Migratory Surprise
Posted by Ioanes on March 12, 2009
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After the odyssey of applying in Argentina for a student visa I was kind of afraid of the things that awaited me, when I applied for a residence in Costa Rica. Beside the obvious advantage of not having to leave the country, I won’t ever have the problem again here, that they won’t let me enter the country without a return ticket. One of the most stupid things for a country with open borders (in a European context; if you go from CR to Panama, crossing in Sixaola, you can pretty much walk over there without having any passport or ID).
So I decided once again to play the bureaucracy game. With some help from my family in Austria, who sent me the legalized paper stuff and J we went to the migraciones. And while the Costa Rican embassy in Austria is kind of a lame ass when it comes to the paper work, the authorities here are always good for a surprise. One week after I applied for the visa a fax came. A fax. On a Saturday. And it was of course the positive news that my application was allowed. That’s really a big relief, considering that I was afraid it would take about a year like in other counries. But yet again, never underestimate the power of bureaucracy.
tetralogy of a day
Posted by Ioanes on March 11, 2009
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work on the tetralogy of a day series, part of the third (evening stroll) segment. 3d model, rendered and edited.
Nesting Instinct
Posted by Ioanes on March 9, 2009
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It’s one of these things one doesn’t even bother to think about before it actually hits you like a sledge hammer. The thing they call “nesting instinct”. That’s the wired urge of a becoming mother to prepare – yes you may have guest it – the nest. And while I watched J’s efforts to clean our little apartment with the mighty chemical coils the gods – we may as well say a well known supermarket chain around here – have supplied us with, and of course had some fun on her account, it started to affect me as well. Contagious bastard hormones. I began to fix some electric stuff, made the balloon light I was thinking about the last month and felt the need to organize my things as well. A reason mybe to set up my website again originated in this instinct. Maybe it’s not the worst thing that could happened. Not like the weight reserve I put on for… no idea, if it’s for winter, there has to be another ice age.
Ant Attack!
Posted by Ioanes on March 8, 2009
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Sun is shining. The last days have been quite windy and during the night it seems as if a giant is knocking our door, clumping on our roof, battering against our windows; desperate to enter. A few days ago a war broke out in the little garden in front of the house. A million legs belonging to a leaf-cutter army invaded, attacked and brutally murdered J’s plants. And they are unstoppable. Anxiously we plotted our strategies, bought lime, salt and vinegar. But, nothing can detain these mighty little mandibles. Cutting with military precision. Mutilating with soulless eagerness, leaving nothing behind than dying roots and J’s tears drying in the soil. Just to feed their fungus in order to feed on them. Vegetarian vampire on mushrooms kind of thing. A chain of ingenious creation and destruction. Can’t believe it that there are actual places where you have to pay just to see this little devils marching.
The wind giant is knocking the door again. The Attas are sleeping in there cave below the pavement, one house above the street. I’m sure they’re planning right know which of J’s plants is next on their death list, while we are dreaming of flowery meadows. Insect free of course.