AS PART OF THE SCENOFEST COLABORATORS i KIND OF MADE A PAUSE ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS ON EACH EVENT THAT I POSSIBLY CAN AND ENTER MYSELF IN A VERY EXQUISIT WORKSHOP. i REALLY WAS A LITTLE SCEPTICAL ABOUT SOME WORKSHOPS. i’VE HAD TALKED WITH PEOPLE ABOUT THE QUALITY OF IT, AND MOST OF THEM WERE REALLY DISSAPOINTED. BUT I TOOK MY CHANCES ANYWAY AND JOINED THE TEA PAVILLION. MY FIRST SURPRISE , WELL, ACTUALLY I WAS EXPECTING IT, WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF KUROTANI MIYAKO PUPPETEER, MASTER OF PRESICION, SO SIMPLE AND GREAT CHOW WITH A PUPPET. SIMPLE, PRECISE, THEY DONNT LEAVE CHANCE DECIDE FOR THEM ON THEIR PERFORMANCE. THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF USING WHITE COLOR ON THE SET OR ON THEIR CLOTHES. AMAZING.

AFTER THAT, WHAT REALLY TOOK ME OVER THE SKIES WAS THAT SHE WAS GIVING THE WORKSHOP , BUT INVITING EACH ONE OF US TO A TEE CEREMONY. JAPANEESE STYLE OF COURSE. THAT MADE IT GREAT BECAUSE RITUALISM WAS IN THE TEE, YOU COULD FEEL SACRED INSIDE YOU. THAT GAVE US THE OPORTUNITY TO START wORKING IN A PUPPET. ELEVEN OF US WHERE MAKING A PART OF THE PUPPET, WHILE THE MASTERS MADE THE TECHNICALL STUFF, THE PLANS, CREATING THE SHAPE OF THE HEAD, IN A WHITE PAPER, IT LOOKED LIKE FRANKESTEIN LABORATORY. . DURING THE WORKSHOP WE EXPERIENCED DIFFERENT VIEWS ABOUT PUPPETRY, WE HAD TECHNICS ON HOW TO HANDLE A PUPPET AGAIN, JAPANEESE WAY, MR. MIAGUI STYLE (SEE KARATE KID).DURING THE WORKSHOP THERE WHERE A CONFRONTATION BETWEEN TWO PUPPET MASTERS, ONE PRAG STYLE, THE OTHER TOKIO STYLE, THERER WHERE DISCUSSING ABOUT THE COSTUME OF THE PUPPET, IT WAS AN ACTUAL FIGHT , AND THE WORKSHOP SPACE SUDDENLY BECAME A RING, SO I REALLY IMAGINE THE PUPPETMASTERS FIGHTING TO SEE WHO MADE THE BEST PUPPET. MAN, THAT WAS GREAT.

SO AT THE END WE MANAGED TO PERFORM A REALLY BAD PERFORMANCE WITH THE PUPET, BUT WE DIDN’T CARE MUCH ABOUT IT, HAVING SAKE AT THE END OF A WORKSHOP MAKES THINGS EASIER.

my fouth day in prague, have seen alot of new ideas met new exiting people all over the worls, but the best is to come, my mind is going KABOOM!!!! of so many great ideas I have in my head, give you this imagages oF PRAG QUADRIENALLE]

SWIMMING TO PRAGUE QUADRIENALE

generating money on the last minute for benefit trip to to prag, I feel I have plan this trip for years, ironically I also feel I´m not prepared at all,but what the hell, as a scenographer it will be a dream come true, like islamists going to mecca, prag will be a great way of meeting otherscenographers, light designers and many characters. I´ll meet will, martin and nikos, hopefully they bring whiskey and ouzo, so i´ll bring my mexican tequila healing water too.

Gonna make two workshops, japanese puppets and video layers. Gonna make interviews all around for scenofest, mexican newspaper and haiti radio. Don´t ask me how I got that last one, But one of my tasks is to show the potentiallity of prag quadrienalle, and what it represents around the world to the mexican people, because unfortunatelly almost none knows about it, only the 4 set designers that always are chosen, the same old ones. anyway. I dont know if i´m gonna make TOWER OF BABEL exhibition because logistical problems with the local school. we where supposed to have tickets to fly there and three days later they cancelled our tickets because $$$$$$$problems, fortunately I have my own from another dealer, (i won this ticket because I could burped so hard) so I´ll see if i still can make it.

anyway, ill give you some pictures of babel tower and see you all there intelectualizing with a PIWO on one hand and a puppet on the other.

anyway, giving you some tunes as always:

common people-william shatner.mp3

sincearly

escenografito mexicanito

DAKOTA

Entering again the new theatre panorama in Guadalajara, After a series of opera productions it is nice to see again the young never dying theatre . Specially when young actors and directors are involved. This time we made a piece from catalan jordi galceran named Dakota, The concept of the set was a kind of a base ball field, along with voyeur views from the crowd to the actors

The story is abot a desntist that wants to go to the USA. to live, but he hits his head andthinks he can predict the future. If you can go and see it in guadalajara it will be on wednesday and thursday of june . Anyway on the 11th of june i´m going to prag!!!! to the prag quadrienalle.

ME CAGA FRIDA KAHLO,

theres no exhibition her paintings are not involved, i hate her life, i hate her paintings, i hate her folklore trademark, her life is just a trademark, and it sells , i hate her so bad.

me caga frida kahlo, dejame en paz ya !!!

tintan-rascame aqui-mp3

A LITTLE 30 CM MARCIAN CAME TO ME LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS IN A COFFEESHOP, HE WALKED TROU MANY PEOPLE WITHOUT GETTING NOTICED, I SOME HOW NOTICED HIM WALKING TO ME, AS HE STOOD BY ME HE PULLED THE BOTTOM OF MY PANTS 4 TIMES , LOOKED UP TO ME OPENED LITTLE GREAT EYES AND WITH A TINY VOICE SAID. ÑA ÑA ÑA ÑA ÑAAAA...
....... i just scratched my head and gave him half of my burned cigarrete, he stretched his hand and jumped with his tiny 30 finger feet. after 3 tries he finally reached it. later he went slowly away throu the crowd, half way away he looked at me, took a deep smoke breath and he started to make smoke rings. then he turned away and dissapeared. I havn`t seen him today.

ping island-lightning strike rescue-life acuatic-mp3

Wardrobe, sometimes people tell you need a change of looks, a FASHION EMERGENCY as they do in the bbc programs, In a way Its true: I´ve had this beard for at least 8 years, my messy hair for 4 years, clothes my dad used to wear, funky holy socks with air conditioned included, retro underwear, but real retro, ripped pants from the 80ths, and still using my top sailers. Have some clothes we use to use on theatre plays in high school.

I still use my walkman, when i´m feeling 80tiess and my discman to feel in fashion, I still hear technotronic, milli vanilli, and steve winwood.

retro is was fashionable, then it went away , then it came again and went again, Im stuck between culture club talking heads and jesus jones.

pathetic isnt it??

I kind of agree of a makeover, but isn´t it whats fashionable pathetic anyway?

welcome to my spaceship- thievory corp. feat. david byrne-mp3

PROJECT IN ZAMORA
Why is it that everytime there´s something interesting in life , there´s 5 different things at the same time, and then there´s nothing else in a large lapse of time. June : Prag quadrienalle is coming, Architecture project in zamora, dream work is offered in this time, I can´t do everything, for some time i´ve been thinking about going to prag, but there are new things going on , and lots of chances to evolve , but old plans still knock on the brains door telling you "please dont forget me" the thing is that how can i forget this every 4 year event, I´s just too important for every scenographer, Its just a thing you have to do one time in life. Anyway for you theatre and show lovers I give you a bertolt brecht jewel.
threepennyopera-mackiemesser-mpeg

Parking lot for piracy people, the virgin is guiding them how to make piracy without getting caught. Thats what mister jose lopez told me while buying photoshop for the 5th time in the market, st jonny market, you see , people who seel piracy cd od dvd are normally as intelligent as a goldfish, but this guy gave me a cd with this great 1990 song , actually is pretty crap , but the memories are great, enjoy
the fresh prince.summertime.mp3

iTS SO GREAT TO SEE AMAZING OPERA IN MY TOWN.iTS ALSO NICE TO KNOW THAT MEXICAN COMPOSERS ARE DOING IT RIGHT, i NEVER KNEW ABOUT MELESIO MOLARES. A TRULLY MEXICAN COMPOSER THAT WROTE ILDEGONDA. AN AWESOME NOT SO LONG OPERA. THE CHOW WAS IN TEATRO DEGOLLADO, THE MAIN THEATRE IN GUADALAJARA, THE SINGERS WHERE FANTASTIC.

THE SET WAS . CLEAR, CONCRETE,ABSTRACT, AND POWERFULL, THE AESTHETIC WAS THE GOTHIC PAINTINGS, BUT WITH A TOUCH OF CONTEMPORARY ELEMENTS.

MAN, THIS KIND OF SHOWS REALLY MAKES A CITY GROW. SPECIALLY MINE. THIS SHOW SAVED THE WEEK, AFTER SEEING THE SHITTY ZARZUELA "LA BERBENA DE LA PALOMA" WITH AN INCREDIBLY BAD ACOUSTIC AND AN AWFUL SET DESIGN, MAN , I DONT KNOW WHY udg KEEPS GIVING WORKS TO THIS BAD SET DESIGNER WHO THINKS VIDEO IS THE FUTURE OF SET DESIGN. IS JUST LIKE IF YOU GIVE VIAGRA TO AN 18 YEAR OLD BOY. HE SHOULD LEARN FIRST ABOUT AESTHETICS AND COMPOSITION. I DONT EVEN WANT TO PUT A PHOTO OF THE SET. BAD. RIDICULOUS.

ILDEGONDA SET WAS ON THE CONTRARY SO GREAT. THE ESCENCE IS THERE, THE MAGIC ANDTHE GREATNES OF SIMPLICITY.

POOR H.R. GIGER

While preparing my scenography class for the scenography students, while making the tower of babel project for prague and preparing to go there on june I dreamed last night about my favorite artists, some of those artists have made set designs, one of my favorite ones is H R GIGER the creator of alien.



I knew somehow he worked in something with Debbie Harry, the singer of blondie. I made my homework of looking after one of his videos, and I found one, OH GOD! I found one!!!!what a result!! what a spectacular piece of SHIT!!!! sometimes when you are a great artist and you enter a field that you don´t know exactly how it works you can easily make bad work, maybe debbie harry loved Giger´s art, but putting it just like that in a video with an extremely CHEESSY song that has nothing to do with gigers art makes it difficult to watch, An example of what a set designer should NOT do. yet the curiosity kills the cat, so I present to you this ridiculous Video, and totally a better song from Blondie .
BLONDIE-The tide is high-mp3