Award week

"To be seen from above"*

Last week I won three awards (I know Im awesome)...

I won the first place in a short story contest with a work called "El tango de la mariposa" or "The butterfly tango" it is based on a tango by Carlos Gardel with the same name only applied to the fact some artist dedicate all their work to LatinAmerica and she gives back nothing.

Also my short film "6:oo AM" got the first place, and my painting "Para ser vista desde arriba" or "To be seen from above" got the third place on the painting contest... however I got a complaint:
The contest was called ExpresArte which transmits the idea that they seek for paintings in which you truly express something or some shit like that. The point is the first and second place were both pencil drawings with REALLY GOOD TECHNIQUE but that were a copy from pictures from the internet THEY DIDNT EVEN TAKE THA PICTURES. Now I know they are looking for picture copies, so next semester the work I send will be a Xerox copy from some picture or something... ARTISTIC STATEMENT MUCH?

*Thats how they displayed it.
In theory you should see it from above.

Multiple personality

Lately I've been believing of my personality as double: I feel there is the "organic, natural, strongly influenced by Asia" side of my personality and also what I call the Grotesquely Urbanized side. The first one is pretty clear, and the second one is such an exaggerated way of adhering to laws of urbanization... so straightforward, so blown up it even mocks urbanization itself.

I have some installation ideas for an exposition based completely in this ideology.. i guess ill upload some picture once I have them.

For now I leave you with a picture of John Waters' mustache:

6:00 AM

Tomorrow we hand in our short film for the contest.

If we win we get to be screened in a real movie theatre and all...

I made the poster:

Its called 6:00 AM and it is a long story that I will tell during the week

Plaid Sweater

Grant Wood's lesser known portraits of the gothic face of American lifestyle are just as amazing as the American Gothic the looney tunes so many time mocked. For instance this Plaid Sweater kid

Plaid Sweater, 1931

29 1/2 x 24 1/8 in (74.9 x 61.3 cm)

Becomes an instant favorite.

Perhaps all of us are a little bit plaid at some point. With inter-related ideas that pattern our lives.

I might be going to the Summer@Brown program... we'll see how that goes.

Entry for Maria Antonieta

Maria Antonieta asked me today at school to please updat my blog so here it goes:

This week I got my car back (it was crashed), I've been listening to a Disney/Pixar movie score CD, I have been loaded with homework and I've been working on my short film...

Now, thats something worth commenting.

My friend Juan Carlos came up with an idea for a short film and he asked e to help him as art director... I have ever since been in casting sessions, looking for wardrobe and costumes, cooking fake blood, studying video photography websites and searching in the deepest of my mind for ideas to add to the plot so it has a little of the Magical Realism I love so much. We will send it to a short film contest and... well, we'll see... I'll let you know if we win.

I will leave a picture of Mayra Silva's "Invitación a la nada" Text over cloth napkin. Worth googling her, one of the best contemporar mexican artists.

Intern

Today I have my third day in the alternativaonce galería.

So far, I have been complying the portfolios of Jessica Salinas and Nacho Cincoya. And reviewing the artworks of Mayra Silva, Adrián Procel and José Luis Díaz...

We'll be shipping them to Mexico City for Zona MACO (www.macomexico.com) which I won't be able to attend (yes my heart just died a little)

Adrián Procel

Acicalar mientras se escribe

135x150 cm

And the James Dean hair...

Today I got a haircut. I went to the weird (surprisingly straight) guy who works at the barber shop and showed him this picture:

And said: I want a haircut like that (actually it was: quiero que me cortes el pelo así) and when I see... nothing like it.

I'm pissed; specially since I specifically said what I wanted and then the guy decides to do as he pleases WITH MY HAIR.

I just hope It grows in spring break when society can't see me