Biciesqueletos

"...a corrected version of history helps the people better understand themselves. Americans, Mexicans, the fusion of the two, in addition to people of the world, would recognize a better sense of their true identity & culture. The exploration of such history can perhaps allow for analysis of current rates of depression, crime/incarceration, and socioeconomic status(es). If we, the people, want to understand ourselves, we need to know the truth".

The following is a summary & analysis of Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review article, “Law of the Noose: A History of Latino Lynching” Richard Delgado.

SUMMARY

Delgado attempts to shed light on a largely unknown history of Latinos, particularly Mexican-Americans in the Southwest...

Un viajero!

New-isms

Yo [CORAZÓN] Moby!

Photographer Uses 130-Year-Old Camera to Capture Images of Modern England Jenny Zhang, mymodernmet.com

In the age of Photoshop, cell phone snaps, and digital photography, British photographer Jonathan Keys stands out with his passion for the collodion (or wet plate) process, an early photographic process that was invented by Frederick Scott Archer …

La nueva Inglaterra, bajo una lente analógica

Imagination may lead us along a path of dreams and associations, transforming our thoughts in response to some perception; or it may focus on the presented object, transforming our perception in response to our thoughts. Just where wine is situated between these two exercises of our imaginative powers is one of the deep questions that all winos must ask, if they are to understand their dear companion. Is wine like daydreams or like art? Does it point inwards to our subjective impressions and memories, or outwards to the world – bringing order as Tintoretto, Wordsworth or Mozart brought order, by reshaping the objects of our perception?

R. Scruton, I drink, therefore I am

La gran familia de Woody Allen

Todavía necesito, muchas veces, una guía para traducir de gesto-italiano a... ¡cualquier otra cosa!

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Lovely short New York Times video on Italian hand-gestures, second only to legendary graphic designer Bruno Munari’s 1958 gem, Speak Italian: The Fine Art of The Hand Gesture. 

Marc Chagall with a model in his studio, 1955.  

Photo by Mark Shaw.

Things that crumble!