Guadalajara Daily Photo
Thursday, May 31, 2007
The School of Music
This is the entrance of the School of Music. It belongs to the Universidad de Guadalajara. It is located close to the Teatro Degollado and also to a church, in an ancient building. You can see the figure of Bethoven. When you walk in front of the shcool, you can hear the musicians practicing their lessons. Saturdays and sundays there are special courses for people who are not professionals.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Broken memories
It is so sad to see such a great mosaic work into this broken construction. Is not even worth it the effort to rescue it?
This shot was taken on Lopez Cotilla Street.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The door to my heart
Ernesto Cruz is a very well known name on galerists and decorators in Tlaquepaque. This is the lock of the door to its gallery. Heart shapes are his trademark, you can find candles, boxes, jewelry with heart shapes like this.Hope you can visit one day Tlaque!!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Pedro Moreno
These are two views of a same street: Pedro Moreno. The name of the street is honouring a mexican who fough for our indepence from Spain. It is very commun to find the same name in several streets of mexicans cities.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Space issues
As you can imagine, in a growing city like Guadalajara, space limmitations is a common issue. For example, at the corner of Morelos an Colón Street you can find in the first level a very well known coffee shop named "La Flor de Córdoba", but as soon as you look upstairs... there it is! A bridal shop!! (in Mexico, bridal shops also sell dresses for girls that turn 15, remember this post?) .
Funny uh?
Saturday, May 26, 2007
What is left...
This is the "Rinconada de las Tapias del Convento de San Agustín" meaning "The corner of Las Tapias at The San Agustin Convent", originally part of the mentioned convent that was built on 1573.
This is at Morelos and Degollado street, in downtown Guadalajara.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Alcalde Avenue
Just one block away from this spot, the Alcalde Avenue is known as "16 de Septiembre Avenue".
Lack of imagination at naming the streets?? I dunno, but in GDL is very common to be on changing street names.
Does it happen the same on your cities?
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Hotel Frances
The Hotel Frances is an old and nice hotel close to the main square of the city. Sometimes is relaxing enter there, stay in its bar and just drink a cold beer.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Let's get in
These are the front columns of the Degollado Theater. It first opened on Thursday 13, September, 1866, with Lucia Di Lammeroor, written by Gaetano Donizetti.
On its early years the Degollado theater was known as the Great Alarcon Theatre, but due to an oustanding job promoting GDL's culture, Mr. Santos Degollado (former governor of Jalisco) received the honour to give his name to this theatre.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Maestranza Street
Las week I went to pick up a suit to the city´s downtown. I had my camera so I took some pics of the city, and I like this view of an old building in the Maestranza Street, close to the goverment´s palace.
By the way, the building has a name in the windows, "joy Slava" it says, well, it has nothing to do with the famous discoteque in Madrid, Spain.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Old scale
I found this on my way on Morelos street. It's a very old scale that actually still works very fine. The truth is, that, I would not imagine weightening myself among so many delishes that are sell in this area. Maybe it is just a reminder of the need of keep it on shape... or just an advice!!
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Another day has gone by
The end of a day In Downtown Guadalajara.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
El futuro del cine
You must have heard of The Three Amigos: Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro & Alejandro González Iñárritu. Well, a couple of days ago I had the chance to direct a short film. This is a shot of the shooting...
I just got to think: maybe I was witnessing the raise of future big names on the industry... so I decided to share this image with you (and no, I'm not on the image).
I just got to think: maybe I was witnessing the raise of future big names on the industry... so I decided to share this image with you (and no, I'm not on the image).
Friday, May 18, 2007
Nortec
Nortec is the word to describe two rhythms in the mexican electronic scene: Nor from Norteño, an style of tradicional music from the North of the country, with influence form Germany and Poland, that started to be developed in the 19 century, and tec for Techno, refering to the use of electronic instruments and electronic music.
So, what is all of this about?, well this month in Guadalajara we have the may's cultural festival. Usually there is an invited country, recent years we have seen cultural acts from Austria, Germany, Brazil, etc. but this year Mexico was the "invited", so the Nortec Collective was performing last night for free. It was amazing to see a bunch of musicians using laptop computers and various electronic stuff, performing together with traditional "banda Sinaloense" musicians. The square was converted in a dance floor.
