Paul Boccaccio

Whale shark, Chumphon Pinnacles – Koh Tao – Thailand from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. “These monsters are seven spans long. Between their eyes there is a distance of one span. But they are harmless souls.” —the cartographer of the Piri Reis map

Off a Sideroad – Taupo – New Zealand from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

After the boxing matches the lucha libre starts, in the basement of a gym at the corner of Buenos Aires and Independencia, down two flights of thincarpeted steps, in a ring lit by floodlamps. La Lucha Libre – Valparaíso – Chile from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. The skinny kid dressed like a neglected Mortal Kombat sketch [...]

Since I was in Buenos Aires on Jorge Luis Borges’s birthday, I thought there would be some hubbub or revel, but there was none. I found a tour of the houses in which he lived, and other sites important to him, and walked the route. Some of them, like the first, where he grew up, [...]

Piazzolla Tango, a café dedicated to Astor Piazzolla in the restored Teatro Florida, keeps a wall of photographs, one of Piazzolla’s bandoneons, and one of his arrangements, framed, written in his own hand (with notes in marker). Ástor Piazzolla’s bandoneon – Buenos Aires, Argentina from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. Arrangement handwritten by Ástor Piazzolla – Buenos [...]