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oaxaca

Day 2, in which we visit 3 churchs and 1 bar.

24 October 2009

Today we took a lit­tle walk­ing tour with our host Jane and a cou­ple of other guests.
A block away from the Casa there is a lit­tle alley on the back side of the local mar­ket. It’s a good place to stop for a soda in the shade.
The Vir­gin of Soledad is the patron of the City […]

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An exhibition of books in Oaxaca

14 October 2008

Each time I am in Oax­aca I stop into the Casa De La Ciu­dad. There is always some­thing inter­est­ing in the lit­tle sala to the right of the entrance.
When I was last there (Sep­tem­ber 2008) it was the exhi­bi­tion –Los Libres, Los Via­jes, y El Tiempo (Books, Trav­els, and Time — roughly)
The prob­lem of how […]

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Morning Coffee

15 September 2008

This was my morn­ing cap­puc­cino from a cou­ple of days ago.
Life is sweet in Mexico.

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Garden Report

7 September 2008

From some­one else’s gar­den.
Here in Oax­aca you can buy flow­ers from ven­dors in the Zocalo. 45 pesos gets you enough baby gar­de­nias to fill two glasses.
Heavenly.

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Buffalo — Newly Arrived from Mexico

6 August 2008

We’re just back from the Gather. (Pho­tos here.)
Yes­ter­day this fine fel­low arrived from Mex­ico (via San Diego.)

He was carved and painted by our friends Jacobo and Maria Ange­les who live and work in Tilca­jete, Oax­aca. You can see more of their work on their web page. (If you get a chance to stop by thier restaurant […]

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Favorite Objects

20 July 2008

These are match boxes. I buy them in Oax­aca Mex­ico. The actu­ally come with matches in them. Though I have to throw them out before I try to bring the boxes home.
I got these two boxes in Cora­zon Zapoteca in Alcala street in Oax­aca. Both are approx­i­mately 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 innhes.
La Sirena is one […]

Tagged as: inspiration, match boxes

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One Finished and One Not-So-Much

14 April 2008

Work on the bal­loon seller pic­ture is com­plete. You can see a full-size dig­i­tal ver­sion here.
(no small ver­sion today — can’t get it to resize cor­rectly — maybe tomorrow)

The image in the gallery is a dig­i­tal ver­sion that I made for Jim to use on his desk­top. It mim­ics the effect of being printed on […]

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New Techniques

28 March 2008

I’ve got a shiny new copy of Pho­to­shop CS3 and have been exper­i­ment­ing.
In Pho­to­shop Cre­ative Col­lec­tion v3 (no link avail­able) there’s a tech­nique that mim­ics pen and ink. Some­thing that is sim­i­lar to some water­color and ink work that I did a cou­ple of years ago.
I did the tuto­r­ial and got this effect.

Which I liked well […]

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Inspriation: Zapotec Designs

25 February 2008

We spent Sat­ur­day with our friend Demetrio Bautista Lazo the weaver. In addi­tion to eat­ing too much. (Gra­cias, Mari­bel por la comida muy deli­cioso!) We went walk­ing around the town of Teoti­t­lan.
That’s Demetrio show­ing me a tree of life rug that he’s working on.

This the dome of the local church..

As was com­mon when con­struct­ing colo­nial churches […]

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