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I heard this story on NPR today about Latin Alternative music having a tough time making a real market impact:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5251735
I met Josh Norek (one of the voices in the story) about 4 years ago at a Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York. He’s done a lot of work to promote the genre, including his own band the Hip Hop Hoodios. Check out their music in iTunes.
Here’s a photo of Ely Guerra I took at LAMC in 2002:
For those who don’t know, I hosted a latin alternative music show on WRPI in Troy, NY called Border Pop Radio. I could post playlists if anyone is interested. The show was started by el Vampiro Fronterizo (aka Marco Loera) who spins in the deserts of Arizona.
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Puddle Sunset
Taken during a sunset a few nights ago. It rained earlier that day.
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Flickr: Social Constructs
I started a public Flickr group to focus on visualizing social constructs. There are already many photographers from all over the world contributing. If you have work that deals with social construction, please join and submit your work: http://www.flickr.com/groups/socialconstructs/
This group shares images and ideas that deal with socially constructed boundaries. Race, class, sex, beauty. Social constructs shape the way we perceive ourselves and others around us. Pink for girls, blue for boys. Do my teeth really need to be whiter? These modes of thought come out of specific social contexts (political, cultural, social, economic, scientific, etc). When the context is analyzed, their artificial nature can be revealed and often unravelled.
That’s right. Plants do it, too.
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Suspended Rebellion
The sky is both stained by urban infrastructure and adorned by the playfulness of children. Rebellion, innocence, and oppression suspended on the veins of modernity.