Creativity around town

I went to a recent Pecha Kucha night at Konex and wanted to share some of my favourite people and ideas.

First is ph15, a group of photographers who started offering photography workshops for young people in slum 15, also known as Ciudad Oculta (Hidden City), as a means of social inclusion through creative expression. I've heard of lots of these sorts of projects before, but in this case the results are truly wonderful.

Here are some of my favourites but you can see the rest (and buy them) here

Nanci Alfonso

Natalia Godoy

Next is Pattern.tv, a motion graphics and film studio in BsAs since 2003. They do whacky delightful stuff but my favourites are their new line of toys based on "moderately disturbed scientists" HEKTOR, VIKTOR and I'M WITH EVIL, and the short films about each one. (click though the Work section) This is VIKTOR:

Flaneur (Albano Garcia) is a photographer who has created photoblog of Buenos Aires images taken with a little digicam that he carries everywhere. It's very nice. He's even won a Nikon photo competition with one of them. That would be a dream come true.

Here's a photo that was taken in the month that I arrived in BsAs:

s/t flaneur

Finally, here is a beautiful hypnotic film and melody by Tute and Irupe Tarrago Ros that ended the evening. It reminds me of Leunig's work. This was the perfect antidote after watching the previous act pump blood out of his arm onto the floor while holding a dead white rabbit for 6m40s.

Enjoy