and speaking of beer and art...
Feb. 4th, 2020 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeFor sheer magnificence, nothing beats the art on this limited-edition (celebrating the brand's fortieth anniversary) can of Medalla beer. We had some on our trip to Puerto Rico and brought two empty cans back with us (but the photo below is not mine; all photos were swiped randomly off the internet). The artist is Alexis Díaz:
This can is just one in a series. About the series, Díaz says, "All the designs were made inspired by Puerto Rico, by its people and all that we are as Puerto Ricans. By the tenacity we have to fight for our homeland, by the icons that represent us, which in this case would be the Puerto Rican jíbaro [peasant farmer], the countryside, the beach, the dance, the maga flower."
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Here's the whole series:
How about that octopus woman dancer!!
And I love this hummingbird with a halo:
In this 30-second ad you can see the designs semi-animated, and this 4-minute video shows you lots of examples of Alexis Días's art. He's mainly a muralist, and he's done murals all over the world.
This can is just one in a series. About the series, Díaz says, "All the designs were made inspired by Puerto Rico, by its people and all that we are as Puerto Ricans. By the tenacity we have to fight for our homeland, by the icons that represent us, which in this case would be the Puerto Rican jíbaro [peasant farmer], the countryside, the beach, the dance, the maga flower."
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Here's the whole series:
How about that octopus woman dancer!!
And I love this hummingbird with a halo:
In this 30-second ad you can see the designs semi-animated, and this 4-minute video shows you lots of examples of Alexis Días's art. He's mainly a muralist, and he's done murals all over the world.
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Date: 2020-02-04 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-04 01:05 pm (UTC)And my minor dyslexia made me read "artiskokker" as "aristokker"--which I was imagining meaning "aristocrat," so now I'm thinking about aristocratic artichokes.
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Date: 2020-02-04 01:04 pm (UTC)ETA: I should ask, do any good ones pop into mind?
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Date: 2020-02-04 01:49 pm (UTC)In our glass-fronted cabinet, I have an old bottle for the Coney Island Brewing Company's Mermaid Pilsner. I also have a bottle that used to hold the Hidden Sea of the Limestone Coast's 2014 Shiraz, which is wine, but has a fossil whale on it.
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Date: 2020-02-04 04:19 pm (UTC)... and reminds me of a mermaid post I'd like to do, an interview, but it would take persuading the potential interviewee....
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Date: 2020-02-04 05:46 pm (UTC)Yours was definitely more apocalyptic.
... and reminds me of a mermaid post I'd like to do, an interview, but it would take persuading the potential interviewee....
Good luck!
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Date: 2020-02-04 01:36 pm (UTC)That is excellent beer art.
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Date: 2020-02-04 04:11 pm (UTC)And looking at the guy's murals, I've become a committed fan.
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Date: 2020-02-04 03:05 pm (UTC)People would not want to throw those away! (Imagining golden statues of beer cans, and beer cans shaped into end tables, and lining window sills and turned into planters)
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Date: 2020-02-04 04:12 pm (UTC)In a funny shoutout in the last video, the one where he's painting, it shows him using one of the beer cans as a paint holder ;-)
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Date: 2020-02-04 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-02-04 05:36 pm (UTC)I'm trying to remember if you're more San Francisco area or Los Angeles area ... He has this mural in Los Angeles (screenshot from the last Youtube video)
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