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"Art in Puerto Vallarta"
First of a Series: Mexico wins Men’s Olympic Gold Medal Soccer Game.
“Gooaalll!” was the unified chant throughout Mexico after their team defeated the power house Brazilian soccer team. Sports bars, private homes, beachside resorts, all erupted into celebratory rants and raves as Mexico’s Oribe Peralta scored his second goal of the game on [...]
Continue Reading →Malcolm Farley, renowned for his vibrant, energetic images of the world’s most talented athletes, has returned to portray one his “favorites”, Peyton Manning. Malcolm has been commissioned to paint many of Manning’s career achievements, including his winning Super Bowl performance against the Chicago Bears in the rain in Miami.
Now, Manning is clad in the [...]
Continue Reading →Santa delivers through sleet and snow, through ice and fog, and yes….through sun and palms! As I awoke on a very quiet Christmas morn, seeing that all of Puerto Vallarta had obviously not been pacing themselves through the previous twelve days of Christmas, I realized that “recovery” period had been slated for today. The [...]
Continue Reading →Due to the fact that the town of Puerto Vallarta lies on the coast, with the Sierra Madre Mountains cascading to the sea, there is a variety of transportation possibilities. Adding to the geographic combination, is the fact that nearby Nuevo Vallarta, a large development to the north of the city that hosts many [...]
Continue Reading →As I sit peering down the city sprawled out before me below, lights twinkling in the dawn’s early light, I find time now to reflect in the quiet of the morning breeze. The town will be abuzz in the coming hours with one of it’s “highlight reel” days. Christmas Eve Day here in at [...]
Continue Reading →Just a few miles south of the once sleepy fishing village now known as Puerto Vallarta, lies perhaps Mexico’s true Garden of Eden. Famed film director John Huston not only referred to Las Caletas as his home, but wrote that it was the most beautiful spot on earth.
Las Celatas, which means “the creeks”, [...]
Continue Reading →Vacations envisioned in tropical destinations usually include romantic beach scenes, or for the family oriented, large sandy “playgrounds” upon which children can live out their dreams one shovel full at a time. Sand has been a common thread throughout movies, books, and photo shoots all portraying the idealistic way to live and relax, being [...]
Continue Reading →Miami has South Beach, Maui has Front Street, Sidney has the Bondi, and Venice Beach has the Board Walk. Every seaside vacation spot, or travel destination through out this planet of ours, possesses that central hub of cultural activity framed by a backdrop of vast expanses of ocean splendor.
Continue Reading →Deer and wolves speaking to man, arrows carrying prayers, serpents bringing rain, pumas acting as messengers of the Gods, are all part of the Shamanic Huichol belief system. These surreal images are the focus of the wildly electric yarn art of the Huichol Indians of the Sierra Madre Mountains of western Mexico. [...]
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