Instagram, week 42, 2013. Another RU+A intervention: Third halfway through his painting of Billie Holiday. A bus stop by the Atlantic, at night. Neighbouring pets. A Chinese shop called Ye's Please.

Instagram, week 41, 2013: a series of photos on a common theme, the streets of Porto I spend most time at. I had never used the stock camera app that came with my phone (a 2012 HTC One S), but I found it has a rather good 'HDR' mode that doesn't produce blatantly obvious (at least to me) HDR pictures.

Instagram, week 40, 2013. Office makeover. I rarely make the cross to the other side of the Douro river, saw the new aerial tramway up close for the first time (it's a shame it's been built as an expensive ride for tourists, it would be rather useful as public transportation). An attempt at trolling photography critics with a photo of Susan Sontag's On Photography. My friend Joana's new apartment building has an interesting foyer, an... interesting elevator, and cassette tapes lying around. The RU+A project continues, with a painting by Hélia Aluai.

Instagram, week 39, 2013. Intense roadwork at my workplace's doorstep. The clouds that brought about massive showers. A BMW Isetta was parked at my door. A patriotic excavator with a bumper sticker that reads "backhoe operators are nice". A car boot sale with a view, shame it was very chilly and windy.

Instagram, week 38, 2013. The RU+A event. Also, one of the murals painted a couple of days later. A beautiful sunset over the motorway. Some time to play FIFA. Riding the top floor of a double-decker bus. ZX Spectrums on display. Google Now recommended I listened to The Smiths in a somewhat scarily prescient manner. An ATM got the Blue Screen of Death.

Instagram, week 37, 2013: Windows into the sky, a (sadly) typical view in downtown Porto. Local election debate on local television. Preparing the RU+A event.

Instagram, week 36, 2013: Forest fires during the return from my ancestral village of Benlhevai. My building's elevator was under repair — scary! And so does the street right in front of Aduela, my current favourite watering hole.

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.