CA Lockdown – Day 23

The Border Arts Workshop keeps being a source of inspiration. Another member is gracing our vida with his knowledge. Producer/Director Isaac Artenstein is lecturing to our Media Arts Santa Ana MILPA (Millennial Producers Academy) today. Isaac is an award-winning...

CA Lockdown – Day 22

Puro Pocha Power! We had a fabulous and historic episode today on Dreamocracy In America with the infamous Border Brujo himself, Guillermo Gomez Peña, founder of La Pocha Nostra. Almost as exciting as having Guillermo on the show, were all the folks who tuned in from...

CA Lockdown – Day 21

It’s a Puro Pocha Party today! I have a long history with performance art legend Guillermo Gomez Peña. First exhibiting our video art together for the Vigo international film festival in Spain. The show was put together by Latino film scholar and former UCLA...

CA Lockdown – Day 19

Juvenile Garden. My little plants have entered their awkward teens. The corn has started sprouting shafts. Right now it looks like giant tufts of crabgrass. Behind them, I finished building some new planters. They’re entirely composed of salvaged materials we...

CA Lockdown – Day 18

Buying groceries during a pandemic is a complicated affair. It’s super stressful to suit up like an astronaut and go out to an actual store, so we’ve been looking into delivery options. At first we thought that Amazon Prime would come thru but they are...