Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Coqui



Little Coqui wasn’t much bigger than a tadpole when he came to New York with his parents. It was in the streets of el barrio where he picked up the violin.
The legend says that if you take a Coqui frog out of Puerto Rico it will never sing again, but that is not really true. Coqui still sings to the moon every time he contemplates it in the sky because it reminds him when he was in his wonderful pond in Puerto Rico. He still misses his ground, but you know mami ! either you sink or you swim! he says. He chose to swim.
Bernard often sits and listens to him play in the fountain of the park on warm, summer evenings—when the park most feels like home.

Coqui's urban forest

Friday, April 17, 2009

Bernard the Gargoyle!



Bernard lived all his life in Notre Dame Church in Paris, he was SO SO SO bored of being in the same place for so long that one day he just packed his belongings and flew away. He has been traveling the world since then, he has visited almost every corner of the planet. One of his favorites places is New York City because it is like the whole world in one spot he says!. He liked it so much that he decided to stay for a while.

Larry and Bernard met in the street while Bernard was asking for directions, he was kind of lost. Larry thought Bernard was a very cool animal. He has never seen a gargoyle before so he invited him to Magda's birthday party that night. Larry wanted everybody to meet this curious, cool, amazing animal....all the gang was there and everybody was charmed by Bernard's traveling stories... specially Magda.
Bernard was so glad to have met all this cool new friends in the city, he felt so welcomed, he felt part of the gang.

Bernard before and after...


I love what patience and color can do.


Yelow, yellow,yellow....may be the spring coming!

Friday, April 10, 2009

Cecilia is on the stage!



Cecilia is the youngest member of a large wool producing family. She was supposed to spend her life growing hair for carpets and sweaters as it was the tradition in her homeland Peru, but she didn't want this destiny for herself. Instead she wanted to be a Vedete and have her own show, so one day she stowed away on a ship bound for New York. At the beginning she struggled a lot and had to do odd jobs for a living. Time passed by and she finally found a theater called "El Teatro del Silencio" to perform, her show is a success.

Cecilia's dress