Monday 18 November 2013

Día de Muertos.

I lived next to this market for almost a year. It's in Escandón, Mexico City. This is what it looked like last month on Day of the Dead.





Friday 15 November 2013

La Llorona performance.

You can still see the performance of La Llorona around the canals of Xochimilco (which is in it's 20th year) until 24th Novemeber. Info here.

Also listen to this! It's Chavela Vargas in The film 'Frida' with Salma Hayek, beautiful. (The song finishes at 2.10).





Wednesday 13 November 2013

San Judas Tadeo.

Statue on the left; Jose Gregorio Hernandez, patron saint of medical students. Right; Saint Jude, patron saint of hopeless cases. 
Parts of Reforma closed to traffic.
Face transfers and fancy dress. 
The black one says 'protection against witchcraft'. Other favourites (not pictured) say 'Saint Antony and Saint Jude… Find me a boyfriend' and 'Saint Jude and Virgin Mary give us work, health, money and love'. 

Here's a great video my brother made about this a few years ago.