In my post about swine flu in Mexico City I mentioned I thought that the cubreboca, (medical mask) would soon enough become a fashion accessory. Everybody wants to be an individual right?
Check out the gallery of custom face mask photos from Mexico on the guardian.co.uk
Walking around México, D.F. is a little like being an extra in a zombie movie right now; the city of 20+ million feels deserted with almost everything closed up and not even too much traffic. Museums are closed, church services canceled, and the army is at the airport checking people for symptoms. We went out this weekend and mixed in with the surgical mask wearing masses to get a feel for the epidemic ambience.
Julio and I wanted to use the Culture section for all kinds of posts and photoblogs about interesting things worldwide. I’ve been living in México for about a year and this is my first time writing on cause=time, enjoy
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This year I went to the Internaciónal Fería de Caballo in Texcoco, México… a huge 25 day long party that gets something like 700,000 visitors. It’s a giant, mutant combination of amusement park, stock show, pop concert and dance club- with bars around every corner, huge groups of mariachi bands fighting it out, and two big arenas where you can watch a bullfight- or bet thousands of pesos on which cock will survive the next few seconds.
I took lots of photos.