June Lake, August 2024
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Jules of Nature

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Show & Tell
Sweet Seals For You, Always
YOU ARE THE REASON
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
occasionally subtle
trying on a metaphor

Andulka

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣

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todays bird
NASA
Stranger Things
Cosimo Galluzzi

if i look back, i am lost
AnasAbdin
styofa doing anything
Keni

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June Lake, August 2024
🎞️Harman Phoenix 200
i swear i saw someone here (from Tumblr) at a rink in Houston this past Saturday, but not sure who! was it you?!
go fw my ig page and buy some shit i need money for rent and i’m just announcing a new collection!
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Diego de Los Andes 1/8/2020
As the stress of the day crescendos during the afternoon drive home, the spell is broken when a clown steps through Los Angeles traffic demanding that drivers wake up and return to the present moment.
Diego de Los Andes is an artist, poet, radio host and clown from Chile with a unique perspective on street performance. “This is a way for me to use art to recycle and cleanse energies created from capitalism,” De Los Andes said in his native Chilean dialect; although his Spanish has absorbed some L.A. slang. “Street performance is a tool completely outside of the capitalist, imperialist system to make money. When I’m out here, I am taking a political stance, or else I couldn’t do it.”
Besides his ideological approach, there is a very physical human action and reaction involved in De Los Andes’ performance. “Nowadays, people are tense; extremely tense. There’s a lot going on socially that’s affecting all of us. You can tell. You can see it in their muscles,” De Los Andes says, as he pretends to be hunched over gripping a steering wheel tightly with both hands.
Horns blare at a red light on Washington Boulevard and Normandie Avenue during the performance. Some horns are regular road rage, some are people smiling and showing support for the juggling clown.
“It’s a repurposing of energy. I finish my show and look around for people’s reactions. It happens sometimes where I’ll see someone in a completely other mood; I’ll signal for them to smile with my hands,” De Los Andes says, as he pretends to pick up the edges of his mouth to form a smile. “And they do. They smile.”
“To me, that’s the most important change: when we can acknowledge and say ‘Look, everythings fucked,’ but we can choose to fight it with a smile and not sadness. Not with rage. We don’t get anything out of that,” De Los Andes said.
De Los Andes can be seen in the heart of Los Angeles traffic. “When I was conceiving this idea, it was primarily to bring joy to Los Angeles’ minority communities: Black, afro-descendant and Latino communities.
Street performing clowns are somewhat of a new thing to Los Angeles, maybe because it’s been more closely associated with poverty. Living in the world’s wealthiest empire, it’s a lot less common. But De Los Andes says it’s much needed. “You don’t see it much here, the juggling street clown - specifically at red lights. I know about 6 here in Los Angeles. It’s a way to disconnect people from what’s going on in the world. It’s a way to use the movement of the human body to spread a little bit of happiness. That’s what motivates me and keeps me going.”
Being an L.A. street clown is an experiment that De Los Andes is still figuring out. “My clown character is still in a state of becoming. I feel like I‘m still finding my inner clown. I’m a poet and theater director, but this is a new story” De Los Andes said.
“How did I get started in el mundo del payaso?” he said. “I was in a theater group and I met a friend that would twirl devil sticks.’” Devil sticks are the pair of batons De Los Andes can be seen spinning and tossing into the sky at red lights throughout South Central L.A.
“When I saw my friend with the devils sticks, it brought up a memory of playing with some as a young kid. That’s when I began to reincorporate them into my way of life. That’s when I discovered life as a performer in public spaces,” De Los Andes said. For immigrants, playing and performing with something as simple as devil sticks is a bit cultural.
“There’s a certain nostalgia. For many people it makes them remember their home; Driving through streets in their country,” De Los Andes said. In Latin America, performers and vendors at busy intersections is a common experience. “For immigrants, that memory lingers, because in this country, common people don’t really have access to culture. Art is for the rich.”
Along with the nostalgia, being a clown comes with a long tradition. “Historically, the clown was the only one who could laugh at the king. He was the only vato that could do that. He was the only person who had that special key and mystery to be able to laugh and make anyone laugh,” De Los Andes said. While he’s now part of the long-standing history of clowns, it’s just one part of Diego’s cultural movement,
“You can find me on 90.7 KPFK” De Los Andes said. “I’ve been working on a program called “Nuestra Voz” for a while. I’m the producer of the cultural segment. To start the year, we’re looking to speak with people working in cultural fields. People who are making an impact through any medium of art of culture.”
The email to contact “Nuestra Voz” is [email protected]. The Instagram hanle for the show is @nuestravozkpfk. To get plugged in with Diego, his instagram handle is @fromandes.
“I’m a clown without makeup,” De Los Andes said. “I believe you can be a clown of the body, and you can make people’s spirits do a somersault. It’s a tool for change. In the grand scheme of things, I feel like I’m just clowning on imperialism. I’m in the fight against capitalism through my work out here on the street.”
SOLANGE KNOWLES in Document Journal, 23 December 2020
this visual was filmed november 11th and 12th of 2019. this has been a long time in the making and i feel—- a lot that i cannot quite pinpoint it. appreciative of the process, proud of my follow through in spite of. as said before, this project is, *andre 3000 voice* forever ever. everything is happening just as it should +
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#unapologeticallyRAW is a project in which poc are the focus of the conversation. should the fact that this project is for people of color be perceived as "wrong," or as something that offends you, i challenge you to reflect on why you feel this way... poc & non poc.
inside Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin (2015), 10/2020.
¡BIDEN-HARRIS! (still, it’s disgusting how close this race was after experiencing four years of a hateful & illegitimate president)
it’s always a Sunday when i decide to dress a lil revealing + crave the Lord’s chicken (Chick-fil-A)
Alexa says FKA twigs’ name funny
though she was dramatic & exxagerated, i appreciate my mom being so anal about cleanliness when i was growing up (& still)
as covid cases continue to rise and folx get more relaxed in navigating the pandemic, everyday i remind myself i am not invisible
“i want you to touch that lil dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat!”
in tears reading about what businesses and gov officials are doing to prepare for potential unrest this week. the current state of america makes no sense to me.
“For the Good Times,” by Al Green, 10/2020, Fulshear, TX.
10022020; Fulshear, TX.
amused by his being so amused.
content. i want a 512 number but also don’t want to part w my 213/go thru the process of updating my phone number everywhere— which is so so important. the person who received my old phone number was committing real life fraud w associates & friends of mine by pretending to be me and sending cash app requests to folx who reached out to the number i was no longer using. the person even went as far as having my final paycheck from the district mailed to them/// (hr in the school district i worked w made no sense).
- my mom. our family group chat be having me ded (watching the vp debate together from afar).
like, what in the hell did i just watch? i can’t. this is... scary.
“that means the blizzard of lies is about to begin.” -Brian Stelter
these CNN correspondents and anchors be cracking me up when they speak on Trump— especially Don Lemon and Brianna Keilar.