The Magic of the Cities.

Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Showing posts with label Centro Historico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centro Historico. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

San Ildefonso






The San Ildefonso College currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement. San Ildefonso began as a prestigious Jesuit boarding school, and after the Reform War, it gained educational prestige again as National Preparatory School. This school and the building closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994. The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente Orozco, Fernando Leal, Diego Rivera and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City. [Wiki]

The future is always beginning now”
~Mark Strand
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Fatigue




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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tribal Blues













For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. 
For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
© Marshall McLuhan

Background Music :

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

words and music by Eric Idle

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...
For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.
So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath
Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The San Ildefonso College





The San Ildefonso College currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement. San Ildefonso began as a prestigious Jesuit boarding school, and after the Reform War, it gained educational prestige again as National Preparatory School. This school and the building closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994. The museum has permanent and temporary art and archeological exhibitions in addition to the many murals painted on its walls by José Clemente OrozcoFernando LealDiego Rivera and others. The complex is located between San Ildefonso Street and Justo Sierra Street in the historic center of Mexico City[Wiki]

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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Horizons of The Past






 
The Square of Santo Domingo is considered Mexico´s City second largest square, after the Zocalo, due to its location and because it is bounded by historic buildings that  during the Viceroyalty fulfilled important economic, religious, political and commercial roles. The Temple of Santo Domingo and the Temple of la Enseñanza, the Chapel of Atonement, the Palace of the Inquisition and the Customs old building are some of the New Spain's significant buildings that make up this urban space of the Historical Downtown.

In the book La Plaza de Santo Domingo. Sixteenth century, Pedro Alvarez y Gasca explains that, initially, this place was located in the quarter of Santa Maria and built over the ancient Mexica Calpulli Cuepopan; according to other sources, before the fall of Tenochtitlan, Cuauhtemoc´s Palace occupied part of it. When the Dominicans arrived in 1526 the space was free, so it was assigned to operate as a convent. In 1571 the Royal Court of the Inquisition was settled in the northeast corner of the Square, and early on the XVII century, there were a large cross and a fountain, which supplied water to the neighborhood. In 1676 the Customs building was settled on the eastern side, it managed the taxes and reviewed the objects entering from Europe to New Spain via the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Temple of Santo Domingo, a building that dates from the XVII century, which replaced the original after a fire, still retains the XVII century altarpieces of Mexican artist Manuel Tolsá. Besides all these constructions there was, in the center of the Square, a fountain with the motif of the eagle and the cactus, it was replaced in 1890 with the fountain of the Corregidora Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.  (LugarCero)


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Friday, June 17, 2011

Building

Corporative Center Calakmul by Arq. Agustin Hernandez Navarro. Santa Fe. Mexico City

Torre Mayor. Mexico City

Restaurant Los Girasoles. Mexico City

Towers. Santa Fe. Mexico City

Juarez Theater. Guanajuato. Mx

Brooklyn. NYC

Manhattan Building. NYC

Academie Nationale de Musique. Paris



Fri Jun 17, 2011
This week's challenge:
'Building'.


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Monday, April 18, 2011

Authority



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Friday, August 20, 2010

Helix

Effigy of a winged woman standing and holding in her left hand a small bouquet of flowers and in her right a propeller, the Anahuac Helix, invented by Juan Guillermo Villasana. Citadel Square. Historic Center Mexico City.
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New York, Washington, Paris, Vienna, Eisenstadt, Venice, Firenze and Rome series try to continue in Sketches of Cities. 
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Stop


Traffic Lights at Historic Center.

Have a Great Weekend!

Resiste, Monsi,
resiste
Ortiz Tejeda
Me han dicho que los médicos afirman: hemos hecho todo lo
necesario, todo lo posible”. Estoy seguro de que es cierto y que
ellos, sus asistentes, enfermeras, afanadoras, saben quién eres, qué
significas, y por eso su trabajo ha sido esmerado y sin
limitaciones.
Me preocupa que agreguen: “ahora todo depende de las reacciones de su
organismo. El resultado final está en su capacidad de respuesta”.
Mala apuesta de los científicos, Monsi. Los que somos mayores de 50 (¡!) ya
no podemos confiarnos en imaginarias fortalezas y, además, reconozcamos que
en tu caso tampoco hay antecedente del menor esmero en el fortalecimiento
físico de tu organismo. Desde los orígenes, siempre fueron más importantes para
ti los crucigramas que las patinetas. Las películas de Tin Tan que una cascarita
en la chueca calle de San Simón.
Hay, sin embargo, dos elementos en tu favor: hace ya mucho tiempo que has
rechazado mis rones (fíjate que no dije Cubas) y mis vodkas. No fumas, no
inhalas, no te inyectas. Tu ingesta alimentaria es una vergüenza para todo el
vecindario de la Portales. (¿Dónde quedó la Casa Neri?) Reconocerás que los
resabios evangélicos te hacen bastante morigerado y aburrido.
Pero el argumento más importante es otro: tenemos en México muchas
asignaturas pendientes para que de repente vayas a hacer mutis: impedir que
algunas fechas, como el 2 de octubre, prescriban en la conciencia de los jóvenes
de hoy y de mañana. Que tampoco eso acontezca con los crímenes de Acteal,
Aguas Blancas o Pasta de Conchos. Que Pemex no pase a ser tan mexicano
como el Banco Nacional de… Ferrocarriles Nacionales de… Wal Mart de…
Kimberly Clark de… Que el Estado mexicano sea laico no sólo en la reforma
constitucional, sino en las acciones y el comportamiento cotidiano de los
gobernantes panistas y también de muchos de mi partido. Que las legislaturas
locales, a iniciativa panista (explicable), y con la complicidad (injustificable) de
muchos legisladores, también de mi partido, hayan decidido abordar la máquina
del tiempo y regresar a la Edad Media. De igual manera, tenemos pendiente la
reivindicación merecidísima de algunos grandes mexicanos del pasado siglo:
Demetrio Vallejo y Othón Salazar.

Precisamente por eso te insisto: resiste, Monsi. Ya para el 30 de noviembre
de 2012 no falta nada.
Pero si mis argumentos no te hacen mella, todavía me queda un quinto as,
obviamente irrebatible: ¿imagina lo que puede suceder si te decides a realizar un
fade out? Una esqueliza apabullante, una verdadera avalancha de elegías,
oraciones fúnebres, responsos, artículos de fondo, columnas, comentarios
audiovisuales, testimonios (para ahorita ya tenemos primicias publicadas o
anunciadas), tan sinceros como veraces y contundentes, caerán, como pesada
lápida, sobre ti: ¡A ver! ¿Quién puede desmentir mi dicho, sobre lo que digo
que me dijo Carlos, conversado esa madrugada en las puertas del 62 de San
Simón?
Vas a comenzar a hacer milagros tempranamente: de golpe desaparecerán
tus malquerientes (no los del Estado laico), y realizarás la multiplicación de las
coincidencias y las solidaridades.
Tu amistad ya no será incómoda, conflictiva, comprometedora. Será, al
contrario, una presumible referencia, casi una visa al mundo de la honorabilidad
y las convicciones que tan ignoto les resulta a tus inéditos deudos. Las viudas de
Colosio serán una triste minoría, las tuyas, hasta registro provisional como OP,
podrían conseguir.
Imagino algunas de las declaraciones de las doctoradas plañideras
convertidas de golpe al monsivaisismo: “En la última cena en casa, aceptamos
que nuestras diferencias eran enormes, pero no tanto como el mutuo respeto que
nos dispensábamos”. “En la pasada entrevista que le hice, off the record, por
supuesto, me confesó que…” “Sus lúcidos y muy libres comentarios en mi
programa son prueba del compromiso de la empresa con la libertad de…”
“Reconozco que en privado siempre fui su severo crítico, pero como se lo
expliqué, era para que no supieran que estaba con él”. “Cuándo leí Nuevo
catecismo para indios remisos y recientemente Apocalipstick, me di cuenta qué,
inteligentemente, había aceptado todas mis sugerencias”. “Benito Juárez y Monsi
son pruebas irrefutables de nuestra capilaridad social”. “Nunca fue justo con
nuestro partido, pero en estos tiempos de libérrimas coaliciones, no le
negaríamos una subdelegación en Portales”. “No me responsabilicen, en el
Colegio Nacional, el Seminario y la Academia, no tengo todas la influencia que
dicen”. “En Ecatepec no somos sus fans, pero les juro que allí no lo hemos
excomulgado”. “Yo lo pude descubrir a tiempo: Monsiváis no es un individuo,
es un holding”.
No les des el gusto, Monsi, déjalos que se entripen con las cuartillas que te
quieren asestar, amparados en la impunidad que les garantiza que ya no puedas
ejercer el derecho de réplica. ¡Resiste, Monsi, aunque sea por joder!

¿Cómo va aquello de que hay hombres que luchan un día y son buenos, los
que luchan un año son muy buenos, los que luchan por años son mejores, pero
los que luchan toda la vida son imprescindibles?

En verdad te lo digo (abusando yo también de que estoy temporalmente a
salvo de tus sanguazas y cuchufletas): en este tiempo de vacas flacas que
estamos viviendo, TÚ eres uno de los IMPRESCINDIBLES. (Ya tendré tiempo
de desdecirme en tu convalecencia.) Pero hoy, aunque sea por joder, resiste, Monsi, resiste.

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