Glass blowing and icon fiddling
If only to stem the tide of “What have you been up to since seeing them charros on Sunday” questions that have been filling up my inbox, here´s a summary.
Photojournalism classes: 2 per week, 4 hours each in the Hospicio Cabañas in the centre of town. Intriguing stuff, if a little long. I´m remembering why I gave up academia in the first place. I can´t deal with people talking in dark rooms for hours on end. But it has its highlights and the bloke doing the seminars has a lot to teach, definitely glad I signed up…
Yesterday, some fine tuning of the tequila pictures for G.Tulum tequila and a visit to the place where they´re making the bottles.
They’d actually already finished making the bottles for my client, but they were busy making bull and machine gun shaped bottles for someone else.
I’ve also been doing bits and bobs for www.sit2007.org and today and last night I had a go at designing a logo for the Flickr’s Vivir Guadalajara splinter group the recently christened El Lente Tapatío… Here’s the latest iteration, judgement tomorrow…
This morning I read Sita’s latest chapter and it’s excellent as usual, all about the neo liberal politics of tequila protection. And it’s actually hard to put down. Right now Sita’s watching Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes as part of her research and is gasping at every plot twist and loving it. I think I’ll join her. A bientot, mes amis.
Machine gun shaped bottles, no less. I’m afraid to ask, but… wtf?
As for long lectures, you and me both, mate, that’s why I dropped out myself. I only hope you’ve got no homework now. That said, it does sound real interesting, can’t imagine what they teach you in a photojournalism course.
But the neo liberal politics of tequila, now that sounds fascinating. See, I’ve been thinking a lot about neoliberalism, protectionism, and other -isms, these days… in fact I’m a bit concerned I’m turning into a “globaliphobic” or something, heh. So this immediately catched my eye. I hope Sita could spare a copy of that paper, once finished… I’d really love to read it.
Best wishes to both of you.
any news from your local (UK) newspaper?
Well, Cesar, obviously the machine gun shaped bottles are the next logical step in the Tequila bottled in things shaped like guns series. wtf indeed.
The seminars are going grand, discussion about ethics, what makes a good photograph, ideas for photos, equipment to use, where to publish, and photography banter in general.
And Sarita says she’s more than happy to send you a copy… expect it soon!
Best wishes to you and yours too.
Hi Myrna, no, no news yet. Things move pretty slowly back in my home town though. Today’s news include the following headlines: Bottle thrown at cyclist, Memorial window gets new inscription and Christmas ice rink cancelled. It was something of a long shot anyway. Hope you’re feeling better, hasta pronto!