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No Ball Fail
Lemony Goodness
Belanova at Club Karamba!

Denisse Guerrero (lead vocals) and Ricardo "Richie" Arreola of the group, Belanova, perform during a concert at the seventh anniversary of Club Karamba in Sugarhouse Wednesday, Abril 18, 2012.
I love shooting at concerts when they produce some pretty light. More can be seen on the BLOG
Monterrey Taxi Ambush
ICE Melt

Steven Branch, field office director of ICE, wipes large beads of sweat from his brow as he answers questions about specific cases from a group of people gathered at the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 15, 2012.

Steven Branch, field office director of ICE, answers questions about specific cases from a group of people gathered at the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 15, 2012.

Huge beads of sweat drip ofthe brow of Steven Branch, field office director of ICE, as he answers questions about specific cases from a group of people gathered at the Mexican Consulate in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 15, 2012.
Utah ICE director visits enemy territory, the Mexican Consulate, to assure folks they are only after felons, not people with speeding tickets.
Catrinas

“La Catrina” was created by the lithographer and printer José Guadalupe Posada on zinc etching around 1910 as an illustration for a “calavera”, a satirical verse related to the death of an important person. The leaflet was named by Posada, “La Calavera Garbancera.” Garbancera described a person who was ashamed of his Indian origins and imitated the French culture, just as all the upper class members did at that time in Mexico. The verses of the calavera said: those who today are garbanceras full of make up, tomorrow will be deformed skulls. In 1948, Diego Rivera, who considered Posada his artistic father, made the mural: “Sueño de una tarde dominical en la alameda” (Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the Alameda park), in which he [painted Posada in the middle of the masterpiece holding hands with the Calavera Garbancera. Rivera not only painted the Garbancera dressed up by also named her “La Catrina.” Catrina is slang for elegant or well dressed and refers to rich people. Thanks to Diego Rivera, the Skeleton Lady became an iconic image in Mexico’s culture and is traditionally used in the Day of the Dead celebrations Novermber 1st and 2nd, especially in urban areas. Posada and later Rivera, captured in the skeleton lady, the intimate relationship Mexicans have with death.
Here is Iriana Rodriguez dressed as a “Catrina” at the opening reception of an art show in Provo by artist Paula Montes. More on the BLOG



