books, paper, scissors: ARE YOU AN ARTIST???

bookspaperscissors:

In browsing the ‘everything’ stream on the new Artists on Tumblr tag today to find new artists to feature, I noticed that not many posts are being tagged with this yet (it did not take me long to browse through several days worth of posting) …………I know that a LOT of my followers, and the…

“La Casita Encantada” In El Salvador Maria Ponce, 78, waves to passersby as she stands in the doorway of her home that is constructed from recycled plastic bottles, near El Transito, El Salvador, Thursday Dec. 29, 2011. Ponce, who did not have money to build a traditional house, says in 2005 a dream revealed to her to fashion a home from plastic bottles, which took 3 months. Ponce and her 102-year-old companion survive on about 10 dollars a week which they make from their corn crop and donations from tourists making the journey to see “La Casita Encantada,” or “The Enchanted Cottage.” (via PhotoBlog - Elderly couple make a ‘dream’ home from plastic bottles)

Manejo de crisis por @balam_acab

A esta hora los sectores de poder económico representados en cámaras y tanques d pensamiento, sectores d poder político (partidos) e incluso funcionarios de gobierno están aceleradamente evaluando como harán frente a la coyuntura política generada por dos elementos importantes:
1. El nunca antes visto manejo de la crisis por parte del gobierno y 2. el proceso de elecciones municipales y legislativas que se avecina. El 1ro. dejo, no solo dejó en evidencia el pésimo y polítiquero manejo q gobiernos anteriores hicieron de crisis anteriores, incluido el robo, se demostró ser capaz articular todos los estamentos del gobierno y sus recursos, solo quien no quiso no vio a los ministros en el terreno. También se demostró que se puede administrar las crisis sin colores partidarios: ¿vieron a niñas/os tricolor en la feria?, no eran soldados.

Aunq en las crisis 2009/2010 habían participado, los gobernadores esta vez si jugaron un papel vital y estuvieron en el terreno conduciendo, pero quizás de los más importante ha sido el papel de los alcaldes y su articulación con Gobernación y Ejecutivo mas allá de partidos…
jfpll: Remember Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and how much it destroyed El Salvador? This cloud of death that has been covering us for the past 8 days is worse. The red line represents the amount of rain accumulation in millimeters within the first 24 hours, the blue line represents the amount of rain throughout the whole event.
sansalvador: Finca San Jose Sonsonate E Salvador 
rappsnitchkniches: Happy Independence Day :)
vicexversa: As it is the Fiestas Julias (July Festivities) in Santa Ana, where I’m developing my thesis, I’m posting a not very amazing photo of the Cathedral of Santa Ana, but for illustration purposes, here it is. So what are you seeing? A cathedral built between 1906 and 1959, which follows a Neo-Gothic style. It is part of the National Patrimony of El Salvador. At the moment, it’s in constant reconstruction (as you can see what’s new and what isn’t from the change of colours in the main facade).
sansalvador: El Asco by Horacio Castellanos Moya (Salvadoran-Honduran) is sarcastic narrative of Salvadoran culture, which includes the life style of machismo, bad local beer, fattening pupusas, etc. He received several death threats due to this book, and had to leave the country. Ever since he has published several fiction novels that some times cross the fiction and reality from the Salvadoran civil conflict and post conflict years. Horacio is worth reading, you will be delighted by his style of narrative and sarcasm.