The Night of the Alebrijes II

“Ku Alebrijetzil”

Alebrije (paper mache) by Cristian Isai Correa Silva. Colectivo Ultima Hora

La Noche de los Alebrijes  /  The Night of the Alebrijes 

“Mono Talavera (extinción)”  /  ‘Talavera Ape (extinction)’  [detail]

Alebrije (paper mache) by Carlos Omar López Cruz

La Noche de los Alebrijes  /  The Night of the Alebrijes

“Xolotl - Viaje al Inframundo”   /  ‘Xolotl -  Journey to The Underworld’

Alebrije (paper mache) by Agustín Cervantes Márquez. Taller Mantícora

La Noche de los Alebrijes  /  The Night of the Alebrijes

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The Night of the Alebrijes

El Hambriento  /  The Starving Alebrije (paper mache) by Eduardo Robles Vera. Pepenarte La Noche de los Alebrijes  /  The Night of the Alebrijes
(Alebrijes are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes, along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. After dreaming the creatures while sick in the 1930s, he began to create what he saw in cardboard and paper mache. His work caught the attention of a gallery owner in Cuernavaca and later, the artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Linares was originally from México City, he was born June 29, 1906 in México City and never moved out of México City, he died January 25, 1992. Then in the 1980s, British Filmmaker, Judith Bronowski, arranged an itinerant demonstration workshop in U.S.A. participating Pedro Linares, Manuel Jiménez and a textil artisan Maria Sabina from Oaxaca. Although the Oaxaca valley area already had a history of carving animal and other types of figures from wood, it was at this time, when Bronowski's workshop took place when artisans from Oaxaca knew the alebrijes paper mache sculptures.)

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Nov 09, 2012

This week's challenge:
'At Play'.

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Alvaro Obregon Ave

“Hace mucho que el mundo puso en duda los valores, las creencias y las verdades que en otros tiempos sostuviera. Ahora más que nunca, en la historia humana, necesitamos preguntarnos –todos nosotros, santos, pecadores, mendigos, legisladores, militares– adónde vamos. ¿Podemos detenernos? ¿Podemos, de algún modo, hacer frente? ¿O ya es muy tarde?”

“Es muy alto el precio que debe pagarse por las comodidades aparentes y los adelantos que ofrece el mundo occidental. Dicho precio es la muerte, pero no en pequeña escala, sino al mayoreo…”

"The world has long questioned the values​​, beliefs and truths that once hold. Now more than ever, in human history, we need to ask-all, saints, sinners, beggars, legislators, military-where we're going. Can we stop? Can we somehow cope? Or it's too late? "

"It's a very high price to be paid by the apparent comforts and advances offered by the Western world. This price is death, but not on a small scale, but wholesale."

Henry Miller.

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Congratulations

Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,900 public parks. At 9.75 acres, it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. Wikipedia

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Obamas Return to White House as Romneys Return to 1954.

BOSTON (The Borowitz Report)—America cast its historic vote today, sending Barack and Michelle Obama back to the White House while sending Mitt and Ann Romney back to 1954.

The election meant the end of the road for Mr. Romney, who had been actively seeking the Presidency for the past sixty-five years.

Addressing supporters at the Boston Convention Center, Mr. Romney called his defeat tonight “bittersweet”: “On one hand, I lost the election. But on the other hand, I’ll never have to show anyone my taxes.”

If he had won tonight, Mr. Romney would have become the first man elected President after telling half of the country to screw themselves.

Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the subject of his defeat in characteristic style, telling supporters that he had won.  The New Yorker

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