NOLA RISING in the Morning

Spent the morning working more on my NoLa Rising Project. A good two to three hours was spent driving down Magazine Street and then walking down Oak Street putting up my dependably disposable and pedestrian art posters. The main accomplishment for the daily project was putting up a sign I painted at work last night.

NOLA RISING

NOLA RISING PROJECT

I have decided to undertake a public art project to spread across the city. The idea was spawned from two different ideas that I have opted to merge. The first was a photo I had taken last year of a building that was on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon. Someone, presumably the owner or tenant, spray-painted "NOLA RISING" on the building. The photo ended up being great and has become a maxim of mine (if a thought behind an idea can imply the totality of a maxim).

Second was a group of random paintings that someone had strung up in the Marigny on a huge electrical pole. I wanted to try and climb the electrical structure to get one of the paintings, but thought better of it at eight in the morning. So, in lieu of taking art, I decided to leave art behind.

So far, I have put up NOLA RISING drawings in two different areas of town. The first was in the Lower Ninth Ward in the middle of a great new vacuum of neighborhood space created by the breaking levees flooding out people's homes. Not just flooding, but breaking apart and destroying. It is in this neighborhood that I feel the spirit of New Orleans is needed first and foremost. The second area I have started is in my own back yard (not literally) around the Lower Garden District, Coliseum Square area, and the Irish Channel. Is it needed as much there? Perhaps not as intensely as one would think. To see some additional pictures of what was in the Ninth Ward, see the link below at JUST ONE GOOD THING.

http://justonegoodthing.blogspot.com/2007/05/nola-rising-project.html
And, just a one hit wonder in chalk, see:
HUCKSPIX

And now, for some of the neighborhood shots of my NOLA RISING project, see below. More to come. Many more to come...and I'm beginning a section for it on my website here shortly.







WDYT?

16 May 07

NOLA RISING in the 9th Ward

I have decided to undertake a public art project spread across the city. The idea was spawned from two different ideas that I have opted to merge. The first was a photo I had taken last year of a building that was on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon. Someone, presumably the owner or tenant, spray-painted "NOLA RISING" on the building. The photo ended up being great and has become a maxim of mine (if a thought behind an idea can imply the totality of a maxim). Second was a group of paintings that someone had strung up in the Marigny on a huge electrical pole.

Most recently, I decided to take the Nola Rising message to the lower Ninth Ward. Below are three pictures of over twenty that I put up within a six block radius. More to come to a neighborhood near you. I would've written about it on the day of, but it took a long time to get it done and was tired afterward. So, enjoy my many good things:

More rain shots of the 4th of May

A house in the Irish Channel.


On St. Charles Avenue


Another shot on St. charles Avenue shortly before I decided to park my car and walk home in knee deep water. It was just so damned lovely, I think I've decided to stay at home for all the hurricanes that may come our way this year.

This one's for you LeeAnn!

That's right, back in the day. Excuse the dust in the picture. It was scanned on a dirty scanner and I haven't finished going through to clear it all up.

4 May 2007 - Jazzfest and it's raining

New Orleans is indeed a wet city. After massive rainfall last night, we had more around mid-day. Not nearly enough to cancel JazzFest, but more than enough to cancel the Zoo-To-Do. How can you cancel Jazzfest...even Frank Davis was out there today. Anyway, here are some pictures of around the neighborhood.