ROCALBERTO NEWS NIHON edition

2011-11-06T07:08:00.000-08:00

miso ramen, shinjuku station inner part, 500 yen include rice

Long again for the blog o be filled, Many things have passed, many feelings I have been trough and now I’m standing up again, after a little tipsy turby , I literary was LOST IN TOKYO, it seems it’s a real thing , not just a movie. So my mind got lost, especially in summer, I couldn’t think, I couldn’t make anything right, I was kind of lost, but not in a bad sense, on the contrary, I was experimenting new things and new feelings, an my inner chef was slowly getting out, my other curiosities where getting out and I realized , I wanted to explore other things, not just set design, but other different ideas and concepts about my inner experience, Tokyo really make you introspective, because, there’s no other way of understanding this culture. And, why do we get lost?? To find ourselves!!!!

Sunday November 6, after a show of the prince of pagodas , which is really interesting, I have spent 9 months in Japan now, ) months , that’s not much for Japan, I ´ve seen in NNT so far about 14 productions and seen many things.

I’m privileged enough to make a production in the New National theatre, narita airport, which is from Ramiro Torres de Miguel, and last time I wanted to do something with that theatre play it didn’t worded out as I expected.

I think that this time it will have a twist, because I have learned a lot and I think the collaboration with the Japanese will be unprecedented , This is the first time some student in NNT want to make a project, It is also the first time that a Latin American will be in an NNT show, which is important, .

So far this is my priority let’s see what happens.

2011-07-11T08:00:00.000-07:00

Its time I start cooking too. I´m becoming a CHEF now.

Yesterday was a great day, despite my contradictions in my mind, on becoming involuntarily pseudo Japanese lonely set designer student in Tokyo. & months have passed, many situations, most of them in my head, and it is about how to interact with Japan culture. Sometimes it’s lovely, sometimes hard, sometimes I feel joy, and sometimes I don’t feel anything at all.

It is possible that I have reach mid life crisis, which in my opinion is not bad, just BORING!
Dakedo, I find myself lost in so beautiful landscapes and human ancient architecture and art.
Tea houses, lovely. Temples, so interesting and grateful. Shrines, the best, but yesterday I found myself face to face with big daibutsu itself.
Kamakura, intense walkthrough, nature at its best. Hidden temples. Perfect view, tea houses. Beach, sea, lovely place. And Daibutsu himself told me as I was following his gentle bronze cracks by his face with my 14x cannon zoom camera, he told me to stay putt. To enjoy life like it is, and to work hard, or study, or do something, but strong, but never be lazy. Lazy, it’s a sin in every religion. And it gives you nothing but pain at the end. He also told me that to be productive not necessarily means making art, but to become something you haven’t become before, and to try new things, because we are complements of life, and we are a small universe, and we are everything but just one thing, so I decided I become a cook now.

Kamakura, perfect spot to talk to your inner self and to get advice of the Buddha. And to meet people, why not!

It is crazy times in Japan, And I have to take advantage of it!!, be wise, and MOVE!!!

2011-06-19T21:15:00.000-07:00

20 june 2011
monja

I’m back, again after disaster stoke Japan, after accommodating in Japan again , after Hawaiian blues , after many adventures , theater and Opera , I’m back writing this blog no one reads but anonymous people and maybe one or two that I know and care of.

Let’s start by saying that Japan is a country that you never get tired of it except the so strong train JR announcements and the excessive Kawaii fashion. >>The rest is pure gold.

In Japan is it hard to make friends, but slowly I’m making them, in strange ways.

I have a new love, theatre love that is , KABUKI, I just find out that kabuki is my love of mu life, It is so extremely delicious, just like Ramen, just like sushi, I really enjoy the magic and the traps, it is so miraculously great experience. I mean, MANGA is there, martial arts is there, anime is there, perfection is there, I think I miss perfection in western theatre, we western are so occupied to experiment all the time, and we don’t make anything perfect, because we don’t believe in it anymore, but when you see something like kabuki, perfection comes and you realized humans are still capable to show hundreds of years behind it, it is so strong for the soul.

2011-03-21T17:18:00.000-07:00

Tofu with 3 salts
restaurant in GION , Kyoto
750 yenes

Reactores siguen emitiendo humo, muy fuerte la situación, alimentos contaminados en diversos lugares alrededor de la planta, leche contaminada, los granjeros desesperados. Se emite en la tv niveles de radiacion en diferentes zonas. Se recomienda taparse completamente al salir a la calle.

Los refugiados con poca comida, mucho frio, Shigeru ban regresa de Francia para elaborar un proyecto emergente, en Japón. No se sabe nada, Cuanto tiempo llevara esto. Yo estoy desesperado, Queremos ver la posibilidad de irnos a Sendai.

Aquí en Kioto es como si nada hubiera pasado, En Tokio se toman sus precauciones, la comida escasea. Hay un nervio latente, no se sabe la magnitud del problema.

este es un video de cómo se le explica en japon el problema del reactor nuclear a los niños

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aH2-MhEko&feature=player_embedded

·Una mujer llora en la calle de Kioto por la calle. Al no ha podido tener comunicación con su hijo en Sendai, Berrinchea como niña sin su helado, se deja caer a la calle, se sienta en el suelo con las piernas estiradas. Dos policías la ayudan a levantarse, se vuelve a tirar al suelo, emite un grito de resignación, la levantan de nuevo y se van los tres caminando.

· mucha gente con sueño, dormidos en el camión, en los cafés, en los elevadores, con su celular en la mano.

Hoy llegamos a un templo, Daisen In, perfecto jardin zen, Mucho significado. Ojalá los artistas conceptuales vieran esto...Y los politicos...

rezamos, y conocimos al monje encargado del lugar.

nos explicó, nos enamoro del espacio. perfecto

Hoy vemos que hacemos….

2011-03-18T07:27:00.000-07:00

kyoto diner menu no.3 sandwich and coofee 600 yens

Que puedo decir de una situación como esta que se vive en Japón?, que puedo pensar ..Puedo pensar que este país tuvo una Muy mala suerte... puedo también pensar que no les es justo a los ancianos japoneses que revivan sus pesadillas de cuando eran niños, La bomba – la radiación nuclear. O puedo pensar en lo que viene en el peor o en el mejor de los casos para éste país tan hermético, ordenado y increíblemente vigoroso. Me pesa tanto lo que ha sucedido en Sendai, me pesara mucho lo desolado que quedara la región de la planta nuclear. Una cosa me hace sonreír; Este pueblo, si hay un país que realmente su pueblo ha sabido levantarse SÓLO de las cenizas es Japón.

Día difícil, Kioto 9:00 am, las noticias siguen alarmadas y por ende nos lo pegan, Los helicópteros, y los carros de bomberos expulsando agua al reactor 3 y 4 sirvió muy poco, pero se estabilizó, y mientras los medios extranjeros critican duramente las políticas japonesas de seguimiento del reactor nuclear, los japoneses toman pasos seguros experimentando y probando nuevas opciones para lograr el objetivo. Y ante esta situación el mundo y las noticias deberían en mi opinión apoyar a Japón en esta situación, y no criticarla, Es increíble la manera de trabajo de los japoneses y más aun los que se sacrifican para arreglar la situación. Expuestos a niveles de radiación los trabajadores y pilotos que rodean la planta han expuesto que están determinados a morir por su país, (como el kamikaze pero con una razón mucho más profunda).

Tuvimos suficiente durante la mañana y decidimos junto con Liz (EUA) ver boletos de avión a algún lugar fuera de Japón. Llegamos a una agencia de viajes, el espacio era decorado como una agencia de los ochentas, con posters viejos sobre muros pintados de color pastel. Algunos gatos de cerámica estaban dispersos por la oficina moviendo sus patas izquierdas como si se despidieran anticipadamente de mí. Minutos después, los tres sentados en sillas de espera contando los minutos para que nos atendieran chotomate kudasaii y mientras escuchando de fondo una románica de ray coniff, combinación letal para la paciencia.

10 minutos después discutíamos los últimos velos que quedaban a algún lado fuera de Japón: encontramos uno a Suiza, y otro a Hawái.

Comenzamos a discutir que sería lo mejor. NUNCA había tenido que hacer decisiones tan contundentes y rápidas con la información tan confusa que teníamos.

- La lógica no sirve para tomar decisiones en un momento de pánico.

- La aventura de alguna manera te impulsa a tomar una decisión, pero casi siempre es la equivocada

-La discusión de pareja para decidir en qué lugar te salvas la vida, no es nada sencilla, y menos si somos tan volubles a nuestros deseos, este era un claro ejemplo de que nuestros deseos y nuestros actos eran opuestos, Realmente queríamos quedarnos en Japón, pero en ese momento decidimos reservar un boleto a HAWAII, Hawái, y no suiza? por qué? Nuestra decisión se inclinó por esa remota isla en medio de la nada por que

1.- no sabíamos si algún día íbamos a ir allá en nuestras vidas

2.- Si viajábamos rumbo a suiza era más propenso quedarnos ya allí y hacer nuestra vida en un país, donde eventualmente, llegaríamos pero no ahora.

3. ahí hicieron MAGNUM P. I. (Esto lo escribí por que en serio lo pensé y de alguna manera influyó)

Minutos después discutíamos sevi y yo sobre la situación, un poco mas alterados, ya fuera de la agencia de viajes. Platicábamos que nos queríamos quedar en Japón. Y mejor (o peor) aun, queríamos ir a Sendai a ayudar en la reconstrucción. Cosa que nos quedamos mirándonos algunos segundos, pensamos que esto realmente ante la” no hacer nada” situación, y ante el pánico universal que nos infectaba los ojos, las orejas y el cogote nos daría una dirección y una oportunidad de REALMENTE producir directamente, directo a la herida, rápido, conciso, y no con esteticismos e intelectualidades que eventualmente ante estas situaciones no funciona mucho.

Comenzamos a contactar con varias organizaciones altruistas para entrar a Sendai, entre las que vimos Architecture for humanity que es perfecta para nuestro oficio de arquitectura. Aunque yo me retiré de la arquitectura hace tiempo aún conservo los conocimientos de tierra compactada y arquitectura sustentable que aplique en México con los Huicholes.

(continua mañana)

2011-03-17T09:03:00.000-07:00

TOFU DON kyoto restaurant , local cuisine 1600 yenes

Un día en Kioto, la situación se agrava, sobre todo cuando tienes una cruda de sake en la cabeza, por un momento me siento como un reactor nuclear, pero este gesto auto burlesco se va rápidamente. Tuve que tomarme una botella, una manera de irme por la tangente ante una situación tan dura.

Una peda de sake, ante tres catástrofes afuera de la ventana (dos son naturales, uno por ineptitud humana) con Sevi, Elizabeth y yo,

Y mientras escribo estas notas viendo tv MILENIO como los springbreakers mueven su rabo auto nalgueándose con playera mojada a la luz del sol; el país del sol naciente sufre por la mañana otra explosión , ahora su reactor número 2, el mismo coctel de hidrogeno y oxigeno, pero esta vez lo nuclear salió al aire. La impresión de ver los pequeños helicópteros tratando de enfriar el reactor desde arriba a cubetazos me abrió los ojos como este último esfuerzo de desesperación ante lo inevitable, RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!

Nos trasladamos a Kioto (huyendo), con una mini maleta y 2 cambios y decidimos olvidarnos del problema de la cercanía de Tokio con la zona de conflicto radioactiva y temblorina. Visitamos algunos templos budistas en la zona central de Kioto Me di cuenta, que los espacios de los templos son sumamente interesantes, espacios muy largos diseñados para disfrutarlo sentado , ya que los marcos de cada cubo espacial sostenido por columnas tienen las leyendas de Japón que solo lo puedes ver cuando estas sentado, así también disfrutas observando las profundidades espaciales, increíble, como un ryokan, el espacio cambia por el deslizamiento de la puerta creando espacios paulatinos .

Templo Hongwanji guarda muchos espacios pequeños escondidos entre su gran tamaño, en uno de esos espacios abiertos se encontraba una gran puerta de caballería antigua, mas de 4 metros de alto, En la puerta se encuentran imágenes de Dragones y creaturas mitológicas. Puerta cubierta momentáneamente de nieve nos separaba del cielo mismo. Intentaba ver hacia el otro lado de la puerta por las pequeñas fisuras que cualquier cosa vieja adquiere con el tiempo. No alcanzaba a observar de quienes provenían los canticos budistas, pero sabía que no menos de30 monjes cantaban bajo la caída de la nieve. Los monjes se movían de lado a lado cantando y recitando ciertas frases budistas. Poco a poco fui descubriendo la magnitud de mi asombro. Los monjes sostenían una ceremonia especial dedicada a las víctimas del Tsunami, una fuerza tremenda de solidaridad. Impactante .Toda el momento embonaba perfectamente, podía morirme en ese momento sin remordimientos.

Saliendo del templo poco a poco se fue esfumando un momento inolvidable para regresar a la realidad. La gente con cara preocupada sostenían conversaciones del tema principal:

GENBATSU!

Mi cabeza se enfrió de nuevo, como si fuera un reactor nuclear pero enfriándose correctamente. Después vi lo invisible, todos los monjes que cantaban salían de repente en fila india, no del templo, sino del SEVEN ELEVEN.

esta es un video dentro del templo.

mañana decidimos si salimos del país o no!

2011-03-16T08:21:00.001-07:00

australian meat, sausage and french fries 1200 yen

(japanese food break)

13,14,15 marzo, empapado de tantas lagrimas que otros derraman por el terremoto…..

Por el tsunami…

Por la radiación….

Cientos siguen trabajando en Tokio, miles de cabezas, siguen caminando por las calles en Shibuya, una imagen de bolas de billar al abrir el juego me viene a la mente, así se ven las cabezas, y el golpe de la bola blanca. Un gran golpe a la voluntad, a la mente y a la confianza del un gran pueblo que ante catástrofes similares se ha levantado de una manera más que digna.

3 días con los noticieros a tope, las noticias funcionan para informar, y para ponerte bien HI de paranoia. Poco a Poco nos damos cuenta de la dimensión de la tragedia, y lentamente más me queda claro que cada vez saben menos de cómo resolver el problema nuclear que se vive en Japón.

En el peor escenario nos damos cuenta que es una oportunidad de oro cambiar a energía verde, pero desgraciadamente las multinacionales petroleras compran la patente del invento y se destruye la información para la energía verde….o mandan a matar a los inventores!!

Viernes, sábado, domingo,---reactores 1 y 3 de la planta nuclear

En Fukushima explotan…. Mezcla de hidrogeno y oxigeno. Se dañan los

Enfriadores nucleares.

Sentí el desabasto de las tiendas, recordé las CONASUPO de los 80tas, los estantes vacíos.

· Un japonés llega al estante de las baterías, se lleva todo el estante, alrededor de 45 paquetes. Llega a la caja, quiere pagar, la cajera le dice algo así como que no se puede llevar todas las pilas, él, saca solo un paquete y lo pone en el mostrador, dice que dejara un paquete para alguien mas, exige que le cobren, paga y se marcha , antes de salir de la tienda se pone su tapabocas blanco, desaparece.

En la calle siento que la gente sabe que algo no se está diciendo, la información no fluye adecuadamente en las noticias japonesas, las personas no pueden tomar decisiones.

Mientras que en CNN y en otros medios que manejan la noticia como oficio principal se alarman de la situación argumentando que un nuevo Chernóbil se acerca, que la nube radioactiva será horrible, y que ya encontraron pequeños indicios de plutonio en el agua. En NHK las noticias japonesas informan de una manera mucho más pasiva la situación, mostrando con maquetas como quedó el reactor 1 y 3 ante las explosiones. Es claro lo que pasó, no está claro lo que pasará. Pero algo no grato pasará.

Después de eso tomamos una maleta, metimos un par de cambios y nos fuimos a kyoto!!

2011-03-09T09:28:00.000-08:00

Soba & meguro ishikawa-dai 750 yenes

10 march 2011 - SHAKING THE TREE

Encapsulated in my little tiny room, trying to figure out how could I help, what to do In Japans worst disaster in 140 years. I don’t know if I am lucky being OK and being here in Japan while this disaster occurred. So 3 things comes as a chain reaction!
1.- earthquake- Sendai city 8.9 quake power ( all Japan shakes, )

2.-Tsunami east coast of Japan, destroying villages

3- Nuclear alert, with some possibility of leak in japans’ main reactor.

This news definitely transformed my vision of life forever, I´m just kilometers from all disaster.

At 2.46 pm coming back from the supermarket and thinking how and what to do next to learn as quickly as possible Japanese, the shaking made my body dance, my body told me that I was feeling a main event; a strong catastrophe was on my feet. I grabbed firmly a light post, and as my whole world was spinning away ( Brian Eno song comes to mind) I just thought about TACOS, I DON´T NO WHY BUT TACOS was the first thing in my mind, later half of my life flashed in my head and finally . Where is Sevi?? , meanwhile, as the mighty earth reminded us how small and insignificant we are, I made some friends with Japanese neighbors, a 50 year old man and his wife, we were looking at each other, but we understood what was going on. The woman, grabbed me by the hand and suddenly the three persons where just one, surviving the biggest quake in japans history.

No phones, no communication whatsoever with the world outside, Sevi had gone to Tokyo. Not knowing what had happened, anxiety invaded my world; this was a new feeling for me.

My fellow colleagues in my guesthouse where all watching the TV , waiting for news about what had happened, what to do and what may come in several hours. At this moment japanese was no language barrier to understand exactly what had happened, 6 hours later, severine came walking back home. She came all the way from GINZA, the eastern part of Tokyo, all the way to the west side, 5 hours walking , that’s chilling, specially 3 hours at night and not knowing if the quake would hit again. Sevi, all dirty came finally back, a big deal of anxiety was gone, now I was just focused on Japanese people´s lives.

The whole night 10 people of my home were watching TV, looking earthquake after earthquake on the TV, feeling each 30 minutes a small movement.

As time passed, 6:00 am we went finally to sleep only to be awakened at 8 am Saturday with a strong but short quake.

Now the problem is the nuclear facilities, let’s see how this goes.

2011-03-03T04:42:00.000-08:00

day 6

SARUTAN: ramen with meat sause bolognesa type!

ISHIKAWA-DAI a small ramen restaurant,

deliscious, 700 yen

While making my first moves on NNT I realized there are different ways of constructing in Mexico and in Japan, but for the first day the opera that is being constructed is MANON LESCANT, BY PUCCINI, Actually is a German production, I met the German technical manager, and Isono san has been great with me during these days.

The only thing that I have been seeing is that German opera productions look alike, or at least the German speaking countries, they have been making for a decade now frames all around the bocaescena, and this rectangular pillars that come from up all the way down, slowly, I have see some productions with the similar aesthetics, from an Austrian set designer!

Anyway, then Shibuya was the thing at the evening,

Love the stores with perfect combinations of nonsense and cute!which makes it nice to have it!

many stores, many places to visit love it, crazy builduings and stores, I would appreciate it more if it wasnt so cold!

2011-02-28T00:06:00.000-08:00

DAY 4 UDON, JUST OUTSIDE SHINJU-KU STATION GOING TO OPERA THEATRE, IN HANAMARU FAST , SUPER FAST FOOD COMPANY

It was in a way a good dream to start this day, Interesting enough was the day inside the New National Theatre, incredibly awesome to get to know Mr. isono , Technical manager of the opera house, and so it began my time in Tokyo, professionally speaking,

So we enter the guts of the main stage, opera stage, after looking around all the technical possibilities the theatre have ( which are of course impressive) we took a tour to the set of la traviatta that was playing at that moment in NNT, La Traviatta, staged by an Italian company Made a semi traditional design for our contemporary eyes, but it was impressive not the stage design itself ( which actually al thou it is traditional, the details, are perfect) but rather the movement of the stage between scenes.

The Stages moved from side to side, and the effect was made more efficient by moving the furniture by rails, from side to side, perfect trompe d oleil a la early Disney animation.

I also realized how printing in linoleum is a great answer to designed stage floors, it’s a cool effect, the only problem is that it makes it flat , and if you are not careful with lights, it might make a light line from side to side reflecting the upper lights

Lightings at the opera where really well lightened, basic great washes, not so many special lights, but perfect on what the opera needed, with a bright cyclorama.

2011-02-23T07:08:00.000-08:00

DAY 3 TEN-DON -
- RICE, WITH TEMPURA AND MISO SOUP,
SHIBUYA- OUTISDE NNT

2011-02-21T22:27:00.000-08:00

Day 2 , sashimi

Talking in the office of Mr. Isono, the head technical director of the NNT and, Mr. Toru, and me, we exchanged cards, and agreed to work in a good condition on Wednesday.

Tomorrow there will be a performance of LA TRAVIATTA, probably the most famous opera staged today, it´s from an Italian company, so I will be able to get inside the set before the show, talk to some technicians and meet the producer of the opera, It will be a good experience to begin with the professional practice, I also talked to them about letting me learn about how to use all the computerized electric and hanging bars are used inside the NNT, The New National Theatre is comparable to the Mexican Bellas Artes , It is huge , containing three theatres , 1 big, 1 medium , and 1 small which at this point all three theatres are full with shows.

At this moment I am trying to study Japanese, and having a relaxed time I’m my tiny room, which it isn’t that bad at all, I just have to think Japanese, life is essential, things are always disposable.

2011-02-21T06:09:00.001-08:00

I begin this new blog season greeting everyone who is still interested in our not so fancy life rather exquisite in day by day surprises,

as a scenographer Japan is by far the best example of exuberant and eccentric everyday life. in a way that has troubled me a little, because, I really can´t believe I stayed long time in a pseudo cave city as Guadalajara, Mexico, really, I mean, there everything is upside down, nothing works, and people are always fighting for bones!, coming here is to be born again, not understanding anything but having sympathy for a culture that has putted me in jeopardy because it has showed me the twisted way of thinking.

So 1. Me a scenographer is going to make professional practice in NNT new national theatre Tokyo,

2. going to understand tow the technical part works, as well as the aesthetic Japanese way of thinking works, I met with Mr. toru shimakawa , the most well known ser designer, and he will be my tutor, and my guide. We talked about what I want to do, what my interests are, and how I will adapt in Japanese culture. We took a coffee and discussed set design and Japanese TV game shows, which sometimes they go hand by hand.

This is my first post after sometime, tomorrow Ill start to get dense in my acts and facts and of course ill present you with the food of the day!! but of course godzilla will fill the blanks for today.

Cheers

kampaii

2011-01-24T22:31:00.001-08:00

Today is something really worth writing for, me , a mexican , going to Tokyo, to live, and study scenography, set design, with my girl, lovely swiss girl, there will be something interesting. A mixture between mexican spontaneous minute and japanese perfect planning

2009-07-28T17:14:00.000-07:00

la nota del periodico de los realizadores que van al WSD en Corea, a ver que tal nos va!!!

2008-10-14T10:41:00.000-07:00

COM:PLOT,

the second architecture forum in guadalajara was a success, two art installations were made, one from rena hayashi and the other one from SITIOS with OSA end Rodrigo Cortés

regaining our city was the main topic for 6 different architects that came and made come comments for making it better.

2008-08-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

project for inverso teatro GDL

2008-08-22T14:41:00.000-07:00

another from the rainmakers, love this band

2008-07-29T23:16:00.000-07:00

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT IN YOUTUBE THEY HAVE A VIDEO OF MY FAVORITE BAND OF THE EIGHTEES, THE RAINMAKERS: ENJOY

2008-07-24T10:03:00.001-07:00

The table is served!!!,

After the first concert of Estacion libertad, the idea grew tremendously of making a place of concert and art in the Plaza libertad. We have focused our attention in new ideas to make there, to propose, to a thematic concert each time, ESTACION LIBERTAD will serve as a forum of new tendencies for art and experimentation, starting with music. The task is to have a great synergetic component for the minds in a very close place, since galleries are not always the answer for promoting art to the general public, (as seen in the unfortunate LA PLANTA gallery experiment). Urban art is always a promising concept for giving a direct punch and leaving a bruise in peoples inner art consciousness

So join us and lets make art a religion, which is the only thing I really believe in.

2008-07-24T10:03:00.000-07:00

2008-07-19T17:42:00.001-07:00

THE IDENTITY OF A GLOBAL RADIO

The Church is crowded with art; alameda church used as a laboratory of art, telling us that art is GOD, Not a tool to reach GOD, but GOD itself. But it depends how we see Art, as a substantial echo of the union of heart and brain as a modern GOD should be. Or empty conceptual fashion nonsense that curiosity and an idea replace the sacrifice an artist have to make to become a real artist. An old fashioned catholic GOD what await us in the heavens of mediocrity. Art in a church, perfect metaphor of the objectivity or subjectivity on the subject.

GOD exist, therefore I work hard to reach him, If art where a religion, that would be the only thing that make sense. Now I don’t imagine a white cube full of conceptual bullshit as my GOD and my saints, that would be just like Catholicism, tricking banally everyone, Good working hard art is in a way like Hinduism, perfect in his

characters, perfect in many ways.

For radio global, the essence is the radio, whish they treat it well and they take care of it, but when you are inside a church or a museum, and they are transmitting inside and you find zombie assholes that believe in famousness just shitting in everybody that comes inside the buildings, then what’s bullshit, crap, they don’t even

know how to make a good exhibition design, they are just at the mercy of fashion meets art nonsense people, art as a form of a capitalist thinking, art should be the same , everywhere, therefore, we are all artists, fuck it , what a waste of time, at least try to imitate a Michelangelo , a de Vinci, not spending amounts of pseudo cool time in being another fashion stupid student that wants to be great as well, because he’s imitating another fashion student, etc.

2008-07-18T17:20:00.000-07:00

PAGODA ONE MORE TIME!!!

after not returning for a while to my country´s capital I decided to make a s

couting of some people I know here, music composers, architects, set designers, film directors, opera directors. all these great people that always tell me to come to mexico city, and then I wonder why I havn´t done that!!!, well Guadalajara is a nice city, but obviously, OBVIOUSLY is not as near as the capital cultural offerings, and normally they dont appreciate people with talent like so many tapatios I know but the city just squas all together to make an average of normal "trying to succeed but not doing enough"people.

IN THIS PHOTO SUPER SUISS ARCHITECT JACHEN DURI, GREAT INTERNATIONAL COMPOSER JOMI DELGADO AND MYSELF

Thats what I really hate about my town, and no wonder so many people jump to other cities in mexico. ANYWAY. guadalajara is still fun , nice, you can grow kids there , be a family man, without a problem, work from 9 to 5 , etc.

im just in pagoda again, remembering when jachen, chava and me came almost every morning to take breakfast . and think about an opera set we use to do.

But now my plans on making a new opera is on the way!!!!

2008-07-16T17:30:00.000-07:00

SIQUEIROS HOUSE IS BY FAR THE BEST HOUSE OF THE THREE MURALISTS. REALLY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

THIS PAINTING RESEMBLES GIGERS PAINTING " THE VISITOR"

siqueiros house right on time for me!!!
It is a modern magnifiscant house in mexico city called sala de arte publico siqueiros, its a great living space. his wall paintings are all over the house and ceiling, its open for the public worth seeing for free

2008-07-11T21:30:00.001-07:00

2008-07-07T21:22:00.000-07:00

primer concierto de ESTACION LIBERTAD

2008-07-01T09:23:00.000-07:00

SET FOR BALLET FOLKLORICO

2008-06-26T09:34:00.000-07:00

BARBER OF SASKATOON IN NYC

SO the barber of sevill had to change attitude and the barber of saskatoon was created by super scenographer jane parrott and me. A combination of puppets and opera was presented during the tiny theatre festival in NYC . Combining opera and puppets we managed to make it great, and probably this will be the first of some different opera projects, i hope it goes well.

2008-06-16T09:14:00.000-07:00

berlin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-02T18:04:00.000-07:00

Still in extassy by MURAKAMI`S work

2008-05-29T18:15:00.000-07:00

IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK
How amazing is this city, where everything flows either you want it or not! where creativity is an every day necessity to succeed and not something you have to struggle to have it, Its a place where imagination give people their 15 minutes of fame, where ideas are taken really SERIOUS and where these ideas are the path of living for millions of people. It seems if you dont trust your ideas , you are fucked in manhattan, you are not going to make it.

On each corner theres somebody that put some of his soul on a wall , on the floor, on the side walk. People are diagnosed as pressureholics, the city lives in good conjunction with its inhabitants, Now I react on this and think!!! what is it in our country than we stgruggle to be creative ??, maybe we are by nature but we make it REALLY complicated!! One of the things i like about this city ( and of course i didnt like everything, you can see in many ways how spoiled many americans are) is that being direct is a quality, its just an arrow that goes directly to your heart, somethimes you say ouch!! now THATS a quality, If you are like that you skip many many problems on the way. They have created the city of either you are strong, direct and fast or you are dead, and self consciusness is high .

2008-05-12T11:20:00.000-07:00

ARCHITECTS OF AIRAn ending to, in my opinions is one of the best work of art guadalajara have seen so far. Thank you architects of air for bringing this magnifiscent breathing installation, where all kinds of people met, no elitism, clear, strong, intelligent, sensitive and utopic reallity, It touched many peoples fellings and reminded them that we are flesh and bone AND aboce all, soul, whatever that is , THANKS shanti, james, jane, flo for having me there and you bet this installation have transformed my way of seeing things

2008-04-30T17:05:00.000-07:00

TECNOLOGY MEETS TEXAS MONEYMAKING,

REMEMBER SHOWBIZ PIZZA PLACE?? I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS FREEKY

2008-04-25T13:21:00.000-07:00

MACHIS, MUJER LAGUNA
CONTEMPORARY DANCE PROJECT BY GABRIELA CUEVAS, WHICH I LUCKILY WORKED ON THE PROJECT, ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF FEMALE MACHIS FROM THE CHAPALA LAGOON, NICE, ECLECTIC, MAGIC AN REAL THIS PIECE HAVE IT ALL,

2008-04-24T01:17:00.001-07:00

2008-04-19T12:21:00.000-07:00

2008-04-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

Trompos en Polonia with my friend Harris , great scenographer by the way

2008-04-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

SOMETHING INTERESTING IS FINALLY HAPPENNG IN GUADALAJARA

2008-03-27T11:41:00.000-07:00

Industry and biomecanics are often so close to each other . Industry abandoned in santa margarita bajacalifornia creates a dead atmosphere of something that was living there before. giant biomecanics that giger would consider to paint, When you get inside the once strong production city you realize the strongness of each object, each emblem that transformed living objects as sardines into a tin can.

Gabriel Orozco told me about the place. the centuria of time in these machines are so strong and yet so weak in their metal bodies.

Expressions of some artists are infestated here. But mostly mother nature has made the transformations in this rusty imaginaria.

transforming ideas into atmospheres , ambients are a real delightfu

l here like the iron courtain al rusty and delicate that gives a shadow in the round walls of the giant container.

At the end of the infinite promenade we encountered an instalation that coud be orozcos signature

2008-03-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

No need to be against evrything.
It seems the world is not going to recover from the stupidity of man!!! It seems religion failed a long time ago, science is making us mutants, politics is a shit evrywhere i look. Architecture is subordinated to big money makers. zaha hadid, Nouvel, Herzog, all those little twinkle stars are just a magazine cover. Intelectuallity in a way helps isolated groups, but it hasn´t figure out how to get to the masses . Everybody is crying!!! I think at this moment I just believe in Theatre. It is the only way we can transform ourselves on how we want to be . It is a way where you put a test in yourself and take the best out of you for a while. I would consider living in a theatre for a month and then get out to the word and react on your character of choice. Maybe first we could become zquizofrenic. But in a way thats how we are having thousands of roles everyday in life.
I believe we could have wings, even the most boring people would get somewhere better if only you put on your theatre wings and become an urban ICARUS.
peter brook

ENO & CALE- spinning away-wrong way up

2008-02-24T23:23:00.000-08:00

great street performance

2008-02-24T13:02:00.000-08:00

Interesting one week excersise on how to be a fireman, you know art and aesthetics takes you sometimes out o f phisical risk, so in this case it was a chellenge letting my no so fit body to experience the adrenaline of fire aroundd you . for an instance I thought, fuck art, this is much better, you feel much alive, but is not in my nature to be that extreme, Ma n , In a way my dream as a kid to be a fireman, w as accomplished, hopefully art could give us sometimes these type of adrenaline

2008-01-22T22:15:00.000-08:00

THE POST- PRAG QUADRIENNALLE AFTER EFFECT

Six months after the greatest scenography event in the year I found myself impressed about the quadrienalle effect,

wearing my hamlet is dead t-shirt I found myself alone on a desert beach in mexico when suddenly I started saying hamlet `s best known quote suddenly my life changed and dreamgirls came following the call.

It was kind of a male animal call. To me it was kind of logical because, after considering me not so great looking , hamlet is kind of the alter ego of theatre and set designers.

I wonder what would happen if I was wearing my Hamlet is NOT dead t-shirt.

2008-01-14T15:44:00.000-08:00

Making floats in el grullo is great!!!!

After being one week in the town that has adopted me as a new menber of their community, we worked hard as hell making 6 floats, ans one stage design for the EL GRULLO parties. So we had to make 6 floats, three of them would be for two princesses and a queen, so with help of CHUY, MACLOVIO, and Giovanni, we started this adventure of working 24/7 . We took a concept of kitch town aesthetics and made a strange result. Beer was our water, red bull our medicine, and chacales our feast. The funny thing is that I was also elected jury for picking the queen of the el grullo feasts. So I had to deal with the speeches and modeling of the 7 candidates, not bad!!! anyway, after dealing whit little town problems as the cowbow factor and the macho problems in the town`s politics we managed to get things done. normally at the end one always want more and more things to make the float better, but finally we gave them awat just for 1 hour use. one week work just to destroy it an hour later. thats life. but everybody liked the floats, After that we made a tour to eat at the camichin restaurant to eat great GREAT chacales, If you come to el grullo call me , I`ll take you there !!

robert plant- gone, gone, gone- raising sand

2008-01-09T23:08:00.000-08:00

todos santos, what a landscape!!!
On a boat in TODOS SANTOS, lots of pelicans agreed to come and pose for this photo, It was an extraordinary adventure to pick up some nice flying friends, generally pelicans escape from human prescense , but this ones like to pose for a still image, they know they are really important for the prescence of nature.
We just gave the lanchero 2o dollars for the ride

2008-01-07T22:34:00.000-08:00

Swiss alps???nope, a strange monster in todos santos baja california, I hope aI can get the skeleton

2008-01-03T00:55:00.000-08:00

TODOS SANTOS

Just have lots of pictures and not much to say but , In the dessert you feel alive and alone and can be rewarding living between cactus and sand. I just can say It was the perfect voyage to finish last year 2007. I almost got killed there, I almost stayed longer, I was dreaming alot there ,.

2007-12-20T09:25:00.000-08:00

ART IS SO COOOOL!!!!!! SPECIALLY IN EL GRULLO JALISCO

The most important thing for an artist is that the art the artist make really REALLY gets into people. That happened with various artists that made last weekend their work of art in a place where they only hear folk bands and eat enchiladas!!!! What a surprise for example that contemporary dancers where making their show ion front of the RANCHEROS and VIEJITAS . the audience where with an open mouth. and the show was full.!! With each show something similar happened. It seems the audience really like art the way it is presented!!!!.
I agree what Claes Oldemburg said about art.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

2007-12-11T07:47:00.001-08:00

a misplaced object inside a great xenote in quintana roo

2007-11-12T14:06:00.000-08:00

THE WHITEST BOY ALIVE

2007-11-04T22:44:00.000-08:00

strange creatures in my flat

rem out of time

2007-10-31T21:58:00.000-07:00

COMPLOT 2

La autoridad “no está preparada” para el arte urbanoEn los últimos años, las calles han sido escenario de diversas intervenciones artísticas que han molestado a las autoridades, concuerdan artistas, que consideran que la detención del lunes demuestra esa incomprensión.

El Complot elevó la voz Foto: Rafael del Río

25-Octubre-07

Hula-hulas que cuelgan de las estatuas de los Niños Héroes, instalaciones sonoras que evocan al ruido de la ciudad y murales en la vía pública son algunas intervenciones que han transformado la urbe en efímera galería de arte. Pero algunas han generado molestia entre las autoridades y diversos sectores de la sociedad. Creadores consultados concuerdan en que las autoridades no están preparadas para enfrentar las diversas expresiones que tienen a la calle como escenario, como la intervención Carril de bici, que se llevó a cabo el lunes por la noche y dejó como resultado 27 ciclistas detenidos.El proyecto, que quería generar una reflexión sobre la falta de ciclovías en la ciudad, consistió en colocar botellas con pintura de agua en las bicicletas de los participantes, para marcar su trayectoria en el pavimento, pero elementos de la policía de Guadalajara consideraron que los manifestantes dañaban el patrimonio de la ciudad, por lo que detuvieron a 27 personas. De acuerdo con el artista Rodrigo Cortés, en los últimos diez años los creadores se han apropiado de las calles para establecer “un debate sobre los temas de la ciudad y la sociedad, pero las autoridades han visto a estas expresiones como actos vandálicos, que deben ser condenados. No están preparadas para entenderlas”, expresa Rodrigo. Para los graffiteros Alejandro Martínez, Peque, y Dyal, quienes han pintado un sinfín de bardas, “lo primero que hacen las autoridades es reprimir antes de investigar cuál es el motivo de la instalación. Incluso, tengas o no tengas permiso para rayar bardas, los policías comienzan a molestar. Hechos como la detención de los ciclistas denotan la falta de libertad de expresión y las represión del gobierno”, describe el Peque. El artista Julio Miyó, quien ha pintado murales en bardas públicas, explica que el evento del lunes, convocado por los organizadores del Foro de Arquitectura Complot, “es una actividad legítima, pero las autoridades son ciegas a estas manifestaciones y las interpretan como vandalismo y delincuencia”. Mientras tanto, ayer durante la inauguración del foro, el director de Coordinación y Planeación del Ayuntantamiento de Guadalajara, Víctor Martínez pidió una "disculpa institucional a las 40 personas que participaron en el recorrido en bicicleta y que pasaron seis horas muy desafortunadas". La discusión sobre el incidente seguirá mañana a las 19:00 horas en el Museo de la Ciudad, con una mesa de debate sobre las intervenciones en el espacio público. El Complot elevó la voz • Anoche los participantes del Foro Internacional de Arquitectura Complot alzaron la voz y emitieron diversos mensajes a través de teléfonos fabricados de latas e hilo. La instalación Desconocido, a cargo del artista Rodrigo Cortés, tuvo el propósito de representar “la incomunicación en la sociedad contemporánea”. Un personaje con un enorme sombrero hecho con embudos de aluminio animó a los presentes, afuera del teatro Alarife, a convivir con personas que no conocía y a experimentar la lúdica sensación del teléfono descompuesto. - ClavesProyectos polémicos • El proyecto Los patriotas, de Claudia Rodríguez, adornó a los Niños Héroes con hula-hulas. La obra, realizada en mayo de 2004, duró algunas horas, por el descontento de la ex secretaria de Cultura, Sofía González Luna, quien incluso despidió al director de Actividades Culturales, Francisco Lozano • La mano enyesada de la Minerva generó polémica. La obra hecha en abril del 2004, por el fallecido artista Luis Miguel Suro, consistió en poner un yeso en el antebrazo de la escultura. Permaneció algunas semanas y dividió opiniones entre los tapatíos, que calificaron el hecho como “una falta de respecto” o “una broma divertida” • En octubre de 2005, la avenida Federalismo, en su cruce con Independencia, se convirtió en un campo de batalla. El artista urbano Peque, pintó el graffiti La chica en el país de Burrolandia, que mostraba a una mujer desnuda. Más tarde fue censurada con pintura negra. Luego, el artista la pintó de nuevo con un mensaje para los censores.

una cancion patti smith- smells like teen spirit, buenisima

2007-10-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

Nota de Prensa de COM:PLOT
por CITY OBSERVATORY
En el marco del foro internacional de arquitectura se invitaron a una serie de artistas locales destacados a realizar instalaciones urbanas en diversos puntos de la ciudad. Sin Embargo, el día de ayer por la noche una de las propuestas, de la artista y arquitecta suiza radicada en Guadalajara Severine Schlaepfer fue víctima de la incomprensión metropolitana e intransigencia de las autoridades.La artista junto con otras 40 personas convocadas a colaborar con su obra “carril de bici”.

Iniciaron un recorrido del MAZ hacia el Parque Aguazul. La propuesta consistía en una intervención efímera que por medio de un mecanismo que goteaba pintura de agua sobre la llanta, expusiera el serpenteado camino que debe hacerse un ciclista para hacerse por entre las calles de Guadalajara.El evento, conocido por el ayuntamiento de Guadalajara y por la secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado. Se topó con la policía de tránsito quienes, ante lo poco cotidiano de la situación, detuvieron a los 40 artistas cuando estaban por terminar el recorrido, con el argumento de daño a la vía pública. Aún cuando, la lluvia de ayer, aumentando lo efímero de la propuesta, lavó la intervención a su paso. La solución del problema duró más que la obra misma.Autoridades municipales y estatales, entre ellos Santiago Baeza, de la secretaría de Cultura, se dieron cita la noche de ayer, con el fin de aclarar el malentendido. Finalmente en ausencia de motivos claros para justificar la detención –la lluvia había borrado todo rastro de la intervención- los 40 participantes fueron liberados del complot urbano.

Los detenidos de carril de bicis

Lo que se destaca es la buena voluntad de los ayuntamientos y las diferentes secretarías contra la incomprensión de los diferentes miembros de seguridad ante acciones que –saliéndose de las manifestaciones cotidianas- pretenden inocuamente poner en discusión el desarrollo de nuestra ciudad.Las instalaciones urbanas de la exposición COMP:PLOT continuarán hasta el día de mañana cuando se inaugure el foro Internacional de arquitectura. Y aqui hay unas fotos y videos de cuando nos "levantaron"

2007-10-08T16:54:00.000-07:00

LA CASA TOMADA
La casa tomada is a house that 60 artists have made an intervention during the cervantino in Guanajuato. This one was number six,, it was really cool because the landscape potentialized this amorphus sculpture . Miguel mesa and I stayed 5 hours making this animal, slowly this helium beast becomed alive with help of the weather. The house is full of paintings and installations, some of them excellent, some of them not so good, but, artists from Guanajuato have more heart and are more interesting than the artists from guadalajara. It is more profound what they do, It is more emblematic and make more sense the artistic way.

After some time , children up the hill where screaming as hell to pull up the beast, to have this sensation of being attacked by a kind of guanajuato monster.
we also attached a camera to the beast to see how it pulls up the sky,
heres some music
bauhaus-new entries-mp3

2007-09-28T10:11:00.000-07:00

PROCESS COMPLETED!!!!
After two months of working in a book show, we finally did it, It finally came throu, museum design is not exactly scenography, transitions are made in different ways. specially if it is made for kids, kids are another scale, they tend to touch and destroy everything, so the museum exhibition, had to be stone like built , there where different aspects about it, we had to create a promenade in a way kids where able to come and go without a problem, I had to deal with ideas made reallity, because is not the same having an idea and then built for the stage, and having an idea and then being guilt for the kids. I learned that no matter how strong you build something , kids will always wreck the thing. They have so amazing power to kick pull, push, hit, spit, shake, etc. We had to make maggic to build and to create.In a way was a great place to learn in the TROMPO MAGICO, On the other hand It was difficult to but new ideas in a tin can brain that many people working on museum design have. It gave me some problems to transform an exhibition into something more magical, because the old school people here at the trompo , they just want to make nice little windows, And thats something I dont agree on, `.
The exhibition turned out to be a sucess .
I give you this song
magazo-easy melodias-mp3

2007-09-19T22:27:00.000-07:00

vss

Its amazing how a material can change views and perspective of things, light in this case was transformed by a tin can thing. This set design was made for the GUELAGUETZA, The most important mexican dance. It was really nice to see and to participate.

heres some images, a video ans some music

jimmy cliff,the harder they come,mp3

2007-09-12T18:19:00.000-07:00

MAKING A SET FOR A GUELAGUETZA SHOW, As you know The Guelaguetza Is the most important event of traditional mexican dance, we have to do something for the guelaguetza on friday, and with such little budget we decided to work with tin "embudos" I don`t know how you call that in english, but this are the ones you use to swallow all the tequila in a party or to hear more when you are deaf. so we bought alot of the them. Probably almost all of guadalajara tin "embudos" we have it right here in my house, we want to make a big 2 m diameter sun , lets hope we can build it great , Im also working in el trompo magico, an interactive museum, the thing is that over there everybody are in the confort zone, goverment ball scratchers that don`t do anything but to pick their nose. I dont like the spirit of it, probably ill get out of the museum as soon as I can.

can. And do really what I like the most, make scenography.

el tonto de la colina-robertha-mp3

2007-09-06T21:11:00.000-07:00

On my last trip to mexico city I realized that all this great people that made radio and tv great in mexico we should give them a second chance, Vero Maza , a friend from mexico city gave me this excellent cd that i´m sooo addicted to it , I had to put this video, Its great 50 bizarre mexican creative crazyness, hope you like it, I also put a song from the 60 era ,

mueve el dinero- eduardo davison-mp3

2007-08-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

A gift from prague. a bear transform into an elephant, since I`ve had it in my house everybody have wondered If I frequently use this sex toy ! "of course" I replied. I always use it when I´m about to take the car to work, thats the only way I am awake.

Of couse the only people who believe this shit are the art crowd. Art people are as intelectual and as ignorant as a little kid eating ice cream. the only difference is that when they spill the ice cream on their shirt , art people say its a new conceptual fashion cloth

MIA sexy-mp3

2007-08-24T15:00:00.000-07:00

making the poster of a puppet show, alice in wonderland. Man I really could use a bit of wxtassy right now, this thing in working in the office is not so good, Mexico city Is quite great to consider to have an extension of weird extassy, you have everithing there except politeness and education, boring is defenetely not there, which my city have quite alot of that word. Good times are coming in art as well in guadalajara, great artists are appearing and bad ones are dissolving from the towns memory. So theres good chance to do great stuff with talent and lots of work.

2007-08-23T21:57:00.000-07:00

THE YEAR OF THE CAT!!! love this moment exactly one year ago. jane and marcel, great time together

LOVE YOU GUYS , WHEREVER YOU ARE.....

2007-08-14T08:32:00.000-07:00

Cual sorpresa me di al aterrizar en esa playa rica en gente y paisaje, ese pequeño lugar que concentra el alma de lo eterno y reflejo de nuestra felicidad. Un rincón nayarita llamado Lo de Marcos , una pequeña pero grandiosa playita popular .
Para mí fue la décima vez que gasto un fin de semana de mi tiempo invirtiéndolo ahí en esa playa hermosa donde los nativos te enamoran se su cordialidad y hospitalidad. Entre la comunidad esta doña chole la señora experta en cocina donde me adoptó como su hijo de pescado zarandeado. Siempre complaciente y como si fuera mi segunda madre nos chiqueó a mi novia y a mi con lo que le gusta mas hacer. cocinar y viborear. Normalmente nos habla de los mejores chismes de la reserva de la costa , que si el lagarto dominante ya tiene 4 lagartonas de la laguna, que si un pescador le vio las bubis a una excéntrica extranjera. en fin, normalmente nos deleita con el animalario del corazón. sin embargo esta vez. triste, cansada y resignada nos informó con una frase, casi ausente de vocales, que lo de marcos la playa nayarita por excelencia , se había vendido a una empresa japonesa. con lagrimas en los ojos nos comento que el gobierno mandó a unos hombres de negro a su restaurante, abrieron un pergamino tal cual mesopotámicos e informaron sobre la evacuación próxima del pueblo, para dar paso a un hotel que arrasaría con la zona natural, y la diversidad del ecosistema. Para pronto mi coraje ladró antes que mi razón, y le pregunte si no se podían organizar y hacer una manifestación en contra de la venta de playas que es patrimonio de México y toda la gente tiene derecho a ellas. Su respuesta fue tan triste como su esperanza. " los del gobierno nos van a dar una miseria y amenazados estamos si alguno de nosotros nos revelamos , por que aparte de no darnos nada, nos van a plomear como a los pobres de punta mita" . al decir eso me acorde de un amigo lanchero que murió balaceado por agentes estatales en su pueblo querido de punta mito por no querer marcharse con todo y lancha. Peor aun me comento que Punta Raza , otra joya playera, digna a disputarse el puesto de la playa con mayor diversidad nacional, no sólo había sido ya también privatizada, sino que cualquier persona que se acercara a 20 m de la reja que pusieron los agentes iba a ser enfuscado y muerto. Doña chole respondió: " lo único que me puede hacer feliz es que tengo hasta diciembre aun mi restaurantito, y como diciembre es temporada alta, puedo ahorrar un poquito para que cuando me saquen poder pagar un mes de renta en algún lugar y darles a mis hijos frijoles por dos meses, después pues ya me las arreglaré" y posteriormante añadió: "parece que el futuro esta privado a nosotros. estamos condenados a sobrevivir día a día sin ver ningún fruto a futuro, solo me queda ver a mis hijos crecer, si es que crecen sanos".

Ahora de vuelta a Guadalajara me revienta la coronilla cual país tan cínico y vendible puede ser el nuestro por unos cuantos caciques de la envidia que se pudren en dinero y que aun quieren mas para los gusanos que nacen de su ya putrefacto estado de descomposicion. Nos es posible que el país venda su patrimonio a unos cuantos japoneses que valen mas que toda una población que la playa de Lo de Marcos es su único entretenimiento que tienen.
Solo un comentario

2007-08-05T10:04:00.000-07:00

So we took advantage of the weather and the flooding in my city so we made an instalation project. life savers on a tree where the tunnel always floods, where christopher columbus is and where all the cars always sails through the dark urban sea tunnel. as my friend will started making installations, well, I will do it too. So I hop e we can connect with belfast - guadalajara to make an interactive installation, hopefully it works well. this is the photo of the front page of the newspaper. i cant believe it went all through the front page of the city´s most popular newspaper .

peter gabriel-here comes the flood-mp3

2007-07-26T12:16:00.000-07:00

MAN, Why ART in Guadalajara is Going so low?????

WHY THERE ARE ALMOST NO HONEST ARTISTS IN MY TOWN??? CONTEMPORARY ART IN MY TOWN?? IT SEEMS IS MORE ABOUT FASHION THAN ART. EVERYBODY ARE DOING THE SAME CRAP AND , REALLY....LITERARY, CRAP IS EVERYWHERE . EXHIBITIONS YESTERDAY AT THE MAZ MUSEUM IN ZAPOPAN .. HONESTLY, WHATS GOING ON, IF THESE PEOPLES THING THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE A WORK OF ART, THINK AGAIN!! COOLNESS IS NOT ART, DESIGN IS NOT ART, IS SEEMS THERES A MISUNDERSTANDING MAYBE FROM KINDERGARDEN OUR TEACHERS TOUGHT US SOMETHING WRONG . BECAUSE IMITATING IS NOT GOOD MAN, MAKING A RANDOM PHOTO AND EXHIBING IT IN A GALLERY IS NOT ART! MAN, A. R. T. ARTISTS IN RANDOM TECNIQUES??
IS TIME TO TAKE OUT THIS MEDIOCRE GOVERMENT TYPE OF THINKING FROM OUR MINDS, AND BE HONEST TO OURSELVES AND WORK HARD, WORK WORK, ISOLATE YOURSELVE AND MAKE SOMETHING FANTASTIC, NOT BE FASHIONABLE FOR THE SAKE OF IT!!!
IF YOU ARE GONNA BE FASHIONABLE, THEN BE IT SO HARD AND STRONG YOU CAN´T BEAR IT ANYMORE, AND THEN YOU WILL GET NOTICED, OTHERWISE, YOU ARTISTS, STOP BEING BAD HAIRDRESSED SHEEPS AND DO SOMETHING MARVELOUS!!! FOR THE SAKE OF ART .

2007-07-24T14:21:00.000-07:00

Getting there, getting there, now I have a new job at least for three months which I have to design an interactive book exhibition, , cool thing regarding it will be for kids in the TROMPO MAGICO. really interesting. Set design is on stand by at the moment but not for long because they ave offered me new projects . 1 puppet project, one theatre project and an opera as well. The year is getting better after prague. I realized that everithing is possible except finding this plant on the photo that my friend miguel has in his house, cola de zorro. If somebody knows where to find it or give me this plant for a gift call me at 0052 331 261 9583 .

no song today

2007-07-16T21:25:00.000-07:00

thinking with three heads, oportunity knoks at my door, but all at the same time, i wish I could be a three headed dragon so I could do it all, I can´t split myself, got to be careful about what I choose, tomorrow i`m gonna go to another interview to see how the other job offer is, hopefully it will be great , have to be smart and concentrate and be analitical, because, if you have no job for a while and suddently three jobs come ome together, mmmmmm, what to do. probably ill get stoned on every job interview, like puff the magic dragon.
puff the magic dragon-dunno-mp3

2007-07-16T14:19:00.000-07:00

rescuing this footage from the prague quadrienalle exhibition

too slow, too smart

2007-07-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

Interesting thing when opposite situations collide, my weekend took me to puerto vallarta, nice weather, beautiful beaches, Unfortunatelly I went for another reason, my last and onlygrandfather is about to pass away, He is about toleave our reallity, to go to a better one, at least in his reallity. I got in between the fire of lost hungry wolves dealing with inheritage reasons. So the father of my mom (RIP) is leaving us and my mom´s little brother and sisters behave like orloks from the lord of the rings. But then there was a beautiful cousin and my great sister that came as well to vallarta. Then I found sandy Dunkel for a moment, a special friend that made my day even that the day was almost over. The good thing about this trip is that I went to great new beaches, man, San pacho is a great little beach, maybe better then Lo de Marcos. well, I´m not sure because in lo de marcos I had great moments with my girlfriend and many other people, I havn´t said anything at all since I started to write this lines, but the thing is how greed transforms people in stupid individuals desperateed for a dime in their pocket, man they are more desperate than homeless people. So I aldo drank great beer with my almost dead grandfather on my side, but I really enjoy it, and he did as well for his quiet whispers where a weak sign of laughter. Tomorrow I will be heading to Guadalajara, Cos a new job is knocking on my door. Got to open it. Got to get healthy , Got to give kisses to my girlfriend when she comes back from los cabos, got to rescue my only two good members of my family that´s worth . The others may rot in hell.

David Bowie-Its the last thing you should do-mp3

2007-07-11T06:58:00.000-07:00

Sometimes dog comes to my senses, takes my attitude, gets into me , and i´m a dog!! sometimes dog just sit by my side and flies get into my hair. some other times i just sit by the street and start counting how many times dog crosses the street, I wonder if dog has many friends .
smoke city-numbers.-mp3

2007-07-04T23:26:00.000-07:00

THIS IS A GREAT WORK OF ART, CONCISE, COOL, DIRECT, EASY, GREAT IDEA, MY FAVORITE VIDEO THIS WEEK

SEE YA

2007-07-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

BYE DREAM REALLITY

Its almost over my trip to Prague, after 10 days of crazy set design, talking about set design non-stop, getting to know great people in the field, now, back to real life, looking for a new job, looking for new stuff. back to guadalajara, isnt much fun at all, ill look and see what we can doo here, mean while this is a pick of my friend will, in london, where we had a good time,

2007-06-28T09:50:00.001-07:00

INTELECTUALLY INCORRECT

So scenofest is over, my trip is going to an end, London is a good place to be, but so expensive it is. As a result of the intellectual world of scenographers I decided after thinking alot about it which video would be the most propper and the most amazingly intellectual and intelligent!!! didn't come with much options , but then will came along and gave me this example of the educated and discipline way of living set design, thanks will, enjoy it

rod

2007-06-24T06:40:00.000-07:00

try and get this in guadalajara!!!!, you fuckers!!!!!! why, i really mean, why can't we get something as good and bizarre as this piece of art. take a look seviche

2007-06-22T08:32:00.000-07:00

AS PART OF THE SCENOFEST COLABORATORS i KIND OF MADE A PAUSE ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS ON EACH EVENT THAT I POSSIBLY CAN AND ENTER MYSELF IN A VERY EXQUISIT WORKSHOP. i REALLY WAS A LITTLE SCEPTICAL ABOUT SOME WORKSHOPS. i’VE HAD TALKED WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF IT, AND MOST OF THEM WERE REALLY DISSAPOINTED. BUT I TOOK MY CHANCES ANYWAY AND JOINED THE TEA PAVILLION. MY FIRST SURPRISE , WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS EXPECTING IT, WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF KUROTANI MIYAKO PUPPETEER, MASTER OF PRESICION, SO SIMPLE AND GREAT CHOW WITH A PUPPET. SIMPLE, PRECISE, THEY DONNT LEAVE CHANCE DECIDE FOR THEM ON THEIR PERFORMANCE. THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF USING WHITE COLOR ON THE SET OR ON THEIR CLOTHES. AMAZING.

AFTER THAT, WHAT REALLY TOOK ME OVER THE SKIES WAS THAT SHE WAS GIVING THE WORKSHOP , BUT INVITING EACH ONE OF US TO A TEE CEREMONY. JAPANEESE STYLE OF COURSE. THAT MADE IT GREAT BECAUSE RITUALISM WAS IN THE TEE, YOU COULD FEEL SACRED INSIDE YOU. THAT GAVE US THE OPORTUNITY TO START wORKING IN A PUPPET. ELEVEN OF US WHERE MAKING A PART OF THE PUPPET, WHILE THE MASTERS MADE THE TECHNICALL STUFF, THE PLANS, CREATING THE SHAPE OF THE HEAD, IN A WHITE PAPER, IT LOOKED LIKE FRANKESTEIN LABORATORY. . DURING THE WORKSHOP WE EXPERIENCED DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT PUPPETRY, WE HAD TECHNICS ON HOW TO HANDLE A PUPPET AGAIN, JAPANEESE WAY, MR. MIAGUI STYLE (SEE KARATE KID).DURING THE WORKSHOP THERE WHERE A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN TWO PUPPET MASTERS, ONE PRAG STYLE, THE OTHER TOKIO STYLE, THERER WHERE DISCUSSING ABOUT THE COSTUME OF THE PUPPET, IT WAS AN ACTUAL FIGHT , AND THE WORKSHOP SPACE SUDDENLY BECAME A RING, SO I REALLY IMAGINE THE PUPPETMASTERS FIGHTING TO SEE WHO MADE THE BEST PUPPET. MAN, THAT WAS GREAT.

SO AT THE END WE MANAGED TO PERFORM A REALLY BAD PERFORMANCE WITH THE PUPET, BUT WE DIDN’T CARE MUCH ABOUT IT, HAVING SAKE AT THE END OF A WORKSHOP MAKES THINGS EASIER.

2007-06-18T13:40:00.000-07:00

my fouth day in prague, have seen alot of new ideas met new exiting people all over the worls, but the best is to come, my mind is going KABOOM!!!! of so many great ideas I have in my head, give you this imagages oF PRAG QUADRIENALLE]

2007-06-10T08:37:00.000-07:00

SWIMMING TO PRAGUE QUADRIENALE

generating money on the last minute for benefit trip to to prag, I feel I have plan this trip for years, ironically I also feel I´m not prepared at all,but what the hell, as a scenographer it will be a dream come true, like islamists going to mecca, prag will be a great way of meeting otherscenographers, light designers and many characters. I´ll meet will, martin and nikos, hopefully they bring whiskey and ouzo, so i´ll bring my mexican tequila healing water too.

Gonna make two workshops, japanese puppets and video layers. Gonna make interviews all around for scenofest, mexican newspaper and haiti radio. Don´t ask me how I got that last one, But one of my tasks is to show the potentiallity of prag quadrienalle, and what it represents around the world to the mexican people, because unfortunatelly almost none knows about it, only the 4 set designers that always are chosen, the same old ones. anyway. I dont know if i´m gonna make TOWER OF BABEL exhibition because logistical problems with the local school. we where supposed to have tickets to fly there and three days later they cancelled our tickets because $$$$$$$problems, fortunately I have my own from another dealer, (i won this ticket because I could burped so hard) so I´ll see if i still can make it.

anyway, ill give you some pictures of babel tower and see you all there intelectualizing with a PIWO on one hand and a puppet on the other.

anyway, giving you some tunes as always:

common people-william shatner.mp3

sincearly

escenografito mexicanito

2007-06-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

DAKOTA

Entering again the new theatre panorama in Guadalajara, After a series of opera productions it is nice to see again the young never dying theatre . Specially when young actors and directors are involved. This time we made a piece from catalan jordi galceran named Dakota, The concept of the set was a kind of a base ball field, along with voyeur views from the crowd to the actors

The story is abot a desntist that wants to go to the USA. to live, but he hits his head andthinks he can predict the future. If you can go and see it in guadalajara it will be on wednesday and thursday of june . Anyway on the 11th of june i´m going to prag!!!! to the prag quadrienalle.

2007-05-28T22:32:00.000-07:00

ME CAGA FRIDA KAHLO,

theres no exhibition her paintings are not involved, i hate her life, i hate her paintings, i hate her folklore trademark, her life is just a trademark, and it sells , i hate her so bad.

me caga frida kahlo, dejame en paz ya !!!

tintan-rascame aqui-mp3

2007-05-24T09:07:00.000-07:00

A LITTLE 30 CM MARCIAN CAME TO ME LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS IN A COFFEESHOP, HE WALKED TROU MANY PEOPLE WITHOUT GETTING NOTICED, I SOME HOW NOTICED HIM WALKING TO ME, AS HE STOOD BY ME HE PULLED THE BOTTOM OF MY PANTS 4 TIMES , LOOKED UP TO ME OPENED LITTLE GREAT EYES AND WITH A TINY VOICE SAID. ÑA ÑA ÑA ÑA ÑAAAA...
....... i just scratched my head and gave him half of my burned cigarrete, he stretched his hand and jumped with his tiny 30 finger feet. after 3 tries he finally reached it. later he went slowly away throu the crowd, half way away he looked at me, took a deep smoke breath and he started to make smoke rings. then he turned away and dissapeared. I havn`t seen him today.

ping island-lightning strike rescue-life acuatic-mp3

2007-05-18T22:56:00.000-07:00

Wardrobe, sometimes people tell you need a change of looks, a FASHION EMERGENCY as they do in the bbc programs, In a way Its true: I´ve had this beard for at least 8 years, my messy hair for 4 years, clothes my dad used to wear, funky holy socks with air conditioned included, retro underwear, but real retro, ripped pants from the 80ths, and still using my top sailers. Have some clothes we use to use on theatre plays in high school.

I still use my walkman, when i´m feeling 80tiess and my discman to feel in fashion, I still hear technotronic, milli vanilli, and steve winwood.

retro is was fashionable, then it went away , then it came again and went again, Im stuck between culture club talking heads and jesus jones.

pathetic isnt it??

I kind of agree of a makeover, but isn´t it whats fashionable pathetic anyway?

welcome to my spaceship- thievory corp. feat. david byrne-mp3