Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Virgins, mermaids and Frida Kahlo arrive in Puerto Escondido Posted by Michele on Jan 27, 2013 in
Irene R Aguilar Alcantara and one of her ceramic mermaids
I didn’t expect to see mermaids when I woke up this morning. But I just got back from the annualDreamweavers Women’s Weaving Cooperative sale, hosted by Patrice Perillie at Casa Tejesuenos, and realized even Sundays in Puerto Escondido can hold surprises. The event features weavings from the Tixinda Cooperative in Pinotepa de Don Luis, a community high in the mountains above Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Weaving demonstration at annual Dreamweaver’s sale
They weave magic on their backstrap looms using yarn dyed blue from the anil (indigo plant), red from the cochineal (cacti bugs) and purple harvested from purpura snails. The weaving is rare and beautiful and, judging by the huge turn-out of shoppers at the event–highly-prized.
You had to get there early for the best selection
Gina Machorro ( Tourist booth fame) and a family of visitors
What surprised me most this year was seeing mermaids, fantastical figures and Virgens of Soledad among the weavings. Then I met master artisan Irene B. Aguilar Alcantara and it all became clear. She’s a member of the Aguilar family, renowned folk art craftspeople from Ocotlán de Morelos. You can read about their work on Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art but Irene is best known for her sculptures of musicians, Frida Kahlo, ”women of the night” and catrinas, the elegantly dressed female figures for Day of the Dead.
A human catarina in Patzcuaro
I was first introduced to the cult of catrinas in Morelia, Mexico (read more about my experience inCelebrating Life and Death in Patzcuaro). Today I was thrilled to be reunited with the magical quality and humour of Mexican folk art ceramics. Irene’s imagination shines through in her work and is a perfect fit with the Dreamweavers resilient spirit.
I can’t wait to see what surprises await at the Dreamweavers 2014 event.
Credit: Irene Aguilar
Contact Irene at artesanairea@yahoo.com.mx or visit her studio in Ocotlan de Morelos, Oaxaca.
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PUERTO ESCONDIDO – beach street photos
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Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, Mexico, is endowed with several stunning beaches . But you won't catch this street photographer lounging around on a towel… …
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PUERTO ESCONDIDO – beach street
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Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, Mexico, is endowed with several stunning beaches. But you won’t catch this street photographer lounging around on a towel…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Playa Zipolite | pursuit of life satisfaction Posts about Playa Zipolite written by sofia the traveler. pursuit-of-life-satisfaction.com/tag/playa-zipolite/
Playa Zipolite | pursuit of life satisfaction
Posts about Playa Zipolite written by sofia the traveler.
pursuit-of-life-satisfaction.
Posts about Playa Zipolite written by sofia the traveler.
pursuit-of-life-satisfaction.
Daytrip to Masunte, Zipolite and Huatusco
Yesterday, saturday, I didn’t have any surf lessons because I went on a small excursion with some surfers from here. Jesús, one of the surf teachers, and his friends do this small trips to the beaches and cities close to Puerto like twice a month and had space over in their van so they picked me up like 8 in the morning.
We started at a beach called Masunte, everyone has told me to go there because its beautiful, and I really liked it a lot. We bathed there and stayed for an hour or something before heading to turtles museum there, quite funny touristy thing there.
Panorama misunte
Bathing! woho. oh, and I’m like the tallest. hehehe.
at the turtles museum
Then we went to another beach called Zipolite, which actually is a nudist beach, but I only saw like 3 nude men. Haha. We sat at some hammocks and ”beds” that were hanging like hammocks, ate some nachos, enchiladas and slept a really good siesta.
Angelo and I had a chat before about our differences, like that I’ve never tried coconut directly from the coconut before (he was like ”whaaat?”), and he told me that he never touched snow (I was like ”whaaat?” haha, no, not really), but it’s weird that we have so different lives, what’s totally normal to one it’s completely exotic to the other.
There are always a lot of sellers passing by selling necklaces, clothes, hats, drinks etc. There was one coconut-seller, so Angelo bought me one, costed 10 or 15 pesos or something. We asked for some ice from the bar so it was cold, and it was delicious. So exotic! :) You eat the inside too. Angelo likes to eat it with lime, salt and chile. Tasted good :)
fixing the coconut! :) at zipolite beach.
After the Zipolite beach, we went to Huatulco, which is a city about 2 hours from Puerto. We went to their beach and watched the sunset. It was meant for us to go to the cinema but they didn’t show anything good. We ate dinner in the center instead and then headed home. On our way we got stopped in a military area and they search all the van, our things and us trying to find drugs or weapons. I think it’s good that they do that, but it’s a weird feeling, because you sort of feel like a criminal even if you haven’t done anything, haha.
To get to huatulco beach you had to walk through here.. weird.. haha
So cute. ”laundry Chelita and her 10 grand sons.” :)
I got back home around 21.30, the others at the beach house had made a bbq which I missed. But we sat and talked and drank for a while before heading in to Zicatela to a place called Panorama. It was calm when we got there and we sat at some hammocks at the beach, but later it got really crowded. Later we changed to Bar Fly (or sky bar, or sky fly or something like that). Everyone from Panorama also went there. And later, we changed back again to Panorama when Bar Fly was about to close. They are both very cool places, really laid back, since this is the beach, a lot of people are walking around either in flip-flops or barefoot, have easy-going clothes (t-shirts and bath shorts or something is fine here). Yeah. I really like the feeling here, very much ”mañana mañana”. And also, everyone is soooo nice. Very talk active and really easy-going.
The Beatles - "20 Greatest Hits" (U.S. Version!)
01. 00:00 "She Loves You"
02. 02:19 "Love Me Do"
03. 04:38 "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
04. 07:05 "Can't Buy Me Love"
05. 09:17 "A Hard Day's Night"
06. 11:50 "I Feel Fine"
07. 14:09 "Eight Days a Week"
08. 16:55 "Ticket to Ride"
09. 20:05 "Help!"
10. 22:24 "Yesterday"
11. 24:29 "We Can Work It Out"
12. 26:45 "Paperback Writer"
13. 29:03 "Penny Lane"
14. 32:05 "All You Need Is Love"
15. 35:55 "Hello, Goodbye"
16. 39:23 "Hey Jude" (Edited)
17. 44:32 "Get Back"
18. 47:45 "Come Together"
19. 52:02 "Let It Be"
20. 55:53 "The Long and Winding Road"
From: Doctor Ebbett's Vinyl Transfer... Enjoy!
Twenty years after the Beatles released their first single in the UK (Love Me Do), Capitol and Parlophone commemorated the event with the compilation called 20 Greatest Hits. Three different track lists were produced: for the UK and U.S. markets, and a third for "Europe." The reasoning was that the selection of the twenty greatest Beatles hits varied from market to market, as not all singles were released in all countries. This would be the last LP in the discography of the Beatles to have different versions for the U.S. and the UK. The release dates were October 11, 1982 in the US and October 18, 1982 in Britain.
This compilation sold reasonably well, but did not pass number 50 in the U.S. or number 10 in the UK. Beatles historians took this as an indication that this British rock-band phenomenon of the 1960's had finally been supplanted by newer trend setters in popular music. They had joined the nostalgic, "Oldies" category for good.
The U.S. and European versions of the LP include a trimmed-down version of Hey, Jude (to 5:05). The version in the UK and the releases on cassette in all markets kept the original, 7:11 track. The U.S. version also was distributed in Canada, in spite of the fact that Can't Buy Me Love only went to number 3 there, and two number one hits, All My Loving and This Boy, are not on the record.
Ten of the twenty greatest hits appear on all three versions of the record. In comparison with the UK track listing, the U.S./Canada version has 14 songs in common. Six from the UK release were omitted: The Ballad of John and Yoko, Day Tripper, Don't Let Me Down, Eleanor Rigby, From Me to You, and Yellow Submarine. In their place appears: Hello--Goodbye, I Feel Fine, Ticket to Ride, Penny Lane, Come Together and Get Back. The European track list has 15 tracks in common with the UK version, and omits the following six: Don't Let Me Down, Eight Days a Week, Let It Be, The Long and Winding Road and Yesterday. In their place the European LP inserted: Get Back, Hello--Goodbye, I Feel Fine, Lady Madonna, and Ticket to Ride.
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