Show HN: Day of the Dead website with 12 Free illustrations
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Show HN: Day of the Dead website with 12 Free illustrations
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#2For me, the images on the page won't load
edit: 50% of them load, 50% give 504
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#3None of the assets will load.
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#4None of the assets will load.
I suspect that's just the server being suddenly overloaded. For me they load, but take a few minutes to due so. As always, try back later.
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#5Assets load after about 15 secs, but oh man this is really well done! :)
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#6Very nice work!
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#7Nice! I think there's an error in the bottom-left of the footer, which says "Day of the Day", instead of "Day of the Dead"?
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#9"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article.
I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party. I thought it was awfully clever and recognised it as inspired by Posada's catrinas.
The popularity of Día de Muertos in Mexico is kind of strange. Most Mexicans did not observe most of the traditions that have now become popular. It was a very regional thing from Michoacán. Talking to other Mexicans, it seems that during the late 20th century, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) started putting Día de Muertos and other regional Mexican traditions into the curriculum, which made knowledge of the holiday spread. It would be as if Mardi Gras became a national holiday of the US and became an icon of US identity worldwide.
And then we have the James Bond Day of the Dead parade from a movie that we thought was so cool that we decided to do it for real.
It's an odd thing to see traditions getting established during my lifetime.
Re: Show HN: Day of the Dead website with 12 Free illustrations
#10"Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree. It's obviously a back-translation from the English which requires the article. I also wonder when did the face-painting tradition start. The first time I saw it was in 2005 at a Halloween party.…
> "Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree.
I'm sure all Mexicans would agree. Saying "día de los muertos" sounds like calling July 4th "day of the independence". Maybe it's a literal translation from "day of the dead", since "dead day" sounds like something else.