observing san diego-tijuana urban life Here’s a terrific video with interviews with various artists who participated in the project Pantone Onírico in the Tijuana colonia of Camino Verde, headed by the group Reacciona Tijuana. Reacciona Tijuana explains the objective of the project: The project hopes to reaffirm and enrich the cognitive map of the residents […]
Another gorgeous mural from Camino Verde, painted by El Norteño (Alonso Delgadillo), a visual artist and professor at UABC-CITEC, the Center for Engineering and Technology at the University Autonoma of Baja California. Driving around Tijuana, you will see many works of street art by El Norteño in random out of the […]
Mural Intervention in Colonia Camino Verde. "Colors give people energy." Camino Verde is a neighborhood in Tijuana that started out in 1985 as a squatter community of a few hundred homes on the far outskirts of the city. Today, Camino Verde hosts a population of 42,000 of mostly immigrant families […]
Last Saturday we went to Caesar’s for beers and, of course, a Caesar Salad, with Carlos Beltran and Adriana Gonzalez, of the Voz Alta Project Gallery in San Diego’s Barrio Logan. Caesar’s Restaurant, located in the heart of Tijuana’s tourist district on Avenida Revolución, is a sign of the new […]
Crossing back and forth too much in the past two weeks from Tijuana to San Diego, and I haven’t had a chance to shoot many photos or post new ones. But just spent two super fun days in Ensenada, photographing a new mural at the Centro Estatal de las Artes […]
A local teenager wields a long-armed paint roller to help out the artist Once Cero Dos as he worked on his mural on Calle Epiteto in the Camino Verde colonia of Tijuana.
Beatles night at La Chupiteria, and we went crazy until 3 AM singing and dancing on the bar. A jazz musician showed up around 1:30 AM with his soprano saxophone and just started playing along as another patron started hammering out accompaniment on the piano. Damn, La Chupiteria, you know […]
Why haven’t I heard this song until now? I’ve been listening to trashy 107.3 radio since I got to Tijuana a month ago, and I’m always amazed how the music and popular culture of San Diego & Tijuana can run on completely separate tracks. A big thank you to marketing […]
Collaborative piece in estacionamiento on Sexta
Art intervention in Camino Verde
