Buenos Aires impressions
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student area
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selling pens and markers next to the university
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nice url
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it rained (viejo pallermo)
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and the drops danced
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nurse (liquidacion means sales - I thought all stores were going bust (~_~;)
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Impa, the aluminium factory, which is run collectively and houses a cultural space.
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the entrance of impa
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for culture, straight ahead, up the stairs, for aluminium, go to your left (which is what we did)
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The bare tube-taking photographs here feels a little bit strange - voyeuristic, but the workers like being photographed...
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Here they flatten the melted aluminium into flat bits.
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everything is mechanic (no chips were signalled)
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even flatter aluminium on roles
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flattening the flat bits
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All of a sudden the big flat bits were hastily rolled to the other flattening machine. The 5 or 6 men were really running with
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Impa... inside...
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The aluminium oven.
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The old aluminium is on the first floor, the over on the ground floor. So the recycled material goes straight into the oven.
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oven
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whe I took the photograph, I didn't notice the pictures...
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oven
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printing machine
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paint goes in manually
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empty sheets
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rubbish
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more rubbish
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other colour
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print
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samples - what Impa can produce
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empty unprinted tubes
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another stage in production. here they were playing loud music, which was pulsing at the same rhythm as the factory.
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in case of fire, throw sand.
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tubes roll down
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roll
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white painted tubes dry
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the end of the production process