Dingler at Creole Connection

ART ART EVERYWHERE!!!

Some of my artwork will be on display from now until ??? in historic Algiers Point at a place on the corner of Pelican and Sequin.

CREOLE CONNECTION
300 PELICAN STREET (On the corner of Pelican & Seguin)
New Orleans, LA 70114 (Algiers Point)

For mapquest purposes, I've put a mapquest link below to select/copy/paste. If you are planning taking the Canal Street Ferry, you can turn left as you exit the ferry, walk down to the street that's oncoming one way. Walk to Seguin (the street before the courthouse), turn right, walk down two blocks to Pelican and look for the three tone purple building on your left.

MAPQUEST LINK: Map of 300 Pelican Ave New Orleans, LA 70114-2348, US

Thanks All,
Dingler

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www.michaeldingler.com
dingler.blogspot.com
nolarising.blogspot.com

Dingler Exhibits Himself This Saturday!

Some of my artwork will be on display from now until ??? in historic Algiers Point at a place on the corner of Pelican and Sequin.

CREOLE CONNECTION
300 PELICAN STREET (On the corner of Pelican & Seguin)
New Orleans, LA 70114 (Algiers Point)

For mapquest purposes, I've put a mapquest link below to select/copy/paste. If you are planning taking the Canal Street Ferry, you can turn left as you exit the ferry, walk down to the street that's oncoming one way. Walk to Seguin (the street before the courthouse), turn right, walk down two blocks to Pelican and look for the three tone purple building on your left.

MAPQUEST LINK: Map of 300 Pelican Ave New Orleans, LA 70114-2348, US

Thanks All,
Dingler

--
www.michaeldingler.com
dingler.blogspot.com
nolarising.blogspot.com

John F. Hosford - Artist - "SHOALS!"

John F. Hosford - "SHOALS...!"

The following is a painting dated December of 2006 by John Hosford titled, "Shoals...!" In his description of the painting, he says:

"This painting was completed alla prima, which is my preferred method...

Originally my intent for this picture was to drastically bring out the facial expression leaving everything else subdued...

I brought the subject very close because I didn't want very much background, just enough to place where the sailor is. The point of the painting, for me, was the facial expression."

Enjoy the painting. Md

Something New Coming

I am in the process of going through a bunch of photos that I'll be putting on the site to give the feel of what is going to be going down with this project. Thus, to not make it seem like a barren abandoned site left to whither and die, here I introduce the first sign of my sacred hours. THERE WILL BE MORE TO COME BECAUSE IT IS DONE AND JUST NEEDS TO NE PUT ON HERE...As Always...md (liberator of the soul)

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

--Good Night and Good Luck ... I'm a little torn by this because in one essence, it seems true and honest to feel that way, as many I'm sure do. But, aren't we all at basic instinct animals and when it is time to migrate to greener fields, we'd do so regardless and eventually co-mingle anyhow? Hmmm...

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.