Showing posts with label Paseo de la Reforma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paseo de la Reforma. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Curiosity
Sunday, August 19, 2012
El Caballito
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| (iPhoneography) Horse Head or The Little Horse (sculpture by Sebastian) In the background Caballito Tower - SAT Office (IRS) [Taxes Office]
Sebastián (born
Enrique Carbajal on November 16, 1947) is an artist based in Mexico, and is considered the
country's foremost living sculptor. His smaller scale work includes jewelry,
sacristies, garden sculptures, and painting. However, he is most known for his
monumental structures constructed in iron or concrete, which decorate cities
throughout the world, from San Antonio, Texas to Osaka, Japan.
Sebastián was born
in the small town of Santa Rosalía
de Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico
on November 16, 1947. He lived in Chihuahua until he began studying in the
Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City
in 1964.
When studying in
Mexico City, he survived by working at restaurants and buying clothing to sell
it for a profit in Chihuahua.
He studied in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of
Plastic Arts) at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Persisting with deep
appreciation for Henry Moore
and Pablo Picasso,
he won first place in the 1965 Annual Exposition of the National Plastic Arts
School at UNAM.
In 1968 Sebastián had his
own show featuring his ceramic work in the Museum of Art of Ciudad Juárez. After
completing his formal studies he continued his work with short-lived schools
and movements such as the "Salon Independiente". He put on his second
individual exposition, where he displayed ostensibly simple paper carton works
that he called "desplegables" (folders). These seemingly small works
became the base of ideas for his later monumental works made with tons of iron
and concrete. [Wiki] |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Eminent Crash
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Glanced up and down the street
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| Glance |
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| Inner Circuit |
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| Aperture ISO Speed |
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Biking with Dinosaurs
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(Dinosaurs made with PET bottle recycling) -iPhone shots+Snapseed- |
“Music should be thought of as the desire
for an ecstatic relationship to life."
"Music has to have a deep joy
inside it."
~ Keith Jarrett (Musician and former disciple of the mystic
philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff)
Monday, May 7, 2012
The Sound of Glass
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The
marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the
unexpected that you find in the street.
Robert
Doisneau. "The Encyclopedia of Photography" (1984)
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Sweet Fifteen
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Quinceañera (lit.
meaning One (f.) who is fifteen), sometimes called "Fiesta de quince
años", "Fiesta de Quinceañera", "Quince años" or
simply "quince", is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday in
parts of Latin America and elsewhere in communities
of people from Latin America. This birthday is celebrated differently from any
other birthday, as it marks the transition from childhood to
young womanhood.
The celebration, however, varies significantly across countries, with
celebrations in some countries taking on, for example, more religious overtones
than in others.
In Brazil, a
Portuguese-speaking country, the same celebration is called Festa de
Debutante, Baile de Debutante or Festa de Quinze Anos. [Wiki]
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Light Stela / Estela de Luz
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Bicentenary
Light Stele
Mexico architect Cesar Perez Becerril was commissioned
to design and oversee the construction of the Estela de Luz (Stele of Light).
The monument was to be two erect columns, one for each 100-year anniversary of
Mexico’s war of independence. The completed monument weighs over 1,700 tons, is
104 meter (341 feet) high, 9 meters (29 feet) wide at its base, and is sunk
more than 50 meters (164 feet) into the ground. A stainless steel frame molded
and forged in Finland surrounds the monument. Sitting on the frame are 500
translucent quartz plates, said to be found only in Brazil and which were
laminated in Italy.
The original budget for the project was 400 million
pesos ($30.2 million) and the Stele of Light was to be unveiled at Mexico’s
bicentennial celebration in September of 2010. Fast-forward to the chilly night
of January 7, 2012. President Felipe Calderón presided over the inauguration
ceremonies, which had been advanced one night without publicity. Instead of a
large public event, those in attendance were members of his cabinet and a few
hundred selected guests. The unannounced advancement of the ceremonies was to
trick protesters who had planned to disrupt the festivities. A few showed up in
spite of the change in time, but 1,200 police officers stood guard to keep the
protestors a safe distance away from the ceremonies.
Sixteen months late in completion and at a final cost
of 1 billion pesos ($76 million) many Mexicans are outraged. It has caused
heated debate about corruption in the country. Protestors from a union pointed
out than 150 schools could have been built with the same money. “We call it the
Stele of Corruption,” said Pablo Escudero Morales.
A study conducted by the National Academy of Engineers
claims the actual costs were closer to $37 million, leaving many Mexicans to
wonder where the rest of the money went. Critics believe the delays and cost
overruns were attributable to corruption more so than engineering challenges. [The Mazatlan Messenger]
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Static Performance
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Monumental Acrobat 90. Sculpture by Jorge Marin 2005. (From the open air exhibition The Wings of The City) |
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