of the city of Buenos Aires. If you go there during the day, you can see all the different colored buildings, all the street vendors and incredible artists, watch live Tango demonstrations while you eat, or just chill. The name of the place where all the action is is called Caminito.

Using my iPod to capture this pic, then importing it into the Photogene app for iPad, I came up with this wallpaper that lived on my home screen for a while. (Click to enlarge)

Good thing I planned on doing internet business stuff while I’m here…

It’s actually not too bad – it usually doesn’t rain until the early evening.

Here is a collage of different fruit vendors I saw around town in Cartagena. They were selling avocado (aguacate), watermelon (sandia), mango (mango), cantelope (melón), among others.

There were even a few fruits that I didn’t recognize. And with my “pocito español,” I couldn’t understand what they were trying to tell me they were!

Not all gigs are created equal. As musicians, we all have those performances that aren’t the most thrilling. Sometimes it takes a lot of mental energy to stay focussed and interested.

This young kid is in the process of learning that right now.

But this is quite amazing – he’s playing the bass notes, plus two notes in his right hand. I can’t imagine the monster player this guy is going to grow up to become. That is, of course, is if he can still bare to look at a pair of mallets in 10 years time.

This photo was taken in Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. I’m wondering if this sign might have been subject to poor translation.