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.

Instagram, week 25, 2013. Attending a woodworking workshop. Offices. Vintage phone decorating a local pub. Reorganizing my books — the 'film section' now greets me when I drop my keys.

Instagram, week 24, 2013. Quality local architecture. Stereolab on vinyl. Ongoing chronicling of endangered street art. Prevening my laptop from overheating by propping it on top of a bit of particleboard. A bar called Texas Bar. A new Voigtlander Bessa-L that came bundled with a 25mm Skopar lens. Selling stuff at a flea market, giant live roosters nearby.

Instagram, week 23, 2013. More PhD coursework consisting of educational software development — this time I'm developing a serious game aiming to teach the classic grammar of cinema, using scenes from Stanley Kubrick's noir The Killing.