tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92079205329381288572024-03-14T06:35:25.223-07:00Chacón in ChucoDaniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-83003456891988776892017-07-19T08:46:00.000-07:002017-07-19T08:46:19.801-07:00the Poetics of Space<div class="p1">
I love the photo cover on my copy of the Poetics of Space. </div>
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It was that image as well as the title that and compelled me to pick it up at a used bookstore many years ago, and I loved reading it.</div>
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It encourages us to see the use of space, angles and lines and texture (e.g.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a drawer in a bureau) as something beyond the physical.</div>
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But the cover, that photo, really stuck me, and now when I see interesting uses of human space, I shoot it.</div>
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These are some of the spaces that for whatever reason caught my attention.</div>
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I don't care much to explore the reasons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-83811699997565971022013-10-05T07:44:00.002-07:002013-10-05T07:50:01.107-07:00Hidalgo Valley, the Other Texas, the Other Border<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I was happy to have the opportunity to visit when I invited by South Texas College to read from my new book <i>Hotel Juárez, Stories, Rooms, and Loops</i>.<br />
During my free time, my hosts showed me around, Juan Ochoa, Joseph Daniel Haske, Esther Garcia, and Maritza Taylor.<br />
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One day at the Grand Canyon, when I snapped this picture of Benjamin Alire Sáenz, I imagined we were being visited by aliens from another planet.<br />
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Who knows why, but that's why the image struck me. I saw their space ships coming over the canyon and imagined Ben was contemplating his last days on earth.<br />
Were they really there?<br />
Well, they are now.<br />
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Photography for me is not representing an image that exists,
but the digital means to share what I see. In this sense, I am not a
photographer, at least not in the documentary sense. </div>
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Often, I’ll see a face in something, even if it’s not really there, and I want to share what I see, not a
material representation of matter interacting with light filtered through our
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If I feel the presence of spirits when I look at something,
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Years ago, when I lived in Sunset Heights on El Paso Street,
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In other words, what I saw was not the THING, the material
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What I saw was a NO-THING, a spirit evoked. </div>
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Splitting the image like a mirror helped me represent what I
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I will not, nor will I ever be a photojournalist.</div>
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Evelyn Underhill writes, “Reality is sharing the illusions
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What is true is not material and cannot accurately be represented
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When you're walking alone in a strange landscape and a tree looks like a demon reaching
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At the very least,
your imagination, which has a power to appear in substance, has helped create
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But you can also create an angel.<br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-80970120770513939292013-08-15T12:14:00.000-07:002013-08-15T12:39:57.722-07:00Why I Love Sawtelle.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't help but sing that Randy Newman song every time I get to Sawtelle Avenue in West LA.<br />
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Only I change the words to, "I Love Sawtelle!"<br />
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And as I pass the Thought Convergence building, which kind of describes the neighborhood pretty well, a convergence of culture, time, and values....<br />
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....I imagine my backup singers in the backseat, singing,<br />
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(Spam rice and Kobe beef in the same neighborhood store.)<br />
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And people on the streets sing as I pass, "We love it!"<br />
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Perhaps there are a lot of them in your part of town, but this is the only Korean Sausage Co. I've ever been to. Simple menu, too.<br />
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I'm grateful its West of the 405, otherwise, my friend Augie, who's lived in West LA for many years and rarely goes east of the 405 may not have ever told me about it :))<br />
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They came right up to me, no matter how street worn or how
much experience, they came up to me, some of them got on their bellies, while
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I thought of stray cats in Fresno, how they ran way from me,
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Walter cooed it,
and the cat cautiously came to him, but then he picked it up and threw it
against the back wall of the grocery store, almost killing it, the cat wobbling
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“How could you??" I cried, in tears.</div>
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"What’s wrong with you?" he said.</div>
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These cats in Bangkok made me think of love.</div>
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Okay, after having crashed my hard drive, where I stored all
my summer pictures, I finally cracked the code and accessed the photos.</div>
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And here’s some shots in Paris with a Coolpix S910.</div>
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I lost my other Coolpix in Italy, somewhere in Tuscany, so
when I got to Paris I bought another one.</div>
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Out of the hundreds of shots I took on the first few days
with it, I cut them down to less than a hundred, but I won’t post a hundred
photos in one entry, that would be too much like an unfocused essay.</div>
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If a collection of photos is an essay, too many photos make
the essay long and boring and maybe unfocused.</div>
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But these photos in this entry are not really an essay. </div>
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There is no unfolding theme other than getting a new camera
in a new city.</div>
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This is more like a free verse poem, as the images make
their own meaning, their own connections, with a little help from the choices I
made on what to show and what not to show, based more on intuition that vision.</div>
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I’m an amateur.</div>
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But I think the key to sharing one’s photos is not sharing
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Pick out a few, even from the few that you picked out from
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Out of the hundred or so that struck me, that I starred, I
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An arbitrary number, or perhaps an anthropological choice,
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Or maybe 22.</div>
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I’ve always liked that number, for no reason at all, so 22.</div>
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Here’s the first 22 photos from the first 2 days of the new
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<br />Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-15195675802872493462012-07-06T05:04:00.000-07:002017-07-19T09:21:25.625-07:00So Much for the Coolpix Challenge. Well….Maybe not.<br />
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I lost my Coolpix 9100 somewhere in Italy, I think in
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For the first several days in Rome I took it everywhere,
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became frustrated, especially at
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What I wanted to capture and what the Coolpix was able to capture
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It felt so much more comfortable, and I was happy to have control over how much light I
could let in. In fact, when I discovered that my Coolpix S9100 was lost
somewhere in Tuscany, I didn’t feel too bad. Felt, in fact, kind of relieved.</div>
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In fact, I remember telling myself, “Do not lose the camera
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These shots of Italy are done with the S9100.</div>
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Before I lost the camera, I knew that there were superior
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Yesterday I walked for hours, and whenever a little
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Will I find that this new point-and-shoot lives up to the
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I’ve travelled a lot, far beyond the norm of my class and
culture (working class Chicano), and for years my friends and family would tell
me, “Take lots of pictures!”</div>
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I told them I’d write to them instead, because I wasn’t
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I went to countries I had never expected to visit, Cuba,
Poland, Germany, but I never brought a camera, because I believed that to
travel with a camera would distract me from experiencing the cities I entered.</div>
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And maybe for me, back then, I
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Maybe I would have went into a new country or city concerned
with finding a good photo and would have missed out on all the experiences I had
walking alone at any hour. </div>
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I remember walking by myself in Warsaw at two in the
morning, collecting memories, the light and the glass, the shadows, and I
didn’t need or want a camera.</div>
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The last time I spent the summer living in Paris, I used to
look down on tourists with cameras, silently scoffing at them, impatient with
them because there they were trying to get the Eifel Tower in every shot, and
because at the Louvre, they clamored around the Mona Lisa, her smile protected
behind glass, and they stood on tippy toes and shot unfocused pictures of her, her features lost in the glare of their own flash.</div>
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And because I was “living” there, i.e., renting an apartment
in the Place Godot, across the small plaza from Picasso’s Paris studio, I felt
like I was somehow not a tourist. </div>
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I wouldn’t have been seen carrying a camera, but one time,
as I stood smoking a cigarette in front of the grave of Julio Cortázar, a young
Argentine woman asked me if I would take a photo of her and his tombstone, and
she handed me her point-and-shoot.</div>
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I took it quick, a bit too eager to hand it back to her and get
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I saw what a good camera could do. As you
know, the initials stand for Single Lens Replacement, because they have good,
stable bodies and various levels and types of lenses. I have four lenses now,
which I fit into the body of my camera, depending on the shot I want to
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I’m also going to visit the grave of Borges, who is buried in
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And I want to take pictures.</div>
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Getting that camera made me face what I had been avoiding
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I am my father.</div>
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He took pictures, built his own dark room in our garage, had
thousands of dollars in equipment, lighting, meters, lenses, and a plethora of
cameras.</div>
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I have been wanting to take pictures all my life, but I
denied that part of me, because to accept that I was a photographer was to
accept that I was my father’s son, but now, a bit less concerned with my image
of self, my father now old and under dementia, I have given into the lens of my
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I am my father.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My father took this shot circa 1968. The women with the black coat and blonde hair is my mother. Not sure who the others are.</td></tr>
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I take a camera everywhere,
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Now I see what a self-righteous tourist I was when I “lived”
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Now I don’t care what I think of me.</div>
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I’m no longer trying to impress myself with images of my
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When we travel, I have my camera and I take pictures.</div>
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<i>So screw you
self-righteous Chacón “living” in Paris.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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(And if there’s no change of season, how can you say you’ve <i>lived </i>somewhere? At most, you spent one
summer there).<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Now I just want to take pictures, and now I try to blend in
as a tourist, so I can take street photography and get candid shots, although
what I think is beautiful may not have anything to do with the monuments that
make the city I’m visiting so famous and full of tourists.</div>
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Photos are like haikus or short poems, short moments, images
that somehow capture what I am capable of feeling.</div>
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This is one way of saying what a powerful photo contains. A good
photo is a glimpse into the sublime. In an earlier post, I’ve talked about the
image as a wormhole, and I guess if I were to try and say what it is I seek in
an image, I’m seeking wormholes. </div>
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Like most little kids who grew up to be writers, I’m still
looking to get glimpses into parallel universes, and strong images do that for
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Here's a photo I took at Dinah's in West LA.</div>
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This photo, if you look close, there seems
to be some long-robed angel looking over the scene.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See her in the long robe? This is not photoshop. This was in the image and although I may not have been aware of it at the time, it may be one of the reasons the image struck me and I shot.</td></tr>
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This image struck me before
I noticed this detail. </div>
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The image is a Jacob’s ladder. It reaches through the veil and allows me to see other
realities, to see light spilling from the other side.</div>
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Well.</div>
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Sounds dramatic, but you get the point.</div>
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So this summer Sasha and I will be travelling to Italy, and then we'll spend most of the summer in Paris.</div>
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I planned on bringing my SLR,
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Why not play with resistance by NOT taking my SLR, but
taking my point and shoot instead?</div>
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Like most photo geeks, I have a point-and-shoot that I slip
in my pocket, in case I see a texture that I might want to use later in Photoshop,
a stone wall, a brick bridge, clouds in the sky.</div>
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I use a Coolpix S9100.</div>
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It doesn’t have automatic capability, and you cannot shoot
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All the pictures in this entry, other than the ones taken by
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So the challenge is this: I’m leaving my SLR at home.</div>
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I want to push the boundaries of this point-and-shoot, know
how to use it so intuitively that every setting, every condition of light and
depth, will come to me as if from my body, and snap! I’ll get the perfect shot.</div>
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I want to work within the limitations of the camera, to push
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If there is a shot I cannot take, I want it to be because the
camera is not capable of taking that shot, not because I wasn’t quick enough on
controls to know what setting I should have used, and like in every
point-and-shoot, there’s a lot of them.<br />
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Night landscape, Indoor party, Snow, Beach, and on and on. . .</div>
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Can I outgrow a point and shoot?</div>
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I want to try.</div>
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I want to know the limitations of the Coolpix so that I can
truly know when the SLR is necessary. Under what circumstances would it <i>not</i> be enough?</div>
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A Coolpix S9100 might be enough for me.</div>
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One of my photo heroes is Henri Cartier Bresson, whose Paris
street photos are among the best, helping to define the genre of street photography,
and he shot everything with a Leica 55mm. One<br />
lens, one camera for everything
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And let’s face facts: The Leica is a great camera, but the
technology back then cannot compare with what your average point-and-shoot can
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Today an iPhone camera has a lens has an f stop of <i>f</i>2.4, letting in more light than the most expensive lenses on my SLR. </div>
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What if I find in doing this experiment that my SLR might be
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I’ve even been tempted to buy an better SLR than the one I
have now, which is a Nikon D5000, which many camera geeks will tell you is a
starter camera.</div>
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But before I feed my ego and upgrade my amateur equipment, I
want to know in my gut why I need a “better” camera.</div>
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This concept reminds me of my father, the photographer:</div>
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When I was a kid, I wanted to play electric guitar and be in
a rock band. I was going to be famous. </div>
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I was going to play lead guitar so hauntingly that it would
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is me when I wanted to rock out, taken by my father.</td></tr>
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But I needed the best electric guitar out there, professional
like the ones used by my guitar heroes, Santana, Jimmy Page, Peter Frampton.</div>
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For Christmas one year I asked
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“Horse crap!” my dad said. “You
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On Christmas, my parents did get me an electric guitar, and
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They didn’t get me an amp, but my dad hooked up a speaker
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I quit playing guitar.</div>
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Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-8660587325914931162012-03-13T11:16:00.015-07:002017-07-19T09:26:03.225-07:00Sonnet in VeniceI go to Venice quite a lot, because my friend’s apartment is right down the street, so every time in LA we walk around, have lunch at the World Cafe.<br />
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As long as I have had my camera (almost two years now), I have never brought it out in Venice.<br />
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I’m not sure why, but I suspect it has something to do with all the other cameras people carry around, snapping so many shots ad naseuam <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZPW4_g5FsO9mr6Us8YOSLboWCHAU4HPlaNFjLgoQ1-GXqTD94yz8kJbttNn1Ac9m8fGzfpEX3yPLSaaqGOHKWtGTZKH0ABsnxapHo-4bF3p-zkYBdTRv1hzLWoTJpiJ1yn1440YQULs/s1600/Skate+board.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719463890525862690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZPW4_g5FsO9mr6Us8YOSLboWCHAU4HPlaNFjLgoQ1-GXqTD94yz8kJbttNn1Ac9m8fGzfpEX3yPLSaaqGOHKWtGTZKH0ABsnxapHo-4bF3p-zkYBdTRv1hzLWoTJpiJ1yn1440YQULs/s320/Skate+board.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 238px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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I mean, as much as taking shots of skateboarders might be a Venice Beach cliché, how can I NOT take shots of skateboarders?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2NbOUu8mrhFsGVrtt0dQayV3H3ry09n9yrNpjFcAU7may5FQm0s1L7buwEU-9x88G6koceg41_vQowjt4BY5TTxAN15KY9uCp_xmnc2o3IDds6-HCdJxRtxy_YWPBWTDjRmUG-8a3P4/s1600/8.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719459257246923586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2NbOUu8mrhFsGVrtt0dQayV3H3ry09n9yrNpjFcAU7may5FQm0s1L7buwEU-9x88G6koceg41_vQowjt4BY5TTxAN15KY9uCp_xmnc2o3IDds6-HCdJxRtxy_YWPBWTDjRmUG-8a3P4/s320/8.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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(At least there are no shots of the buffed men on Muscle Beach)<br />
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But like taking pictures in Manhattan (see my previous post) or in Paris, which I will do this summer, I just need to shoot what strikes me, not what “defines” Venice Beach or New York or any the place, but what strikes me.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQqhWLI0PcvrQsR955Xy8X3a1bgSH0b2dQVrzC9WkHdAVZr0VmaURFjmcOwBHJWi9QXw7V534Rt6o-ZSsxh0RycLc9kU_aaZ7xtf68FAKRxUctZzZceFpnPrxWw7HGNQw_T_qNYh762ko/s1600/star+of+david.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719464716561911106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQqhWLI0PcvrQsR955Xy8X3a1bgSH0b2dQVrzC9WkHdAVZr0VmaURFjmcOwBHJWi9QXw7V534Rt6o-ZSsxh0RycLc9kU_aaZ7xtf68FAKRxUctZzZceFpnPrxWw7HGNQw_T_qNYh762ko/s320/star+of+david.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 219px;" /></a><br />
"Shul on the Beach"<br />
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Because an image raises questions.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjBLHFr3hK0JHvAokumYcYaikiXpKDSAa8OKoMJ7UVFTKZS9jl0-pehwK7-1xiDv5bF4T-ChjnYmgYIEt5xscDDIgbWAZpaVOxc485kCP5HsHgDAlNDcuX2CfL6ai8N3LYSx23YwmV1M/s1600/Endangered.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719461837632162946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjBLHFr3hK0JHvAokumYcYaikiXpKDSAa8OKoMJ7UVFTKZS9jl0-pehwK7-1xiDv5bF4T-ChjnYmgYIEt5xscDDIgbWAZpaVOxc485kCP5HsHgDAlNDcuX2CfL6ai8N3LYSx23YwmV1M/s320/Endangered.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 198px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
What are the relationships here?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAgzOFh3s3SQe77QA8xs9-xidBgmAVtEd04uR6k_UI2JdNGuUfMuw4K1S3vhoF1UEBP1uP_zQTcCa3fd0P9E5af8vvuO398cftz6IaHBO2lOjizwna3HH6b6LQZ3o9H1FoNW9u2FyAvI/s1600/Surf+Board+and+House+.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719464870006239586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAgzOFh3s3SQe77QA8xs9-xidBgmAVtEd04uR6k_UI2JdNGuUfMuw4K1S3vhoF1UEBP1uP_zQTcCa3fd0P9E5af8vvuO398cftz6IaHBO2lOjizwna3HH6b6LQZ3o9H1FoNW9u2FyAvI/s320/Surf+Board+and+House+.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmR-ch3givHdZwTdG8AJPFI5c8ldlRU0gdEGVM5n0ZGvIJaGWztSU7AVCVPNmofTX5DrXzeBfBivgVTH4c2DkJNzDko044YHxDykm9TMmpNH1Xtms-m-OTpjGSsnI2j1GsvvRLdZzdZzk/s1600/Boats.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719461621516561858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmR-ch3givHdZwTdG8AJPFI5c8ldlRU0gdEGVM5n0ZGvIJaGWztSU7AVCVPNmofTX5DrXzeBfBivgVTH4c2DkJNzDko044YHxDykm9TMmpNH1Xtms-m-OTpjGSsnI2j1GsvvRLdZzdZzk/s320/Boats.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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I firmly believe that a powerful mage is a wormhole (see previous post) that transports us not necessarily to the spot where the picture was taken and the time within which it was shot (although that too), but to a place in the imagination.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisO-eRWvSUSGv_LSodDfnqHod-yV5-i3RS4SInER-NFrqI_oSkOk7kQFFwvySslIEEmWfKs_UMC04zpaztRPU4ghUAXjrRIdEsPlrH3t4n07rXE8NWD-8clBJyK6rj12qTx9Umr0gQgSQ/s1600/Bird.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719461354954052962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisO-eRWvSUSGv_LSodDfnqHod-yV5-i3RS4SInER-NFrqI_oSkOk7kQFFwvySslIEEmWfKs_UMC04zpaztRPU4ghUAXjrRIdEsPlrH3t4n07rXE8NWD-8clBJyK6rj12qTx9Umr0gQgSQ/s320/Bird.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 188px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
"White Bird in the White"<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkpjXoI3go0H77yQQYFHUh06Sx1VRvw6wc7Yoabr-Wg17VLtFOr88yCGp3clag8YU226CrceeBVuNM68DNlxguaBYqo60_9b1VuXPNaDC-tJwbgJXtekhZGoI5RnejnypheLu_hfqeUE/s1600/Augie+Speaks.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719461154717765650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkpjXoI3go0H77yQQYFHUh06Sx1VRvw6wc7Yoabr-Wg17VLtFOr88yCGp3clag8YU226CrceeBVuNM68DNlxguaBYqo60_9b1VuXPNaDC-tJwbgJXtekhZGoI5RnejnypheLu_hfqeUE/s320/Augie+Speaks.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 226px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
An image carries a story.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7dpOUBzP9Z_X25GZoSUpue0RYOnaD9EqMkPRcg67bFGF-21NFin9ysdYYtmubdJDrKSNeai1SYGPH-VVC5K20m5pw0bHjOhn-aZbKz__GAJzXOGJe_EOrO2k3BieKvjW8-MD89DYtg4/s1600/Arms.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719459269570477986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir7dpOUBzP9Z_X25GZoSUpue0RYOnaD9EqMkPRcg67bFGF-21NFin9ysdYYtmubdJDrKSNeai1SYGPH-VVC5K20m5pw0bHjOhn-aZbKz__GAJzXOGJe_EOrO2k3BieKvjW8-MD89DYtg4/s320/Arms.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2waspRDjivrmtHG5eu7BufTTIwIH4AaeFRw-9if_PoTfBo42lWwqpl2GftEoHVRZ2iDC_icy3ZCJKl1Sees15ysjOcIK_RcxRd2ZJ-hFZXvp5kBY_hTbdrnuq_-gjWjJLyh-vbRh0V4/s1600/Guy+with+ladder.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719468095733241794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2waspRDjivrmtHG5eu7BufTTIwIH4AaeFRw-9if_PoTfBo42lWwqpl2GftEoHVRZ2iDC_icy3ZCJKl1Sees15ysjOcIK_RcxRd2ZJ-hFZXvp5kBY_hTbdrnuq_-gjWjJLyh-vbRh0V4/s320/Guy+with+ladder.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 253px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
Why is this guy carrying a ladder to the beach?<br />
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Or is about to tell a story.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfmvrIpVGKpObjYgp4u3y-_N8mLD8qSulSB2Gn-bFeJqTnvY-6GSfHGv1ghJO8qGOkfbv3YC9LIdH8rbqbOkxa10-T7y-XT6CYh8ePEnkEsFAtc93-TBPUcgnyXVrZk_SDNSpJvj9QrY/s1600/refelctions.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719462735467210082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfmvrIpVGKpObjYgp4u3y-_N8mLD8qSulSB2Gn-bFeJqTnvY-6GSfHGv1ghJO8qGOkfbv3YC9LIdH8rbqbOkxa10-T7y-XT6CYh8ePEnkEsFAtc93-TBPUcgnyXVrZk_SDNSpJvj9QrY/s320/refelctions.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 242px;" /></a><br />
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Or remembers a story that has already been told.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjZ_GaxhyphenhyphenIwRptqx-DuHYxyX92PdzvL2PM6_vJv4UvC6FRKnpTKjhKp3Bgl9jRErn2bWprAQsYt6hAJ4HKqyhqDA4PVnYrZTHkDkf6KUCrciec6FCCRXvv7uBi9TsOz2NBGWC-8k6nEs/s1600/fallen+girl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719462538041122242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjZ_GaxhyphenhyphenIwRptqx-DuHYxyX92PdzvL2PM6_vJv4UvC6FRKnpTKjhKp3Bgl9jRErn2bWprAQsYt6hAJ4HKqyhqDA4PVnYrZTHkDkf6KUCrciec6FCCRXvv7uBi9TsOz2NBGWC-8k6nEs/s320/fallen+girl.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 291px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-54315611367466779132012-03-09T09:00:00.023-08:002017-07-19T09:26:59.608-07:00AWP in ChicagoEven though we were in Chicago for four days, I only brought out the camera twice.<br />
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One morning, before Sasha woke up, I bundled up in my coats and sweater and walked around and took some shots.<br />
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I had no image of what I wanted to shoot, just whatever struck me.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWmPwS952F4bF0ObkyAY6M3Lve05PWHOPUFjwpuVBGOcmXBah5JlepqXOMyEzfR7mj0qg_1aDzzfTNil66j-BL9HU8EFaZqbG6Mo5GCL1n6NnFBVhwQ80ceu_l4NUPq0_2Zrue2BZL0M/s1600/AWP+CHICANO.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717944798634931090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWmPwS952F4bF0ObkyAY6M3Lve05PWHOPUFjwpuVBGOcmXBah5JlepqXOMyEzfR7mj0qg_1aDzzfTNil66j-BL9HU8EFaZqbG6Mo5GCL1n6NnFBVhwQ80ceu_l4NUPq0_2Zrue2BZL0M/s400/AWP+CHICANO.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
"Chicano, Illinois"<br />
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"Path"<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzp1fvASucZ2sUM0E_KAQzEd-3IKs0zVuyThlO3TKwI9VcPZdMKg7IkQJLtWIF5z41McYcSRcC3OFIuFi3rkz0ru63OOgUvdM_6h5yO7O9XjexDuVVL2D5R-e0sBcBmD1eg2VNXWJ5x8/s1600/Plants.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717950369053162306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOzp1fvASucZ2sUM0E_KAQzEd-3IKs0zVuyThlO3TKwI9VcPZdMKg7IkQJLtWIF5z41McYcSRcC3OFIuFi3rkz0ru63OOgUvdM_6h5yO7O9XjexDuVVL2D5R-e0sBcBmD1eg2VNXWJ5x8/s320/Plants.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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"Faces"<br />
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And then, on the last day of the conference, I took a few shots at a panel I moderated called the Debut Chicano Novel, and later that night, a bunch of us went out.<br />
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Author Fred Arroyo<br />
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Fred Arroyo and Tim. Z. Hernandez<br />
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"Down on the Corner" <br />
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"Drain"<br />
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Poet Marisol Baca<br />
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Luis Alberto Urrea, author of "Queen of America"<br />
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"Opposites Attract"<br />
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"Chicano Debut Novelists Lucrecia Guerrero, Melinda Palacio and Daniel A. Olivas, <br />
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Chairman of the Board Rigoberto Gonzalez<br />
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Poets Andre Yang and Cynthia Guadardo<br />
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Novelist Randa JarrarDaniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-15109703633247898102011-09-22T08:04:00.001-07:002011-09-22T11:29:10.328-07:00The Parallell World of Photoshop<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggy_xTXMLMD-XiX3gbQorvhCxVfKYdl8vhDKXhmm4WOFjzPmaATkCpgOX1vrNfGFJnAkotMkzI9i6n97QEWOZc4_rQx4i9VQRAoAD90jY-xEYKRUB8kAbIh6WvDVBhJhgILtgPDo-uHmM/s1600/paintbucket+girl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggy_xTXMLMD-XiX3gbQorvhCxVfKYdl8vhDKXhmm4WOFjzPmaATkCpgOX1vrNfGFJnAkotMkzI9i6n97QEWOZc4_rQx4i9VQRAoAD90jY-xEYKRUB8kAbIh6WvDVBhJhgILtgPDo-uHmM/s400/paintbucket+girl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655201276370269554" /></a><br />A few weeks ago I was at the Photoshop World Conference in Las Vegas. It was three days of Photoshop and Lightroom workshops, as well as an expo where they displayed lighting, must-have photo software, and other pricey photography equipment.<br /><br />There were amateur photographers, professionals, and the world’s leading experts on Photoshop, who were the teachers, the workshop leaders, offering such sessions as “The Eyes are Window of the Soul, taught by <a href="http://www.faysartstudio.com/">Fay Sirkis</a>. She showed us how to enhance the eyes in a portrait, like I tried to practice on the model below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFm4OoLIy6FXopA2G485bu1jyBkP9A5ab13uBVAKdlAPadwd-pbIXnLVV9QY7VkGRpruh9YX-EH74WLHGkGec_McqI3fg8qZM4E0yrAt5zpaS92CQ5KqeqMFB3b-VprgRezSg6shgbyQ/s1600/model.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFm4OoLIy6FXopA2G485bu1jyBkP9A5ab13uBVAKdlAPadwd-pbIXnLVV9QY7VkGRpruh9YX-EH74WLHGkGec_McqI3fg8qZM4E0yrAt5zpaS92CQ5KqeqMFB3b-VprgRezSg6shgbyQ/s400/model.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655202792278030770" /></a><br /><br /><br />More than a computer program, Photoshop is a matrix, where unlimited reality is created, where anything you can imagine can come to be, if you know how to navigate the controls.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1O1wju05DqDJt2VBfr09uazB1EAW1q1Y3d-TjpHgGvp6u054tM89QiwvgBpmx2nDwSJ_Oq4xmTsPJsIv5MYY2QYDynu6Zz-B6_Dea1EuUUx3S4i-EsArauTC8BMXrt-yDZa5IyC0YJw/s1600/planet3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1O1wju05DqDJt2VBfr09uazB1EAW1q1Y3d-TjpHgGvp6u054tM89QiwvgBpmx2nDwSJ_Oq4xmTsPJsIv5MYY2QYDynu6Zz-B6_Dea1EuUUx3S4i-EsArauTC8BMXrt-yDZa5IyC0YJw/s400/planet3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655202136419953554" /></a><br /><br />A friend mine told me that the photographer David Smith said Photoshop is way of life.<br /><br />I can spend hours in Photoshop playing with images, just for fun, just to be creating images.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1M81vTHHmK-9l37WiM-yt6ltgaxa2ON-3jjNnJQn_VQhBqu5-_BBVBEGnfb5qX0NlcZ2eSwSLuWT-N9mKsIhM0FXoWMRyklAvGYAPJvZihDKCENVTgiuXXvDS3PiCbLF32-RbqaOKDhQ/s1600/ghost+in+the+alley3+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1M81vTHHmK-9l37WiM-yt6ltgaxa2ON-3jjNnJQn_VQhBqu5-_BBVBEGnfb5qX0NlcZ2eSwSLuWT-N9mKsIhM0FXoWMRyklAvGYAPJvZihDKCENVTgiuXXvDS3PiCbLF32-RbqaOKDhQ/s400/ghost+in+the+alley3+copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655203483703693314" /></a><br /><br />In Las Vegas I took classes on things like using raw in Photoshop as a smart object, and how you can reenter a raw image over and over, play with the tone and color and all those other things that need to be decided before you make a jpeg.<br /><br />I wasn’t the only one to not know that you could use raw in Photoshop, because like most users, I played with the image-as-a-whole in raw, adjusted things like white balance, fill light, sharpening, and then I opened it as a psd in Photoshop and played around, the raw possibilities of the image having long been chosen, never to go back again.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGPXDZK07pnLF92-1IKoRNZxrmJ0-O54SO-fxvH18K1V7x2ZEwEp2sf8XZZXPmtvK11sqxZuH3DIVSzo9ebzNDYPtfotD2oEpKaPDwqlEsra89stHEn1ZGiX89Dy_vHVeEYkZIxr8FZY/s1600/castle.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGPXDZK07pnLF92-1IKoRNZxrmJ0-O54SO-fxvH18K1V7x2ZEwEp2sf8XZZXPmtvK11sqxZuH3DIVSzo9ebzNDYPtfotD2oEpKaPDwqlEsra89stHEn1ZGiX89Dy_vHVeEYkZIxr8FZY/s400/castle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655203961009786210" /></a><br /><br /><br />But I learned how to use layers of raw in Photoshop, enhancing the blue of the water in this image, without having to enhance the blue in the rest of the image, and without touching a pixel, without changing a thing of the original image.<br /><br /><br />Am I sounding geeky? I hope not.<br /><br />I sometimes lament the role I chose as a fiction writer. It doesn’t matter how much money I don’t make, I still have to write fiction.<br /><br />I’ve been lucky, but it doesn’t matter if the book I’m working on now comes out with a big New York press and is reviewed by The New York Times, I’m still going to write it.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9C0j8E4Yr2qMxfmSz54BNl5o9u7h2Dh2URcXr7DuSFdCkQdIib7jtzU4dEaCP-hjg5WhlJ_CO2YVQ6u30EydfVPeV1GdkwTwoC-i0QnbobbDkiFmh4ADeqgZE1GbGxwPmwqUP4waMFxU/s1600/photo+from+me.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9C0j8E4Yr2qMxfmSz54BNl5o9u7h2Dh2URcXr7DuSFdCkQdIib7jtzU4dEaCP-hjg5WhlJ_CO2YVQ6u30EydfVPeV1GdkwTwoC-i0QnbobbDkiFmh4ADeqgZE1GbGxwPmwqUP4waMFxU/s400/photo+from+me.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655208142430877698" /></a><br /><br /><br />Along with millions of other people who need to write.<br /><br />There are more excellent fiction writers (and poets) than ever before. More books now than ever before, more independent presses, more self-published books, ebooks, so many writers desperate to get published that they’ll pay for the chance to do so.<br /><br />Like all the other writers, I don’t care how many books I sell, I write.<br /><br />Writers write.<br /><br />I don’t care if ten or a thousand people read this sentence here, this one, now, I’m still gunna write it, and I’m still gunna re-write it, until it sounds just right.<br /><br />I will release no syntax before its time.<br /><br />And now, for my hobby, I have chosen the sins and pleasures of my father, my father the photographer, who back in the 1970s kept thousands of dollars of equipment in the trunk of our 1964 Impala, and who shot weddings for extra money, who built a dark room in our garage, who, after he retired from working as an electrician, went to Mexican bars and snapped Polaroids of drunk couples and sold them for five bucks.<br /><br />I’m into photography, for better or for worse.<br /><br />And I‘m not alone.<br /><br />Photoshop world was like another conference I regularly attend, AWP, thousands of creative writers and wanna-be writers and teachers of writing. Here, there were five thousand photographers and graphic designers and those who have made it big in their world.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidC0LZ_zjLqu9airs9Fq73LooMwXUaUkoA2_a17eFsP8rHoBt-Gfbnx1lPHp8ovUfzRXB9MvATJSvxk6Pw8Eh53kvlIm41SBaGPVTp3FTNOhIU262hckEWIsm85fpA57KxXIoBcmdA6IM/s1600/pswcrowd.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidC0LZ_zjLqu9airs9Fq73LooMwXUaUkoA2_a17eFsP8rHoBt-Gfbnx1lPHp8ovUfzRXB9MvATJSvxk6Pw8Eh53kvlIm41SBaGPVTp3FTNOhIU262hckEWIsm85fpA57KxXIoBcmdA6IM/s400/pswcrowd.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655204816620910850" /></a><br /><br />In our world, there are millions,<span style="font-style:italic;"> pero</span> millions of photographers, and there are more images in the world than there are people, billions upon billions of images.<br /><br />Walking to the conference each day, on the pedestrian overpass connecting the MGM and New York, New York, I saw a constant blur of people taking pictures of the strip, of the fountains of Bellagio, the false Towers of Manhattan, and many of them had nice cameras, SLRs with professional level lenses.<br /><br />It’s not like in the days of Henri Cartier Bresson, one of my favorite photographers, when few people could afford to buy or figure out how to use such instruments as he had, because like using Photoshop today, the darkroom of Bresson's time was always a large part of the creative process.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqp7vNEzTFYSRVkJM5XN3J4msVCVgO_DcW3Cc7uO2vbNgX4_4pwzgURz-39UAw7aC4YQM9pVr3kHelYBfgCl2F8YQwojmMTk43YNZI42eHCpTARbO4poNXxajmae9WSv75aHiTMTO5lQ/s1600/bresson.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 187px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqp7vNEzTFYSRVkJM5XN3J4msVCVgO_DcW3Cc7uO2vbNgX4_4pwzgURz-39UAw7aC4YQM9pVr3kHelYBfgCl2F8YQwojmMTk43YNZI42eHCpTARbO4poNXxajmae9WSv75aHiTMTO5lQ/s400/bresson.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655204997950331282" /></a><br /><br />But theses days, almost everyone has a camera that can perform better than Bresson’s best Leica 35, and even the most popular and user friendly photo editing software can crop, play with color, tone, contrast, what would have taken hours and immense know-how in the dark room.<br /><br />Technology has given us better resolution cameras on our phones, computers, iPads, and we have point-and-shoot cameras and SLRs, and we shoot thousands of images and store them on our hard drives.<br /><br />There are more images in the world than there are people to look at them.<br /><br />But it’s an impulse, isn’t it?<br /><br />This creating imagery, capturing imagery, showing the world what we see?<br /><br />Can’t help it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tPbMNfSp3356GtSAX9RKOoFmNpZCAOrgY0dAWq4r5wTBvNDc2qzIxida_QMHMCiyiq2IkSDD2CEUSnsaoWlb3dUwYqkMC7waOpJHR3oBPVrTHqJVKM65P7MXQgERNi9XjBMXJ43EHiQ/s1600/paintbucketgirl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tPbMNfSp3356GtSAX9RKOoFmNpZCAOrgY0dAWq4r5wTBvNDc2qzIxida_QMHMCiyiq2IkSDD2CEUSnsaoWlb3dUwYqkMC7waOpJHR3oBPVrTHqJVKM65P7MXQgERNi9XjBMXJ43EHiQ/s400/paintbucketgirl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655205163167017170" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So I went to the Photoshop World Conference, and I was exposed to a lot. I sat among thousands of other photographers and wanna-be photographers who care about their images. These people truly believed they would capture something that mattered. They want to create images, want to show you something that will make you tremble.Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-18766764857674946072011-08-29T20:31:00.000-07:002011-08-29T20:52:52.750-07:00True believers at the Albuquerque Cultural Conference<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiP8aZsudau8_br7NqFViqJiv51bUV5qeqVM3t0i6tXSxj8EPsMjViZHTa7PzUUq-fRwJTFun2GwOs1XXB1T3JdXnEDhCGgzG6RFcbyPaoblbr95iE5rX9E26G_OiDuFY9_805857LpF0/s1600/DSC_1369.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiP8aZsudau8_br7NqFViqJiv51bUV5qeqVM3t0i6tXSxj8EPsMjViZHTa7PzUUq-fRwJTFun2GwOs1XXB1T3JdXnEDhCGgzG6RFcbyPaoblbr95iE5rX9E26G_OiDuFY9_805857LpF0/s400/DSC_1369.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646488428278785042" /></a>
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<br />Everyone there was a true believer. They believe in justice, equality, women’s rights, the need to fight racism, but mostly, they believe in poetry.
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<br />They believe in the healing and changing power of words, and some of them believe even in it’s revolutionary potential.
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<br />The Albuquerque Cultural Conference took place on the weekend of August 26-28, 2011.
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<br />The weekend began with a poetry reading, fifteen poets, who read from their books, much of which have been published by West End Press and Wings Press. In fact, the two presses publishers, John Crawford of West End and Bryce Milligan of Wings, were co-organizers for the conference.
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<br />Over fifty true believers stayed for three days for a series of workshops and panels, in an old building near downtown. There were high temperatures and with little air conditioning , but it didn’t seem to matter. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hGG8Z4B_loNru48ZG1wF1p7cyCCO3p508352Imo7sh8EahHac8BeJB7zIkCtNhTZ2v6SKZ_QRKtsdnDGY4amrTohMr7uHGOBTaX84843v_MoImqZJstxmuy-iN9VurWLh9bhNYNRJNs/s1600/Anya+Achtenburg.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-hGG8Z4B_loNru48ZG1wF1p7cyCCO3p508352Imo7sh8EahHac8BeJB7zIkCtNhTZ2v6SKZ_QRKtsdnDGY4amrTohMr7uHGOBTaX84843v_MoImqZJstxmuy-iN9VurWLh9bhNYNRJNs/s400/Anya+Achtenburg.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646487676941783314" /></a>
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<br />They didn’t even seem to sweat. At one point, one of the participants couldn’t hear a speaker very well, so he got up from his metal folding chair walked to the window air conditioning unit and turned it off, so everyone could hear her better. He was saying with his actions that her words meant more than their temporal comfort.
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<br />These believers not only attended sessions back to back for over ten hours a day, but they also participated in every discussion, had something to say. And many of them were accomplished writers with multiple books, such as Margret Randal and Gerald McCarthy, but still, they stayed to say what they had to say and to hear the others.
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<br />And it mattered. What they spoke of, whether about the resilience of the oppressed, the e-book, or the need to increase awareness of Chicana consciousness and move away from indigenous fundamentalism, which has traditionally been used as an agent of male dominance, what they said mattered, not only to them, but to the pending cosmic energy that is reality. They believe in dialogue.
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<br />These writers and activists are salt of the earth, people who assert positive change, who believed that their voices, like all voices, are important to move toward change, toward justice.
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<br />Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-25033277522631997972011-08-12T13:14:00.000-07:002011-08-12T14:42:07.408-07:00Clint, Texas? Oooo, doggie!Sounds like a the kind of town where everyone’s named Bubba and Slim and Mexicans just ain’t welcome unless they work in the fields or dance like Felina at the local watering hole.
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<br />But like the rest of the border here in West Texas, just about everyone is Mexican and even the few non-Mexicana around here speak Spanish.
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<br />Last weekend I went to the Festival San Lorenzo in Clint, something the local folk have been celebrating for 97 years.
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<br />"Six Tickets"
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<br />Everything was perfect, the beer cold, the food delicious, and of course, at festivals around here, the Gorditas were the best.
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<br />"Holy Gordita"
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<br />What stuck me most were the people. How friendly they were. No one whom I asked to take their picture said, no, and some of them wanted to pose for me.
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<br />"Not so Lil' Homies"
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<br />"Young Brother"
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<br />"Everybody's Happy"
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<br />I don’t know, maybe naming the photos is kind of crony, like naming a memo.
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<br />"King of the Taco Trucks"
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<br />"Basket Balls"
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<br />"Fish Lady"
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<br />"Fish Lady 2"Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-36883372025662371942011-08-02T07:44:00.001-07:002011-08-02T10:07:35.834-07:00Images of Juárez: Light does not stop at the border.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsa30jT4Bt3M-KqysKu_I_koRYQa-7yX_jP53GY-8odXUVSgrIIii_Mr67BZn1gz9_daIsj5D1df9mKZ6aa9CcWAj8jKaYKvN0MF-LlpMXmLxtSrU-x3qjSGL9bSvzqCdU4tdErajrsA/s1600/sansbottlessm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsa30jT4Bt3M-KqysKu_I_koRYQa-7yX_jP53GY-8odXUVSgrIIii_Mr67BZn1gz9_daIsj5D1df9mKZ6aa9CcWAj8jKaYKvN0MF-LlpMXmLxtSrU-x3qjSGL9bSvzqCdU4tdErajrsA/s400/sansbottlessm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636269785159847714" /></a><br /><br /><br />I’ve always admired photojournalists, but I’ve never wanted to be one. I like being a professor and a fiction writer, and I’m excited every time I start a new book.<br /><br />But I love photojournalism.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvP97yg7OaxLpsW5pNscwmpEAuHBHoHLvAe1yhD1xu0hSMX4BjSvmjXSUWwbtBB1FGqUOo-_frSb5uM7o7s3e4Ho4rWMzQaiKf06XN3CXu4aQeM6P2nzE4K8_09_eu3Ct7YRHw0H__F04/s1600/pmsm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvP97yg7OaxLpsW5pNscwmpEAuHBHoHLvAe1yhD1xu0hSMX4BjSvmjXSUWwbtBB1FGqUOo-_frSb5uM7o7s3e4Ho4rWMzQaiKf06XN3CXu4aQeM6P2nzE4K8_09_eu3Ct7YRHw0H__F04/s400/pmsm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271211977191410" /></a><br /><br />I love how the images say something not only about what is going on at the time, protests in Libya, riots in Greece, earthquakes in Haiti, but they also say something universal, something about us. I admire how photojournalists risk all for the perfect shot. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmQsdAmQzylhGkqhLmEl74oI1TScYZQc94g9M0lwYLPGHKRLIhRU4tk7_P2MG2Z2mEUBwlDw5Zpk46DJcbI0rvnurJ-MWVgKDnrTiFR_YXcuDy2ygbtjJfX6_VtmEw9ZFKhEoRV3Myuw/s1600/HotelIimpalasm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmQsdAmQzylhGkqhLmEl74oI1TScYZQc94g9M0lwYLPGHKRLIhRU4tk7_P2MG2Z2mEUBwlDw5Zpk46DJcbI0rvnurJ-MWVgKDnrTiFR_YXcuDy2ygbtjJfX6_VtmEw9ZFKhEoRV3Myuw/s400/HotelIimpalasm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636270879905430978" /></a><br /><br />I spend a lot of time on<a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/"> New York Times Lens</a>, clicking through the images like I was walking through a museum.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp473MlQ13riDTk1gU8qlZWprl24kVOyFPCqJYVMcRMhPn2ETSBFwoyy4-9TpDw8Ftb8ARFW3-3V6sOzBlmofgAiZYUwh7v4c9LCW5CqIuLqSqcLmD3Znbq0L5o0NmFZtxSrBbWxuFrQc/s1600/DSC_0776sm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp473MlQ13riDTk1gU8qlZWprl24kVOyFPCqJYVMcRMhPn2ETSBFwoyy4-9TpDw8Ftb8ARFW3-3V6sOzBlmofgAiZYUwh7v4c9LCW5CqIuLqSqcLmD3Znbq0L5o0NmFZtxSrBbWxuFrQc/s400/DSC_0776sm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636270788928825426" /></a><br /><br />I live in the twin cities, one of which the media constantly reminds us is dangerous, and anyone can end up killed. Recently a UTEP lecturer was killed there. Children are regular victims of bullets.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3d8vIofuJpou4IprxZewhq2MmqjOSDskZa1gYWTtXGvIUtPHmQ8Hf-RnQ2Esgql4YKntF7Z5VzWHu9DujVZQgnBqSRka0_0nf_DUd9z0jQlQ5klfIBKsKtMkFwqMuVDRmKlB7HVxJtYg/s1600/piessm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3d8vIofuJpou4IprxZewhq2MmqjOSDskZa1gYWTtXGvIUtPHmQ8Hf-RnQ2Esgql4YKntF7Z5VzWHu9DujVZQgnBqSRka0_0nf_DUd9z0jQlQ5klfIBKsKtMkFwqMuVDRmKlB7HVxJtYg/s400/piessm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271131232579842" /></a><br /><br />If I were a photojournalist, I would take my Nikon to the streets of Júarez. I would follow the police and get shots of bodies under sheets on the streets outside of crime scenes where children are looking on.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuszfDDZfdyQNoVbfqfpU8ENOoHm-G1ubMvW5IibBvoHw4HK6ykcMqg0VfL70UhHs4FE6sTJLDS19axKteiZ0M3u4v91YZOa6jPeuwJZYYSURS-iymkbLRo-cbameOwDEP9QLvO64gNc/s1600/tengo+miedosm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuszfDDZfdyQNoVbfqfpU8ENOoHm-G1ubMvW5IibBvoHw4HK6ykcMqg0VfL70UhHs4FE6sTJLDS19axKteiZ0M3u4v91YZOa6jPeuwJZYYSURS-iymkbLRo-cbameOwDEP9QLvO64gNc/s400/tengo+miedosm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271378060529314" /></a><br />But when I go to Júarez these days or nights, I don’t bring a camera. I just go, usually with friends, to marches, to drink beers at the Kentucky Club, to eat a taco, and the images of the city that sketch themselves on the walls of my memory usually find a place in my prose. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvUxEwR-55akp9b9YLLM0_RFWyVqKeLajDMSbqiJ7ND9xKHmo6WJaTVRuGTdqE1Xd2lAVMOmOTTjxoRDJHbunsYw8Yop5-NyM1xT8lgzJswPyUpYz4aPtJ-2kOA92PjDJ9_R9eI4HEeg/s1600/Two+men+in+the+windowsm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvUxEwR-55akp9b9YLLM0_RFWyVqKeLajDMSbqiJ7ND9xKHmo6WJaTVRuGTdqE1Xd2lAVMOmOTTjxoRDJHbunsYw8Yop5-NyM1xT8lgzJswPyUpYz4aPtJ-2kOA92PjDJ9_R9eI4HEeg/s400/Two+men+in+the+windowsm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271466079817874" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />When I first began to travel parts of the world, Havana, Warsaw, Marseilles, I didn’t believe in taking a camera. I was dead-set against it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8szAy9VAEYYOiC9RCTqhXP4JAOvgy1qPZrm3kEVT2V0g-KIzsNSseV-_WihyphenhyphenOBk4gODLpCd0Oqr9DtL3I__1D9MFyHmRdw4dX5m91RO7HzavIASQPxKLKdxfBTP_6nU1p4k7m6PeioFg/s1600/ladiessm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8szAy9VAEYYOiC9RCTqhXP4JAOvgy1qPZrm3kEVT2V0g-KIzsNSseV-_WihyphenhyphenOBk4gODLpCd0Oqr9DtL3I__1D9MFyHmRdw4dX5m91RO7HzavIASQPxKLKdxfBTP_6nU1p4k7m6PeioFg/s400/ladiessm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636270959310454146" /></a><br /><br /><br />I thought if I brought a camera, it would steal the souls of the images, and there wouldn’t be enough energy left to release into the conduit of my sentences. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uiv9fIElZgolK_EuhVEiMCtokOL6nw6QDqXdSXmqS2Js5HOhyphenhyphenNiX6ypbfowyXZTfQpLhlAAYRVTGAJDyvzJSFLOn97e9OJRQHsD381O0DycRAKJTlflX-6FfXkGOgeeJHpniYbeZJ58/s1600/twomenindoorsm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uiv9fIElZgolK_EuhVEiMCtokOL6nw6QDqXdSXmqS2Js5HOhyphenhyphenNiX6ypbfowyXZTfQpLhlAAYRVTGAJDyvzJSFLOn97e9OJRQHsD381O0DycRAKJTlflX-6FfXkGOgeeJHpniYbeZJ58/s400/twomenindoorsm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271552858985570" /></a><br />Of course now I know that the glow behind any point in space, thus behind the archetypal outline of any image, is infinite energy.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3CY9N-9MUXpS9l-kAGI4bjvFjQT-1V4S-hQiPo_1CwJuOn0n2GI2pbxNERZc97d9SynvWP_i__3ZrP_7a4Vtmo5fYlgWPpxTzMPeHFGOib_r6HbkJjd5oy3Fhu8iMA1sMUlNEa6NgEs/s1600/balc%25C3%25B3nsm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3CY9N-9MUXpS9l-kAGI4bjvFjQT-1V4S-hQiPo_1CwJuOn0n2GI2pbxNERZc97d9SynvWP_i__3ZrP_7a4Vtmo5fYlgWPpxTzMPeHFGOib_r6HbkJjd5oy3Fhu8iMA1sMUlNEa6NgEs/s400/balc%25C3%25B3nsm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636269913811677586" /></a><br />Still, I’m not a photojournalist. But I love that photographs can capture something that would take a thousand words to express in writing. ☺<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmFFeFfJYlBo4Fvh6ZxSmXxLUNGIpJagssx7bSodmoPqdBFQvczAn0yYDVhYdeWW-OnH2OlOWFLF53yDSU-02uyh13j6UuMP2LdHmosD8UemRbSaXuXV7TEbE_wPfCg4ItyaZzypLqes/s1600/zapatasm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRmFFeFfJYlBo4Fvh6ZxSmXxLUNGIpJagssx7bSodmoPqdBFQvczAn0yYDVhYdeWW-OnH2OlOWFLF53yDSU-02uyh13j6UuMP2LdHmosD8UemRbSaXuXV7TEbE_wPfCg4ItyaZzypLqes/s400/zapatasm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271809464473890" /></a><br />Of course, in evoking the cliché, “A picture paints a thousand words,” I might very well be making fun of it, but that doesn’t negate any truth the statement might make.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuSvYOp5N-kPmDHQYXk0se5N3rIcyWv2JAgglGhMUzpD3reiXxDCiqVYx6-PKKVr7c1jzoOx9D0KkUtoYozidpfXB5FtYltsEtpd4ivwOgMYf6xxY-7P0ZJWMgR9pklBVKFc3fQcq34Y/s1600/DSC_0365sm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuSvYOp5N-kPmDHQYXk0se5N3rIcyWv2JAgglGhMUzpD3reiXxDCiqVYx6-PKKVr7c1jzoOx9D0KkUtoYozidpfXB5FtYltsEtpd4ivwOgMYf6xxY-7P0ZJWMgR9pklBVKFc3fQcq34Y/s400/DSC_0365sm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636270138661028514" /></a><br />All the shots above and below I took recently in Júarez, <span style="font-style:italic;">nuestra querida ciudad gemela</span>, our beautiful sister. Like all human beings, the landscape within which we live in the twin cities is a passage way into dreams,<span style="font-style:italic;"> El paso</span> into imagination, into death and into the distortions fear can warp around reality. Daily we walk into beauty, into ugly, into endless possibility, into endless dead-end streets. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUeuekqWgu5av-9aAHfRXkTZmelDFl7Eh5a-vii1iU2quwjwPeuIFVtfLi_FiesTtvM1duTX6cYf2hjxlaynXnWFj0Dq3kmy4V15EWztGF87RtwIT4SRrdv6SZZZ88rGTtnriJPsned74/s1600/womaninwindowsm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUeuekqWgu5av-9aAHfRXkTZmelDFl7Eh5a-vii1iU2quwjwPeuIFVtfLi_FiesTtvM1duTX6cYf2hjxlaynXnWFj0Dq3kmy4V15EWztGF87RtwIT4SRrdv6SZZZ88rGTtnriJPsned74/s400/womaninwindowsm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271723775110402" /></a><br />On both sides of the line we breathe in the same air, and the light shines and reflects equally from one side to the other. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJEvdJQXbrWNgNMu-CAsTfgMIMyWdMvU-TXv6O50kKG6qdQYICZNBCiHDbhDM4xPJhLfq02vitf5rsS18cDdRrUn2Rqr819DVseEf_zCErNrGAjFUJFJyG-etH1oV1MRvpknJqLB7eIg/s1600/opticassm.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisrQzXnCdIN4PhTovoMdeIEgCvXAPCATVpPwP4J7WmZMQuWlEHJVxXLaWWKG5I5dkKfODQDsWOrpkcbxtEJfxVvoqAzUEzO0apykUQzWX6llI8Ufa8a0i7w2jSX0FAmQx1PbTMFqqqsMA/s400/DSC_0390sm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636270352734283170" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYza5Wmm1kKQc5EsNb8mBSpx8iQ_evwJeVB4Q3OlM9WADFvs5lj26yNtZb0R_g9ECNPBy9HB5ln1rxTPqVs7XP0Pbzv8lqg7pl2VqqKY2-hdyT3lx-BCLponzi3JRo1KSM84T2xBXU2s/s1600/rocinantesm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYza5Wmm1kKQc5EsNb8mBSpx8iQ_evwJeVB4Q3OlM9WADFvs5lj26yNtZb0R_g9ECNPBy9HB5ln1rxTPqVs7XP0Pbzv8lqg7pl2VqqKY2-hdyT3lx-BCLponzi3JRo1KSM84T2xBXU2s/s400/rocinantesm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636271290469720258" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-22772094578915574822011-07-20T11:20:00.001-07:002011-07-20T16:05:42.784-07:00El Paso RasquacheMoses and I went out on another one of our creative days. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOpfx6OlckV7gVLi2YlbmJjgLtNqMHv7-S6b73M3ZnMtJPsY_LMwIonDHAl2KRsPNryRbzXbTn9wY0xkqLCp2Akq0ARjmlYOWnaVG9-Xp462DJBC0c23k1uCePWS-QPiYdzcCKwE7vPY/s1600/umb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipOpfx6OlckV7gVLi2YlbmJjgLtNqMHv7-S6b73M3ZnMtJPsY_LMwIonDHAl2KRsPNryRbzXbTn9wY0xkqLCp2Akq0ARjmlYOWnaVG9-Xp462DJBC0c23k1uCePWS-QPiYdzcCKwE7vPY/s400/umb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631501821945520754" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We often get together on days that I’m not teaching or when he doesn’t need to be in the office, and we bring cameras or sketch pads and go out and seek to sample the beauty of El Paso.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfI3XZrs4AB7-lVBa6QVgQoG2k7Jq8KXmB8e3CWbbhpBzNHL4nqHVPRePzImikNoPg1c9sdseGn8mR41h61h3OKPErt6XfC2bjwBx8Bjv06Scivx9SEQI6uwVdYnzLwVd2MqA0YxP4T0/s1600/johnnyb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfI3XZrs4AB7-lVBa6QVgQoG2k7Jq8KXmB8e3CWbbhpBzNHL4nqHVPRePzImikNoPg1c9sdseGn8mR41h61h3OKPErt6XfC2bjwBx8Bjv06Scivx9SEQI6uwVdYnzLwVd2MqA0YxP4T0/s400/johnnyb.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502798133101026" /></a><br /><br />You can click on any of these images to get a better look. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Q59HCeg97f6RWQhx_0sYpoMsfvspbuUME7bmOLVQ1Itn9-gYcCL8bbXxiyKK3faIah_5B9vcqdP7c5qYeRi3YLT44XWTC4U_yOjxdTeVRu5ZxWSiF4FrluDF68QrdkVAZ3ksnz65bn8/s1600/319.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Q59HCeg97f6RWQhx_0sYpoMsfvspbuUME7bmOLVQ1Itn9-gYcCL8bbXxiyKK3faIah_5B9vcqdP7c5qYeRi3YLT44XWTC4U_yOjxdTeVRu5ZxWSiF4FrluDF68QrdkVAZ3ksnz65bn8/s400/319.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502164369878338" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What is beautiful about Chuco is often times is a bit<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasquache."> rasquache</a>. <br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16eGyigOyUIMQBTvIWWHVNnPDoQlXRXmUTEhk6jl4qsUYgq-VnP7oetHQvldHba-ySCvlYEsVN7mKyn4l9m2cLY69DkZc1q-HGdj9Kz1UtRJ6pp7i2fmn6z8oN9jSMidMoynzi2dmvKo/s1600/robot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16eGyigOyUIMQBTvIWWHVNnPDoQlXRXmUTEhk6jl4qsUYgq-VnP7oetHQvldHba-ySCvlYEsVN7mKyn4l9m2cLY69DkZc1q-HGdj9Kz1UtRJ6pp7i2fmn6z8oN9jSMidMoynzi2dmvKo/s400/robot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631503073999784002" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Rasquache as an esthetic has long interested me, and I can see why so many artists and writers come out of El Paso. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH02Hnzmvj5-n_OdeMVKoiYJoO5T_rd2KqOn7ZULfP7aTsP7L_BuHPMDET11Jlw5Y_jy_8Ik_H3FYNJMgrJtnQNfhqFwv6PsIgk9q9HdWfMNZpEzVXGykVO0GKiLuiYfym88-6LOldgTk/s1600/craaftercorner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 325px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH02Hnzmvj5-n_OdeMVKoiYJoO5T_rd2KqOn7ZULfP7aTsP7L_BuHPMDET11Jlw5Y_jy_8Ik_H3FYNJMgrJtnQNfhqFwv6PsIgk9q9HdWfMNZpEzVXGykVO0GKiLuiYfym88-6LOldgTk/s400/craaftercorner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502501595225378" /></a><br /><br />Raquchismo is everywhere.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1L0zO_b_T4UhFg2qZKHZ6FW5Ll2APNSQbgVjbGsTbpaihUaYlGTh4Z9_HM110qpryelyI8W8TOQg744Zvj64hCBrzAu3Lr9zaCkp6OKdig3SNCHOJDewza4NyNSFHalh5pfcYkjd_GLE/s1600/rigos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1L0zO_b_T4UhFg2qZKHZ6FW5Ll2APNSQbgVjbGsTbpaihUaYlGTh4Z9_HM110qpryelyI8W8TOQg744Zvj64hCBrzAu3Lr9zaCkp6OKdig3SNCHOJDewza4NyNSFHalh5pfcYkjd_GLE/s400/rigos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631503002619557170" /></a><br /><br />I am drawn to things rasquache.<br /><br />I remember when my mom was still alive, my father bought us kids a big bag of cheap Cookies, and we were trying to open the bag, but it wouldn’t give. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1oMkyUgeeUb75eoiMyjlsw3mDlba0SIJgu7Rkpg32tFOPQhZQuE3Qvp-VLrtONWENxe300IvFz-psasVi51R3Y077ArXiT8CUoDfEYo8Cu9vrNYv3lcPfI6gibEaPnDRXvMNy_sOGns/s1600/loan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1oMkyUgeeUb75eoiMyjlsw3mDlba0SIJgu7Rkpg32tFOPQhZQuE3Qvp-VLrtONWENxe300IvFz-psasVi51R3Y077ArXiT8CUoDfEYo8Cu9vrNYv3lcPfI6gibEaPnDRXvMNy_sOGns/s400/loan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502934735314722" /></a><br /><br />Finally, my mom stood up like a woman with power, grabbed a kitchen knife, and held it up for us kids to see. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Gw1mFTtzN469PvG5GyJ2QYNa2PU12IUEoE2WN29LG95Cl0Q6-AwJ-b7M63mjmKh2Q9d4kBQdHkyqdi5ur3UVI-dp1ZwTeIupyKNS1dYVIjQzgUy_aS2HSQaC_U3P3yC3B0N9EVNMu1I/s1600/toro.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Gw1mFTtzN469PvG5GyJ2QYNa2PU12IUEoE2WN29LG95Cl0Q6-AwJ-b7M63mjmKh2Q9d4kBQdHkyqdi5ur3UVI-dp1ZwTeIupyKNS1dYVIjQzgUy_aS2HSQaC_U3P3yC3B0N9EVNMu1I/s400/toro.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631503215854295922" /></a><br /><br /><br />“I’ll do it the Mexican way,” she said.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFzppOicT0_7hiFi_hown219V2itdsGFOtDYuX0LBr5xWyOv14ZKt2D-YDu5ctTY0g7H3_oPP2d73ir-m6KMyqEowL-hInYkhXGEDbuVwCGlCPIKBmJvYFjzjD08N83TmCbDhHl9SBeU/s1600/cactus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNFzppOicT0_7hiFi_hown219V2itdsGFOtDYuX0LBr5xWyOv14ZKt2D-YDu5ctTY0g7H3_oPP2d73ir-m6KMyqEowL-hInYkhXGEDbuVwCGlCPIKBmJvYFjzjD08N83TmCbDhHl9SBeU/s400/cactus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502282925783170" /></a><br />And she slashed off the top, and all the cookies poured into our hands and onto the table.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIDZcfgND2pJ0aTkFCHrYzIJh3LPkYHpSG0NusYxCpmxf6FvlT5PWLxdQ3yYE8eBC79HDwhqNyS0KtIc4ofC604-Kb-_MQlBv_FMHYG5d11jvKH0xeHjId392-2H-DSez6U8C-29tWUY/s1600/gas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlIDZcfgND2pJ0aTkFCHrYzIJh3LPkYHpSG0NusYxCpmxf6FvlT5PWLxdQ3yYE8eBC79HDwhqNyS0KtIc4ofC604-Kb-_MQlBv_FMHYG5d11jvKH0xeHjId392-2H-DSez6U8C-29tWUY/s400/gas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502697149320146" /></a><br /><br />As I stuffed my mouth, I remember feeling so proud of my mother for being a Mexican.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mNB85-f-MZKWmnjwaAX0LsKL9T2gI-HFFvxOLWyZxfl_KG7YZFci1hHQBRxJOdVnx5OuS12HHlOOBcrVCzIy42mDxvflGyneg48ejbYLlnKCXW32ICpz3tMq4P8Z_blhfpQPhyphenhyphenRMl3Q/s1600/frontdoor.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mNB85-f-MZKWmnjwaAX0LsKL9T2gI-HFFvxOLWyZxfl_KG7YZFci1hHQBRxJOdVnx5OuS12HHlOOBcrVCzIy42mDxvflGyneg48ejbYLlnKCXW32ICpz3tMq4P8Z_blhfpQPhyphenhyphenRMl3Q/s400/frontdoor.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502599181558578" /></a><br /><br />What she said wasn’t suppose to be disparaging, it wasn’t playing to the stereotype of Mexicans carrying knifes or being violent, it was as if to say that Mexicans do what they have to do, with what they got, to get what they want.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrmzxXkUuH_RtW3hoLoQbhYFjk4UFCUBOfOjCDjB3JwSZtd9huknPZO8-OMwGic6mpytJ-2asHFonCtya70SShBaWgtfPMemF2Joym1D87m3G7Iyao7A8YE1dCuT7fqBLpcxqiAvbTV0/s1600/wall.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPrmzxXkUuH_RtW3hoLoQbhYFjk4UFCUBOfOjCDjB3JwSZtd9huknPZO8-OMwGic6mpytJ-2asHFonCtya70SShBaWgtfPMemF2Joym1D87m3G7Iyao7A8YE1dCuT7fqBLpcxqiAvbTV0/s400/wall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631503296639160530" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Moses and I ate downtown at an independent restaurant, burrito after burrito. This is what they had on the wall.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-hbrKu9KX0sjXgVtzCaEZJDw_JTG1d4ikDLyt3VkqiY4r9i5VcNKS7WPD8d-D63Ed7aJlIZreQMpjpwYMgnOka60Cq5zlxmt3-MxNYgtR-QH2r2bEoveE7YSZq4L8Ww0L2rLLSnwbWk/s1600/tintin.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-hbrKu9KX0sjXgVtzCaEZJDw_JTG1d4ikDLyt3VkqiY4r9i5VcNKS7WPD8d-D63Ed7aJlIZreQMpjpwYMgnOka60Cq5zlxmt3-MxNYgtR-QH2r2bEoveE7YSZq4L8Ww0L2rLLSnwbWk/s400/tintin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631503142076985874" /></a><br /><br />To me Rasquachismo is related to that idea of my mother's, and the beauty of El Paso, my home on the border, are in the colors and shapes and the affordable art that makes what we have an expression of ourselves. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYff2Gqy_L3afgm_iw4646HKP_AyVGMIaHfND_AmPwo5OA-r8QX7Zdz7lqrLee2CVvx06_eBwcNYxdz8OQgqezmn_rJ9LvCKl8-MsrIyyJ9aqF955_iIzypjYKykEUVwzeM8scqug2U5I/s1600/church.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYff2Gqy_L3afgm_iw4646HKP_AyVGMIaHfND_AmPwo5OA-r8QX7Zdz7lqrLee2CVvx06_eBwcNYxdz8OQgqezmn_rJ9LvCKl8-MsrIyyJ9aqF955_iIzypjYKykEUVwzeM8scqug2U5I/s400/church.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502376071591442" /></a><br />And the people are beautiful.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxmGkaIfAKBHdzb8tOxk-XkEJrxdcbsB_sxOJQrFBOdx6Fp-TTtUojl885l8DRzEIvAykcIICmkbS2s9bzYCcD2NQIExN4D-v_14HVPeZIcttfqiPkCeTbvq9DSSShMp-vXXt2bPiecM/s1600/ladies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmxmGkaIfAKBHdzb8tOxk-XkEJrxdcbsB_sxOJQrFBOdx6Fp-TTtUojl885l8DRzEIvAykcIICmkbS2s9bzYCcD2NQIExN4D-v_14HVPeZIcttfqiPkCeTbvq9DSSShMp-vXXt2bPiecM/s400/ladies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631502863289853970" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-37120326591632994252011-07-10T15:10:00.000-07:002011-07-10T15:38:51.992-07:00Kafka on the Beach<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcC7uhlCo1ZAosUCc2vz-ox_zsoGd_aoIHZ-XELc0t3E_BYl4l020dczdjOlMYln2e1F474oYRFTllr85ja-tooVUnzQbvGiVyQ7kYWoAGapPbW5fZw5KnXMYoPlsB6M-jT3uMqGHSnk/s1600/kafka+beach8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 357px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcC7uhlCo1ZAosUCc2vz-ox_zsoGd_aoIHZ-XELc0t3E_BYl4l020dczdjOlMYln2e1F474oYRFTllr85ja-tooVUnzQbvGiVyQ7kYWoAGapPbW5fZw5KnXMYoPlsB6M-jT3uMqGHSnk/s400/kafka+beach8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627849956303714434" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />I'm not sure, but I think that might be Max Brod sitting on the sand behind him.<br /><br />Either that or it's my old friend Fernando Beltran.<br /><br />It's an old photo, so I'm not really sure. It was taken before digital cameras and SLRs.<br /><br /><br />Here's a more recent photo, taken by a Nikon D5000. It's Kafka on the sand with chicks.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDk2ec4cFAtZMeyAqGNEsBTWTphWeXl941NxLzxZhGo5CQOgJKyOCIm4peBrzARrwTuDOjn-GTBJhNjMD2-AlTgYwXsMpe_C9HPYAo-GlTtN6YjAisCb5NjT4280u7C0fxLsQbHm5Vg_s/s1600/kakfa.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDk2ec4cFAtZMeyAqGNEsBTWTphWeXl941NxLzxZhGo5CQOgJKyOCIm4peBrzARrwTuDOjn-GTBJhNjMD2-AlTgYwXsMpe_C9HPYAo-GlTtN6YjAisCb5NjT4280u7C0fxLsQbHm5Vg_s/s400/kakfa.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627854532723545490" /></a><br /><br />What advantages technology has brought us!<br /><br />¡Ajúa!Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-41180904283463218282011-06-19T16:35:00.000-07:002011-06-19T16:49:53.901-07:00Remembering Our Dead (in Juárez)Last weekend I went to Ciudad Juárez to join the march for Peace, organized to demand the end of violence in Mexico, especially in Ciudad Juárez, called by some news sources the most dangerous city in the world.<br /><br />With about a hundred other El Pasons, I walked across the international bridge to join the march. <br /><br />What amazed me most about this gathering of thousands was how many regular people came out with pictures and the names of their dead.<br /><br />It’s as if they were there, not for political purposes, not for symbolic reasons, but because they wanted to remember their loved ones, wanted to shout their names, wanted someone to know, wanted justice, wanted somebody to do something. <br /><br />I took a lot of photos that day, but the ones that struck me the most were those of the family members and friends of the dead. <br /><br />I put this video together to remember.<br /><br /><object width="410" height="341" id="veohFlashPlayer" name="veohFlashPlayer"><param name="movie" value="http://www.veoh.com/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.7.0.1047&permalinkId=v21046572SGk9FxmQ&player=videodetailsembedded&videoAutoPlay=0&id=anonymous"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.veoh.com/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.7.0.1047&permalinkId=v21046572SGk9FxmQ&player=videodetailsembedded&videoAutoPlay=0&id=anonymous" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="410" height="341" id="veohFlashPlayerEmbed" name="veohFlashPlayerEmbed"></embed></object><br /><font size="1">Watch <a href="http://www.veoh.com/watch/v21046572SGk9FxmQ">The Deaths in Juárez</a> in <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/people_and_blogs">People & Blogs</a> | View More <a href="http://www.veoh.com">Free Videos Online at Veoh.com</a></font>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-12344770806795906262011-06-06T17:40:00.000-07:002011-06-08T13:24:06.241-07:00A New Image: Andrés Montoya Lives!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQAZzfsKA_0Z3QtMX0uK06Y2oDlyT4RN11Zn6QsCop50Z_eNp6lITfh2uWtNPk4em5ia1GJbyL1lfOIjMh1t7pWsygP7Qae-IFMrqWc_eVH5BpIxKFLcahpQzyi56EAcjszoqyFe1jA58/s1600/meandtheimage.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQAZzfsKA_0Z3QtMX0uK06Y2oDlyT4RN11Zn6QsCop50Z_eNp6lITfh2uWtNPk4em5ia1GJbyL1lfOIjMh1t7pWsygP7Qae-IFMrqWc_eVH5BpIxKFLcahpQzyi56EAcjszoqyFe1jA58/s400/meandtheimage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615497685469290962" /></a><br />We finally framed our new Malaquias Montoya print.<br /><br />I have been a serendipitous collector of Malaquias Montoya’s work for many years now. <br /><br />This is the first Montoya image I got, many years ago, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKfzXJCvloafkAVOUtjHnmCjtjXx0IoaHYDekd21hG_7n45seWhcjf5dmluyqITUpWShx-3kcXNnaLp7A_najdIziZdNy8i0uHO_MHy5U6dOpZs_mtBmceiMcPUR0T0mviudi5oAn25g/s1600/immigrants+dream.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKfzXJCvloafkAVOUtjHnmCjtjXx0IoaHYDekd21hG_7n45seWhcjf5dmluyqITUpWShx-3kcXNnaLp7A_najdIziZdNy8i0uHO_MHy5U6dOpZs_mtBmceiMcPUR0T0mviudi5oAn25g/s320/immigrants+dream.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615500908891744882" /></a><br />when I was a student at Fresno State, rooming with his son, the late great poet Andrés Montoya, after whom the Notre Dame poetry prize is named. <br /><br /><br />The Chican@ students invited Malaquias Montoya to speak on campus and display his art work, part of our annual Chicano heritage celebration. Malaquias kept some of the works he displayed at our apartment, which was located in a complex that everyone called the Ghetto Woods, across the street from the campus.<br /><br />I remember a bunch of large packages arriving at our door from UPS, how excited we were, so many works of art from <span style="font-style:italic;">thee </span>Malaquias Montoya, in our apartment! <br /><br />For a few weeks, whenever friends came to our place, Andrés and I lied and said that they were ours, but when they asked to let them have one, we had to admit the truth. <br /><br />We knew the day would come when we would have to give them back to Andrés’ father.<br /><br />Fortunately, he took some pity on us, and he gave each of us an image. I chose the one above.<br /><br />It depicts a Mexican illegal wrapped in an American flag, tied tight in a bundle with barbed wire, a classic Malaquias Montoya motif.<br /><br />The next one is an image of Abraham Lincoln, and a quote by him. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWevgPKL_9gKRXJXWNDverhNjLYIrQwqF8-HQfDg79TLUGdBuHZ1dWb0bewGzgXDRapOcQsue9BGYUkQjHQlQ_cUupwn_UvFIygqYtkIqvaXflobiTHynaYgm69cUX2f2soL3bpXqjS00/s1600/quiet+diplomacy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWevgPKL_9gKRXJXWNDverhNjLYIrQwqF8-HQfDg79TLUGdBuHZ1dWb0bewGzgXDRapOcQsue9BGYUkQjHQlQ_cUupwn_UvFIygqYtkIqvaXflobiTHynaYgm69cUX2f2soL3bpXqjS00/s320/quiet+diplomacy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615501361312908322" /></a><br />The words Lincoln wrote often shock people who have come to my house and see the print on the wall, because they have always thought of him as a liberal, nice, non-racist kind of guy. Like much of the art movement from which he produced, Montoya challenges us with facing another angle on history, one that contradicts the lies my teacher told me.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishEoEtRBBq__L2F34qqasM0kRjXtnd2FyLhC8TgtRbCk1gVtOmF4fgRdA4ApMHzxdkL0EQ2S4NM3xxX0fosi0g64T0dmjLmXJgY03zqH2K86ofwNjJnKmwzCOQZ7hkuYl5yZ9nESqTV4/s1600/lincoln+quote.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishEoEtRBBq__L2F34qqasM0kRjXtnd2FyLhC8TgtRbCk1gVtOmF4fgRdA4ApMHzxdkL0EQ2S4NM3xxX0fosi0g64T0dmjLmXJgY03zqH2K86ofwNjJnKmwzCOQZ7hkuYl5yZ9nESqTV4/s400/lincoln+quote.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615500493479728802" /></a><br /><br /><br />Years later I acquired a few more Montoya images.<br /><br />This one is a more recent image, given to Sasha and me by Malaquias and Lezlie when Sasha and I got married. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMav-rzR2ZzP3Lvidz4GKI31Fo1OD-mBDoeLxbIQ6AXn-L0ORR1DmUCuuBUxpuRkamAl7tOVtk4yidioIMjSyDXvC3rBkjyTd2Inuguyh8lxo8S375Rf-T84Xz0GpbIdXdjq6yJmODfA8/s1600/indian+lady.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMav-rzR2ZzP3Lvidz4GKI31Fo1OD-mBDoeLxbIQ6AXn-L0ORR1DmUCuuBUxpuRkamAl7tOVtk4yidioIMjSyDXvC3rBkjyTd2Inuguyh8lxo8S375Rf-T84Xz0GpbIdXdjq6yJmODfA8/s400/indian+lady.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615501874759202002" /></a><br /><br />We even have a print from his other son, Maceo Montoya, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6qfpQ1m_le_0gfrkvHV_hKjJK-GmhIoHLH4q8kuXdGNaTtXw30YFY7RfOQcFj8JC2L69k3Z_HWjuE_Nupgh6o4xKATY0TUzxd91jwD7IXSUD04La-RQU0bzfDGFX_q0baWyf7OeSLn8/s1600/Maceo%2527s+work.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6qfpQ1m_le_0gfrkvHV_hKjJK-GmhIoHLH4q8kuXdGNaTtXw30YFY7RfOQcFj8JC2L69k3Z_HWjuE_Nupgh6o4xKATY0TUzxd91jwD7IXSUD04La-RQU0bzfDGFX_q0baWyf7OeSLn8/s320/Maceo%2527s+work.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615502179035708546" /></a>also a wedding gift. Maceo is not only a great artist--as good as his father--but he is also a brilliant fiction writer, whose first novel, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.asu.edu/brp/newandforthcoming/Scoundrel.html">The Scoundrel and the Optimist</a></span>, has recently been published to sweeping reviews and awards.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here’s something very few people might have:<br /><br />I have some watercolors painted by Andrés Montoya himself, a year or so before he died of leukemia at 30 years old. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzdCyNAAMsXu-REwHw_QaJn5E8EUOUYKBkZRYCFZ1xYZaHhCWUmhasA0iiMvvhk38193EogyyHrcnybQ8_kHxkYlAaTADiggw1VCRMLGhFzr4_ZwhqENJn1iydcHSo9W_cLOPPNrhE9o/s1600/andresimage.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 184px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzdCyNAAMsXu-REwHw_QaJn5E8EUOUYKBkZRYCFZ1xYZaHhCWUmhasA0iiMvvhk38193EogyyHrcnybQ8_kHxkYlAaTADiggw1VCRMLGhFzr4_ZwhqENJn1iydcHSo9W_cLOPPNrhE9o/s400/andresimage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615515691586951618" /></a><br />His last few years on earth, he had started to paint and draw. <br /><br />He rented a studio in downtown Fresno and painted all day long. He gave me a few of his watercolor paintings and pastel drawings. <br /><br />This one, he said, was among his favorites, and he wanted me to have it. <br /><br />“Thanks,” I said. “What’s it called?”<br /><br />“What’s it called?” he repeated my question. “Uh, it’s called <span style="font-style:italic;">The Little Man Takes a Walk to Lodi While Praising God.</span>”<br /><br />“That’s kind of long for a title,” I said, skeptical that he wasn’t making it up on the spot.<br /><br />About a year later, when he was in his hospital bed, bald from the chemo but, as usual, in good spirits, I asked him, “Hey, do you remember that water color you gave me of the walking man?”<br /><br />He said, “You mean T<span style="font-style:italic;">he Little Man Takes a Walk to Lodi While Praising God</span>? What about it?”<br /><br /> “Er, nothing,” I said.<br /><br />He also gave me some drawings as well as a painting that I keep in the garage. It’s an abstract piece, or at least he wanted it to be. It has such beautiful colors, lines and curves and swirls, but I don’t hang it on the wall, because it might reflect his more carnal desires. I mean, even though he would have denied it, it’s obviously shaped like something specific. <br /><br />(Nudge, nudge. Say no more.)<br /><br />One day, not too long ago, Francisco Aragón from the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame told me about the Andrés Montoya initiative. He said that Malaquias Montoya was going to create a print inspired by one of Andrés’ poems. He would make a limited amount and would number and sign them. This would help to raise funds for Notre Dame’s Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. I knew I would buy one, before he even told me the price. <br /><br />The $440 was a bargain, not to mention an investment, but the fact that it helps finance the prize seemed pretty important. All the winners, Sheryl Luna, Gabriel Gomez, Paul Martínez Pompa, and Emma Trelles have become and are becoming important Latin@ voices, the ones to look out for. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnN_uw29uAv15vRqOZkS4qBL-mbpcOpy1fGyFyjjL-YsSlVQfaFfXXgiZJrFcc07hokpHrtztMn_JI_OBbP0-JnDM4lcrMRrt-DvWnSU19sqZ6Hv6Xu_FEZMIUFl9AGfRgJGbkUWC3kE/s1600/books.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMnN_uw29uAv15vRqOZkS4qBL-mbpcOpy1fGyFyjjL-YsSlVQfaFfXXgiZJrFcc07hokpHrtztMn_JI_OBbP0-JnDM4lcrMRrt-DvWnSU19sqZ6Hv6Xu_FEZMIUFl9AGfRgJGbkUWC3kE/s400/books.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615587408070318754" /></a> What a way to honor our Americas, our literature, our commitment to community and voice, our love for language and image.<br /><br />Besides, the initiative will also help with the publication of Andrés Montoya’s posthumous book of poems, <span style="font-style:italic;">colón-nization</span>, which I edited and compiled.<br /><br /><br />And it’s a beautiful work based on a powerful poem. <br /><br />DW and I went to the art store and bought a frame, matting, an X-acto knife and did the framing ourselves, something I’m learning to do with my photography. <br />(By the way, I have been told by a reliable source that in the blogging world “DW” means “Dear wife.” I’m not sure if this is true, but I thought I’d try to get away with using it.)<br /><br />DW and I put all. . . .<br /><br />Naw, it doesn’t fit.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Sasha and I </span>put all the materials on the table and measured, cut, and pasted.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY7XlXC47uA4yHWan9yVH9nJYuLUd6_H4cj04HZpuPevCOS0fB_Yr0_NrApCuEd61REBvCk0dDNzM4xmtZBPa6XWxUd6ky5LS9H7PTJJTUP7RQoaUndCZmNzXjsORmkHeKCFEfLqDQeA/s1600/joeyhelps.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY7XlXC47uA4yHWan9yVH9nJYuLUd6_H4cj04HZpuPevCOS0fB_Yr0_NrApCuEd61REBvCk0dDNzM4xmtZBPa6XWxUd6ky5LS9H7PTJJTUP7RQoaUndCZmNzXjsORmkHeKCFEfLqDQeA/s400/joeyhelps.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615517847107963666" /></a><br />Our cat Joey wanted to help, but I suspect it was more for the shiny moving things than it was a commitment to art. <br /><br />Anyway, here it is framed and beautiful.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8g1Dkk3mkh3q0_Oh7QgmOOy17t_pbh9VftCUPuznuc1bmrxuItrjrfkZ-umwdUkI3o82k-xMMYBZC30-OHEPel_aTCqLJT3xDMF6vSjOqaYbSuGj-3HWBILVRLiTDA975dnCWlc9j8BY/s1600/the+iamge.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8g1Dkk3mkh3q0_Oh7QgmOOy17t_pbh9VftCUPuznuc1bmrxuItrjrfkZ-umwdUkI3o82k-xMMYBZC30-OHEPel_aTCqLJT3xDMF6vSjOqaYbSuGj-3HWBILVRLiTDA975dnCWlc9j8BY/s400/the+iamge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615518752341293042" /></a><br />Want a tip?<br /><br />Buy this work. <a href="https://shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2259&SINGLESTORE=true">Click here. </a><br /><br />It’s not only a good investment in a signed work by one of the most important Chicano artists ever, but it also goes to a good cause.<br /><br />It brings Andrés and his words back to life and keeps the lifeblood running through the veins of Latina poets today, keeping them in print, honoring them with the literary prizes they deserve.Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-70747253776187704932011-02-20T15:38:00.000-08:002011-02-20T16:03:16.932-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxuJlRfJGI59qW5KWGaHcvD7V8bhTh_scp6S5rkvjqM7Gn1LLA2b7IofSP4EJUFafJXvVrNpHw4qxB_L3z-vxrjTIMhPOYHo5MfBpT934D5KVvNOdwwzy5ThGwWBUt5Z8cQE9DxWD028/s1600/two+manholes+off+the+path.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxuJlRfJGI59qW5KWGaHcvD7V8bhTh_scp6S5rkvjqM7Gn1LLA2b7IofSP4EJUFafJXvVrNpHw4qxB_L3z-vxrjTIMhPOYHo5MfBpT934D5KVvNOdwwzy5ThGwWBUt5Z8cQE9DxWD028/s400/two+manholes+off+the+path.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575921727962715442" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />“If you want to see the invisible,<br />Carefully observe the visible.”<br /> TalmudDaniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-68321300780544226102011-02-18T12:40:00.000-08:002011-02-18T12:56:59.123-08:00Borges Aires<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCajU5bNGUM7bSKgPvi2cTtyoM8vO2yceeaK40FCePHOkEwC7PMtl5ACf_Vx__v7ixSQtCusGHnFD0QNiOXFiIElEs4KCW7plgLqhAHv-pTfR0P6UzGPr4klJ_sd1nxHxJqazGPshpaLE/s1600/BorgesAires.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCajU5bNGUM7bSKgPvi2cTtyoM8vO2yceeaK40FCePHOkEwC7PMtl5ACf_Vx__v7ixSQtCusGHnFD0QNiOXFiIElEs4KCW7plgLqhAHv-pTfR0P6UzGPr4klJ_sd1nxHxJqazGPshpaLE/s400/BorgesAires.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575132741122271058" /></a><br /><br />Writers are liars. That’s one of the first things we learn. We lie. We have to, and we have the right to lie, but as Luis J. Rodriguez quotes from Antonin Artuad in the preface to Always Running, not about the heart of the matter.<br /><br />We lie, but in lying we tell the truth.<br /><br />Fiction is a lie.<br /><br />So is photography.<br /><br />It lies. <br /><br />We know even some famous photographs meant to be journalistic, documentary, have been altered to create a more clear and meaningful image.<br /><br />The point isn’t that the photographers cheated in the dark room (and now the virtual darkroom). The point is that the photographer wanted the viewer to see the deeper meaning of an image. The photos were meant to tell the truth, not to represent a purely material reality.<br /><br />I am neither a journalist nor a photographer. I’m a fiction writer, so when I share an image, whether in words or digitally, I don’t care about representing material reality. There are more things in heaven and earth….etcDaniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-636146838900544252011-02-17T08:36:00.000-08:002011-02-17T08:40:50.231-08:00Eternal Lovers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJf6ZCn84f1e2i-E1pOuox2qf87YUa9O62KQbY1fCek4rrqjpB98FUlp35IbYw9BCm1dj9MyDEw6k1ucoozm8yf1daPJmjmgx6xasTlSoLKOovCPnqop8k7DrO7Rs4XgsTmhrNgqhGsdU/s1600/Eternal+Lovers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJf6ZCn84f1e2i-E1pOuox2qf87YUa9O62KQbY1fCek4rrqjpB98FUlp35IbYw9BCm1dj9MyDEw6k1ucoozm8yf1daPJmjmgx6xasTlSoLKOovCPnqop8k7DrO7Rs4XgsTmhrNgqhGsdU/s400/Eternal+Lovers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574699297306025762" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-33235919446874292012011-02-16T16:23:00.000-08:002011-02-16T16:26:44.029-08:00Statue Detail<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyj2RjBQz52zvlHuJXT4DCqalU2ORtzr6YQJukN-s8pyFfa9O-bC_8ygIN09GPY05hjHMC-bINfjJouo8IreCMjSvQ9xgLNRYPf2gUxIEC3qs4l53YirzZT0N0HKtzqYdbqw-u077-cuc/s1600/teets.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyj2RjBQz52zvlHuJXT4DCqalU2ORtzr6YQJukN-s8pyFfa9O-bC_8ygIN09GPY05hjHMC-bINfjJouo8IreCMjSvQ9xgLNRYPf2gUxIEC3qs4l53YirzZT0N0HKtzqYdbqw-u077-cuc/s400/teets.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574448340933274658" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-51918705787922377342011-02-15T09:56:00.001-08:002011-02-15T10:01:48.947-08:00Bus Window Plaza Italia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1sHhW4831iAS24CmFChuF9reZrdwMZ_r6A4lk8o-ng2_5qa46-jBOxK7dFpwW_rurZLawNZXu8eOvm5Jwr7_wOLTZyy8mnP2BHSiaemnpxfExEiXX_zLJwEekN08h6iJs9Oy4zBm13A/s1600/Bus+window+on+santa+fe.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1sHhW4831iAS24CmFChuF9reZrdwMZ_r6A4lk8o-ng2_5qa46-jBOxK7dFpwW_rurZLawNZXu8eOvm5Jwr7_wOLTZyy8mnP2BHSiaemnpxfExEiXX_zLJwEekN08h6iJs9Oy4zBm13A/s400/Bus+window+on+santa+fe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573977772452844722" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-11985340007794538862011-02-14T17:10:00.001-08:002011-02-14T17:37:52.430-08:00Buenos Aires Street PhotographyArt Tower Barrio Norte<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5FN_NcwlH0OAtQAN-CPhCvk80xgWdbLerTjaBNjCgg-ab09RL7JZfYqVvw1_HKdPeZXCzothycvVZhBLlKSf9ztl6gPqr3fol0YfcAOuVZlJzt1xdjkH5aNxwG8cMdym6TAlaRB6Nss/s1600/tall+building.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5FN_NcwlH0OAtQAN-CPhCvk80xgWdbLerTjaBNjCgg-ab09RL7JZfYqVvw1_HKdPeZXCzothycvVZhBLlKSf9ztl6gPqr3fol0YfcAOuVZlJzt1xdjkH5aNxwG8cMdym6TAlaRB6Nss/s400/tall+building.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573718393865430114" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Bread Delivery<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGc59wiFH9SbE58nModEnczvDz_OOXOx142BTnLqx7ZTqAaMYRGXRrF32sFCp3NiJtDczWxWiFTyB3A8Cd3EWTdYqDSAzNqUcCBcgmKB1CKOv83li_TJ4KIP9CjiviluVsxVizKCpREkY/s1600/bread+delivery.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGc59wiFH9SbE58nModEnczvDz_OOXOx142BTnLqx7ZTqAaMYRGXRrF32sFCp3NiJtDczWxWiFTyB3A8Cd3EWTdYqDSAzNqUcCBcgmKB1CKOv83li_TJ4KIP9CjiviluVsxVizKCpREkY/s400/bread+delivery.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573719100720119330" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Two Ladies and an Old Door<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8h2Lv4zyn1Cg78PxASQrPhfs7-fJnm4aKEDgnElyengIQS2p09rDY3oG43k1lctdiY0qpo0131vAuSsyYG3L1nSmMLcsZrNGo2qwWc0Kk-a8aCb03pnx5IuzM4hfUvoHvrcZ89iQTSx4/s1600/two+ladies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8h2Lv4zyn1Cg78PxASQrPhfs7-fJnm4aKEDgnElyengIQS2p09rDY3oG43k1lctdiY0qpo0131vAuSsyYG3L1nSmMLcsZrNGo2qwWc0Kk-a8aCb03pnx5IuzM4hfUvoHvrcZ89iQTSx4/s400/two+ladies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573720840698660418" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Bald Man and Rock<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBt_q1HBJbRnXZZI354y7f3BXR-xmZRGI4VT0AhQKzhGSeqw94BfgiWKd76lUhJOeoolAV4L239hv7CnjyjMLa3Nai7xLSYDn1tjI-uq4TYLKueD_umVewsbwoPc9dyZ3-7czapw_T0g/s1600/bald+man+and+rock.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBt_q1HBJbRnXZZI354y7f3BXR-xmZRGI4VT0AhQKzhGSeqw94BfgiWKd76lUhJOeoolAV4L239hv7CnjyjMLa3Nai7xLSYDn1tjI-uq4TYLKueD_umVewsbwoPc9dyZ3-7czapw_T0g/s400/bald+man+and+rock.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573719958861656050" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cafe Window<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDoNoQvSSQaI0MRmG-THQ9HvEOdUN4mS7pXilJUXG6LCC_ckokvLV6DAf4y5haM76SA-a2Y0_xxqxy8i8QI_XZ7g0XXlKidqt4X9hFvMHKbMSNcDgXjSZQNgCiIu3Z3hH-xJSElWrlIwE/s1600/Man+in+window.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDoNoQvSSQaI0MRmG-THQ9HvEOdUN4mS7pXilJUXG6LCC_ckokvLV6DAf4y5haM76SA-a2Y0_xxqxy8i8QI_XZ7g0XXlKidqt4X9hFvMHKbMSNcDgXjSZQNgCiIu3Z3hH-xJSElWrlIwE/s400/Man+in+window.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573723323396302930" /></a>Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207920532938128857.post-12322338103124895492011-02-07T08:49:00.001-08:002011-02-07T10:23:42.672-08:00Ice in the Desert<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9QtGazBuchjc6dxyLUJSPcaK4LXjUcm6YhivpFmx7h7p_E_8rcFXtQdoCaxyxX12aZaXg5Edat1TWmamH7K1JiHk2pPTKz8KROv-4b03zRwUHT_1WY6ooEL5h05wllOz5Nc-nkJiXDY/s1600/winter+002.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9QtGazBuchjc6dxyLUJSPcaK4LXjUcm6YhivpFmx7h7p_E_8rcFXtQdoCaxyxX12aZaXg5Edat1TWmamH7K1JiHk2pPTKz8KROv-4b03zRwUHT_1WY6ooEL5h05wllOz5Nc-nkJiXDY/s400/winter+002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570991748442076210" /></a><br /><br /><br />It’s been a weird week in El Paso. The University has been closed since last Tuesday, and it remains closed today. Many people here are without water or electricity, and there is such a severe shortage of the former that government offices are closed and malls are forced to close early. Laundromats and carwashes have been forced shut, because there are “mandatory water restrictions,” including a ban on taking showers, washing dishes, and doing laundry.<br /><br />It’s kind of weird, kind of (dare I say Kafkaesque?). It’s strange to walk around the deserted UTEP campus, empty of people like an abandoned Tibetan city or a lifeless landscape after the bomb.<br /><br />It all started last Tuesday when subfreezing temperatures washed through El Paso like legions of evil spirits. It was actually only one degree Fahrenheit at the lowest, but with the wind-chill factor Weather.com reported that it felt like, at its worse, below 17, although for most days it lingered around below 7 degrees. <br /><br />It is the coldest winter I have ever experienced, and I lived in rural Minnesota, where every family had a snowmobile in the garage and where they measured snow in terms of feet. I’ve travelled twice through Poland during the worst of winter, walking the streets of Warsaw at night, sliding along frozen puddles and covering up my face from the red sting of cold.<br /><br />But El Paso, our little city in the desert, was the coldest I have ever—and many people have ever—experienced for three days last week. Water pipes froze and busted. <br /><br />Accidents on the freeways and the streets were so numerous emergency services were unable to respond to all of them. Cars slid all over the roads like clowns in the ice follies or got stuck in gutters and driveways.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdPufeqTOIiJfH6AtpykLp1iba6jdByy4wCSA9EmXEiek8R_XpTHfoSSknjXdieVq9EeUyh_ic1iWdLlQP6qD6n36KOpI45YViITXyK7ds0ZBaCiig2PvlY4dt-rg8kECEEPCHMbVbxs/s1600/Texas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdPufeqTOIiJfH6AtpykLp1iba6jdByy4wCSA9EmXEiek8R_XpTHfoSSknjXdieVq9EeUyh_ic1iWdLlQP6qD6n36KOpI45YViITXyK7ds0ZBaCiig2PvlY4dt-rg8kECEEPCHMbVbxs/s400/Texas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571014916061381154" /></a><br /><br />The battery on our car froze, so for two days I was trapped inside the building, unable to go to the grocery store, but even if I were able to start the car, I wouldn’t have been able to pull it away from the curb, because it was surrounded by snow banks on all sides.<br /><br />El Paso was so unprepared for this that even now the city is suffering. It’s “illegal” to take a shower or wash dishes, and water pipes in the city’s infrastructure burst and the water has been contaminated, so we’re advised to boil all water before we use it. Yesterday at a grocery store near our house, I saw that most of the bottled water on the shelves was gone, and some man with ear muffs was piling what was left in his shopping cart, as if he were preparing for the end of times.<br /><br />It’s been a strange week.<br /><br />What is the correspondence for water? <br /><br />What could all this mean?<br /><br />Birds are falling from the sky in Arkansas.<br /><br />The desert has been covered with a sheet of ice.<br /><br />What’s happening?<br /><br />Two weeks ago I was in Buenos Aires, one of the hottest summers I remember having there. The summer before, Sasha and I were there, and we loved the weather and were impressed by how much porteños complained about the heat. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbxOeHP7DhXFtQ6scyhxxkL3hyphenhypheniUDepJ0xW725wGlNx9WqyJJ6vMeZxuhedVmWKDPwPlfz2nNYjIbLc_hCXTlmvbN0dmgozGDcI3zxyW7IHg9fPPtDmKPsusZIRt5-bo5XWhmoMREK7w/s1600/La+Duda2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbxOeHP7DhXFtQ6scyhxxkL3hyphenhypheniUDepJ0xW725wGlNx9WqyJJ6vMeZxuhedVmWKDPwPlfz2nNYjIbLc_hCXTlmvbN0dmgozGDcI3zxyW7IHg9fPPtDmKPsusZIRt5-bo5XWhmoMREK7w/s400/La+Duda2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571012350373222706" /></a><br /><br /><br />This year it was so hot by ten o’clock in the morning that I couldn’t stand being outside unless I was underneath some three-hundred-year-old tree in some park somewhere in the city.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugbLNMT5uI2zCHesDOQSDwmEyQWtQkQbBAdVwbj4tzhEUcLfYA99OMasDJNUYkC5F_7tQ8x9cVd8Xr-3bYutUIQ7W55sglEbjb-BiSQ4U2sKhu8ZBgdKa1Vfe02OSG6Nqr7Hf6uJWdv4/s1600/Walking+home.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugbLNMT5uI2zCHesDOQSDwmEyQWtQkQbBAdVwbj4tzhEUcLfYA99OMasDJNUYkC5F_7tQ8x9cVd8Xr-3bYutUIQ7W55sglEbjb-BiSQ4U2sKhu8ZBgdKa1Vfe02OSG6Nqr7Hf6uJWdv4/s400/Walking+home.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571009944766551618" /></a><br />I went from extreme heat to extreme cold, but here’s the cool thing:<br /><br />It’s nice to be home. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl4hvaAjXdjIMep2qOwPmJXQO_khJt0aW7l2by_dypOMfKJszI9pGgdYsyhK2QIxQQKC1IF2M9WM7Ids3itUcYiR3_vux_riHn8-u9lY76aOf-o6KoY5YoZOXtD5pgwV-Zg_edoL0vbU/s1600/Goodby%252C+Buenos+Aires.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl4hvaAjXdjIMep2qOwPmJXQO_khJt0aW7l2by_dypOMfKJszI9pGgdYsyhK2QIxQQKC1IF2M9WM7Ids3itUcYiR3_vux_riHn8-u9lY76aOf-o6KoY5YoZOXtD5pgwV-Zg_edoL0vbU/s400/Goodby%252C+Buenos+Aires.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571010636373466418" /></a><br /><br />Home is always warm, no matter how cold it is outside.Daniel Chacónhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02786304191772612618noreply@blogger.com1