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“So I find words I never thought to
speak
In streets I never thought I should
revisit
When I left my body on a distant
shore.”
― T.S. Eliot
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Showing posts with label Mexico City Views. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico City Views. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Madero St.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Dogma
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Happiness Is Dogma |
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Mexico City
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(View from Chapultepec Castle)
As an "alpha" global city Mexico
City is one of the most important financial centers in North America. It is
located in the Valley of Mexico, a large valley in the
high plateaus at
the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city
consists of sixteen boroughs.
The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was
around 8.84 million people, and has a land area of 1,485 square kilometres
(573 sq mi). According to the most recent definition agreed upon by
the federal and state governments, the Mexico City metropolitan area population
is 21.2 million people, making it the largest metropolitan area in
the western hemisphere and the fifth largest
agglomeration in the world.
Mexico City has a gross domestic product (GDP) of
$390 billion US$ in 2008, making Mexico City the eighth richest city in the world. The city
was responsible for generating 21% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and the
metropolitan area accounted for 34% of total national GDP.
The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by
the Aztecs in
1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely
destroyed in the 1521 siege of Tenochtitlan, and subsequently
redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards. In 1524,
the municipality of Mexico City was
established, known as México Tenochtitlán, and as of 1585 it was
officially known as La Ciudad de México (Mexico City). Mexico City
served as the political, administrative and financial center of a major part of
the Spanish colonial empire. After independence from Spain was achieved,
the Federal
District was created in 1824.
[Wiki]
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Dreamer
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-Taking a nap on a bus and dreaming a world without politics.- "Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." ~Jean-Paul Sartre |
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Homage to Vasarely
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| Victor Vasarely French painter of Hungarian origin (Pécs, April 9, 1906 - Paris, March 15, 1997) Victor Vasarely is a unique artist in the history of twentieth century art. Famous during his lifetime, he distinguished himself from contemporary art with the creation of a new movement: optical art. The evolution of his life of work is inherently coherent, progressing from graphic art to the artist’s determination to promote a social art that is accessible to all. |
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Brand New day
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Absorbed
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| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Confucius |
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Moon Branches
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The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. ~William Shakespeare |
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Canción Mixteca Que lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido! inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. Oh tierra del sol!, suspiro por verte ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor; y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento, quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento. Mixteca Song I'm that far land where I was born! Immense sadness fills my feelings and seeing me so lonely and sad like leaf in the wind, I would like to mourn, I would die of feeling. Oh land of the sun! I yearn to see you now that I live far without light, without love and seeing me so lonely and sad like a leaf in the wind I would like to mourn, I would die of feeling. |
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Points of View (Peace Piece)
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| If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ~John Lennon |
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Slide
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| The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness. Old Chinese Proverb |
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Portrait / Retrato
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. Annie Leibovitz I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his/her portrait. Salvador Dali Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent |
Monday, September 20, 2010
Blues
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| Blue Harmony |
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| Traveler |
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Independence?
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| Independence Angel / Angel de la Independencia |
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| Independence Heroes / Héroes de la Independencia |
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| Independence? |
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| Preparing the mediatic show for the celebration of the bicentennial of independence |
In 2010 Mexico will celebrate its 200 years of Independence with national and local public events. The Bicentennial or Bicentenario actually takes in two celebrations: the first being the Bicentennial of two hundred years since Independence (1810) and the second the no less important Centennial of 100 years since Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Mexican Independence Day celebrates the events and people that eventually resulted in independence from Spain, the country that had control over the territory of New Spain, as it was also known then. Fueled by three centuries of oppresion and sparked by a call to revolt by the respected Catholic priest Hidalgo, the first call to arms was made in the village of Dolores, in the state of Guanajuato. The uprising pitted the poor indigenous indians and mixed mestizo groups against the priviledged classes of Spanish descent, and pushed them into a violent and bloody battle for freedom from Spain.
Mexico is facing - once again - one of those defining moments in its young and fledgling democracy. It wasn't that long ago, July 6, 2006 to be exact, that the Federal Electoral Institute in Mexico announced the final vote count in the presidential election, resulting in a narrow margin of 0.58 percentage points of victory for right wing Felipe Calderón Hinojosa (PAN). That same year the left wing PRD (Revolutionary Democratic Party) led by Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador took to the streets in massive protests demanding a vote by vote recount and accusing the whole world of being silent witnesses to a massive fraud and conspiracy.
The widespread expectations among Mexicans that a long-awaited democracy would solve the country's problems are now confronted with the reality of an institutional system that is not only broken and corrupt at its core, but that is consolidating its power with unnerving ease and at an alarmingly fast pace. (The Huffington Post)
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The informal way of life in Mexico
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| Transport (at Zocalo) |
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| Mexico upside down |
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The informal sector is economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government, and is not included in that government's Gross National Product (GNP), as opposed to a formal economy. Examples are barter and gift economy. Although the informal economy is often associated with developing countries, where up to 60% of the labour force (with as much 40% of GDP) works, all economic systems contain an informal economy in some proportion. The term informal sector was used in many earlier studies, and has been mostly replaced in more recent studies which use the newer term. The English idioms under the table and off the books typically refer to this type of economy. The term black market refers to a specific subset of the informal economy in which contraband is traded; where contraband may be strictly or informally defined. Given the complexity of the phenomenon, the simplest definition of informal economic activity might be: any exchange of goods or services involving economic value in which the act escapes regulation of similar satchel acts. In developing countries, the largest part of informal work, around 70%, is self-employed, in developed countries, wage employment predominates. The majority of informal economy workers are women. Policies and developments affecting the informal economy have thus a distinctly gendered effect. Make your blog carbon neutral! For free! Being part of the initiative “My blog is carbon neutral” is an active contribution to help the environment! Make it happen - make it green! “My blog is Carbon Neutral” is an initiative, originally started in Germany by the “Make it green” programme, that has the goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. We plant a tree for your blog and thereby neutralise your blog’s carbon footprint for the next 50 years! Everyone can make a small contribution to the environment. Every tree counts! |
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