casaflag

casaflag
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Another photo i took in Ixtlan.

rio

rio
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

We went to the town of Ixtlan yesterday. This is a photo i took at the main church.

torrofuego2

torrofuego2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I posted this photo on 7_23 but here it is combined with a photo that MJH took. I really like the effect. The mood here is entirely different than the original shot - which i feel was more festive.

Dub

victor
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I have another cool mixtape for you cats. And related to todays show, check out this interesting reggae music link (nice streams)
and also this Reggae zine link. Lastly, if you havent heard of AlphaBlondy click here and check out his music.

amarillo

tank
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I want to remind you all to check out the links on my sidebar, especially the ToyCamera link and Nyclondon's site which have great black and white photography. Also - if anyone has an interesting website that you think I should list on my blog, let me know.

Hoy

cig
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Ciggie pack ala grafFic

taxistand

taxistand3
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

"city" scenes

red and oranges

reddance2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

It's been a creative day for me. I've been learning more montage techniques. The stencil art web site had some nice tips so i'm trying new ways of isolating images. I approach these sort of montages in a painterly way - adding, subtracting, layers built up, torn town. It's a very organic process.

truckstop

truckstop
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

una mas photomontage.

sidral

sidral
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

"A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it." ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"

Not sure if this Sidral Mundet soda is incomplete or strange enough, but it is a type of apple drink that has been around since 1902. Don Arturo Mundet originally produced it - but alas, it's owned by cocacola these days.

movement

market
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Smokey filtered light, a snapshot from the market. (photo montage)

"Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment." ~John Loengard,

"Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes."
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

LosDos

losDos
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Random graffiti,
Art Crimes

Here's an interesting site about stencil art

Green

EBgarden2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

A photo i took on the Ethnobotanical garden tour.

basura

basura
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Usually folks take pictures of plants at the ethnobotanical garden here in Oaxaca, but this trashcan was mighty appealing to me.

OaxacanMarkets

tlacMkt
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Movement
Organized chaos of chicken and active pigs in bags
Woven baskets and AA batteries
Shouts from vendors
Women with head wraps and common aprons
Fire from the comal, smoky busy
Draping meat in thin strips
Fly swatters
Bootleg ranchero music, red plastic buckets
Miscellaneous items random
Innumerable combs and luche libre action figures,
light bulbs, rat poison
Tarps strung across the streets, rebar,
Kept sheep
Kids and interesting fruit
Faith
Wheel barrows of gummy worms
Herbs and sticks, underwear

Tlacolula

gourds
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Carved gourds at the Tlacolula market

sawdust

My last pottery class was tonight. THese are my final pieces - my molcajete (mortar and pestle), and two whistles. These were sawdust fired - and have a nice black hue.

Ascalapha

moth1
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Photo i took of the Mariposa de la Muerte (Ascalapha odorata). A bat-like moth which can have a wingspan up to 7inches. This female moth (you can tell by the pink wavy band on the wing) was maybe 5inches in length and fluttered into our room while we were sleeping. Moths are cool!

Comal

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for." -Jean Michel Basquiat

marimba

marimba
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

howdy - another mixtape mix for you cats. see on sidebar or click HERE :)

Blue

michael
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Feelin' the creative vibe, here's a portrait of my friend Michael - who is also an artist.

the Future

asketch2 copy
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

"Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now." P. Chodron.

dibujo

sketch4
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

List of fav cartoon artists:
Chuck Jones
Alison Bechdel
Eric Orner
Erika Lopez

Calavera

skel3
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

A drawing i made this morning.

Tamayo

sketches
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

In prep for my pottery class - went to the Museo Rufino Tamayo to study the prehispanic work there. Such incredible pieces.

Here's a bit of info about Tamayo:
"Tamayo, Rufino - Mexican painter of Zapotec descent. He was born in Oaxaca but following the death of his parents in 1911, went to live with his aunt in Mexico City. He studied at the Escuela des Artes Plasticas, and in 1921 was appointed head of the Department of Ethnographic Drawing at the Archaeological Museum, which introduced him to folk art. In 1936 48, he was based in New York, and after the exhibition which marked his return to Mexico (at the Pallacio des Bellas Artes, 1948) was bitterly attacked by the muralists for its disavowal of popular and accessible forms, he moved to Paris. He finally returned to Mexico City in 1964, donating his collection of Pre Columbian art to Oaxaca to form the Museo de Arte Prehispanico de Mexico Rufino Tamayo.

Tamayo was an outsider in post Revolutionary Mexico, politically neutral and opposing the muralists' commitment to a public, popular art. His own paintings draw on Mexican folk art and ceramics for their themes and in their rich use of colour and texture, but their sophisticated compositions are more closely indebted to Cubism. In the 1930s he painted tropical fruits, perhaps influenced by his experiences as a child working for his aunt's wholesale fruit business. Later his imagery became more grotesque, dominated by animals. From the mid 1940s onwards, he moved towards abstraction and placed greater emphasis on his use of strong colours." (internet source)

amanecer

starart2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Just started a pottery class at Sachmo art center. yahooo!

BTW - this is a photoshop art piece i just made.