Guadalajara Daily Photo
Thursday, November 23, 2006
FIL
The 20th Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) edition, will take place from november 25 until december 30 at the Expo Guadalajara (Latin America's biggest convention center).
I'm gonna try to avoid talking much about this now, because you're about to read sooooo much about it the next week. It's some of the most expected events in this city. So for now, here it is the billboard announcing it, and as you can guess the Guest of Honor this year is Andalusia (Andalucía in spanish).
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Memories
I was looking my photo-files and I found this pic of my dear friend Isaac. We park my car there and when he saw this car I just had to take a picture!!.... Horrible car though!!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Monsters
Well in Mexico we don't have dead penalty, it was abolished because we believe in life. This figure is just a puppet that moves everytime you get the in the blank. Is for practicing your skills as a shooter in a fair.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
La feria (Fair)
In every city, in every small town, always during a celebration (Catholic specially) small fairs are placed, and people go and enjoys the carousel, the merry go round, the house of horror, house of mirror, etc. Here is one at nite.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Muñecas (Dolls)
This old dolls are made of papier mache. Now they are mainly for displays and to be showed as handcrafts, but time ago a lot of mothers use to play with them.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Dia de Muertos (day of the dead)
The day of the Dead is very important in Mexico, as almost all cultures in the world have a ceremony to celebrate their ancestors, Mexico is not the exception and we also celebrate our people who has passed away. We have altars with flowers and candles, as many other countries, but additionally we also put the pics of the dead person and their favorite meals and beverages. The idea is that every November the 2nd the dead people is permitted to come to the world of the living persons and they want to eat their favorite dishes. How they eat them? They eat the smell of the food. Next day the family eat the dishes, we called "recalentado" or re-heated.
Pan de Muerto (bread of the dead) is also popular, and the recipe may change in different places of the country, it is sweet bread with some figures representing bones.
Perhaps the most famous celebration of the dead in Mexico are the skull candies, live the ones in the pic, made of sugar and they put your name in the skull. You can give them as a gift to your friends and relatives. It is nothing morbid, it is only a way to think that sooner or later we are going to die, so it is better to enjoy the life.
Also is common to give figures of skeletons having normal activities, like playing guitars, dancing, singing, cooking, professors, etc. Some of them are made of clay and others of papier mache.
Pan de Muerto (bread of the dead) is also popular, and the recipe may change in different places of the country, it is sweet bread with some figures representing bones.
Perhaps the most famous celebration of the dead in Mexico are the skull candies, live the ones in the pic, made of sugar and they put your name in the skull. You can give them as a gift to your friends and relatives. It is nothing morbid, it is only a way to think that sooner or later we are going to die, so it is better to enjoy the life.
Also is common to give figures of skeletons having normal activities, like playing guitars, dancing, singing, cooking, professors, etc. Some of them are made of clay and others of papier mache.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Theme day!! "Something that is about to disappear"
Something that is about to disappear…??? Let me think, my memory?? I totally forgot about this, but hey a little too late, watching this scenario, just at the middle of the highway between Zapotlanejo and Guadalajara I started to think on how fast this city is growing. I can think that is for sure that in no more than 10 years this will be full of houses, factories, restaurants… or anything.
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