Street musician, Tijuana Day 7
On the bus to La Linea
observing san diego-tijuana urban life Post Tagged with: "pop culture"
Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
Zonkey Equus Tijuanus, Day 4
Viejo pintando un Zonkey en Callejon Bosco
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Eyemax Threedee paints a car
What can you do with a Geo Prism? Tim O’Neill asked his friend Eyemax Threedee to use it as a canvas. So I went over to the parking lot next to Queen Bees Art and Cultural Center today to hang out with Eyemax Threedee and Tim O’Neill while Eyemax finished […]
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Wildstyle: North Park Thrift Trader gets the full treatment
by Jill Holslin There’s some new color on Iowa Street this week. A couple of weeks ago, a crew of artists threw up some scaffolding and covered the Thrift Trader buildings on 3937 and 3939 Iowa Street in San Diego’s North Park with vibrant graffiti pieces. And so, our already […]
Tijuana Urban Art
Zonkey Rock: Party People Take Back Tijuana
Terrific piece by Chad Deal about the cultural renaissance on Calle Sexta in Tijuana. Because Tijuana doesn’t need a culture driven by Marriot hotels and cheap piña coladas by the pool. From the San Diego Reader Wednesday, May 11, 2001 Zonkey Rock: Party People Take Back Tijuana by Chad Deal […]
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Should they stay or should they go?
San Diego CityBeat’s Seth Combs considers the complicated decision of many bands to boycott Arizona in the wake of the vicious anti-immigrant law SB1070. Many bands feel that this one cuts both ways. From San Diego CityBeat Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Should they stay or should they go? A year […]
Border Art
Somos más Americanos
Los Tigres del Norte perform their song “Somos más Americanos” from the album Uniendo Fronteras (released in Aug 2001) with Zack de la Rocha on MTV Unplugged. They have shouted at me a thousand times I should go back to my country Because there’s no room for me here I […]
Tijuana Urban Art
Collective spirit: Is ruidosón a genre, a philosophy, a movement or all of the above?
More great coverage of the emerging scene in downtown Tijuana from Peter Holslin, Music Editor for San Diego CityBeat. from San Diego CityBeat, April 26, 2011 Collective spirit: Is ruidosón a genre, a philosophy, a movement or all of the above? by Peter Holslin The biggest music act to come […]
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A real revolution? Despite last summer’s big street-art exhibition, the genre is still as illegal as it ever was
Here’s a piece I published in CityBeat this month about street art in San Diego. Published April 4, 2011 in San Diego CityBeat by Jill Holslin If you’re on a bicycle at the bottom of the steep hill at the intersection of B and 19th streets near City College, the […]
Border Art / Border Wall / Friendship Park
New video on borders & migration: "We Are One"
In July 2009, I met a group of French filmmakers from Marseilles at a border wall event at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. The filmmakers–Romain de l’Ecotais, Maxime Rostan and Guillaume Vidal–had been traveling for weeks through Latin America & Mexico, documenting border walls and migrations in the Americas. […]
