Feb 11, 2010

There’s a guy who will cut your hair on the street, live bands playing in spaces usually occupied by businessman grabbing a smoke during their break, and people “PAINTING LIVE” with onlookers contemplating if they’re witnessing something special. It’s the Downtown Art Walk standard now. I’ve never been to El Nopal Press when founder Francisco Siqueiros was actually there, but tonight there was live printing going on, and everyone seemed mesmerized by that giant printing press and its fluid motions, back-and-forth, buzz and buzz, one simple motion and an image was miraculously imprinted onto a sheet of paper. I found this so much more exciting than any guy splattering paint on a canvas while sitting on a bucket on the sidewalk. In fact, someone should put a printing press on every street corner and just print.