"Souls on the Road" heads out and leaves Austin TX to New Mexico

The start of the tour around the U.S. has begun with the traveling artists Alyssa Flores & Joaquin Allen on their Art & Film Tour. Filming and creating art and the lives of Artists along the way, these two start off leaving their home base in Austin TX with the art co-active organization at South Austin Soul.

I, Alyssa am filming this whole crazy gypsy adventure with my buddy Joaquin and it's been from the first minute we got into the car a week ago, an instant in pour of change to both our worlds. A destiny that not many people get to experience and wow I get to be in the passenger seat to the "Driver" Joaquin who gets geared into seeing it all starting with his past in Ojo Sarco, NM. As I transition my mind into spinning me around once more; Joaquin takes on the long stretches of the desolate roads out Austin and beyond Dallas all the way out to the flat lands, through wastelands, and mountainous freeze outs. Everything here from out is forward.

Joaquin hit a rush of passing on once we stepped foot into that cemetery to say goodbye to his good ol Marine buddy from his early manhood years. We walked around that cemetery searching over grave over grave over grave that then came to notice the fresh grass that lined out the graves of newly passed on bodies. All I could see was bodies everywhere near us in a different parallel. These new patches of earth made death seem more so visual to me by the earth caskets that lay underneath. My mortality became an ice bath to my senses that my life, Joaquin's life are moving forward into a new movement. Here I have to presume the untold story. Here it better be a moveable notion.

I walked by rows after rows of flowers and found a bundle of Yellow Roses that had the Virgin Mary painted on them that appeared so peaceful for whomever's grave they were for placed for. The statues of angels seemed more so giving off their sincere stares to all that came close to their footing and we never found his buddies grave.

It's an underling truth that I fear death and it's unsure ending of my life's chapters too soon. My waking days are a combination to strive to stretch out every minute to get me further into my future, which causes continuation of fulfillment. Perhaps to fool a mind into believing that it's living multiple changes of life in order to make our deaths more so worth it's burial it a foundation of most Artists. For Joaquin it was a symbol of good luck to his journey. He took each memory to his friends death at an important growth into his next journey. A journey as big as this one, as important as this one, it was a necessary parting or rub on the Buddha's belly to his journey to the conquest.

Oh and then there was the shoot that got away. Trial two to get Moving Atlas the band from Dallas in a last minute stoke of luck shot for their music video I am filming. The last time I scheduled this shoot, it ended up to be one of The Biggest Flops of Unfortunate Events. (behind the scenes video coming soon) I am filming and co- starring in this video with the guys which creates a challenge to get an entire band and myself at the same place at the same time with the opportunity to get production in before I head out of Texas. Awesome, we get them in at their weekly band practice and we nail the shots needed to make this diverse, 4 day production, in multiple locations a possible successful shoot!

Off we go into an already some possible hang ups with the trailer's weight that my little Kia Rio has to endure as we set off into the mountains. Our worry of hauling around glass for Joaquin to paint on, loads of spray paint, canvas, and everything else tends to lead into future depletion of supplies for drag & haul equalization reasons. See that there might not be a possibility to drive into the mountains...  do we make it... how slow will we go and how badly will we back up a single lane of traffic up into an elevation of 7,000 pulling a 4 ft x 8 ft trailer?

The Traveling Souls,
Aly & Joaquin

So much ART, so little time!

Four great events you should attend this weekend!  Pick your faves and join our myriad offering of artists around town!

EAST (East Austin Studio Tour)
http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/

Oxblood Art and Music Fest
http://do512.com/event/2010/11/13/oxblood-music-and-art-fest

Guadalupe Get Down
http://www.spiderhousecafe.com/upcoming-events/nov-13th-2010-guadalupe-get-down.html

AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST!
Join our Resident Artist, Aly Flores and Featured Artist, Joaquin Allen for their FINAL ART SHOW before hitting the road on the South Austin Soul Documentary Tour at The Crow Bar this Sunday, 7p-2a.  Help fill the gas tank by purchasing some beautiful art or dropping off a donation. 
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=109203545813834