como ninguna

como ninguna
Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

gone down to the beach to meet a friend, and instead met the whole town. they were all there: the children with masks, the drummers, the vedettes, the guys selling cotton candy, the mama viejas, the bastoneros, the families slowing their cars to watch the parade, the lubolos, the fireworks, the fires on the beach to tune up the lonjas, the reinas del carnaval (centro comunal 5, viva el corso de pocitos!) waving from a prehistoric converted bus, the kids drinking beer (1 litre please) on the sidewalk, the mate, the noise, the heat, the feathers, the reds, blues, yellows, greens, flags, cars, heels, noise, lights, hips, beats, more drums, move, keep moving...