The Conspirators

The Great Tortilla Conspiracy, the World’s Most Dangerous Tortilla Art Collective is a team of three guys that basically make tortillas and print images on the tortilla itself. The images have a wide variety of images and hold different meaning for different events. The focus on this piece will be that of Sonia Sotomayor as she was the image printed on these tortillas. Sonia Sotomayor is Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent and was recently appointed by Barak Obama to be on the Supreme Court justice back in 2009. She is the first Hispanic to reach such a position and only the third female to do so. Needless to say she is very intelligent and holds a very powerful position and rightly so. She graduated not only from Princeton but also Yale while earning her J.D. She was also recognized by other presidents such as Bush and Clinton. The image that was used to print on the tortillas was that of Sotomayors face designed by Favianna Rodriguez. Rodriguez is an artist based out of Oakland California. Her art is known for addressing certain issues revolving around, war, immigration, globalization and last but not least social movements. The fact that Rodriguez’s artwork of Sotomayor was used shows that the conspirators, which they are often referred to as, knows a bit about social movements and recognizes the importance of Sotomayor and how much more she represents than a Supreme Court judge. By pulling together their resources and utilizing any connections they may have had they were able to promote not only themselves but also political issues that may concern Sotomayor the newly appointed judge, and even the artist Favianna Rodriguez all while serving a delicious meal. Taking things a step further instead of having someone just take pictures or home video of the event they chose to include the radio station Hard Knock Radio which is a public affairs program. Topics ranging from politics to hip hop are all discussed over the air and on their website. For example the opening page to the site has the article of women’s role in hip hop which is a very diverse topic that includes both social equality and cultural music. Hard Knock Radio made the effort to get out to the event hosted by the conspirators and took some video clips and posted them on their own channel HardKnockradio via You Tube. The conspirators did an excellent job of utilizing everything from the community to make a promotion event very successful.
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