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Never a dull wall in Oaxaca

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

And now a return to the amazing street art from the walls near Calle de Melchor Ocampo and Calle de La Noria…

Never a dull moment or wall in Oaxaca!

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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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Sounding the alarm

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Internet, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2013| 6 Comments »

This post is especially for other WordPress bloggers.  I don’t know about you, but I’ve had problems with WordPress in the last 24+ hours, including not receiving any Daily Digests since April 12.  So, who knows if this will reach you…

According to a post at ars technica, “Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet.  Ongoing attack from >90,000 computers is creating a strain on Web hosts, too.”  Forbes has a good article on “How To Avoid The Coming Botnet.”

artist: sanez

artist: sanez

Wall art from mural on Calle Prof. M. Aranda, next to Hotel Azucenas.

h/t Chris re the WordPress attack.

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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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Sacred and precious

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Science & Nature, Travel & Tourism, Weather, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

It’s the dry season, no rain in a couple of months, and we are reminded how sacred and precious water is.

Wave and rain shower painted on wall

At the top of the wave:

“Fluye hermana agua de las nubes a la tierra y de la tierra a las nubes.”  (Sister water flowing from the clouds to earth and from the earth to the clouds.) 

A line from the poem, Oración al sagrado elemento agua.

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Sign of the times

Posted in Churches, Creativity, Culture, People, Religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Today, Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Roman Catholic church rode off into the sunset.  (Actually, he flew off in a helicopter.)  And, naturally, the walls of Oaxaca had something to say…

Black and white skeleton portrait of pope

This was pasted on a wall right across from the south entrance to Santo Domingo de Guzmán.  The walls are never silent.

By the way, I did a Twitter search for the hashtag afterPopequit, but came up empty.

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Vamos Niners!

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Sports & Recreation, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Super Bowl madness in the Bay Area.  Can’t find any San Francisco 49er-Oaxaca connection, except scores of fanáticos.  So, here’s a little red and gold from the walls of Oaxaca…

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¡Vamos Niners!

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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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Walls of women

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Politics, Protests, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2013| 5 Comments »

Old news, I know, but couldn’t resist…  Mitt may have had his “binders of women,” but Oaxaca has her walls of women and they could kick some serious @#$!!!

Liberty  ~  Equality  ~  Respect

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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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Here’s looking at you, kid

Posted in Celebrations, Creativity, Culture, Religion, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I’ve got my eye on you…

Decorated skeleton on top of building.

I’m praying for you…

Virgin of Guadalupe image stenciled on a wall

You just never know who might be looking over your shoulder.

Skeleton perched on rooftop above a stencil of the Virgen of Guadalupe

Días de los Muertos are coming…

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Viva the differences, similarities & creativity!

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Markets, Travel & Tourism, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2012| 12 Comments »

I’m back in Oaxaca… arrived last night after a brief trip to El Norte.  However,  over the last three years, culture shock (on both sides of the border) has subsided and I am struck and heartened that despite our differences, humans share so much more… especially the compulsion to make even the most common and utilitarian, beautiful.

Artist, Zio Ziegler added a little pizzazz to a car in Mill Valley… (Yes, I know, a Porche!)

Porche painted decoration

Car in Oaxaca… (Ahhh, a VW bug!)

VW bug painted with decoration

Wall in Mill Valley (also by Zio Ziegler)…

Painted horned creature riding a bike.

Wall in Oaxaca…

Savannah scene, with elephant in foreground, painted on wall.

Veggies in Mill Valley…

Vegetables in bins at outdoor market

Veggies in Oaxaca…

Vegetables mounded in mercado

From one of my favorite journalists, Linda Ellerbee:  “People are pretty much alike.  It’s only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”

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Sucked in…

Posted in Buildings, Creativity, Culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on August 27, 2012| 1 Comment »

White, one-story building with stickers on front

Stickers of a person with a monitor for a head and tentacles for legs, on front of building

Close up of sticker of a person with a monitor for a head and tentacles for legs, on front of building

Graphic in red, black, and white of dead canary in a cage on a TV moniter

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