#91 Hot & Spicy


#91 Hot & Spicy
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Hola.

Things will be Hot & Spicy at the Latin Fes­ti­val I’ll be attend­ing this weekend.

There will be hot & spicy sal­sa (the kind you dance to), hot & spicy sal­sa (the kind you set your tongue on fire with), and home­made gua­camole, hope­ful­ly not too hot & spicy.

Here’s the poster I designed for the event:

 

Sabroso 2016

One thing that might not be so spicy, but def­i­nite­ly hot, hot, hot, will be the 100 degree weather.

Adiós, ami­go.


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Production notes for #91 Hot & Spicy:
Original size: 20x30 inches

Program: Adobe Photoshop
Fonts: Aka Hoggle
Ampersand: Hot & Spicy Chili Peppers
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Chili Peppers: graph​ic​stock​.com
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Desimone? Damn good!

#51 Salt & Pepper

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Dad­dy died March 29, 1962, over a half cen­tu­ry ago. I was 10 years old. He was 62.

Now I am 62.

You can imag­ine March 29 this year has been on my mind a lot late­ly. I am healthy, still feel young and strong (until I do some­thing stu­pid at this age), so it’s hard to imag­ine my dad look­ing like such an old man when he passed away at only 62 years old.

But he always looked like an old man to me, and I loved him for it. That’s one rea­son I’ve always respect­ed my elders. You see, my dad was 51 years old when I was born. Already he had salt & pep­per hair, and still a full head of it in the cas­ket. That’s how I’ve always seen and remem­bered him: with this beau­ti­ful, wavy salt & pep­per hair that I want­ed when I grew old. Well, I have it. Mine’s more sol­id gray, but that’s okay. It still reminds me of Dad­dy. (I nev­er called him Dad, always Dad­dy as I was only 10 when he died. So if it sounds sil­ly that I still call him Dad­dy, well that’s okay…it just sounds right to me.)

I could tell you a lot about this man I loved and admired, and I will. But one thing that is absolute­ly fas­ci­nat­ing is that Andrew J. De Simone was born Decem­ber 31, 1899. That’s the last day of the cen­tu­ry before last! Which meant he was always the same exact age as what­ev­er year it was—to the day. That’s why it’s a lit­tle con­fus­ing to com­pre­hend he was 51 when I was born in 1951. And he was 62 when he died in 1962. Read More