Hombre Araña y sus Companeros
The news keeps delivering entries for the popular, figurative sculpture file I’ve found myself building. Last week, we heard from the NYTimes that Mexico City police made some overzealous and apparently illegal raids on piñata vendors in recent months. Their target: unlicensed pinatas!!! The alarm over “counterfeiting business” has led to a new Mexican anti-piracy law, which allows prosecutors to go after vendors who make piñatas of the gay cowboy, the rubber man, snow white, and friends even without a specific company complaint. (Extortion clearly does not count as piracy……)
Imagine how much less rich the world will be when Disney, Nickelodeon, Marvel, and other megacorps can require pinata makers to follow formal guidelines. They surely won’t want a fat spiderman, for example:
or one who hangs out with Care Bears and has a super shaggy headdress
or one that’s not a figure at all, just a beautiful blob
Comments (3)
spiermana
Greedy Pinatas steal the Juicyfruit (Game). I’ve seen waaaaaaay nasty pinatas that talk and one of an immigrant family jumping a border fence.
As a kid, it seemed that the most popular pinata’s at school parties were those of animals, cars/trucks and nuns. I went to a party in LA as a teen and the pinata was filled with mota.
If you ever make it to Teshuilo Lake in Mexico, the dolls that inhabit the island might be of interest: http://www.mexicovacationtravels.com/ruins/isla-de-las-munecas-mexicos-island-of-the-dolls.html