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Like a bird on a wire…

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Music, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2013| 4 Comments »

More from the wall art at Calle Melchor Ocampo and La Noria.  I can’t help thinking of Leonard Cohen’s, Bird on a Wire.

Wall with painting of birds sitting on a wire

Like a bird on a wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

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I scream 4 ice cream

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Weather, tagged , , , , , , , on March 13, 2013| 4 Comments »

It may be March, but Oaxaca is doing May weather — daytime temperatures in the high 80s/low 90s and the nights are sheets only.

I scream, you scream…

Ice cream cone painted on wall

Even the walls scream for ice cream!

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Shadows on the wall

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Signs, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2013| 4 Comments »

Wall art with painted shadow of stoplight

Can be found at…

Street signs: Call de Melchor Ocampo and Calle de La Noria

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Urban art, SF style

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Sports & Recreation, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

It may not be Oaxaca, but there is some major league urban art celebrating Major League Baseball’s 2012 World Series champion, San Francisco Giants.  The mural, by the Ex-Vandals, currently can be seen at Columbus at Union Street in San Francisco’s, North Beach neighborhood.

But, did the city’s Planning Commission have to deface the mural with its Notice of Public Hearing?  Couldn’t they have posted their notice in a more discrete location?  Honestly, have they no respect?!!

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In the meantime, graffiti

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Parks & Plazas, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2013| 2 Comments »

The packing begins — this is “big move” week.  In the meantime, a little more graffiti…

… from under the fútbol (soccer) stadium.

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The feminine touch

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Parks & Plazas, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 16, 2012| 2 Comments »

Yesterday was just what the doctor ordered.  On a long walk with best friend:  a quinceañera, Christmas piñatas, a wedding, chickens roasting, and fanciful graffiti under the fútbol (soccer) stadium… these with a decidedly feminine touch.  Love the incongruity!

An interview with one of Oaxaca’s female graffiti artists, PINK, can be found here (in English and Spanish).

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It’s all about the bigote

Posted in Creativity, Culture, History, People, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2012| 6 Comments »

Zapata and Villa live!  Their iconic bigotes (mustaches) have taken on a life of their own on the streets of Oaxaca…

Wall art - Pancho Villa

Wall art tapete with Zapata's face in middle

Black and white skeleton face with mustache

Colorful wall mural of skeleton with mustache with female skeleton

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You might ask…

Posted in Celebrations, Culture, History, Holidays, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The word "ASK" written on white wall with light green trim on left

Where else have you seen El Grito decorations?

Blue and peach colored school decorated with Mexican flag banners and drapes

Schools, of course!  This one in Teotitlán del Valle.

People standing in front of newsstand decorated with a green, white, and red garland.

And, how about newsstands?  You can’t miss the green, white, and red — it’s everywhere!

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Busking on the Alcalá

Posted in Culture, Parks & Plazas, People, Protests, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2012| 2 Comments »

A motley crew…

2 street musicians; one wearing a U2 t-shirt and other a Motley Crue t-shirt

Are you, too?

They were playing Pink Floyd — “Another Brick in the Wall.”

The “writing on the wall” refers to the assassination in March 2012 of Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez, a Zapotec community activist who had spoken out against a Canadian owned gold mine in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca.

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Just asking…

Posted in Creativity, Culture, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2012| 2 Comments »

The word "ask" spray painted on wall.

Painted on wall: a cross followed by words "adiccion o conviccion?"

Shadow on wall that looks like a podium; words written "I love Phaooluchiiz. Signed by Fapely"

Who do you love?

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¡Bienvenido verano!

Posted in Buildings, Creativity, Culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Wanna see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?

Creature with long nose with rabbit in hat

Happy first day of summer.

Creatures painted on wall

From the walls of Oaxaca…

Creatures painted on wall

To the walls of Mill Valley…

Reclining bull painted on side of wall

by artist, Zio Zieler

Enjoy!!!

Save

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Graphic design, Oaxacan style

Posted in Creativity, Culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 8, 2012| 2 Comments »

Walking back from grocery shopping, with a lighter than usual load, I took a detour and stumbled on this wall only two blocks from home.

colorful mural on wall

Closeup of colorfully painted face on wall

Black and white wall art of boy with cap wrapped in arms

Doing a little research, I found a video of it being painted…

Graphic design, Oaxacan style!

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A walk into the void

Posted in Creativity, Culture, tagged , , , , , , , on May 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Just another day, just another walk.

Colorful street art mural of imaginary characters

Just another wall of street art.

Close up of colorful street art face with mask.

Just another April Fools Day (2012) mural.

Signature on mural: Radient; Kad; Ycom

Muchisimas gracias, KAD, for bringing a smile…

Close up of mural with the word "void" written vertically in an oval.

and leading us into the void.

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I command you to…

Posted in Buildings, Creativity, Religion, Signs, tagged , , , , on May 18, 2012| 1 Comment »

 

Concrete trough, coming out from stone wall. On the trough: an encircled cross with the word "Think" written under the cross.

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Tlacolula, she’s my baby…

Posted in Culture, Markets, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 27, 2012| 3 Comments »

Every time I pass by the turnoff to Tlacolula de Matamoros, I break into song, “Be-bop-a-lula, she’s my baby.”  And, seeing this guy on the front of a building on one of the town’s main streets only contributes to channeling Gene Vincent.

Wall art of tuba player

I was last there early this month for the first Festival de la Nieve, Mezcal y Vinagre.  Ice cream, mezcal, and fruit and veggies in vinegar… what’s not to like?

Bottles of mezcal

And then there is the weekly Sunday tianguis (market), where women in colorfully embroidered cotton aprons over tightly pleated polyester brocade skirts (where did that style come from?) buy and sell everything under the sun.

3 women in embroidered aprons.

As the article, The Pop-up Food Shops of Oaxaca confirms, I’m not the only one who is captivated by Tlacolula.

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