Artist Jermaine Rogers (visit his website, and check out his Facebook) has re-imagined our sweetheart Frida Kahlo in ways you never saw before! 😉
Mas…Remember when Frida Kahlo hung out with Vincent Van Gogh?
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Frida Kahlo takes a selfie [photo?]
[Original image from a series by SAMSUNG.]
Watch this thrilling vintage video game mashup: ‘Contra vs Tetris’
Contra is just trying to get through his day, ya know, and it’s hard enough without pinche Tetris blocks dropping from the sky. What’s a poor action hero to do? [2010 video from those rock-n-roll Rooski revolutionaries @ Red Medusa Studios. Don’t stare at the Medusa, whatever you do.]
Mayor Eric Garcetti: Happy Hispanic Heritage Month, LA! (photo)
¡Feliz Hispanic Heritage Month! — Alcalde Eric Garcetti
‘La Bamba’ all around the world (Playing for Change video)
You know how it works, with the tracks and the headphones and the mics and the overdubs and the mashup. This project started in East Los with Los Lobos via Playing For Change, a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. ¡Mira La Bamba! How many of these musicians do you know? HINT: Does La Santa Cecilia ring a bell?
Nothing in this video is original, except the video: ‘Not Mine’
Creator Guy Trefler writes:
Not Mine is my graduate project in Graphic Design at the HIT college in Israel. My thesis is that nothing is original, therefore, none of the materials presented in the project were made by me. All of the 469 photos used in this video were taken out of Google’s image bank.
Watch: Surfing ‘Mexican-Americans’ mashup (Cheech and Chong)
Stunning Hawaii footage of Mexican-American surfer Kai Mana gets mashed up with Cheech and Chong’s song Mexican-Americans and it’s a video win.
PREVIOUSLY ON SURF MUSIC:
Mas…Watch: Surfing ‘Mexican-Americans’ mashup (Cheech and Chong)
James Brown & Bob Dylan: ‘Like A Rolling Sex Machine’ (video)
They don’t write songs like this anymore! Bob Dylan and James Brown’s amazing duet on Like A Rolling Sex Machine was the highlight of this old episode of Wolfman Jack’s short-lived TV show.
A message from the President of the United States (videos)
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise as we welcome the President of the United States.
AND FROM THE BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
Mas…A message from the President of the United States (videos)
Know your cultural history? What’s wrong with these pictures?
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up! On vocals, Mountain Chief of the Blackfoot.
Mas…Know your cultural history? What’s wrong with these pictures?
Star Wars meets Dia de Los Muertos in these drawings (toons)
José Pulido created these Star Wars drawings in the style of the Day of the Dead art: Link – via Boing Boing
Mas…Star Wars meets Dia de Los Muertos in these drawings (toons)
Laurel and Hardy (El Gordo y El Flaco) ‘Oye Como Va’ (video)
Amazing dancers, these two old gabachos. And who is that playing the music?
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Fresh off the Photoshop: ‘Girl with a parole hearing’ (toon)
Does this prison outfit make my butt look fat? [Illustration by jimwich]
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Mas…Fresh off the Photoshop: ‘Girl with a parole hearing’ (toon)
Ukraine’s top belly dancer vs Santana’s ‘Black Magic Woman’ (video)
Alla Kushnir (AKA Leila) was Miss Belly Dance of Europe 2008, and winner of the Ukranian Belly Dance Championship in both 2007 and 2008. Carlos Santana is a Bay Area guitarist and bandleader.
Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday — and we’ve got videos!
QUESTION: How can you tell when Cinco de Mayo has turned into a totally American holiday? ANSWER: When gabachos from Tennessee start making rap videos about it in broken Spanglish! Dear Hootie (AKA Hoochie) and the Brofish: Orale!
For your Only in Los Angeles moment, check out a local news video about Cinco de Mayo at MexiKosher, a kosher Mexican restaurant in the heavily-Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood:
Mas…Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday — and we’ve got videos!