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Our friends at Where Eagles Dare have an incredible interview with photographer (and, yes, father of Estevan) Eriberto Oriol that digs into his past, present, and future. Here’s an excerpt and the link:

Eriberto, thank-you so very much for taking the time to do this interview with us. Let’s hear some background and history behind yourself.

I was born in Indio, California but grew up in a community called Varrio Logan which is located in the city of San Diego. It was the most complex community in the state of California because of its heavy industrial waterfront. It was a community that was also split in half by a freeway and fractured by the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge and surrounded by a military and conservative mentality with great overtones of racism. This was my real playground and which has had a great influence on my artwork to this day. I’ve lived half of my life in Los Angeles and came here to fully develop myself as an artist. I’m not a self-taught artist which I used to run as, although it sounds good, it as also a self centered ego and fake thing at the same time. We live in a world of people that are not in an isolated capsule. Our lives are influenced by many people and by our surroundings.

I have been a photo maker on and off for 30 years or so. I had an absent period for 15 years because I lost interest and wanted to just draw, paint and mess with sculpture. My son Estevan pulled me back into it because he wanted to do a father and son exhibit which took place at Shepard Fairey’s studio/gallery about 5 years ago. I resisted it at first because I didn’t want to look back at what I had shot in the past. Estevan recognized that’s where some of my strongest photos were and he was right. I was just beginning to shoot graffiti and that was becoming my main interest at that time.

Read the rest of the interview and peep the flicks here…

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Here in Van Nuys takes amazing pictures of the Valley and greater LA, check out the Flickr Stream.

Photo by Jennifer Lynn

Grubstreet (good name for this story?) LA posts the following news bit today:

Interested in eating insect tacos? If you live in the right Oaxacan-influenced neighborhood, you can buy chapulines by the bag and hope you fare better than Eric Greenspan in preparing the little hoppers. Or you can come eat edible insect tacos for five dollars at Machine Project next Friday, during its “Bug Eat Bug” event.

Read more: Bug-Filled Tacos Crawl Over to Echo Park

It’s that time of year again– to pit the city’s favorite taco spots (be they truck, table, shack, or restaurant) against each other in a single elimination tournament to determine LA’d favorite taco.

To eliminate some of the confusion that always occurs with a contest like this, the ultimate winner will be the city’s favorite taco. For some people, the city’s best, most authentic taco will be that taco. For others, it will be a place that evokes childhood memories of comfort and good times. Either way, there is no wrong way to love tacos and since this contest is open to the public, it’s not a critic’s award, it’s a popular favorite.

Last year’s winner, Yucca’s moved from the first round to the Sabrocho, to the Final Four with varying degrees of difficulty, ultimately coming out on top over such competition as King Taco, Tacos Por Favor, and upstart Kogi BBQ.

This year we’ll expand the field to even more spots, so please nominate your favorite by emailing info@lataco.com or tweet us at @lataco. Please help us spread the word on your favorite blogs etc. so we can get a lot of nominations and fill up the field with the city’s best and most popular taco spots.

Organizer Rosalio Muñoz at Salazar Park Senior Center, 2864 Whittier Blvd. in Los Angeles CA on February 28, 2010. Community activists held a panel discussion to recognize the 40th anniversary of a march through the rain in Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War Contact says the “March in the Rain” was a turning point of the Chicano Movement. Photo by AURELIO JOSE BARRERA

Our mascot, Taco Man, has become a celebrity on the web due to his good looks, charm, knobby knees, and giant helping of crema falling out the back of his shell. Now, thanks to artist MacKay Wilford, he’s been transformed into a Pixel Art version, suitable for Icons and Avatars of all kinds. Enjoy!

Saturday, February 27th:
Slice Truck – 10:30
King Kone – 11:30
Grill Em All – 11:30
Willoughby Road – 11:00
Tasty Meat: 11:45
Don Chow’s Tacos (time TBA)

Sunday, February 28th:
Yum Yum Bowls – 9:30
Buttermilk Truck – 10:00 (leaving 1:30 – being replaced by Asian Soul Kitchen)
Phamish – 10:00
Louks To Go – 11:00
LA BBQ Guy – 11:15
Dels – 12:00

The address of the market is 1511 Micheltorena st (at Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA, 90026 – more information on the market is available at www.silverlakeartcraftvintage.com.