Tuesday, October 31, 2006


making models like hell, heres a pic of an idea of a night sky , the opera is AMAHL and the night visitors
cheers

Monday, October 30, 2006

The Knife - Silent Shout. Live.

this is just because today i spoke with marcel a friend of mine and told me there where going to THE KNIFE concert, i just exploted because i really want to see them live. i dont know if they are coming to mexico one day , i hope so, anyway, i found a clip of the knife , I thought of me being there., enjoy

Saturday, October 28, 2006

ladytron en guanatos


guanatos comix les entrega un fragmento del concierto de las moder mamis de ladytron, es un alivio que los conciertos se sigan haciendo en guadalajara, es un alago que la gente este yendo a los conciertos y invirtiendo dinero y esfuerzo para que poco a poco se caliente el comal musical de la ciudad.
2 cosas, porfavor arreglen la acustica del teatro cabaret: malisima, como todo teatro en guanatos, lamina de techo inclinado hacia el escenario, el rebote de ping pong sonoro no se hizo esperar, udg, porfavor inviertan en la acustica y no tanto en sus bocinas ultra dirigibles que si no tienes una buena acustica en el techo pues tiran el dinero.

La segunda es que no lleven a ladytron a comer despues de un concierto tortas en el santuario. por favor!!! quien fue el de la idea de que con una torta de pata y una chaparrita de naranja los musicos iban a dormir como angelitos. Pobres, solo supimos que estuvieron guacareando en el baño del local de las tortas ( no decimos el nombre) y que toda su austeridad y estetiscismo obscuro se vio invadido por jugos gastricos tirados pa fuera a cañonazos. Espero que esten mejor y no se vean todavia mas palidos los ingleses de ladytron
un video
ciao
r

Friday, October 27, 2006


De acuerdo con aristofanes, la persona que no se siente de ningun lugar, es generalmente una persona que en el recae una la importancia y el deber de cambiar su sociedad, pero cual sociedad? en un mundo de ir y venir en aviones, trenes y camiones, realmente no se bien ya a donde fregados pertenezco, pero al final eso es lo mas importante para mi, sentirme ajento o suelto a una cultura, aunque en el fondo la tengo, cada vez es mas translucida, se pierde con cada nueva experiencia, con cada nuevo idioma que aprendo y no entiendo, con cada comida rara que me meto al organismo, con cada bebida que me apasigua la nostalgia.
teniendo en cuenta que pronto comenzare la opera en veracruz, me dedico mientras a pasear por las calles de Coyoacan en la ciudad de Mexico, nostalgeando alguo donde hace 3 meses era mi casa, produciendo una escenografia. he aqui la imagen mas representativa a mi gusto de coyoacan. no son los coyotes, no son los hippitecas, ni los cultitos. no son los edificios, es simplemente este arbol con gomas de mascar. saludos
rodrigo

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Andy Warhol Japanese TDK Ad

wow, look at this cool andy warhol tv add. impressive, hes so spontaneous

Tuesday, October 24, 2006



And there I was, taking the steel horse, taking the steel bird, taking my way to my nemesis city again!!the place thats not that bad to me , but it´s the city that eats, and shits people, Mexico city. so I started back my voyage on the train, i have a nice snapshot there , the dawn of the swiss railway which i quite find it very cool, very motivating all this vains through swiss lanscape, cutting through the nice postcard city that zurich is.The trip to nemesis city was as expected, thinking why the hell i chose AMERICAN AIRLINES to fly, because of two things Isuppose, the first reason is that it was soo cheap, but I really have to consider having an upper flying status, im getting old and its not so confortable anymore to seat in a place where they treat you like shit and the food is a bag of crackers with mayonnaise.the second reason , al thou I knew this reason wasn´t worth it i reallity, I took it anyway for research reasons. I chose it because I really wanted to see how the flying hostess behaves , because of my comic that im doing, you see, its really inspiring ( if you tak it like me) the way they behave and mistreat people, the way their faces are, the way they wear mak up, the way they fix their hair, man, thats so bad, anyway each time I fly somewhere iIALWAYS have a problem with these creatures. As i asked for a vegetarian meal, so i did the day i purchased my flight, they just gave me bread and butter, THAT WAS IT, THEN , FROM ALL THE 100 rows they have in the airplane a hostess chose mine to kneal on the aisle, and talk for an hour to a passenger, the the thing was that i was sitting and her ass was about 2 cm to my hand, tempation? , you bet, i honestly slap her ass, and of course i suffer the consecuenses the whole crew turn against me in a funny way, they didnt offer me nothing at all, no bread and butter, no, crackers, still 5 hours of flying, my god.i don´t really want to tell you much about it, but this hostess with a darth vader helmet haircut made my day unexpectedly well, nice ass by the way. The only thing is that my fellow plane neighbors say the incident, but as always, nobody say anything at planes, not even when theres really bad hostess, not even when theres snakes!!!!!SO i went to the bathroom because everything else was so boring except the slap, and i took this picture in the bathroom, because there was nothing else to do

Sunday, October 22, 2006


And then , I went again, from my beloved, because tommorrow i´m going to my blood town, my nemesis town , my ashtray town, mexico city, al thou i hate it, there´s always something going on there, i only think now that this opera that im about to do in veracruz trully give my spirit something good in my life, i really want to be part of the art world, and it seems i am slowly doing it, no guadalajara bull shit, no little gallery guy, no getting drunk on each opening show, this is about working hard, work until you sweat blood. anyway i dunno if i make sense at all , at least for me i do, i just went last night to eat fondue chinoise, great food in a great town, möllis, quite cute town, you see a postcard lanscape everywhere you see around. so we went and came today with the train , I was hoping to put a nice landscape with mountains and edelweiss all around me , but i prefer this kind of schnell snapshot of a man that I don´t know looking at a kid that i don`tknow, its kind of dull photo , but it has more story than a nice lanscape, you know, swiss landscape is great , so great , but I feel it kind of empty. It doesn´t fill me with extassy or great pleasure, To me it´s just nice, really nice, but i would like it more if you could find a big piece of crap on the side, or some kind of garbage somewhere that makes the landscape not so beautiful, but, more real, as I said before, a little caos does´t hurt anyone. so thats why i think like that.
anyway ill try to do a photo of what i mean, next time i write will be in Mexico, in zurich´s nemesis, totally a different thing.

Friday, October 20, 2006

cabbage head

i just found lost in my computer this cool and old video featuring rocalberto and master set designer from New York Jane parrott, i dunno what we were thinking, well actually i do know, we were playing with a broken plant in a basement house in east London, AND CEL, CEL, JANES BOYFRIEND HAD THE IDEA, EVERITHING IN THIS VIDEO IS HIS IDEA.we kind of flowed with the funk of the MA on Scenography that we did, we did lots of intelectual stuff along creativity, so that gave birth of some strange things we thought about, hopefully youll enjoy this 10 sec video, i think theres a bigger one, and (el made this video, HIS IDEA, HIS IMAGE, EVERITHING IS MARCEL MENGUES IDEA


I wanted to put this song because lately I usually walk back to my house on an empty street and I hear this song often , i dunno the title but I called funeral,I think its great song, a little depressive, but sometimes we neet a bit of it. Johnny Cash makes the cold empty night so cool! hopefully you enjoy it. the scratching is a plus, ENJOY!!



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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

the TACO TONGUE movie

this are some old videos that i made but wanted to share it with you people, im currently making new ones, anyway this is sn old one from england, nostalgic perhaps, but cool. im gonna open a taco place called TACO TONGUE

Just putting this on the record, SEMELE by händel is as powerful as most operas by mozart , except with a more british touch, this was made in the new york city opera the 12 of september, long time ago but worth looking at.

this day i really shutted my work down, i just dedicated myself to join together my stuff on the web, i didn´t miss much of it outside because everithing is gray and dosnt work much for me like that, this moment i am assigned to do an opera in veracruz on december so thats so near, the thing is i really have to start working on it, it will perhaps work a set as fast as i can, lets see how it goes. any way i shut down today.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

still moving

HE AQUI UN EJEMPLO DE VIDEOS HECHOS POR TAPATIOS
GRACIAS

I went to Den Haag for a quick visit to my sisters, during my short stay i went to a strange conference regarding Guillermo Arriaga`s (amores perros screenwriter) new book "the night of the buffalo" He was also there , so he started talking and we discover a really strange man, he has been suffering violence since he was a kid, he questioned tarantinos movies , he talked about the eminent destruction of ourselves as well as vegetarians being the most destructive people there are.
interesting guy, kind of a diva in a way , but thats how usually is .

In the end i usually pass every evening through the train station , whenever i go into the city.
Something is so fine about it walking and looking up this big angel in Zurich HB , this colorfull figure that gives a bit of excentricity, confidence and cheerfulness to the people waiting for the train, waiting for people, waiting for some hope , or just passing by, The artist: NIkki the saint phalle, The swiss have something they do really good, they are great in little details, they make things really well and careful.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006


I really got to know the work of a great architect carlo Molina I have never seen his work, it seems his eclectic tork is as good as it gets, his work as a designer go to all different fields you can imagine. here in the GAM they have his exhibition , so i went to see what i could find, it seems its one of turin`s great treasures.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006


i took a quick trip to turin to visit my coleague alessia guielmi, just arriving there made me feel the living spirit again, you know a little caos doesn`t hurt anyone, you see swiss are specially good in things, but caos make spirits arise and become more spontaneous and human, a site of the STAZIONE DI MILANO before taking a taking a train to torino.

Monday, October 02, 2006


YESTERDAY I FOUND OPERN HAUS IN ZURICH WHERE I FOUND DR. FAUST PLAYING , SO WE ENTERDER THERE, ALL THOU YOU CAN´T TAKE PICTURES HERE´S A SNAPSHOT OF THE SET

LINCOLN CENTER, HOUSE OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS, HOUSE OF GREAT IMAGINATION, SO FAR SO GREAT PHILLIP JOHNSON.

THUS I FORGOT THIS BLOG FOR A WHILE AND I´M NOT PRETTY SHURE SOMEONE IS READING IT IT COMES TO MY MIND TO WORK ON IT AGAIN TO HAVE AN EXPERIENCE THERE TO GIVE AWAY, WELL FROM 8 TIL 16 SEPTEMBER IWAS IN NY AGAIN
SOME SCENES THERE REALLY CATCHED MY ATTENTION, HERE ARE SOME FHOTOS

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