Here’s a demonstration of Quintron’s invention The Singing House. It’s a house rigged with rain drop collectors and wind censors that turns storms, sunsets, etc. into something like ambient music… but with lots of synth. Can you dig it? Can you stand it? Read more »
Brooklyn-based street artist and art-raft floater Swoon is working on a permanent, public house-sculpture in NoLA’s Bywater neighborhood. Built from the salvaged ruins of a Creole Cottage, it will be rigged to function like a giant musical instrument. Read more »
The Hypothetical Development Organization has a few ideas in mind for the derelict sites of New Orleans. Part of the project involved wheatpasting “coming soon” posters for the Museum of Self with a giant “Like” thumb up portruding from its glass fasade, a plastic tower hive of “high-tech snooze pods” and other fantastical structures. Kudos for inspiring urban renewal, the WTF way. Read more »
In a new project by New Orleans’ Candy Chang (Wish I Was…), an abandoned building on Marigny and Burgundy gets reincarnated as a public chalkboard. The communal bucket-list now reads: Before I Die I Want To… “save my soul,” “sex it up,” “hike the Appalachian trail” and, our favorite, “be tried for piracey.” See all the merry death wishes here.
Photographer Deborah Luster continues her New Orleans chronicles with the series Tooth for an Eye. These recent sites of shootings and stabbings – Katrina-ravaged houses, Banksy-stenciled corners and empty streets – appear indifferent. The evidence of murder had become absorbed into continuous urban decay, but it still tallies into New Orleans’ status as US’s homicide capital. “Tooth for an Eye,” Deborah Luster, Jan 6 – Feb 5, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
Vinyl “I wish this was…” stickers have spored all over New Orleans’ shuttered buildings and shattered streets. Labels vary from the basic “I wish this was a bike rack” or “a grocery” to the fantastic wishing “a California-style medical marijuana dispensary” to the horrific, wishing for Disneyland in Jackson Square. Shudder. Read more »
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people were bugging. With no help and conditions dipping to third world levels, many expressed their despair with spray paint. All around New Orleans, it was the writing on the walls that told the real story and Richard Misrach was there to document it. Using a crappy digital camera, he shot tons of photos and has now published them in a book called: “Destroy This Memory.”
Here’s all you ever wanted to know about gumbo in one amazing flow chart: a heaping serving of culinary, linguistic and cultural info from the winner of New Orleans’ chart contest.
It appears so…or at the very least, a strong advocate. Here’s video of Luda knocking on doors in New Orleans and hitting the airwaves in an effort to encourage people to fill out the 2010 Census. Wish they would have showed footage of him knocking on some tea bagger’s doors. |Nah Right|
At 1614 Esplanade in the Faubourg Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans (just outside of the French Quarter) sits a 19th century Creole mansion that serves as the home to numerous local artists, as well as the most rad treehouse you’ll ever run across. Now here comes the sad part… Read more »
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