Author Archives: Rogelio
Stringing Along
Last sunday here in San Miguel, we were treated to a great performance by Gil Gutierrez, with Camille Garcia and Bob Stern who are joining him this year on accordion and violin, and with the special addition, for the first … Continue reading
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Going Round in Circles
For years now, Harry Beck’s angular London Transport tube map has been the seminal example of how to diagram transport systems. However, the system is much more complex now than when it began … Continue reading
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End of the Day
Among the schoolkids playing football, and the Mexicans and Gringos just wandering around or sitting beneath the trees, there are always some regulars that we see in the Jardin every evening. This elderly woman, nearly bent double with rickets, makes … Continue reading
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David Alfaro Siqueiros Again
In response to the post below, Lance Wyman sent me this great photo of Mexican muralist Siqueiros he took in 1971 when he (Lance) was down here after completing the graphics for the Mexico Olympics and the Mexico Subway among other … Continue reading
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The Yellow Peril
What to do with 444 copies of National Geographic magazine? They seem too nice to chuck away, but where the hell do you put them? I discovered this great cabinet in Dr Gerry Acevedo’s waiting room (he’s our dentist) in San … Continue reading
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Viva Whoever
Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero ? Not sure who this lot were followers of, but I found this photo pinned to the wall in Jorge’s barber shop on Animas this week here in San Miguel. Maybe just employees of the … Continue reading
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Rebar Roman
This wonderful crucifix stands in the Parque Benito Juárez, San MIguel de Allende, Mexico. What is best about it are the inscriptions – a typeface created with welded letters made out of steel rods and floated off the surface a … Continue reading
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Siqueiros Mural in the Bellas Artes on View Again
After a couple of years in hiding due to renovations that were necessary because of a roof collapse elsewhere in the building, the 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros is now on view again in the Escuela de Bellas … Continue reading
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Mexico’s Star Wars Initiative
Not to be outdone by President Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars Initiative, Mexican Special Forces operatives disguised some of their troops as Chewbacca, at immediate standby to scare the crap out of any military invaders. Unfortunately, they are not effective for … Continue reading
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Spaced-Out
It is difficult to imagine a publisher tolerating bad grammar or the mis-use of vocabulary in the content of a book, so why would they accept the equivalent thing graphically on the jacket? The concept here is fine. The use … Continue reading
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