Saturday, June 25, 2011

Trash in the Sky

Last night, I was told to take the trash out, so I did. About half-way towards the curb, I was like, "Meh, fuck this. Maybe if I try hard enough, I can toss it from here." So I began to build-up power, moving my arm forward-and-backwards faster and faster. I began to move it faster, imagining an imaginary power gauge, going red, green, and back down again. I did it faster until... BAM! I let that sucker have it. But then it had me.

For a Minute There, He Didn't Hate Me.

My dreams recently have been a little terror-filled. Yesterday, I dreamt that I was at a rural gas station that is invaded by a horde of zombies, with everyone dying. Today I managed to escape the gas station when I got into a truck driven by some girl. She then proceeded to drive the truck off an exit ramp and crash it into the opposite retaining wall.

Friday, June 24, 2011

The Immigrants of America

A few weeks ago, I was watching the ABC station here in Dallas, and they were reporting a story about how the majority of public school students here in Texas are Hispanic, coming in at a whopping 50.2%. I wasn't surprised by that figure, especially since we share a border with Mexico several hundred miles long and Texas is home to millions of immigrants.

Now, I won't make this political-charged post about immigration-- that's probably something that some right-wing ex-Marine President-wannabe Republican will talk about to a bunch of conservatives-- but I think that's a bit weird to be a majority somewhere, especially when the majority of the US population is White.

Honestly, as a Hispanic myself, I feel a bit proud of that accomplishment. But some will see this as immigrants taking over the U.S., saying that immigrants are trying to take over and "poison" the American way-of-life, but in all reality, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It's sort-of like how integration was talked about when a Black family would move into a White neighbourhood, that allowing one in would lead to a wave, which wasn't at all true.

Now, some ignorant people point out that immigrants are bad because from where they are, but in reality, their just people, like you and me who come here in search for a better life and the "American Dream." (I know my parents did 25 years ago.) And it's time to welcome these people as we did back in the 1800 and 1900s, albeit with 21st century tolerance.

But alas, you can't change people's minds and some will blame immigrants for national problems, such as the Nazis blamed the Jews for all their problems in the 1930s. But now, here in the 21st century, it's time to start changing opinions and thoughts instead of hanging on to skewed 20th century ideals.

And as Rodney King once said, "Can't we all just get along?"

Sunday, June 19, 2011

I Wonder Who's Reading This

I understand that this blog is one of several million that are out there on the internet. Some are a bit more interesting; others not so much. And honestly, whether anyone looks at my blog is unimportant to me (although it would be greatly appreciated). This blog is here so I can express myself via the drawings I do, no matter how good the actual drawing is.

Go ahead and look around... no one's watching... yet.

All this has a somewhat of a peculiar start after I drew a few panels for my friend to show to her significant other after I had freaked him out over Facebook while in vacation in Mexico. Needless to say, that was the first incarnation of the ESF, and since then, I've drawn probably about 50 drawings, some dealing with the worsening state of relationship with my friend's significant other and others having some social commentary in them, such as the nature of the ads published by AE and Hollister Co.

Overtime, the nature of my art evolved from just being platform to annoy to actually conveying my feelings towards an issue or situation (or just to satisfy some random urge to draw).

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my "art" and I look forward to drawing more things as more ideas emerge.

Eddie Sigala
Founder of The Eddie Sigala Foundation


One of those six panels