Chicago's First Annual Ruido Fest Music Schedule
Chicago adds yet another new outdoor music fest to their list this summer with the first annual Ruido Fest, held in Adams Park, just north of the Pilsen neighborhood on July 10-12, 2015. Collaborated with some of the most experienced event organizers in the country, the principals behind Ruido Fest are with strong ties to the Chicago Latino music industry and to local area communities. Pilsen being historically known for it's strong Mexican and Latino identity, there's really no better place to hold such an event.
Created for the Latino alternative music audience, the three-day outdoor music fest, which is the first of its kind in the country, is slated to bring some of the best in Latin Alternative music and culture, with headliners Café Tacvba, Zoe, Molotov, Nortec Collective and Enjambre. These are amongst more than forty acts scheduled to appear.
Just this week, the fest's official lineup was released creating quite a buzz. Find tickets here, and check out the lineup below.
Mossless in America: Documentary Photos by Paul D'Amato
Photos by Paul D'Amato
In an experimental photography publication run by Romke Hoogwaerts and Grace Leigh, who partnered with Mossless Magazine, is a creative column titled Mossless in America, featuring interviews with various documentary photographers from around the United States. Amongst those photographers is Paul D'Amato, who has been documenting dramas in the everyday lives of ordinary people for more than two decades. Born in Boston, D'Amato has gone across the country hitchhiking and hopping freight trains to achieve the work he has. After years of moving around he ended up in to Chicago, where he discovered communities like Pilsen and Little Village, which are where most of his featured photography in Mossless was taken.
In an inclusive interview with VICE, D'Amato speaks in detail about these photos, in addition to the new series he is currently photographing on the west side of Chicago, which is called HereStillNow. The photos are raw and powerful, and a perfect example to the type of documentary photography used in Mossless Magazine. Be sure to check out it's third issue to be published this spring, titled The United States (2003–2013). And be sure to see more of Paul D'Amato's work here.
[Via VICE]
[Through My Lens] La Catrina de Primavera
Photos by AngieStar Photography
According to Mexican Folklore, “La Catrina” is also known as death that can show herself in many different ways. This distinct and perennial character is a paradox to the joy of life in the face of the imminence and inevitability of death. As we only live once, La Catrina pleads with us to seize the moment and to perhaps find life’s meaning.
As we enter Spring after a long Winter, I grew inspired with the new growth of nature along with the anomaly of death in La Catrina. Collaborating with styling ideas of event promoter and producer Alejandra Camarillo, formally known as Ms. Chicago, we created our own unique version titled "La Catrina de Primavera" (translated as Spring Dame of Death). Using the backdrop of Pilsen, a predominant Mexican neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, we produced a truly unique photo set, and I couldn't be happier with the outcome.
Check out some of the following photos and find more here.
