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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
UPDATED!! New Comic Link!!! TODAY! LALO ALCARAZ at the CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA RAZA!!!
Folks who know me and my work know that I am BIG fan of satire--especially contemporary American satire. With Bill Hicks, Kurt Vonnegut, and others kicking the bucket, it's especially important that we recognize and support our latest and greatest cultural troublemakers: and LALO ALCARAZ of La Cucaracha and editorial cartooning fame is one of the best.
Lalo's in town hanging with all the locos at Comic-Con and will be taking time out to hang at the Centro Cultural de la Raza for a night of fun--come on out! It's five bucks to get in, but no one will be turned away if they are a little short! It's this Saturday, July 23, 2011 @ 6pm at the Centro!
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alt view...
update!
sneaky and cool, Lalo
works in a plug for the Centro show
into his nationally syndicated comic strip!
Con Safos | kristy perez | xicanosmotic art
update....
kristy perez checks in with a statement about this amazing piece of art..... also, below, click for a high-res print of the work!
Every time I am asked to do a show on the westside of San Antonio I aways think of my family first. This time a poem came to me that goes like this:
"There is a place at 34th and El Paso street. And that place is Me."
During my childhood both my grandmother (my Dad's mom) and my grandfather (my Mom's dad) lived near the intersection of 34th and El Paso street on the Westside of San Antonio. My grandfather lived in an apartment on 34th and my grandmother lived in her house on El Paso. That intersection was always a place I remember because if I was ever standing there or riding by on my bike or in a car I always had this odd feeling of separation. Somehow, regardless of the close proximity of my grandparents two homes I formed this idea of distance between. What I recognize now as an innate feeling of desire for two parts to be whole. I would comfort myself as a child by thinking how this intersection was never very far from either place and so 34th and El Paso St. became a marker for me. It was the physical place that was a connector between my grandmother's world and my grandfather's world. So I claimed it. It was my territory because I recognized, at that intersection there was both a lot to gain and a lot lose no matter which direction I went. I gave this place respect.
When I was asked by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center to do this show I had a strong desire to use this realization and wondered how it could inform my work. I began to ponder the idea of place or marker and how it relates to our memory. I began to focus on this idea of an intersection as a metaphor for choice. As I began working I mostly felt that whether or not the work would provide a narrative it absolutely had to talk about "respect of place."
"con safos"
Somewhere along the way the work began to evolve into this desire to give a gift to the cultural community as a whole. To pay homage. It became apparent to me that as a child I claimed 34th and El Paso as "mine" as children often do.... but as an adult I would be amiss to not consider all the people who came before me from that area and all the people who have come and will come after me.
It was within a split second and without a doubt that using the sign "C/S" (short for con safos), which literally translates as "with Respect" was inevitable. Growing up I had somehow figured out the meaning of "C/S" not surprising as I had seen it scribbled on many sidewalks, brick walls, bathroom stalls, love letters etc. A sign for claiming that, which is.........."forever". I decided to have my first custom neon made.
By the way, there are several takes on the connotation of "C/S" but most would agree on this.... once it is up, it can't be touched. And so it goes that if you are lost, you just look for a landmark to point you in the right direction......... as it turns out, the marker at
34th and El Paso St. did. this work is dedicated to the people of " 210"
many thanks to: my family, all of GCAC & the Chavez Project Space crew: Chris Davila, Ruben Luna, Pedro Luera, Patty Ortiz, the "King of Neon" Mr. Ray Lynch & to my fellow star Fadela Castro for her amazing contribution to the Project 1 show.......
Kristy Perez
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Fellini! Fellini! Me & Adolfo Guzman-Lopez Ponder the Vagaries of Fellini for KCET
click the image for the REST of the story...
Monday, July 18, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Of Silly Sombreros and Spiffy Shirts: Sartorial humor at its (bigoted) worst.
Straight from the BustedTees and Funny or Die websites, here's some real and imagined attire you may not necessarily wish to be seen sporting in or around East Los or Barrio Logan (click the images for the page):
Clever, no? A bit sinister perhaps. Of course, these t-shirts don't hold a candle to good ol' Joe Burton's "Magic Green Hat"! Sure, public satire of groups and ethnicities, and marketing racist taxonomies is nothing new, but something like this should always give us a degree of pause no matter how successfully they bring the funny. Why? Because racist humor is ultimately pendejada!
(By the way, I just placed my order a few minutes ago for that "Juan on Juan" t-shirt model in a size L...it should arrive by next week!)
En la lucha,
—MG-M
Clever, no? A bit sinister perhaps. Of course, these t-shirts don't hold a candle to good ol' Joe Burton's "Magic Green Hat"! Sure, public satire of groups and ethnicities, and marketing racist taxonomies is nothing new, but something like this should always give us a degree of pause no matter how successfully they bring the funny. Why? Because racist humor is ultimately pendejada!(By the way, I just placed my order a few minutes ago for that "Juan on Juan" t-shirt model in a size L...it should arrive by next week!)
En la lucha,
—MG-M
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Republicana loca Michele Bachman wants to be your next U.S. President (and the pendeja wants to turn the clock back on race about 150 years in the process).
Thanks to what was revealed in national media, it seems that an organized and robust conservative Christian group got a few zealous Republican candidates (including locos Michele Bachman and Rick Santorum) to sign a pledge which contained language stating that African-Americans were, in effect, statistically better off as slaves back in the day. Here’s some parlance from that tasteless testimonial:
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President...”
If the feeling of throwing up your late lunch/early dinner right now is no problem for you, then please read on here.
—Marc García-Martínez
Update..... Colbert weighs in...
—Marc García-Martínez
Update..... Colbert weighs in...
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Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich and More: Great TOUCH OF EVIL Clip off of TCM
The chapter on TOUCH OF EVIL forms the corazón of TEX[T]-MEX--I can't get enough of Welles' inspired imagineering of the US/MEXICO border...
Here's a screengrab of Dietrich from the scene above, right after Welles reveals his identity as "Hank Quinlan," an old friend and customer of "Tanya"--Dietrich as a memorable bordertown prostitute and entrepreneur.
also, from Turner Classic Movies, one of the original hand-colorized lobby cards of Welles's noir classic:
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