Tomorrow: Commencement!

So tomorrow is graduation . . . today was our rehearsal at Sun Devil Stadium in my hometown of Tempe, Ariz. And as if this weren’t cool enough, I was fortunate enough to receive an award which will put me in the seat pictured below about four seats from the left in the first row. I may not be shaking President Obama’s hand tomorrow,…

Flight back home to Phx, AZ

The ride back home . . . I’m now in AZ for a while, but it’s exciting because tomorrow I graduate! Obama is also our commencement speaker and I plan on sneaking in with my camera bag, should be fun. Over the Mexico City skyline . . .

Final night out in DF

Met some new people for drinks/dinner at Groove in Condesa Saturday night. It was an interesting night, definitely won’t forget it . . . Anyway these were the ones I liked.

Drug dealer post

I took down my post about the drug dealer interview, but I will repost it with a different edit shortly. Sorry about the confusion on the link. D

Pawn Shops are seeing bigger business in the city

Writer Alexis Okeowo and I headed out to the Nacional Monte Piedad in the Zocalo Thursday morning. The Pawn shop, which is over 200 years old and takes up nearly a block of an old colonial building and provides low interest loans to Mexicans. In the case of this pawn shop your goods are held for three months, interest free, then another three to…

Castigado! You’re punished!

So are you ready to learn about the most awfully painful card game? A few days ago when fellow writers Camilo Smith and Alexis Okeowo and I headed to the Basilica de la Virgen de Guadalupe we found it deserted. No tourists and nearly no worshippers except for a handful nuns and a couple renewing their vows the area was deserted. Most stalls were…

Some random ones from the zocalo

Visiting the basilica again this morning and then the zocalo . . . Hopefully the last of the swine flu photos

Shooting today, shooting tomorrow

Went out shooting with photographer Brian Frank today, he is based in Mexico City and a pretty amazing photographer. I shot some, but his stuff, which will be featured in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday I believe is just awesome. Frank shooting below: Some of the pics I shot today, we went from La Merced Market and were kicked out, then to El…

Picnic in the park

In the hopes of feeling like we’re not all just spending out time at home (because all movie theatres, museums, large parks, public places, bars, restaurants, schools, and pretty much any other place people might gather being closed) we had a picnic in Condesa’s Parque Mexico . . . nice day for sure. And just playing in the park:

La Basilica de la Virgen

Statue vendors use to photograph pilgrims and visitors with, one of many tucked away since there is no one to seel the photos to. Today writers Alexis Okeowo and Camilo Smith and I headed out to the Basilica de la Virgen de Guadalupe in the North of the City (Red line Villa-Basilica exit). Because of the H1N1 virus or swine flu the basilica, a…