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La Cucaracha y Mas
La Cucaracha: Coming soon! Borderwall Estates! (#TBT 2006 toons)
In 2006, when George W. Bush was in the White House, I predicted an alternate universe where a real estate mogul built a wall along the US-Mexican border. The only thing I left out was the guy’s name.
Mas…La Cucaracha: Coming soon! Borderwall Estates! (#TBT 2006 toons)
No underground oven? Try animated DDLM tamales (video)
Looking for a Yucatan oven-baked tamales for Dia de Los Muertos? It’s easy when have a magical animation kitchen.
Video creator Mariel Buenfil explains:
Alternate Reality Theatre: If big hit TV shows weren’t all white (toons)
In a new online gallery, Bay Area artist and DREAMer Julio Salgado reimagines some all-time TV favorites with people of color, like this screencap from an imaginary Equis Files.
“Fox Mulder and Dana Scully,” he writes, “come back in the forms of a former Black Panther and Brown Beret who investigate forgotten files that kept tabs on POC activists.”
Mas…Alternate Reality Theatre: If big hit TV shows weren’t all white (toons)
¡Viva Calaca! It’s not only Dia de los Muertos, it’s Day of the Dead, too!
In Viva Calaca, an animated short based on the Voltaire tune from 2007, the dead be dancin’. [Video by Ritxi Ostáriz.]
Mas…¡Viva Calaca! It’s not only Dia de los Muertos, it’s Day of the Dead, too!
Lalo Alcaraz: This year, for DDLM, my altar is ‘Muertos Crossing’ (photos)
This year, for my Dia de Los Muertos altar at the Grand Park (Downtown LA) ofrenda/celebration, I built a new variation on one of my favorite motifs. Check out this photo gallery to see how the Muertos Crossing piece came together. Just click on the skeletor niño to get started….
Mas…Lalo Alcaraz: This year, for DDLM, my altar is ‘Muertos Crossing’ (photos)
In the Pacific NW, these are not the droids you’re looking for (toons)
Artist Scott Erickson re-imagines Star Wars iconography in the style of the natives of the Pacific Northwest:
ALLIANCE=REBELLION : ALKI TUM TUM
We each live out our lives, as an amalgam of intertwined narratives, rooted both in chance and intention, influenced heavily by our environment. The Northwest’s distinctive sense of place, stems significantly from the visual gifts of the Indigenous Tribes of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Juxtaposed against a modernizing landscape, their sacred icons are pervasive as rain, depicting narratives as much from long ago, as they are from right here and now.
Mas…In the Pacific NW, these are not the droids you’re looking for (toons)
QDEP/RIP Jose Guerrero, El Maestro de Chicago (toon)
The Chicago Reader shared an excellent obituary of artist Jose Guerrero.
