Fragments of Wakefulness I
20 days. It had already been twenty days. Twenty days in Medellín. Twenty days surrounded by the fungus-covered lime green walls of my private room at the back of the Black Sheep hostel. Twenty days of backpackers shuffling in, shuffling out, flirting,...[Por que] Unas Preguntas
Mis queridos Colombianos, Tengo ocho preguntas. 1.) Que dicen las madres cuando sus hijas salen de la casa llevando pantalones blancas y transparentes con tangas rojas y sin brassiere? No pregunto por criticar – de hecho, yo apoyo el estilo – solo pregunto...[Foolish] Why Didn't I Think of That Earlier?
I just got back from Centro Comercial Monterrey where I had to pick up a DV Firewire cable in order to transfer some digital video from casette to hard drive. At the store I noticed they were selling iPhones so, out of curiosity, I asked the price. “1,800,000...![[Video] In which La Loma Hip-Hop Star Jorge Jurado Gives a Shoutout to Oso](https://i0.wp.com/farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2190478870_66b2a9d711.jpg?w=425)
[Video] In which La Loma Hip-Hop Star Jorge Jurado Gives a Shoutout to Oso
All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to...Cuando subes a un autobus aquí en Medellin puede ser mucho más que transporte público. Dependiendo de tu gusto musical, a veces te toca el placer (o la mala suerte) de un concierto de rap. Aunque la cultura de hip hop ya es algo fuerte, pocas son...
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It had already been a month. On land. No flights. Which, for the past half year or so, is something of a record. Steve: Are you sure it leaves from the downtown airport and not Rio Negro? Me: Yeah, of course. Positive. Steve: You double-checked on the website? Me...[Video] Don Suso y Doña Blanca Curra
HiperBarrio es un proyecto de medios ciudadanos basado en Medellín, Colombia que enseña como utilizar las herramientas del Web 2.0 para compartir las historias locales de Santo Domingo y San Javier La Loma, dos barrios de clase trabajadora. Hace dos...![[Video] Medellin es una Chimba (Pero nosotros no somos monos)](https://i0.wp.com/blip.tv/skin/blipnew/icon_download.gif?w=1080){kind=icon}
[Video] Medellin es una Chimba (Pero nosotros no somos monos)
Medellín, Colombia, una ciudad hermosa con paisajes impresionantes y gente amable que te hace sentir bienvenido. Pero hay una cosa que nos deja confundido. Por que a nosotros todos los paisas nos llaman monos? Descarga para tu iPod Suscribe a todos los videos...Medellín 1991
I finished my book, Finding Flow. In a way, I feel like I read it too fast and left behind too many dog-eared pages that need revisiting. But I was ready to move on to something else, so I scanned the bookshelf and decided to dig back into The Heart that Bleeds: Latin...Latest Photos
