Instagram, week 35, 2013: Ari slowly discovers her powers as cat. Comenius' Didactica Magna, a 17th century textbook for educators. The US Open means late night tennis on television. Smog resulting from the fires ravaging nearby forests (thanks for nearly choking me to death, arsonist fuckers!). I finally picked up Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude in (Castilian) Spanish — given the extreme similarities between the languages, I think only the lazy or the hurried should read portuguese translations of Castilian or Galician books. Working at my old office in 2006. Electric fans. Went to my father's family village. My aunt, who owns the village grocery shop, does her calculations in very neat sheets of paper.

Instagram, week 34, 2013: Café Candelabro. The orchids I keep at the office bloomed again. The Big Book of Flight, for my inner teenager. A freshly-painted wall. Another Saturday going for a swim at the river.

Instagram, week 33, 2013. Rua de Cedofeita (Voigtlander Snapshot Skopar 25mm, Agfacolor 200 analog source). Meet Ari, my friend Maria's kitty. Another friend of mine has a great collection of dice. Geese.

Instagram, week 32, 2013: Dogs. A horse grazing in the middle of the city. A still from the fundraiser video for RU+A. Going to the beach.

Instagram, week 31, 2013. Graffiti detail. Still haven't finished Gödel, Escher, Bach. Saturdays have been River Days.

Instagram, week 30, 2013. Streetlights and a full moon. The ceiling at a Chinese restaurant. The backlots of Cedofeita. Torn posters, stencil and graffitti. Lunch at Café Ceuta. The clouds above the City Hall tower. Another dip in the river Cávado. My bedroom at night.

Instagram, week 29, 2013. Cats are lounging. Foliage at night. A black Mercedes. A pink Volkswagen. Sold my Sony S tablet and bought a Nexus 7. Roxy Music's Avalon, found at a thrift shop for €2,50.

Instagram, week 28, 2013. Coffee at the beach. At the river. Books about Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Jim Jarmush, David Lynch (is that the best I got?), Alfred Hitchcock and 'I'. Nespresso capsules are like candy (for accelerated people). A kitten, a puppy and three tortoises all inhabit the same coffeehouse. A dip into the Cávado river.

Instagram, week 27, 2013. Driving my Voigtlander. New vynil in the mail. Waiting for my seat at the barbershop. Hot nights outside, hot days at the office, an even hotter flea market.

Instagram, week 26, 2013. A funny lamp. Urban rehabilitation — not! Major irony points for the author of this 'Rui Rio' graffiti — Rio being the douchy mayor of Porto who recently started a somewhat selective War On Graffiti, protecting the precious eyesight of tourists and out-of-towners from the unpleasentness that are walls sporting political commentary, even in highly tasteful guises.