Urban art Guadalupe. Between Wyoming and Missouri
el chuco store fronts
made on a whim and inspired by london shop fronts, this tumblr presents the great funky, quirky hand-lettered stores located in el chuco (paso), texas and general frontera region with occasional images of local wild style graffiti. also, check out fuckyeahguadalupe and chacal does tumbling.
(Source: inspirationbyinvitation, via strangeandsavagepoetry)
(via El Paso author Benjamin Alire Sáenz wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - El Paso Times)
The award will prompt Sáenz to do something outside his comfort zone — read his own published work.
“I never reread any of my books. Only when I give readings do I go back to what’s been published,” he said, and he added that this time he will have to thumb through the book to find the perfect selection.
Overall, the judges considered more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. in 2012, according to a news release from the foundation.
“Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club,” published by El Paso’s Cinco Puntos Press, is a collection of seven stories anchored at the well-known bar in Juárez just four blocks from the international bridge. The bar is the backdrop where the characters “struggle with the impossible ambiguities of borders, whether they be sexual, emotional, national or economic,” the release states.
“The author takes stunning care with language — English, Spanish, and the languages of sunlight, daylight, dimlight, nightlight — twisting and tumbling with the whispered language of the human heart,” judge A.J. Verdelle wrote.
“Sáenz also devotes impressive attention to rendering communities on the borders of the United States and Mexico, on the boundaries of sensual and sexual expression, on the edge of despair, and on the cusp of redemption.”
Another judge, Nelly Rosario, said the collective voices of the narrators in Sáenz’ stories “speak artlessly, as wisdom does, and ask us to listen for the borderless poetry of the spirit.”
Sáenz is no stranger to awards. He has won a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in poetry, a Lannan Poetry Fellowship, and an American Book Award. His other literary work has previously won the Stonewall Book Award presented by the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table.
why do teachers have such an intense hatred for wikipedia
because it does their job better than them
my history teacher used to mess with wikipedia when he gave us assignments
half my class had essays about how hitler was secretly in a relationship with stalin
IM LAUGHING REALLY HARD RIGHT NOW
(Source: lacedbelles, via richardselby)
Via Federico Villalba, “Storefront. South Central El Chucolandia”
Paisano: El Tiradero Market
New photoshoot by Siouxzen Kang. A LIVE FAST MAG Exclusive Editorial.
(via abstrackafricana)
The Depressing ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 
Which brings me to my biggest criticism of Bigelow for this movie and for her Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker, a drama about U.S. demolition experts defusing “improvised explosive devices” in Iraq. Both movies treat the inhabitants of the countries mostly as scenery and provide almost no historical context for the events that Bigelow portrays.
In The Hurt Locker, you’re presented with a framework in which U.S. military personnel somehow find themselves in Iraq trying to save both Americans and Iraqis from bombs planted by other Iraqis, presumably because those Iraqis must be pathological “bad guys.” The American bomb crews sacrifice greatly for the benefit of all, doing their best to frustrate these evil-doers.
Bigelow treats the Iraqis as either props for her drama or as villains, i.e. crazy terrorists. If you didn’t know the history, you’d be lost regarding the background of an unprovoked U.S. invasion of Iraq and a military occupation that many Iraqis were resisting.
Similarly, in Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow offers the thinnest of historical context. The film starts with a black screen and 911 calls from desperate people dying in New York’s Twin Towers. It then jumps to the torturing of detainees and CIA interrogators doing the unpleasant work of extracting information to prevent future terrorist attacks.
(Source: azspot)
Colourful work by Neuzz and Zime in Mexico. Seeing a lot of good things coming from Mexico these last weeks - Mexican artists please get in touch!
(via fuckyeahmexico)
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