Sanctuary143 » tijuana http://www.sanctuary143.com A nomadic artist collective, curating art events in San Diego, Los Angeles, and beyond. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:59:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2008 snkelley@gmail.com (Sanctuary143) snkelley@gmail.com (Sanctuary143) Emerging art, music, and subversive cultural observations. 1440 http://www.sanctuary143.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/s143podcast_sm.jpg Sanctuary143 http://www.sanctuary143.com 144 144 Join the collective in considering emerging art, music, and subversive cultural observations. Sanctuary143 artist collective in San Diego strives to expose emerging art and music through non-traditional events. The Sanctuary143 Podcast is an extension of this philosophy, its sole purpose to expand the collective consciousness through subversive and evolutionary cultural observations. art, music, indie, san diego, sanctuary143 Sanctuary143 Sanctuary143 snkelley@gmail.com no no Tijuana Taxicab http://www.sanctuary143.com/2009/02/tijuana-taxicab/ http://www.sanctuary143.com/2009/02/tijuana-taxicab/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:43:59 +0000 Sean http://www.sanctuary143.com/?p=1608 derrik-el-luchador

The day’s drive starts at a red light alongside a curved cement fortress, a corner store painted in the likes of a green-and-yellow checkerboard. Cactus leaves for sale on one side, a man spraying fire from his mouth on the other. When green comes, I’ll know what to do. I could do it every day. Race through cobblestone roundabouts, circular kingdoms ruled by sword-wielding Aztecan giants and dead presidents. Fly over sidewalkless bridges that cover the concrete river. Dodge mammoth potholes that lurk along the pockmarked boulevards, avenues lined with women made of both clean white plastic and tarnished brown putty and square trees trimmed to look like the landscaping of an 8-bit video game. Brake, gas, brake, gas, brake, my eye all the while waving at the monstrous eagle flag waving at me from afar. Scale the rolling hills of urban sprawl, each its own tidal wave disguised as a wall of Technicolor confetti. Count the specks as I feel myself climbing into the sky. Follow the fence westward through whiffs of sewage and street food, to where the line between “here” and “there” switches from rusted panels to a roofless cage made of railroad tracks before trailing into the sea. There, in the shadow of the bullring, pause in the company of the coconut shacks, cotton candy peddlers, divided families and the falling sun, and know that the long night ahead, wrapped in neon-streaked disco twilight, will close with another slow dawn that I’ll dedicate to not letting the fear of gunfire keep me from driving the same lap tomorrow. Welcome to my Tijuana taxicab.

Derrik Chinn is a permanent tourist.  See for yourself at derrikchinn.blogspot.com.

  1. “Sex City” // Van She
  2. “Wake Up” // Lo-Fi-Fnk
  3. “Vamos a La Playa” // Righeira
  4. “Moonlight Affair” // Silent Circle
  5. “Fashion Victims” // Zemmoa
  6. “Time Stands Still” // Cut Copy
  7. “Double Shadow” // Junior Boys
  8. “I Want Your Love” // Chromatics
  9. “Life After Sundown” // Glass Candy
  10. “Pegaso” // Professor Genius
  11. “Neverland” // Silent Shout
  12. “Lady Operator” // Mirage
  13. “Caught By Surprise” // Laban
  14. “Sunlight In Electric Wires” // San Serac
]]> http://www.sanctuary143.com/2009/02/tijuana-taxicab/feed/ 0 1:01:09 The day’s drive starts at a red light alongside a curved cement fortress, a corner store painted in the likes of a green-and-yellow checkerboard. Cactus leaves for sale on one side, a man spraying fire from his mouth on the other. When green[...] The day’s drive starts at a red light alongside a curved cement fortress, a corner store painted in the likes of a green-and-yellow checkerboard. Cactus leaves for sale on one side, a man spraying fire from his mouth on the other. When green comes, I’ll know what to do. I could do it every day. Race through cobblestone roundabouts, circular kingdoms ruled by sword-wielding Aztecan giants and dead presidents. Fly over sidewalkless bridges that cover the concrete river. Dodge mammoth potholes that lurk along the pockmarked boulevards, avenues lined with women made of both clean white plastic and tarnished brown putty and square trees trimmed to look like the landscaping of an 8-bit video game. Brake, gas, brake, gas, brake, my eye all the while waving at the monstrous eagle flag waving at me from afar. Scale the rolling hills of urban sprawl, each its own tidal wave disguised as a wall of Technicolor confetti. Count the specks as I feel myself climbing into the sky. Follow the fence westward through whiffs of sewage and street food, to where the line between “here” and “there” switches from rusted panels to a roofless cage made of railroad tracks before trailing into the sea. There, in the shadow of the bullring, pause in the company of the coconut shacks, cotton candy peddlers, divided families and the falling sun, and know that the long night ahead, wrapped in neon-streaked disco twilight, will close with another slow dawn that I’ll dedicate to not letting the fear of gunfire keep me from driving the same lap tomorrow. Welcome to my Tijuana taxicab. Derrik Chinn is a permanent tourist.  See for yourself at derrikchinn.blogspot.com. “Sex City” // Van She “Wake Up” // Lo-Fi-Fnk “Vamos a La Playa” // Righeira “Moonlight Affair” // Silent Circle “Fashion Victims” // Zemmoa “Time Stands Still” // Cut Copy “Double Shadow” // Junior Boys “I Want Your Love” // Chromatics “Life After Sundown” // Glass Candy “Pegaso” // Professor Genius “Neverland” // Silent Shout “Lady Operator” // Mirage “Caught By Surprise” // Laban “Sunlight In Electric Wires” // San Serac blog, music Sanctuary143 no no Jorge Tellaeche: El Origen http://www.sanctuary143.com/2008/08/jorge-tellaeche-el-origen/ http://www.sanctuary143.com/2008/08/jorge-tellaeche-el-origen/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:37:18 +0000 stacy http://www.sanctuary143.com/?p=513
For the upcoming Reinventing the Wheel show, Tijuana based artist Jorge Tellaeche works on “El Origen,” interpreting with modern designs the natural cycles of time. Like usual, we’re blown away!

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