The Magic of the Cities.

Zen promotes the rediscovery of the obvious, which is so often lost in its familiarity and simplicity. It sees the miraculous in the common and magic in our everyday surroundings. When we are not rushed, and our minds are unclouded by conceptualizations, a veil will sometimes drop, introducing the viewer to a world unseen since childhood. ~ John Greer

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

15.o - II





#WORLDREVOLUTION

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”

~Aristotle

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents,
Not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” 

~Abbie Hoffman

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. 

~Herbert Marcuse. One-dimensional man.

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
~Edgar Allan Poe


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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

15.o - I


( Today the words are not carried away by the wind )

15.O ctober Mexico

 ( The impossible has already started )

( When The 99 % Move, The 1 % Fall )

On 15th October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. 
Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change. 
In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity - the G 7,000,000,000. 


Lorenzo:
"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."

The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85).   William Shakespeare


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Friday, October 14, 2011

Taking Off


Egret. Chapultepec Lake. Mexico City

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Rorschach



Harold Pinter

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least.
Who can afford to live in the past?

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy.
I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Horizons of The Past






 
The Square of Santo Domingo is considered Mexico´s City second largest square, after the Zocalo, due to its location and because it is bounded by historic buildings that  during the Viceroyalty fulfilled important economic, religious, political and commercial roles. The Temple of Santo Domingo and the Temple of la Enseñanza, the Chapel of Atonement, the Palace of the Inquisition and the Customs old building are some of the New Spain's significant buildings that make up this urban space of the Historical Downtown.

In the book La Plaza de Santo Domingo. Sixteenth century, Pedro Alvarez y Gasca explains that, initially, this place was located in the quarter of Santa Maria and built over the ancient Mexica Calpulli Cuepopan; according to other sources, before the fall of Tenochtitlan, Cuauhtemoc´s Palace occupied part of it. When the Dominicans arrived in 1526 the space was free, so it was assigned to operate as a convent. In 1571 the Royal Court of the Inquisition was settled in the northeast corner of the Square, and early on the XVII century, there were a large cross and a fountain, which supplied water to the neighborhood. In 1676 the Customs building was settled on the eastern side, it managed the taxes and reviewed the objects entering from Europe to New Spain via the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Temple of Santo Domingo, a building that dates from the XVII century, which replaced the original after a fire, still retains the XVII century altarpieces of Mexican artist Manuel Tolsá. Besides all these constructions there was, in the center of the Square, a fountain with the motif of the eagle and the cactus, it was replaced in 1890 with the fountain of the Corregidora Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.  (LugarCero)


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