Posts tagged with New Orleans
October 3, 2011 | New Music | 
by Contributions |
Its not everyday that you hear Hip-Hop songs about money, sex, drugs and Star Wars? I must admit The Skywalkas trio took me for a loop, when I first saw them at The Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans a while back. Their show was packed with energy and funny antics that reminded me of a Busta Rhymes performance, and if you’ve ever seen Busta perform, you know that’s no small feat.
July 6, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
LA, Austin, and New Orleans-based artist Corinne Loperfido specializes in whimsical, folk-pop drawings, poster art, and embroidery, hilarious and honest comics, and mixed media collages and concept pieces such as her beard photo series. Read more
June 16, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Zolton |
Located in heart of Louisiana, the Six Flags fun park has lain in ruin since Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in 2005. There had been talk that the park would be transformed into a Nickelodeon-branded water park, but that has still yet to eventuate. Read more
April 20, 2011 | New Music | 
by Gerry Mak |
New Orleans soul-infused raunch rock band Felix has been described as an ‘explosion trio’ because they are effing loud and super intense. I checked them out at the Hi-Ho Lounge and at the end of their set, their French friend grabbed the microphone and did death metal growls for five minutes and it was amazing.
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April 18, 2011 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
The music scene in New Orleans is shot through with a lot more traditionalism than other places because let’s face it, when you’re walking through the Bywater, it’d be almost wrong to hear anything but old timey music coming out of those beautiful French windows. Tuba Skinny is definitely a band around town to check out. They specialize in the sound inexorably associated with the Big Easy.
April 5, 2011 | New Art | by PostEditor |
New Orleans-based glass artist Carlos Zervigon creates sculptures that comment on the interplay between the industrial process and the natural environment. Read more
April 1, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
During my recent time in New Orleans, I got to see in person the amazing piece by public installation artist Candy Chang called Before I Die, installed on the side of an abandoned house in the Marigny neighborhood. It invites passers by to fill in the blanks with what they’d like to do before they die. One of them read “live in New Orleans,” which I can definitely relate to. Read more
March 30, 2011 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
If you dig old-timey folk, check out Hurray for the Riff Raff, an amazing band out of New Orleans. They write gorgeously simple and earnest songs that, while shot through with melancholy, maintain a breezy innocence. Read more
March 24, 2011 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
I saw this amazing sculpture by Josh Cohen at the Trouser House gallery in New Orleans recently. I could have stayed in that room all night sipping on wine.
March 20, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Gerry Mak |
If you’re in New Orleans and you love barbeque, make sure to stop by The Joint in the Bywater neighborhood. Their brisket is outstanding, and for under $11 for a pound of the fatty, delicious beef and two sides, it’s a super good deal. Their ribs are also pretty good, but seriously, the brisket is the jam.
March 18, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Gerry Mak |
I spent a lazy afternoon recently at the Domino Sound Record Shack in New Orleans, sipping on a whiskey and listening to the amazing old-time, blues, and rock ‘n roll records the clerk was playing.
March 15, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
New Orleans-based artist Monica Zeringue makes beautiful and eerily dreamlike self-portraits of herself as a pre-pubescent girl, often in multiplicity and arranged in impossible and surreal formations. Read more
March 10, 2011 | New Food and Packaging | by Gerry Mak |
Two of New Orleans’ top chefs, Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski, have an amazing shop called the Cochon Butcher near the Garden District. Most people go there for the house-made boudin (rice and pork sausages) and their gourmet sandwiches, but they also have a wide range of raw housemade meats and sausages (all made from locally raised meats) that you can take home to cook.
March 10, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Brian Guidry samples colors he finds around him in his home of New Orleans and matches them exactly in his dynamic and abstract paintings. Read more
March 8, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
New Orleans-based artist Dan Tague does some amazing things with money, folding up dollar bills to create new and subversive messages out of the letters printed on them. Read more
The six-card Dosh is ideal for the person on the move. Dosh wallets’ patented designs are molded in polymer desmopan — a highly durable, water resistant material with a luxurious soft-touch feel.
I’m really digging Los Angeles-based illustrator Jon Han’s textured, colourful, almost scientific work. I find it particularly refreshing how Han frequently eschews most of the physical detail within his tiny figures, which lends itself all the more to further enhancing the diagram like quality of his work.
In Japan, when one makes squeezing gestures with both hands at chest level, one is gesturing that one wants candy — soft, round, bouncy candy. At least, that’s what this commercial would have us believe.
This remarkable construction is located in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi and is built entirely from scratch every year. It features 10,000 tonnes of ice from the nearby Torne River, and 30,000 tonnes of snow, covering more than 30,000 square feet in total. Oh, it even has its own ice chapel. But be sure to bring your winter woollens. It could get a little, errr, chilly at night. Read more
Our friends over at the street art and design site, Feed Me Cool Shit have a revealing interview up with UK artist Sickboy, who talks about his earliest days on the streets. Read more
Macedônian brutal doom outfit Potop, whose name means ‘flood’ in Polish, is one of the most anguished, despairing, dirty, hateful bands of the genre since Burning Witch. Their down-tuned, down-tempo sludge is virulently anti-life, oozing out of the speakers like poison gas. Read more
Diva Pittala is the designer of edgy and glamorous fashion label, Pleasure Principle. Silk tied in knots on the back of baggy dresses might be their trademark, but this spring’s collection goes much further. Read more
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Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
Get lost in a daydream or a craving for something sweet while gazing at these cool sculptures by Brooklyn-based WiNK WiNK PONY. Made using clay, tree bark, wood, and mossy moss.
Here are a couple awesome pieces by Matt Leines that were recently on display in the Doubting Thomases exhibit at Nudashank gallery in Baltimore. Gives me ideas for Halloween. Read more
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
The Illuminated Sea Cookie Pin by Stephanie Simek mixes underwater wonders and light to add a little sparkle to your wardrobe. The sea cookie, a member of the sand dollar family, is back lit by a white LED. When turned on, the light illuminates all of the creature’s natural patterns and intricacies. Read more
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