Arte y Pico Awards

Posted 8 July, 2008 at 12:13 am by Kevin
Filed Under Bloggers/Blogging, Carnivals/Blog Days/Awards |

The wonderful blogger and AfroSpear member MsLadyDeborah has honored me with an award!


The Arte y Pico Award

As Lewis Hyde would argue, “a gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift.”1, and it is in that spirit that the Arte y Pico Awards (along with other blogger awards like the Thinking Bloggers Award) operates. Here’s the rundown:

The “Arte y Pico” award, you must know that it comes with a few rules. These rules are listed below:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2. Each awardee has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4. Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award: http://arteypico.blogspot.com/

5. Display these rules.

And now, on with the awards! I must admit; there will be no surprises here, since I’m constantly hawking the genius of these bloggers…

Nezua at The Unapologetic Mexican

Kai at Zuky

Devious Diva at This Is Not My Country

Blackamazon at Having Read the Fine Print

Purple Zoe at Ultraviolet Underground.

Now, y’all know I’m not one to go around following the rules. So, I’m gonna add a few more to the mix for good measure:

Villager at the Electronic Village

Brownfemipower at La Chola

XicanoPwr at ¡Para Justicia y Libertad!

Prof Black Woman at WoC PhD

Carmen D. at All About Race

Yeah, that’s right. I didn’t do what I was supposed to do. I added five additional bloggers. Take this as an historical moment. It’s one of the few times that a black person can do something out of line and Barack Obama won’t have to answer for it.

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  1. Lewis Hyde, introduction to The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. New York: Vintage Books, 2007 []



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11 Responses to “Arte y Pico Awards”

  1. prof bw on July 8th, 2008 3:39 am permalink

    Rules? What rules? :P Thanks Kevin. :D

  2. deviousdiva on July 8th, 2008 6:33 am permalink

    Thanks sweetie.

    I love the rules are broken and we all benefit !

  3. Eric Stoller on July 8th, 2008 10:49 pm permalink

    Congrats Kev. The best thing about you winning an award is knowing that you’re not in it for awards which in fact is, in part, what contributes to your winning it ;-) I’m grateful that I get to have the opportunity to read your stuff. You bring it. You bring it every time with heart, justice, truth and caring.

    One way or another, I need to find my way out east or vice versa so that we can sit having a cold one talking about this and that :-)

  4. Carmen D. on July 8th, 2008 11:58 pm permalink

    Thank you Kevin! You’ve made my night. And I want you to know that A Slant Truth never ceases to inspire me to think and do more. Peace.

  5. msladydeborah on July 10th, 2008 10:00 pm permalink

    Thanks for sharing some of your faves with us!

    It is hard to select just five blogs.:-)

  6. Kai on July 11th, 2008 3:02 am permalink

    Thank you, Kevin! I really appreciate it! And I’m with Eric, we need to sit down and chill over a cold one.

  7. XP on July 13th, 2008 4:04 pm permalink

    Gracias Kevin!!! Sorry for being late, I just noticed this.

  8. Arte y Pico at THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY on July 14th, 2008 4:08 am permalink

    [...] Published by deviousdiva July 14th, 2008 in Personal. Kevin of Slant Truth presented me with this wonderful award. Thank you, my friend. 10.000 HITS PARTY by deviousdiva on December 9th, 2005101 things by [...]

  9. Kevin on July 14th, 2008 10:29 pm permalink

    Y’all are all welcome! You know you rule!

    And Eric, Kai, and anyone else. I am committed to making those cold ones happen.

  10. Villager on July 15th, 2008 6:47 pm permalink

    Asante sana! I hope to continue to earn the respect from you and others out here in the afrosphere over the coming weeks and months…

  11. nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez on July 17th, 2008 12:18 pm permalink

    that was hilarious.

    gracias bro!! i’ll see what i can do with this. i have an empty spot on my mantle. oh wait, i have no mantle. well. i think one of the bottles on top of my fridge is empty so i’ll throw that away and put this up there. you rock hermano!

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