tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313091242024-03-13T01:14:10.391+01:00candylandon the sweet little game of city thingsMario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-12367845406956507112009-04-21T21:16:00.004+02:002009-04-21T21:47:50.126+02:00mañanarama.<br />.<br />.<br />dearest friends, foes, fans, followers and fellow bloggers:<br /><br />as you must've realized by now, candyland is kaput. it's been a nice run, with its ups and downs. i'm not particularly proud of any given post here. each blog i start seems to move further and further away from the simple, self-referential "authorship" mode and closer to an engagement with everything that's out there. i think this is what made candyland worthwhile. but the candy ran out.<br /><br />the good news is i've already moved on. i'll be blogging at <a href="http://mananarama.blogspot.com/">mañanarama</a> now. there you'll find all sorts of visual and textual goodies on the subject of failed development, bogus modernization, and other urban or architectural dreams deffered. i've decided to concentrate on mexico, for once (i'm sure a big part of it is homesickness, considering this is already my third year away from d.f.), though I'll probably indulge in the occasional musing on (pan)americana, mid-century manias, <span style="font-style: italic;">tercermundismo</span> or just random <span style="font-style: italic;">mex</span>otica.<br /><br />it was nice having you here, and i hope you'll come on down to <a href="http://mananarama.blogspot.com/">mañanarama</a> and take a look (if you like it, make sure you update your links and feeds). there's also a little <a href="http://mananarama.tumblr.com/">tumblr</a> appendix to the blog. See you there...<br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pgqTS3XcAuI&hl=es&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pgqTS3XcAuI&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-4674938604058404302009-04-20T08:10:00.004+02:002009-04-20T08:16:50.601+02:00r.i.p.<br />.<br />.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/19/jg-ballard-author-dies-aged-78">j.g. ballard</a>. writer, thinker and science fictioneer (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)<br /><br />+<br /><br />candyland. weblog (18 July 2006 – 19 April 2009)Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-68820876223498624452009-04-17T10:42:00.001+02:002009-04-17T10:46:01.174+02:00home.<br />.<br />.<br /><br />i've realized i can only live in places i love/hateMario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-79779914617228682482009-04-09T20:19:00.001+02:002009-04-09T20:19:51.443+02:00last view<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j0E6Fyrm4Ws&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j0E6Fyrm4Ws&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-69252996099437120202009-04-04T12:27:00.001+02:002009-04-04T12:27:31.549+02:00makes me rather sad<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pkLxW-AaRyE&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pkLxW-AaRyE&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-21263149832100870302009-04-01T08:41:00.001+02:002009-04-01T08:43:37.639+02:00tomorrow never came<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v2isvTOiVVE&hl=es&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v2isvTOiVVE&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-88635710933058857232009-03-25T07:37:00.002+01:002009-03-25T07:39:16.307+01:00refreshment<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IO8-bCpfWxg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IO8-bCpfWxg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">¡refresca en grande!</span><br />refreshment, big time!Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-91669419559551768552009-03-19T17:55:00.001+01:002009-03-19T17:57:28.963+01:00o-rama<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hgd.com/goofy/orama.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYKJwPei8mMPVIIIcAta4TPUUgnvlkU4W3mzHo2ru0-WGdM4up10wrXF0HU52u0YycQL6-TqBa2SC9xfVwz8Bq1YGh_r55Kd8k4Y4gKQ4r_bEkEs-Wh6jtEiQOPNDOvo6bP1aT/s400/bowl_ashtray.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314943876421350034" border="0" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />bowl-<a href="http://www.hgd.com/goofy/orama.html">o-rama</a> (ashtray)Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-13942049095842188382009-03-18T15:49:00.003+01:002009-03-18T15:49:44.771+01:00futurama (1964).<br />.<br />.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-5aK0H05jk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2-5aK0H05jk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-4705328683891896932009-03-17T15:13:00.000+01:002009-03-17T15:14:49.224+01:00futurama (1939).<br />.<br />.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/74cO9X4NMb4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/74cO9X4NMb4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WU7dT2HId-c&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WU7dT2HId-c&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-8320612671504598422009-03-16T12:08:00.004+01:002009-03-16T12:17:13.708+01:00-rama.<br />.<br />.<br /><blockquote>It is interesting to note the widespread use of a new derivative suffix, <span style="font-style: italic;">-rama</span>, in New York advertising language. The appeal of <span style="font-style: italic;">-rama</span> is evidently due to the great success of the wide-screen motion picture, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cinerama</span></a>, which had its New York <span style="font-style: italic;">première</span> on September 30, 1952…Cinerama was made up in the mid-194os, when Fred Waller, the inventor of this motion picture technique, offered a case of champagne to a co-worker for the best name for the process. The prize was won by Waldo McLowerie, who came up with <span style="font-style: italic;">Cinerama</span>. It was obviously coined on the analogy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama">panorama</a> and the less frequent <span style="font-style: italic;">cyclorama</span>, from the root <span style="font-style: italic;">cine-</span>, occurring in a great many words related to motion pictures, and the ending <span style="font-style: italic;">-rama</span>, taken from the final part of panorama and cyclorama, disregarding any analytic-etymological considerations. (Panorama, dating from 1796, goes back ultimately to the Greek <span style="font-style: italic;">pan</span> 'every' and <span style="font-style: italic;">horama</span> 'view,' and thus the -o- is an etymologically given phoneme in the compound…)<br /><br />The transfer was motivated by the similarity in the arrangement of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Cinerama</span> technique…offering a wide panoramic view which creates the illusion of depth, an illusion which is further augmented by stereophonic sound effects...<br /><br />Immediately after the enthusiastic reception of <span style="font-style: italic;">Cinerama</span> by critics and public, the liquor store next door to the theater called its window display a '<span style="font-style: italic;">liquorama</span>'; other names followed: <span style="font-style: italic;">audiorama</span>, a display of acoustic instruments; <span style="font-style: italic;">Autorama</span>, a television show; <span style="font-style: italic;">colorama</span>, a color movie; <span style="font-style: italic;">Dekorama</span>, an oil paint decal set; <span style="font-style: italic;">Figurama</span>, an 'amazing new three-dimensional girdle'; <span style="font-style: italic;">Himberama</span>, 'a 4-D show,' advertised on Times Square; <span style="font-style: italic;">motorama</span>, an auto- mobile exhibit; <span style="font-style: italic;">newsorama</span>, a television news program; <span style="font-style: italic;">Phonorama</span>, a new Philco phonograph; <span style="font-style: italic;">scoutorama</span>, a meeting of New York State Boy Scouts; <span style="font-style: italic;">sinerama</span>, in an advertisement of the jacket of a book called <span style="font-style: italic;">Jest and Sex</span>: 'Sexplosively Sexational Sinerama of life'; <span style="font-style: italic;">skinerama</span>, the headline of a World-Telegram article making fun of baldness concoctions; <span style="font-style: italic;">smellorama</span>, the 'symphony' of a 'smell organ,' in an article on experiments in sensory entertainment during the 1920s; <span style="font-style: italic;">striporama</span>, a burlesque movie; <span style="font-style: italic;">telerama</span>, a television show; <span style="font-style: italic;">vistarama</span>, a new anamorphic type of wide-screen photography and projection; and <span style="font-style: italic;">Wonderama</span>, 'the first musical of the future.'<br /><br />The word <span style="font-style: italic;">Cinerama</span> was by no means the first coinage with this ending in the twentieth century. Well known is the <span style="font-style: italic;">Futurama</span> of the General Motors exhibit during the New York World's Fair of 1939-40, but this did not seem to create a fashion…<br /><br />The meaning of this suffix is clear: 'a spectacular show or display' (the thing displayed is sometimes indicated in the stem).<br /><br /></blockquote>John Lotz, "<a href="http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1283%28195405%2929%3A2%3C156%3ATS%27%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B">The suffix -rama</a>", <cite><a href="http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=americanspeech">American Speech</a></cite>, Vol. 29, No. 2 (May, 1954)Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-85647126564401836312009-03-15T11:45:00.003+01:002009-03-15T11:52:41.812+01:00balzacorama<blockquote>The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and the empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty. Dullness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or in a gesture. This kind of argot is always changing. The essence of the jest consists in some catchword suggested by a political event, an incident in the police courts, a street song, or a bit of burlesque at some theater, and forgotten in a month. Anything and everything serves to keep up a game of battledore and shuttlecock with words and ideas. The diorama, a recent invention, which carried an optical illusion a degree further than panoramas, had given rise to a mania among art students for ending every word with <span style="font-style:italic;">rama</span>. The Maison Vauquer had caught the infection from a young artist among the boarders.<br /><br /> “Well, Monsieur-r-r Poiret,” said the employé from the Muséum, “how is your health-orama?” Then, without waiting for an answer, he turned to Mme. Couture and Victorine with a “Ladies, you seem melancholy.” <br /> “Is dinner ready?” cried Horace Bianchon, a medical student, and a friend of Rastignac’s; “my stomach is sinking <span style="font-style:italic;">usque ad talones</span>.” <br /> “There is an uncommon <span style="font-style:italic;">frozerama</span> outside!” said Vautrin. “Make room there, Father Goriot! Confound it! your foot covers the whole front of the stove.” <br /> “Illustrious M. Vautrin,” put in Bianchon, “why do you say frozerama? is right by the same rule that you say ‘My feet are <span style="font-style:italic;">froze</span>.’” <br /> “Ah! ah!” <br /> “Here is his Excellency the Marquis de Rastignac, Doctor of the Law of Contraries,” cried Bianchon, seizing Eugène by the throat, and almost throttling him. <br /> “Hallo there! hallo!” <br /> Mlle. Michonneau came noiselessly in, bowed to the rest of the party, and took her place beside the three women without saying a word. <br /> “That old bat always makes me shudder,” said Bianchon in a low voice, indicating Mlle. Michonneau to Vautrin. “I have studied Gall’s system, and I am sure she has the bump of Judas.” <br /> “Then you have seen a case before?” said Vautrin. <br /> “Who has not?” answered Bianchon. “Upon my word, that ghastly old maid looks just like one of the long worms that will gnaw a beam through, give them time enough.” <br /> “That is the way, young man,” returned he of the forty years and the dyed whiskers—<br /> “The rose has lived the life of a rose—<br /> A morning’s space.”<br /> <br /> “Aha! here is a magnificent <span style="font-style:italic;">soupe-au-rama</span>,” cried Poiret as Christophe came in bearing the soup with cautious heed. <br /> “I beg your pardon, sir,” said Mme. Vauquer; “it is <span style="font-style:italic;">soupe aux choux</span>.” <br /> All the young men roared with laughter.</blockquote><br /><br />honoré de balzac, <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/313/1/3.html">old goriot</a></span> (1835)Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-64839291638003413822009-03-14T08:19:00.007+01:002009-03-14T08:35:45.754+01:00mañana...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0cfs9kapSM&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p0cfs9kapSM&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">you,<br />with your moonshine eyes<br />and your envious mouth<br />that doesn't give, that doesn't give,<br />that doesn't give at all.<br />you, with your lover<br />and friend the wind<br />that ruffles your hair<br />and reveals all your dreams.<br />twisted, rebellious, crazy,<br />in love with yesterday<br />and tomorrow and with the desire<br />of what i want to be,<br />and tomorrow, <br />if there is a tomorrow,<br />i <span style="font-weight:bold;">will</span> be...</span>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-5584619427103251632009-03-08T11:08:00.001+01:002009-03-08T11:10:01.106+01:00bessie<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DOaZ37tO3uo&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DOaZ37tO3uo&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />fading outMario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-1453007394345768872009-03-03T16:33:00.003+01:002009-03-03T16:36:16.410+01:0070/100<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kevinbauman.com/100abandonedhouses/index.php?page=gallery&photo=09200403_15_lg.jpg&title=abandoned%20house%2070&img_id=63"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTp3TpWerPeig-civh450IoVbJuhb-NOsQrR-PfOda9ezF1xIozGb6ikpweo3ZnGQ5__jjD5EqkFJ9fwa481Doo3D1c7olkmMFnfxYlnoOeb4bYmm3QYEdCp2l0fanU4qN-y1m/s400/09200403_15_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308985222940312914" border="0" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><a href="http://www.kevinbauman.com/index.html">kevin bauman</a>, abandoned house 70<br /><br />*via <a href="http://www.spaceinvading.com">spaceinvading</a>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-49930420867148317412009-03-01T20:01:00.001+01:002009-03-01T20:03:42.730+01:00idle<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N71Ky9vWOeU&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N71Ky9vWOeU&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />sunday, idleMario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-624289918882194562009-02-28T11:40:00.005+01:002009-02-28T12:32:30.136+01:00going down.<br />.<br />.<br />even i, always the ardent <a href="http://sweetlittlegame.blogspot.com/search/label/decay">decay</a> enthusiast and lover of <a href="http://sweetlittlegame.blogspot.com/search/label/decadence">blight</a>, am kind of freaking out and finding it hard not being overwhelmed with the onslaught of <a href="http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/poor-little-formerly-rich-us.html">neodepression-related</a> architectural and urban occurrences. i was hoping for the day when architecture would be more about buildings crumbling down than going up, but i never thought it would come so fast and be so in-your-face. i certainly didn't see it happening practically everywhere. i'm trying to come to grips with the debacle by compiling a series of keywords:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21140704/">bust-towns</a><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcquaid/the-american-disasterscap_b_69725.html">disasterscape</a><br /><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/3992387/Favelizacao-no-Dubai">excesscapes</a><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/17/architecture-recession-credit-crunch">frozen skyline</a><br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-beijing-bust22-2009feb22,0,5564951.story">see-through buildings</a><br /><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2008/03/14/carollloyd.DTL">slumburb</a><br /><a href="http://www.colorofchange.org/hud/arch.htm">unbuilding</a><br /><br /><br /><br />care to share?Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-56621361290940387142009-02-25T16:25:00.003+01:002009-02-25T16:40:00.111+01:00perilous<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123518102536038463.html#articleTabs%3Dslideshow"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9w8LoF_S1lcuvKg1ik-KKOdbNZ83Hw5E21_mNzU0PzsJbaYEQpNnXYEgtx0mOd7LjZtK1A_MhGvbIrVWjDqoPKFXkkohFUHFKgzTuTmEKKRbNlW7NkaC8in0Z6mBZoqwQhGAZ/s400/narcoviolencia.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306758486000621154" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123518102536038463.html#articleTabs%3Darticle">the perilous state of mexico</a> <br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m9FZeNOouMM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m9FZeNOouMM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><small>* night scene in neza by brian l. frank for the wsj </small>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-50376678675793666402009-02-23T10:41:00.003+01:002009-02-23T10:45:21.099+01:00strait?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://brandavenue.typepad.com/brand_avenue/2009/02/four-more-years.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 323px;" src="http://brandavenue.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c12a453ef0111688d6bcb970c-pi" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />is it?<br /><br />via <a href="http://brandavenue.typepad.com/brand_avenue/2009/02/four-more-years.html">brandavenue</a>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-63919931550958215222009-02-20T13:43:00.004+01:002009-02-25T16:42:17.144+01:00narcomuseo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/142236"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6qp7JYRbDzkLJ_ym4HNcvIfAsr_36yBiWfLidYPpTLPxcNXxazQW8R_kE21skFCeGFvuh8DaJizEtqNjlPN91E2VvUp6FDDEI5q7r-4dfs0qX-Hd5KJEKEky3kf9vRBLlBuw4/s400/narcomuseo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304859565266406082" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/19/mexico-drugs-museum">museo</a> del <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/americas/27mexico.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">enervante</a>, mexico city<br />.<br />.<br />.<br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vr0gWgKVWMI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vr0gWgKVWMI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-22775167592819711392009-02-19T13:43:00.002+01:002009-02-19T13:46:32.279+01:00narcobloqueos<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIQTVVgU3Gk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZIQTVVgU3Gk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />from the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/world/americas/19mexico.html">nyt</a>:<br /><br />"they kill. they bribe. they launder money. and now mexico’s drug cartels may have their hands in a new activity: street protests."Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-332357675246360172009-02-19T10:34:00.004+01:002009-02-19T10:38:33.886+01:00neverland<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnelbug/sets/72157603558879859/"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi51cZAIbxIMOlGhce4iPwm0blakI8IwK-lqSLvBTw6G2W8D9JgpzRsoUtRkFfVk8YBgw_W0PqcVNGv5O6Nc1OhxiKzXbuujFLhdNLt7vn15Lelw4A7RQMKDqeXTYQFakJu4ZeU/s400/2208182953_6ab5c5acf7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304439619213583794" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />neverland, <a href="http://www.terrastories.com/bearings/inside-neverland-ranch">vacant</a><br /><br />via <a href="http://fantasticjournal.blogspot.com/2009/02/stange-news-from-another-star.html">fantastic journal</a>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-74638511869290173142009-02-17T10:21:00.002+01:002009-02-17T10:22:37.184+01:00tankthis blog is tanking faster and deeper than the global economy. better find me some stimulus.Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-27187478345039712932009-02-12T12:06:00.003+01:002009-02-12T12:09:54.213+01:00slums‘r’us<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/slumsrus.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigY-emkFV0C1isEc_VlBAfWucqa4dT0jRSntk5AOonVibXJg0lsODJ0Hti3Lu4mgr6XitcFpzklfnhQaLhDV9MFNzNpEj0GI3MEzp1CaHbWp6wEQURlX_Pto_p15SvKdq5UVuE/s400/m.i.a.01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301865681691170674" /></a><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />go <a href="http://thewhereblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/slumsrus.html">read</a><br /><br /><small>* m.i.a. portrait by napoleon habeica, from <a href="http://www.babybabybaby.com.mx/mia_01.html">babybabybaby</a> magazine</small>Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31309124.post-31827053079757984382009-02-10T22:34:00.001+01:002009-02-10T22:36:51.191+01:00neodepressed (4)<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kyv70KiAc7g&hl=es&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kyv70KiAc7g&hl=es&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />.<br />.<br />.<br />global warming (plus the tropicalization of old europe)Mario Ballesteroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860860849865490238noreply@blogger.com0