Ricardo Cortez: Artist, Digital Curator, STEM and STEAM Hero
Ricardo Cortez (@tijuanarickart) sits down to talk about his community art project: teaching youth color bar technology, lowrider history, and community building. His program was highly effective and successful. This episode shows how one person's passion for teaching and learning can have a positive impact by giving back and investing in our youth and our communities.
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The Language of Lowriding w/Dionicio Garcia and Eugene "Spanks" Hernandez
Dionicio "Dino" Garcia is a member of Frisco's Finest Car Club, and a community college counselor. Eugene "Spanks" Hernandez is President of the Imperials Car Club, and he is a retired administrator from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They were kind enough to come through and talk to me about the "language" of lowriding, and building cultural fluency in the process. The goal?? - to breakdown existing stereotypes that exist within lowriding, and we explore different ways in which lowriding is communicated.
Topics include:
Community building
Political activism
History
Car Club membership
Identity
Enjoy!
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Colloboration Episode w/Drifting on Memories Podcast's Raul Garcia
Raul and I sat down on Whittier Boulevard in Montebello, CA to talk about an array of issues relating to culture, traditions, our individual and collective mission with what we do, and why we do it. Enjoy!
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Bay Area Lowriding OG, Pauly Cardenas
Pauly sits down to talk about the old days of Story and King in San Jose, street vs. show, competition, and more!
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Andrew Lister
Originally from New Zealand, Andrew Lister has been living in Los Angeles for awhile now. He sits down to talk about how he came into lowriding while living in NZ, and the scene there as well as his contributions to working on the film McFarland, USA as a lowrider consultant. Enjoy!
New Zealand