Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Twist
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Liquid Clown
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."
Nikos Kazantzakis
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Quietly / En Silencio
(" La felicidad es como una mariposa, cuando la persigues, siempre esta fuera de tu alcance, pero cuando te detienes en silencio, puede posarse sobre ti.") Nathaniel Hawthorne
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Clouds through Windows
Friday, October 16, 2009
JM
The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley.
The title comes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Monastery
Cuernavaca is the capital of the state of Morelos. The construction on its cathedral began in 1533 to serve as a shrine to the adjacent Franciscan convent. There is an open chapel with vaults with gothic ribs built between 1536 and 1538 next to the cathedral. It is still possible to see pieces of mural paintings from the sixteenth century in the cloister of the convent. The chapel of the Third Order whose facade was built in baroque style and which has a beautiful altarpiece made of carved wood is located in the atrium.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Street Mural
Sign: Misc. La Esperanza [Miscellaneous The Hope] Miscellaneous, old stores or minimarkets not in use anymore, displaced by big chains of stores. The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the name Hope don't help against 'progress'.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Streets
From The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Columpio Sonoro / Sonorous Swing
Columpio Sonoro / Sonorous Swing by Vicente Rojo (Sculptor) 2005.
Vicente Rojo Almazán es un pintor y escultor mexicano, aunque nacido en 1932 en Barcelona, España, ciudad en la que hizo sus primeros estudios de escultura y cerámica.
En España hace sus primeros estudios de dibujo, cerámica y escultura en 1946 en la Escuela Elemental del Trabajo.
Llega a México en 1949, reclamado por su padre, el cual residía aquí como refugiado político desde el fin de la Guerra Civil Española.
Vicente Rojo es sobrino del general Rojo, el más acreditado jefe de las tropas de la Segunda República Española que se opusieron al golpe de estado protagonizado por el general Franco.
Trabajó en el suplemento México en la Cultura de la oficina de ediciones del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; asimismo colabora con la Revista de la Universidad de México y la revista La cultura en México (1962-1974) de la Revista Siempre!.
Obtenida la nacionalidad mexicana, estudia pintura en la escuela de arte La Esmeralda y realiza durante estos más de cuarenta años una amplia obra en pintura, diseño gráfico y en fechas más recientes escultura.
Exponiendo en numerosas ocasiones en México y eln el extranjero a partir de 1958, en 1991 es galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Arte y el Premio México de Diseño, habiendo participado en el diseño gráfico de diversas publicaciones culturales como la Revista de Bellas Artes, la Revista de la Universidad, UNAM, Plural, México en el Arte y el periódico La Jornada, entre otros.
Cofundador en 1960 de la editorial Era, de la cual forma parte en el consejo editorial y como director de arte. Miembro de la llamada generación de la Ruptura, es una figura importante y destacada dentro de las artes estéticas de este país y su figura es altamente respetada por colegas y círculos intelectuales en general, siendo considerado uno de los artistas más importantes del abstraccionismo en México.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Arboreus
Ahh, Happy Weekend!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Crossing
Crossing the street.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Rural Scenes
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Nectar
Monday, October 5, 2009
Shame
May 22, 2006 Issue Copyright © 2009 The American Conservative.
While the country’s poor flee, Mexico’s elite take care of themselves.
By George W. Grayson
Mexico City—A watchword of Mexican politics is “Show me a politician who is poor and I will show you a poor politician.” In accord with this adage, many Mexican officials enjoy generous salaries and lavish fringe benefits. Even as they live princely lifestyles, they and their fellow elites pay little in taxes and refuse to spend sufficient money on education and health care to create opportunities in Mexico—a country that abounds in oil, natural gas, gold, beaches, fish, water, historic treasures, museums, industrial centers, and hard-working people. Rather than mobilizing these bountiful resources to uplift the poor, Mexico’s privileged class noisily demands that Uncle Sam open his border wider for the nation’s “have nots.”
Mexico’s establishment also keeps quiet about the salaries and benefits that its members receive. Private-sector executives are especially secretive. Thanks to Forbes magazine, however, we know that Mexico leads Latin America with ten billionaires, including telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú, the world’s third richest person with $30 billion. And an increasing amount of data is available on the earnings of public officials. The numbers show that Mexico’s governing class is enriching itself at the country’s expense, with exorbitant salaries and bountiful perks. Remember, these are “official” figures. Most politicians have ingenious ways of fattening their bank accounts.
The salaries of top Mexican government officials match or exceed those of comparable figures in Europe and much of the rest of the world. President Vicente Fox ($236,693), for example, makes more than the leaders of the U.K. ($211,434), France ($95,658), Canada ($75,582), and most other industrialized countries (POTUS earns $400,000).
The 500 members of Mexico’s notoriously irresponsible Chamber of Deputies, which is in session only a few months a year, each made $148,000 last year in salary and bonuses—roughly on a par with Italian and Canadian legislators and substantially more than their counterparts in Germany ($105,000), France ($78,000), and Spain ($32,311), where living costs are markedly higher. Other legislators in Latin America receive substantially less; for example, those in Bolivia earn $28,000 for a four-month session. Legislators in the Dominican Republic take home $68,500 for six months of service.
Even better work, if you can get it, is to be found in the judicial branch of the Mexican federal government. In 2005, the 11 justices on the National Supreme Court of Justice—equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court—received $311,759, compared to $194,200 for their American counterparts. (The U.S. Chief Justice earns $202,900.)
State-level Mexican officials are amply rewarded as well. Salaries and bonuses place the average compensation of Mexican governors at $125,759, which exceeds by almost $10,000 the mean paychecks of U.S. state executives ($115,778). Narciso Agúndez Montaño runs Baja California Sur. Although his state has only 424,041 residents, he earns $277,777. This is $100,000 more than the salary of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who governs 36,132,147 Californians.
And so on…
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Señora Ciclista / Lady Cyclist
Señora Ciclista / Lady Cyclist. 2005.
From the exhibition on Paseo de la Reforma.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Shadows of Molango
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Theme Day: Contrast
Isla Mujeres [Women Island], Cancun. Mexico
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Where is my hand
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sonorous Pencils / Lapices Sonoros
Monday, September 28, 2009
NYC Series
B.B. King Blues Club on West 42 St.
NYPD
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NYPD
Sorry for post about NYC, but I couldn't resist, I'll try to continue this series of NYC and Washington on my other blog, hope you have the time to visit: Sketches of Cities.
Tomorrow more about magical Mexico.
Gracias por su visita. / Thanks for visiting, its most appreciated.
Friday, September 25, 2009
NYC Series
End of Freeman Alley, New York, NY
This exceedingly low-profile restaurant materialized at the end of a nondescript Lower East Side alley unknown to even the most intrepid hipster. Persevere, and you'll discover a taxidermist's dream of a dining room, specialty cocktails, and a homespun American menu tinged with the occasional Anglo accent, like devils on horseback and summer pudding. If you don't feel like battling for a Rum Swizzle (Haitian rum, lime juice, syrup, bitters) during the raucous evening hours, order one (or two) on a peaceful Sunday afternoon, along with a bowl of stewed plums (with Greek yogurt and vanilla syrup), a slab of excellent wild-boar terrine, and a fat lamb-sausage patty served with watercress salad, two poached eggs, and thick slices of sourdough.
Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld. The New York Times.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
Ivan Aohut, part of the team that turned Astoria's Bohemian Hall into a destination back in 2000 now partners with a couple of Czech friends and his wife Joanna, a private chef who cooks hearty dishes like roasted pork tenderloin topped with prunes and porter beer sauce and served with potato dumplings and red cabbage. Aohut, who built the outdoor bar at Bohemia, has built his solo venture to resemble a 1890s Austrio-Hungarian beer hall, with communal tables made from 150-year-old barn wood. The garden, where burgers and an array of wursts are grilled, will eventually have infrared heating under its retractable canopy. Free Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Brooklyn Street Art
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
NYC Series
Bowery St in Chinatown
Catherine St at Madison St in Chinatown
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Catherine St at Madison St in Chinatown
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
NYC Series
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
NYC Series / 1,000th Post
Union Square (In the background the Empire State Building)
Union Square is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road now 4th Avenue, came together in the early 19th century; its name celebrates neither the federal union nor labor unions but rather denotes the fact that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island" and the confluence of several trolley lines, as in the term "union station." Today it is bounded by 14th Street to the south, Union Square West on the west side, 17th Street on the north, and on the east Union Square East, which links together Broadway and Park Avenue South to Fourth Avenue and the continuation of Broadway. Union Square Park is under the aegis of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Neighborhoods around the square are the Flatiron District to the north, Chelsea to the west, Greenwich Village to the south, and Gramercy to the east. Many buildings of The New School are near the square, as are several dormitories of New York University.
Wedding at The Cloisters
The Cloisters house the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of art and architecture from medieval Europe. Best known for the beautiful tapestries on display, the Cloisters also offer architectural installations, a series of special programs, and fantastic views of the Hudson.
"Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters--quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade--and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800 with particular emphasis on the twelfth through fifteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context."
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Neighborhoods around the square are the Flatiron District to the north, Chelsea to the west, Greenwich Village to the south, and Gramercy to the east. Many buildings of The New School are near the square, as are several dormitories of New York University.
Wedding at The Cloisters
"Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, the building incorporates elements from five medieval French cloisters--quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade--and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe, dating from about A.D. 800 with particular emphasis on the twelfth through fifteenth century, are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context."
Today this blog celebrates 1,000th post. Thank you all for your support. Cheers!
Este blog celebra hoy el post No. 1 000. Gracias Mil por sus visitas y comentarios. Salud!
Gracias por su visita. / Thanks for visiting, its most appreciated.
Monday, September 21, 2009
NYC Series
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Mañana Septiembre 22 este blog celebra el post No. 1000. Mil Gracias por sus visitas y comentarios. Salud!
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