Reblogged from defendneworleans
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"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." - Jimi Hendrix
From its utilitarian origins as an economic engine, the French Quarter Festival is, 28 years later, that and much more.
The self-described largest free music festival in the South attracts hundreds of thousands of patrons with hundreds of musicians on 17 outdoor stages sprinkled…
Florence and the Machine from Rolling Stone’s Hottest Live Photos of the week. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-hottest-live-photos-of-the-week-20100927/florence-and-the-machine-0357416
New Storyville Shirt. http://www.wearyourstory.com/nutria-it-s-what-s-for-dinner.html Such a NOLA shirt. Disturbing, but I like it!
Love this video of Estes Park
NOLA.com’s Keith Marszalek photographed the Mardi Gras Indians at their 2011 Super Sunday parade in uptown New Orleans.
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Street Art of the Day: “Before I Die”: Candy Chang (previously) reclaims the side of an abandoned house on the corner of Marigny and Burgundy in her NOLA neighborhood for a giant chalkboard “where residents can fill in the blank and remember what is important to them in life.”
The collective project, she says, is “also about turning a neglected space into a constructive one where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us.”
[ignant.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhi5tokWhN1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Street Art of the Day: “Before I Die”: Candy Chang (previously) reclaims the side of an abandoned house on the corner of Marigny and Burgundy in her NOLA neighborhood for a giant chalkboard “where residents can fill in the blank and remember what is important to them in life.”
The collective project, she says, is “also about turning a neglected space into a constructive one where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us.”
[ignant.]
(via dcteachild)
Photos from Times-Picayune/NOLA.com from Zulu and Rex
