lunes, 24 de septiembre de 2007

Random Parade, Random Lucha Libre Fight, Rah Rah!

Hey! A little while ago this random parade passed me on the street. These random parades and concerts in the middle of the day are super common here. I think it was a parade for like the 127th anniversary of the art school that i'm taking painting classes at. That calls for a PARADE! Complete with a band and big puppets and ladies with pineapples on their heads:


On a related note, Andrea and i recently stumbled apon this free lucha libre wrestling match in the square outside that same art school (we live on the big hill in the background where the huge mexican flag is. The flag's far larger than our house):

All clowns are scary but mexican clowns are the scariest!

A local artists' brilliant lucha libre-inspired artistic moral dilema (i don't know if you can see the detail, he's trying to decide between the virgin mary and bodyslamming a naked lady):



xo Tim

sábado, 22 de septiembre de 2007

Arte Callejero

I'm sitting in what must be the most noisy internet cafe in all of oaxaca if not mexico if not the americas if not the world. To my left, there's a kid playing mario brothers with sound at full blast, behind me two girls sitting at two different computers listening to downloaded romantica music. They're all competing with eachother for soundspace, and the room's teeeeny. They keep inching up the volume on there speakers. This is getting RIDICULOUS!

Anyways, I wanted to post up some nice pictures of street art i've seen here in oaxaca. The fine art of painting street signs for busineses, concerts, lucha libre wrestling matches, and political campaigns is alive and well here. And these painters people really know their fonts, which is something i can get behind.
An ad/mural for a lucha libre match:

Wait the noise situation in this internet place just got even more ridiculous: The two girls are now listening to the SAME song, but they're at different parts in the song. It's Enrique Iglesias' new single. It's a sea of Enrique and it's at full blast!

There's also tons of silkscreened and woodblock prints wheatpasted up around the city and lots of spaypainted stencils and art,,, mostly politically charged stuff. I just got back from a workshop about silkscreen and stencil making with a good handful of these artists who are working in the realm of activist art.





















XO-Tim

domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2007

Independence Day




Sept 15th was Mexican Independence Day. For weeks leeding up to it the Zocalo has been abuzz with music and activity. (Including lots of old folks dancing to danzon and little kids playing corridos on guitar. The Zocalo was also full of police for the night of the 15th, an effor to keep out APPO protesters and to display their power. Last year APPO had taken over the Zocalo and government buildings, and held their own festivities. This year APPO held their alternative event/protest at the Iglesia Santo Domingo, a few blocks from the "oficial" celebration. Afterwards, the streets were full of people spraying each other with foam and cracking confetti-eggs on each others' heads and looking for a party (including ourselves.)




Our House

So we've settled into our little house/apartment. There's a big mean roof dog that barks at us every time he sees us. Here are a couple of photos of our house. The outdoor picture is a block from our house. We live on the panoramica, so we have a great view of the downtown from our neighborhood.

Our friend Liz's mom recently insisted that her family go on an 'Extreme Mayan Adventure' tour in Cancún. We were so inspired by that, we named our blog after it!