KICK ASS CHICA KUDOS So, I have this idea to blog about all these fascinating women I meet in my random career world of theatre/museum/photography/fashion.  But, tonight a KICK ASS CHICA shout out  goes to CYNTHIA TELLO. I go looking for chicks for my blog when Cynthia is my best friend, my sister, she’s helping me raise my daughter and I have know her for 15 years and she lives in the room across from mine. I don’t have to go looking for her. Today KICK ASS CHICA celebrates her because she was just recognized as a Juxtapose Magazine Street Artist pick by legendary street artist SABER. Cynthia was raised in Brazil and speaks 3 languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese. She is a world traveler and founder of the belief in Living the ‘High Life,’ which can be defined as “Knowing what is good in life. Enlightened. Illuminated.” She is a talented artist who studied at Woodbury University under the legendary artist Saul Bernstein.   I also would like to note that Cynthia is one of ONLY 2 FEMALE artists on Saber’s pick list of 22 artist! Which ALONE makes her a Kick Ass Chica.   http://saberone.com/blog/2012/04/17/saberspick-juxtapozmag-contest-via-twitter/ Cynthia’s Art page:http://cynthiabsl.deviantart.com/ As your advisor I suggest you follow if you wanna stay in the loop and know what is up:https://twitter.com/#!/CynthiaBsl  Saber: Among the thousands of people who make up the graffiti community around the world, there are few names that carry the same legendary quality as SABER. Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, SABER was raised by creative parents and discovered his passion for art at an early age. At 13, his cousins introduced him to graffiti when they took him to see the spray paint-covered Belmont Tunnel. From that moment on, he was hooked. After honing his skills on local walls, SABER joined MSK, and was later inducted into legendary piecing crew AWR. SABER was already a fixture in the Los Angeles graffiti scene by 1997 when he completed the largest graffiti piece ever created. His piece on the sloping cement bank of the Los Angeles River was nearly the size of a professional football field, and took 97 gallons of paint and 35 nights to complete. In a famous photograph—taken by his father just after it was finished—SABER stands on the piece and appears as a tiny speck amid a giant blaze of color. It catapulted SABER to legend status in the graffiti world. SABER began exhibiting in his fine art in 2002. His monograph, SABER: MAD SOCIETY, complete with stories of his graffiti misadventures, was released by Gingko Press in 2007 and is now in its second printing. In October 2010, SABER released a video in which the year’s heated debate about health care was spray painted over the American flag. While some saw it as desecration, SABER advocated for health care reform in the video, revealing that he had epilepsy and was un-insurable. This work led SABER to create a large group of American flag paintings called the Tarnished series. In 2011, SABER’s solo show, The American Graffiti Artist opened in New York to great acclaim. Additionally, his art was featured in two museum exhibitions, Street Cred at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and MoCA Los Angeles’s blockbuster Art in the Streets.  - Saber’s bio from his websiteJuxtapose Magazine:http://www.juxtapoz.com/

KICK ASS CHICA KUDOS

So, I have this idea to blog about all these fascinating women I meet in my random career world of theatre/museum/photography/fashion.  But, tonight a KICK ASS CHICA shout out  goes to CYNTHIA TELLO. I go looking for chicks for my blog when Cynthia is my best friend, my sister, she’s helping me raise my daughter and I have know her for 15 years and she lives in the room across from mine. I don’t have to go looking for her.

Today KICK ASS CHICA celebrates her because she was just recognized as a Juxtapose Magazine Street Artist pick by legendary street artist SABER. 

Cynthia was raised in Brazil and speaks 3 languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese. She is a world traveler and founder of the belief in Living the ‘High Life,’ which can be defined as “Knowing what is good in life. Enlightened. Illuminated.” She is a talented artist who studied at Woodbury University under the legendary artist Saul Bernstein.  

I also would like to note that Cynthia is one of ONLY 2 FEMALE artists on Saber’s pick list of 22 artist! Which ALONE makes her a Kick Ass Chica.  

http://saberone.com/blog/2012/04/17/saberspick-juxtapozmag-contest-via-twitter/

Cynthia’s Art page:
http://cynthiabsl.deviantart.com/

As your advisor I suggest you follow if you wanna stay in the loop and know what is up:
https://twitter.com/#!/CynthiaBsl 

Saber:

Among the thousands of people who make up the graffiti community around the world, there are few names that carry the same legendary quality as SABER. Born in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, SABER was raised by creative parents and discovered his passion for art at an early age. At 13, his cousins introduced him to graffiti when they took him to see the spray paint-covered Belmont Tunnel. From that moment on, he was hooked. After honing his skills on local walls, SABER joined MSK, and was later inducted into legendary piecing crew AWR.

SABER was already a fixture in the Los Angeles graffiti scene by 1997 when he completed the largest graffiti piece ever created. His piece on the sloping cement bank of the Los Angeles River was nearly the size of a professional football field, and took 97 gallons of paint and 35 nights to complete. In a famous photograph—taken by his father just after it was finished—SABER stands on the piece and appears as a tiny speck amid a giant blaze of color. It catapulted SABER to legend status in the graffiti world.

SABER began exhibiting in his fine art in 2002. His monograph, SABER: MAD SOCIETY, complete with stories of his graffiti misadventures, was released by Gingko Press in 2007 and is now in its second printing. In October 2010, SABER released a video in which the year’s heated debate about health care was spray painted over the American flag. While some saw it as desecration, SABER advocated for health care reform in the video, revealing that he had epilepsy and was un-insurable. This work led SABER to create a large group of American flag paintings called the Tarnished series.

In 2011, SABER’s solo show, The American Graffiti Artist opened in New York to great acclaim. Additionally, his art was featured in two museum exhibitions, Street Cred at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and MoCA Los Angeles’s blockbuster Art in the Streets.  - Saber’s bio from his website

Juxtapose Magazine:
http://www.juxtapoz.com/

  • April 18
  • , 2012
- KICK ASS CHICA FITNESS- KICK ASS, CHICA:  I had heard about The Bar Method™ primarily on Facebook. Showing up daily on my Facebook advertisement sidebar. I ignored it for awhile, thinking it was just Facebook’s algorithm for the subjection I usually put myself through for non linear workout programs. Prior to attending The Bar Method™ I have a 12 year loyalty to Bikram yoga.  Anyhow, finally clicking on the Facebook link I see that The Bar Method™ is a one-hour, total body workout. It starts with a warm-up, free-weight exercises and push-ups and moves on to intense leg and seat work at the bar, then abdominal work at the bar and on mats. Every exercise includes active stretching and is followed by additional stretching to elongate the muscles just worked. It is a intense challenging workout with isometric dance conditioning and deep stretches.  On the spot I decide that I am in.  Eventually I cave in and “like” The Bar Method™ on Facebook and begin to follow.  But, living on the south east side of LA bordering the OC there are no classes near me. The possibility of a day trip to Hermosa or Pasadena for a class cross my mind but didn’t seem realistic or promising. Ultimately, I see the post on Facebook that I had been waiting for, ‘The Bar Method™- Long Beach Coming Soon! Opening November 2011’.  A sense of, “Hell Yea!” takes over, yet alas, I am not able to make the opening day. Following the holidays I no longer had a steady paycheck and after I had every last Christmas dollar squeezed from me I had no money for my usual yoga workout routine and I devised a regime of walking and jogging everyday when…. my best friend discovered a Gilt.com offer, “$50.00 for 30 day unlimited classes at The Bar Method™- Long Beach.” We, of course, were in. Not knowing what to expect the first day I pretty much looked like an ass.  Upon first impression every woman there had a incredibly tight body. I spent the next hour contracting and uncontracting core muscles that I didn’t realized existed within me.  For sometime I didn’t even know what I was suppose to be doing. Looking at the room for guidance it seemed as though none of the women were moving. Frustration sets in and I wonder what the hell am I missing. The pretty blond instructor, Andrea, who is also the co-owner of The Bar Method™- Long Beach, comes over and with her elbow she gives my pelvis a push here and my knees a pull there, I immediately feel a difference.  I sense that everything seems so simple but is quite difficult. Yet, I feel inspired by a pregnant woman in the class and another woman who had a baby within the last year. I see older women who’s bodies are tight and glowing. I think, “I want in! They might be onto something.” I recognized that I had no abdominal strength, that my posture needs tons of work, and it wouldn’t kill me to be able to tuck and contract my glutes just that much more. Not knowing what to expected or what more I would learn I decided I’d be going back to The Bar Method™.  2/27/2012:   My Bar Method™- Long Beach instructor, Melissa, complimented me on my sit-ups curls, “You got it, Magdalena!”  Mind you, I can never feel my curls. They are very difficult for me to do. Our abdominal muscles are some of our most important core muscles, yet, I am only able to attempt them because I am instructed to prop pillows under my rib cage.  Regardless, I am able to begin the attempt of the sit-up curl and today, as Melissa put it, I got it.  Full class today and everyday there are a couple of new girls. I feel like and old pro at this point. 2/28/2012: Today, was my first class with the beautiful, Saudia.  Saudia continuously corrected my form with her gentle and accurate touches. Through her exacting touch I am able to be more precise with my posture and feel the form much more intensely and because of these corrections I want to cry in the middle of the pose. When working the final set of push up’s on the floor I feel my teeth chatter and my arms shake and I am about to break out in tears and quit when Saudia calls out, ” Good job, Magdalena! You are doing it right!”   2/29/2012: Overheard at The Bar Method™- Long Beach : “I can’t wiggle my nose and killed my arms that was insane.” 3/1/2012: Overheard at The Bar Method™- Long Beach : “I started Dec 6 and it’s the best thing that I could have done for myself.” - Woman in her 50’s 3/6/2012: I am the most awkward person that I know! Why are these classes getting harder and not easier for me?  As the frustration sets in I can’t do the whole reps and I can’t find my core when attempting the abdominal workout, or seated flat back leg raises and it doesn’t help that I must have the tightest hips and knees on the planet!  Andrea announced that starting next week The Bar Method™- Long Beach will be offering a Level 1 and Level 2 class.  In order to qualify for the Level 2 classes you will need to have previously taken 10 Bar Method classes.  Level 1 is aimed at us newbie’s who may need extra corrections on the basics of The Bar Method™ forms. Exciting! 3/7/2012: Sometimes, during a pose I develop a intense hatred for Andrea and I hate Parenting OC for allowing this story to take place. My thighs shake and are on fire as I balance on my tippy toes and lower my seat as if I am sitting in an invisible chair and I think, ” What the hell am I doing here?”  Then, the 5 mins are over, the class is onto the next posture when I glance into the mirror and see sculpted thighs, slimmer hips emerging, and pretty arms falling from my lean shoulders suddenly the hatred is gone and Andrea once again returns to that girl you always wanted as your best friend. No, The Bar Method is not just that easy…. it’s just that hard. :) 3/28/2012: Over the last few weeks I have been through many changes even if some are psychological, hey exercise is SUPPOSE to help relieve stress and find inner clarification right? Some days I doubt my reasons for being there, especially on the mornings where we start our ballet bar work and I stand at the bar with my left leg standing supporting my right leg which is firmly lifted on the ballet bar and both of my arms are lifted in the air high above my head. I begin to feel like a graceful ballerina…when I hear, “Magdalena, wrong leg!”  Other mornings I embarrass myself by being the most uncoordinated person in the class. How, is it that I cannot march in place lifting my knees to my chest while holding weights in each of my hands at the same time? Really, Magdalena, Really? I learn to laugh and smile even if it’s just on the inside. I go back to knowing that if I am going to see a difference in my body its gonna take more that 5 classes. So, I stick with it.  Every day I begin to hear the dialogue the girls have been repeating for the last month, “Tuck your tail bone in, lower your waist, lift your head.”   I don’t see any changes in my measurements and I haven’t lost any weight, but I see a difference in my body. My posture and coordination are improving, my spine and core muscles are stronger and toned. It’s due to these changes in my core that my thighs and legs are appearing sculpted, longer and leaner. The best benefits of all? Slowly a round perky bum is emerging.  It was sometime in the beginning of March as I walked past my reflection I saw something in the mirror that I have NEVER had before, an ass! A round booty! And just as my ass emerges my abs are definitely becoming flatter, longer and leaner. I wish I could blame giving birth 7 years ago for the reason I struggle to remember how the abdominal muscles work, but honestly I don’t think I ever knew until now and l look forward to putting my energy into my lower abdominal workout.  So, no, I have not lost weight, but I have gained inner core strength that turns into outer sexy lean curves and to me that is worth much more.  Granted, this is not easy. I’ve been going to The Bar Method™- Long Beach between 3-5 days a week for 4 weeks and the class becomes more painful, but it is with this pain that I develop the proper technique to build my core and it is with this pain that I won’t hesitant for pool season. For references:http://pinterest.com/bluegirl076/bar-method-long-beach/ The Bar Method™- Long Beach 6695 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite #125, Long Beach, CA 90803 Located conveniently to PCH and 2nd Streetlongbeach@barmethod.com • 562-596-0203https://www.facebook.com/barmethodlongbeach https://twitter.com/#!/barmethodlb 

- KICK ASS CHICA FITNESS-

KICK ASS, CHICA:  I had heard about The Bar Method™ primarily on Facebook. Showing up daily on my Facebook advertisement sidebar. I ignored it for awhile, thinking it was just Facebook’s algorithm for the subjection I usually put myself through for non linear workout programs. Prior to attending The Bar Method™ I have a 12 year loyalty to Bikram yoga. 

Anyhow, finally clicking on the Facebook link I see that The Bar Method™ is a one-hour, total body workout. It starts with a warm-up, free-weight exercises and push-ups and moves on to intense leg and seat work at the bar, then abdominal work at the bar and on mats. Every exercise includes active stretching and is followed by additional stretching to elongate the muscles just worked. It is a intense challenging workout with isometric dance conditioning and deep stretches.  On the spot I decide that I am in.  Eventually I cave in and “like” The Bar Method™ on Facebook and begin to follow.  But, living on the south east side of LA bordering the OC there are no classes near me. The possibility of a day trip to Hermosa or Pasadena for a class cross my mind but didn’t seem realistic or promising.

Ultimately, I see the post on Facebook that I had been waiting for, ‘The Bar Method™- Long Beach Coming Soon! Opening November 2011’.  A sense of, “Hell Yea!” takes over, yet alas, I am not able to make the opening day. Following the holidays I no longer had a steady paycheck and after I had every last Christmas dollar squeezed from me I had no money for my usual yoga workout routine and I devised a regime of walking and jogging everyday when…. my best friend discovered a Gilt.com offer, “$50.00 for 30 day unlimited classes at The Bar Method™- Long Beach.” We, of course, were in.

Not knowing what to expect the first day I pretty much looked like an ass.  Upon first impression every woman there had a incredibly tight body. I spent the next hour contracting and uncontracting core muscles that I didn’t realized existed within me.  For sometime I didn’t even know what I was suppose to be doing. Looking at the room for guidance it seemed as though none of the women were moving. Frustration sets in and I wonder what the hell am I missing. The pretty blond instructor, Andrea, who is also the co-owner of The Bar Method™- Long Beach, comes over and with her elbow she gives my pelvis a push here and my knees a pull there, I immediately feel a difference.  I sense that everything seems so simple but is quite difficult. Yet, I feel inspired by a pregnant woman in the class and another woman who had a baby within the last year. I see older women who’s bodies are tight and glowing. I think, “I want in! They might be onto something.” I recognized that I had no abdominal strength, that my posture needs tons of work, and it wouldn’t kill me to be able to tuck and contract my glutes just that much more. Not knowing what to expected or what more I would learn I decided I’d be going back to The Bar Method™. 

2/27/2012:  

My Bar Method™- Long Beach instructor, Melissa, complimented me on my sit-ups curls, “You got it, Magdalena!”  Mind you, I can never feel my curls. They are very difficult for me to do. Our abdominal muscles are some of our most important core muscles, yet, I am only able to attempt them because I am instructed to prop pillows under my rib cage.  Regardless, I am able to begin the attempt of the sit-up curl and today, as Melissa put it, I got it.  Full class today and everyday there are a couple of new girls. I feel like and old pro at this point.

2/28/2012:

Today, was my first class with the beautiful, Saudia.  Saudia continuously corrected my form with her gentle and accurate touches. Through her exacting touch I am able to be more precise with my posture and feel the form much more intensely and because of these corrections I want to cry in the middle of the pose. When working the final set of push up’s on the floor I feel my teeth chatter and my arms shake and I am about to break out in tears and quit when Saudia calls out, ” Good job, Magdalena! You are doing it right!”  

2/29/2012:

Overheard at The Bar Method™- Long Beach : “I can’t wiggle my nose and killed my arms that was insane.”

3/1/2012:

Overheard at The Bar Method™- Long Beach : “I started Dec 6 and it’s the best thing that I could have done for myself.” - Woman in her 50’s

3/6/2012:

I am the most awkward person that I know! Why are these classes getting harder and not easier for me?  As the frustration sets in I can’t do the whole reps and I can’t find my core when attempting the abdominal workout, or seated flat back leg raises and it doesn’t help that I must have the tightest hips and knees on the planet!  Andrea announced that starting next week The Bar Method™- Long Beach will be offering a Level 1 and Level 2 class.  In order to qualify for the Level 2 classes you will need to have previously taken 10 Bar Method classes.  Level 1 is aimed at us newbie’s who may need extra corrections on the basics of The Bar Method™ forms. Exciting!

3/7/2012:

Sometimes, during a pose I develop a intense hatred for Andrea and I hate Parenting OC for allowing this story to take place. My thighs shake and are on fire as I balance on my tippy toes and lower my seat as if I am sitting in an invisible chair and I think, ” What the hell am I doing here?”  Then, the 5 mins are over, the class is onto the next posture when I glance into the mirror and see sculpted thighs, slimmer hips emerging, and pretty arms falling from my lean shoulders suddenly the hatred is gone and Andrea once again returns to that girl you always wanted as your best friend. No, The Bar Method is not just that easy…. it’s just that hard. :)

3/28/2012:

Over the last few weeks I have been through many changes even if some are psychological, hey exercise is SUPPOSE to help relieve stress and find inner clarification right? Some days I doubt my reasons for being there, especially on the mornings where we start our ballet bar work and I stand at the bar with my left leg standing supporting my right leg which is firmly lifted on the ballet bar and both of my arms are lifted in the air high above my head. I begin to feel like a graceful ballerina…when I hear, “Magdalena, wrong leg!”  Other mornings I embarrass myself by being the most uncoordinated person in the class. How, is it that I cannot march in place lifting my knees to my chest while holding weights in each of my hands at the same time? Really, Magdalena, Really? I learn to laugh and smile even if it’s just on the inside. I go back to knowing that if I am going to see a difference in my body its gonna take more that 5 classes. So, I stick with it.  Every day I begin to hear the dialogue the girls have been repeating for the last month, “Tuck your tail bone in, lower your waist, lift your head.”  

I don’t see any changes in my measurements and I haven’t lost any weight, but I see a difference in my body. My posture and coordination are improving, my spine and core muscles are stronger and toned. It’s due to these changes in my core that my thighs and legs are appearing sculpted, longer and leaner. The best benefits of all? Slowly a round perky bum is emerging.  It was sometime in the beginning of March as I walked past my reflection I saw something in the mirror that I have NEVER had before, an ass! A round booty! And just as my ass emerges my abs are definitely becoming flatter, longer and leaner. I wish I could blame giving birth 7 years ago for the reason I struggle to remember how the abdominal muscles work, but honestly I don’t think I ever knew until now and l look forward to putting my energy into my lower abdominal workout.  So, no, I have not lost weight, but I have gained inner core strength that turns into outer sexy lean curves and to me that is worth much more. 

Granted, this is not easy. I’ve been going to The Bar Method™- Long Beach between 3-5 days a week for 4 weeks and the class becomes more painful, but it is with this pain that I develop the proper technique to build my core and it is with this pain that I won’t hesitant for pool season.

For references:
http://pinterest.com/bluegirl076/bar-method-long-beach/

The Bar Method™- Long Beach

6695 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite #125, Long Beach, CA 90803 
Located conveniently to PCH and 2nd Street
longbeach@barmethod.com • 562-596-0203

https://www.facebook.com/barmethodlongbeach

https://twitter.com/#!/barmethodlb 

  • March 29
  • , 2012
What an inspiring weekend at The Daily Beast Women in the World summit! The amazing young women on the panel I moderated are all doing their part to increase the number of young women participating in political and policy conversations, decrease the level of hate in our public discourse (and our social interactions) and highlight some very cool projects happening all over our country and around the world! Please check out their websites www.westophate.org, www.thefbomb.org and www.change.org and add your voice to the conversation. via Chelsea Clinton

What an inspiring weekend at The Daily Beast Women in the World summit! The amazing young women on the panel I moderated are all doing their part to increase the number of young women participating in political and policy conversations, decrease the level of hate in our public discourse (and our social interactions) and highlight some very cool projects happening all over our country and around the world! Please check out their websites www.westophate.org, www.thefbomb.org and www.change.org and add your voice to the conversation. via Chelsea Clinton

  • March 12
  • , 2012
“Drag me, strip me, my brothers’ blood will cover me!” they chanted. “Where is the field marshal?” they demanded of the top military officer, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. “The girls of Egypt are here.” -NY Times  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/world/middleeast/violence-enters-5th-day-as-egyptian-general-blames-protesters.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

“Drag me, strip me, my brothers’ blood will cover me!” they chanted. “Where is the field marshal?” they demanded of the top military officer, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. “The girls of Egypt are here.” -NY Times 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/world/middleeast/violence-enters-5th-day-as-egyptian-general-blames-protesters.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

  • December 23
  • , 2011

I met my prince, and I married him, but that was not enough, I had to be responsible for my own life. I believe all women are strong, sometimes they just don’t show it.”- Diane Von Furstenberg

http://fashionista.com/2011/12/fashion-news-roundup-shala-monroque-is-stunning-in-vogue-japan-hypodermic-needles-planted-in-wal-mart-merch-and-kimberly-ovitz-is-launching-a-diffusion-line/
  • December 20
  • , 2011

The Lingerie Addict: Let Me Get Personal Here for a Minute

thelingerieaddict:

I am always confused by people who post a picture of Marilyn Monroe or Bettie Page or the curvy-vintage-chick-of-your-choice followed by the phrase “I was born in the wrong era.”

What? Seriously? A couple of idealized pin-up photos make you wish you could go back to the 1950’s?

Back when a…

  • December 20
  • , 2011
Hecho en Estados Unidos. American handmade. Christmas recuerdos. In Los Angeles, CA (Taken with instagram)

Hecho en Estados Unidos. American handmade. Christmas recuerdos. In Los Angeles, CA (Taken with instagram)

  • December 20
  • , 2011
“President Obama announced yesterday that he was officially declaring the end of the United States’s nine-year-long engagement in Iraq. The war, which cost thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, has defined a generation, and left behind scars that won’t go away — not overnight, probably not ever.” The Art of War: A Look Back at 10 Important Works That Took on the Conflict in Iraq  

“President Obama announced yesterday that he was officially declaring the end of the United States’s nine-year-long engagement in Iraq. The war, which cost thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, has defined a generation, and left behind scars that won’t go away — not overnight, probably not ever.”

The Art of War: A Look Back at 10 Important Works That Took on the Conflict in Iraq

 

  • December 16
  • , 2011

Wonder Woman, She-Hulk, Storm and Catwoman for Breast Cancer Prevention

By Andy Khouri


Held this year from December 5-10, Mozambique Fashion Week is an annual fashion and cultural event hosted by African nation’s capital city of Maputo. In addition to MFW’s mission to promote the creativity and beauty of the Mozambican people, the event includes a social responsibility component that specifically targets the subject of breast cancer, which is of course an enduring threat that affects millions and millions of women around the world. For this year’s campaign, MFW partnered with Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer to create a series of breast cancer screening advertisements that feature the comic book superheroines Wonder Woman, She-Hulk, Storm and Catwoman.

[Via The Mary Sue, DC Women Kicking Ass]

(via elverdeshow)

  • December 15
  • , 2011
KICK ASS CHICAS KICK ASS JUNE 24-26TH 2011. LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL Kick Ass Chica’s, Jennie Cañas, 19, college student from Dallas, Texas, and Cynthia Tello, Art Director for Hudson Jeans, attend the 15th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival held for the first time in Las Vegas. Electric Daisy Carnival had previously been held in Los Angeles, but due to the uprising of frequent irresponsible party goer’s the City of LA put a ban on the music event. Insomniac the promoters for EDC moved the event to the emerging electronic capital of the world, Las Vegas. Which, is understandable considering it is no clandestine rumor that Vegas is fast replacing Ibiza as the destination for electronic music. EDC was headlined with such world renowned DJ’s as Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, David Guetta, Afro Jack, and Swedish House Mafia. Now, granted you can more frequently catch any of these big names any night throughout the year in Las Vegas, yet what made EDC so special were these artists together performing along side each other over 3 nights. This combined with stunning visuals from hundreds of LED screens, especially on the Main Stage in the Kinetic Field, amazing puppetry, costumes, installation art, and a nightly 20 min firework show made for a musical and visual moment in time….3 NIGHTS IN A ROW. According to our Kick Ass Chica’s who attended the event, Miss Cynthia Tello suggests, “Conditions were a little rough the first night. It left us skeptical on how the rest of the weekend would flow, but by night two everything came together seamlessly. In the end the music made it all worth it.”  Miss Jennie Cañas sums it up best when asked for her opinion on EDC’s first run in Vegas, “After the first night was over and morning struck I was ready for it to be night again. The last and final night was bitter sweet and it was a damn good time.”  In other words…..” A great time was had by all….”  Cynthia and Jennie’s lineup for all 3 nights. tiesto, royksopp, dj vice, bloody beetroots, borgore, calvin haris, afrojack, david guetta, zedd, porter robinson, feed me, bart b more, la riots, skrillex, glitch mob, bassnectar, empire of the sun, dada life, rusko, pleasurekraft, robbie rivera, infected mushroom, felguk, markus schulz, swedish house mafia, and laidback luke. You can see Magdalena Guillen’s snapshots of EDC at the following link:KickAssChicas kick ass. A special mention that 80,000 people attended at peak time on Saturday night and there were no major incidents or deaths to report….

KICK ASS CHICAS KICK ASS

JUNE 24-26TH 2011. LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL

Kick Ass Chica’s, Jennie Cañas, 19, college student from Dallas, Texas, and Cynthia Tello, Art Director for Hudson Jeans, attend the 15th Annual Electric Daisy Carnival held for the first time in Las Vegas.

Electric Daisy Carnival had previously been held in Los Angeles, but due to the uprising of frequent irresponsible party goer’s the City of LA put a ban on the music event. Insomniac the promoters for EDC moved the event to the emerging electronic capital of the world, Las Vegas. Which, is understandable considering it is no clandestine rumor that Vegas is fast replacing Ibiza as the destination for electronic music.

EDC was headlined with such world renowned DJ’s as Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, David Guetta, Afro Jack, and Swedish House Mafia. Now, granted you can more frequently catch any of these big names any night throughout the year in Las Vegas, yet what made EDC so special were these artists together performing along side each other over 3 nights. This combined with stunning visuals from hundreds of LED screens, especially on the Main Stage in the Kinetic Field, amazing puppetry, costumes, installation art, and a nightly 20 min firework show made for a musical and visual moment in time….3 NIGHTS IN A ROW.

According to our Kick Ass Chica’s who attended the event, Miss Cynthia Tello suggests, “Conditions were a little rough the first night. It left us skeptical on how the rest of the weekend would flow, but by night two everything came together seamlessly. In the end the music made it all worth it.”  Miss Jennie Cañas sums it up best when asked for her opinion on EDC’s first run in Vegas, “After the first night was over and morning struck I was ready for it to be night again. The last and final night was bitter sweet and it was a damn good time.”  In other words…..” A great time was had by all….” 

Cynthia and Jennie’s lineup for all 3 nights.

tiesto, royksopp, dj vice, bloody beetroots, borgore, calvin haris, afrojack, david guetta, zedd, porter robinson, feed me, bart b more, la riots, skrillex, glitch mob, bassnectar, empire of the sun, dada life, rusko, pleasurekraft, robbie rivera, infected mushroom, felguk, markus schulz, swedish house mafia, and laidback luke.

You can see Magdalena Guillen’s snapshots of EDC at the following link:
KickAssChicas kick ass.

A special mention that 80,000 people attended at peak time on Saturday night and there were no major incidents or deaths to report….

  • July 5
  • , 2011

British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist

“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse…I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist”—-Leonora Carrington, 1983

  • June 9
  • , 2011

NYMPH

A nymph in Greek mythology is a female minor nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from gods, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees and in valleys and cool grottoes. Although they would never die of old age nor illness, and could give birth to fully immortal children if mated to a god; they themselves were not necessarily immortal, and could be beholden to death in various forms.

  • May 15
  • , 2011

KICK ASS CHICA KISSES:
When Paloma was just a couple of days old I sat rocking with her in my arms in her nursery at 3 am so not to wake Ben in the other room. With the street light coming through the mini blinds while I fed her her early morning feeding this song came on. For the next 6 years whenever we cuddle or she feels sleepy I would sing this song to her. 

This past January while I was working in Vegas I got a call from her just to tell me this:

Paloma: “Mom, today grandma was driving me to school and that song that you always sang to me when I was a baby came on and…”

Me: “Besame Mucho.”

Paloma: “No, the udder one.” 

Me: “You are so Beautiful?”

Paloma: “Yes, that one! Grandma was driving me to school and that song came on the radio and I started crying because I miss you. I miss you so much mommy.”

…… I knew it was time to come home after that. Because I am not saying that I’ll never leave again for my career or my education but no matter what I do for my career or education it’s meaningless without her  there. 

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY. GOOD NIGHT. 

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  • May 9
  • , 2011
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  • May 2
  • , 2011

KICK ASS CHICA KUDO

‘Police Chicks’

Earlier this month I grabbed my friend Misha and headed over to the newest artist haven, Off the Tracks, in El Sereno to attend the premiere screening of Police Chicks, the new web show created by Nicole Ortega and Miriam Peniche and written and directed by Carlos Zelaya.

I first had the pleasure of meeting Nicole, Carlos and Miriam costuming them in the East LA underground hit El Verde. Nicole, helming the role of the criminal Frita Kahlo, (a role created by Karla Melendez,) Miriam reprising her super villain character, La Llorona Lisa and Carlos Playing Dos, a dim witted henchman under the grips of le enfant terrible, La Quincenera. Rumor has it, it was during this time Police Chicks was created.  With a brief scene in El Verde Miriam and Nicole appear as cops together. For this ephemeral scene they spent a good amount of time in their cop costumes backstage conjuring up foolish cop scenario and having fun playing off of each other. It was really those moments that inspired Carlos to write the Police Chicks script.  Carlos went to Nicole and Miriam with a script and within 3 months rallied several friends together and Carlos directed 2 episodes of Police Chicks.

What I enjoyed most about Police Chicks is its Police Academy meets Pulp Fiction with a touch of TJ Hooker vibe. With their lives on the beat being chronicled, Peniche and Ortega, two female LA detectives, drive around in a 1970’s Chevy Malibu.  They are two Kick Ass Chicas who have no fear in busting the balls of small time drug dealers.

Questions for Carlos, will the ladies get to bust bigger fish and find the drug lord who killed Peniches previous partner? Will Ortega ever make Chief? Will Peniche ever find romance?

Episode One includes cameos by Ben Dickow, Josh Hickman, Michael Uribes, Kevin Widener, and Angel Sunga. Pay extra attention to the cameo by fellow El Verde alum Oscar Basulto stealing the scene as a short order cook in one of Police Chicks funniest moments.  Look out for Episode 2 with cameos by Diana Toshiko, Angela Imperial and East LA sweetheart Blanca Melchor.

Police Chicks strives in bringing the diversity of LA, East LA and the Valley to the forefront and receives a Kick Ass Chicas kudos for their positive portrayal of women and friendship, for depicting women who are dedicating their lives to their careers, and standing up for what they believe is right. It is this labor of love from Nicole, Miriam and Carlos that Police Chicks has inspired me to start and write this blog in the first place.

Created by Nicole Ortega and Miriam Peniche

Written and Directed by: Carlos Zelaya

Executive Produced by: Nicole Ortega, Carlos Zelaya 

Produced by: Nicole Ortega, Carlos Zelaya, Miguel Mouchess

Police Chicks

  • April 26
  • , 2011