The Beautiful and the Damned: New Art Featuring the Ghosts of Lupe Velez and Others

The most difficult (so weary-eyed students tell me) and experimental chapter of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican in America features the one and only Mexican Spitfire, Lupe Velez; now, an artist in the UK is cutting loose with semiotic meditations on Lupe and other fallen icons of the silver screen. Hit the image below for the link:

The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming.... to Insult Mexicans!

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As with most stories on the Galleryblog, hit the image above to be instantly teleported to the story; direct link here.

Speedy Gonzales! Poster Child for Virgin Broadband in the UK

A big tip of the sombrero to Marisa Smith, our UK correspondent who sends word that Speedy Gonzales is the icon for fast, sexy broadband internet deliciousness from Virgin! Hit the image above to see Speedy as a Virgin photomodel--hit below for more on the campaign and, below that, the premiere commercial for the series...

Just a Quick Link to my London Cultural Studies Class Going Down This Summer 2009 in the UK

Here's the image that I used that I ran across trawling the internets!




Two portfolios of my design work are available online here at Veer.com and here, at the memogr@phics blog.