Owls, Rocks, and Water Memories: Exploring Barton Creek
Following the pathway that water has carved out feels almost like going back in time. Or maybe going forward. The time in a dry riverbed feels different, ambigu...
Category: travel
Revisiting Portobelo
Once an important port for the transatlantic exchange and a major stage for the battles between the Spanish and British Empires in the Caribbean, today Portobel...
Metro Portals: Space-Time Wormholes
Walking some of my favorite cities, I have run into potential space-time gates, portals, rabbit holes or wormholes. These gates seem to have a common shape and ...
Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
El Viaje de Antonio / Antonio’s Journey
Life is a journey. No doubt. In both metaphorical and literal sense we cross time and space as we experience our lives. We move. Always move. For some people, s...
Latin American Cities and Film Travelogues From the 20th Century
Since the 19th century travelogues have been a popular media format. First as illustrated lectures accompanied with glass-lantern slides and moving images proje...
Mexico City as a Sensorial Kaleidoscope: Exploring Movable Urban Layers
More than eleven years took me to come back to Mexico City, Distrito Federal (DF). The return has surprised me as much as it happened the first time I landed in...