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Category Archives: New Orleans
Sights seen at NOLA Lundi Gras: Walking Human Statue Man
This guy may seem to be striding right along but is in fact standing stark still. Motionless, he has mastered the art of a crisp “Thank You” in response to tips, his lips as still as all the rest of him.
Posted in New Orleans, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Culture, Human Statue, Lundi Gras, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, NOLA, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Leather Centurion decorates Mens’ Room at Lords’ Ball
Posted in Leather, New Orleans, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged Circuit, Gay, Leather, Lords of Leather, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, NOLA, Photography, Sexy, Surveillance
Bywater Bone Boys!
Mardi Gras Skeletons dress in deaths head arrays and traditionally are intended to remind us of our own finite lives. New Orleans memento mori -reminders of death. And scare small children of course. The Bywater Bone Boys were up early and we got a coveted hand made throw! More on Skeleton Krewes in general and the Bywater Bone Boys specifically here.
New Orleans sound: Neville Bros play “Iko Iko” live medley at Jazzfest
This kind of second line rhythm comes out of the New Orleans tradition of the jazz funeral. On the way to the cemetery, the bands play dirges, slow and solemn. But after the internment, on the way out, after they have “cut the body loose” the music abruptly changes as does the mood of the mourners. It becomes raucous and festive, with a second line of dancers following the band as the crowd shifts into a full-on celebration of the life of the departed.
Iko Iko (Jockamo) was written in 1953 by James “Sugar Boy” Crawford. It describes a confrontation between two groups of Mardi Gras Indians. It has been performed, covered and recorded by dozens of artists and has become a NOLA standard. Here the Neville Bros. perform a live medley at the New Orleans Jazzfest 2010. Oh…Cyril is the super-hot one.
Posted in History, Music, New Orleans, Subcultures
Tagged Culture, Iko Iko, James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Jazz, Jazz Funeral, Jockamo, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Indians, Music, Neville Brothers, New Orleans, Video, Zydeco
WHAT on a Stick?
Alligator. Yes, Alligator. For just $6 you can get ‘gator on a stick at NOLA’s Lundi Gras, the riverside festival sponsored by the Krewe of Zulu or The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club. More to come…including Zulu Colors and Coconuts! Hail Zulu!
Posted in Food, New Orleans, Signage, Subcultures
Tagged Alligator on a stick, Culture, Krewe of Zulu, Lundi Gras, Mardi Gras, New Orleans
Sights Seen at the Mystic Krewe of The Lords of Leather Bal Masque XXVIII
This is a Mardi Gras tradition called a Bal Masque, and this particular Bal Masque is also a Bal Tableau. It is as much theater or anti-fashion show as ball and the involves a grand procession of elaborately costumed walkers each portraying a specific concept within a grander general theme. The theme of this year’s bal was “Circuit” and each walker portrayed a different city on the party circuit. San Franciscans will likely think of Beach Blanket Babylon. Dress code for attendees: Full Leather, Black Tie, Floor Length Gowns, Bal Masque Costume. Here’s a Centurion Waterboy. And for a preview, here.
Posted in Drag, Leather, New Orleans, Subcultures
Tagged Bal Masque, Black Tie, Circuit, Culture, Gay, Leather, Lords of Leather, Mardi Gras, Mystic Krewe, New Orleans, NOLA, Tableau
Marvelous Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans
Gorgeous! The comments section under this link is pretty interesting as well…
Posted in History, Music, New Orleans, Subcultures, Travel, Video
Tagged African American, Culture, Indian, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleans, NOLA, Sexy
Street Party Scenes Seen in New Orleans
Friday night in New Orleans before Mardi Gras. At and around the Krewe D’Etat parade and on Bourbon Street. Several beautiful smiles, some great ink, and lots of muscles. Also the typical “you will burn in a lake of fire” party wannabee-poopers. May a revelation descend from on high and just heal their hating hearts already. Can’t be much fun to be them. As friend of this site Tim’m T. West has noted: “If it ain’t Love, it ain’t God.”
Posted in New Orleans, Subcultures, Surveillance, Travel
Tagged Bourbon Street, Culture, Krewe D'Etat, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, NOLA, Parade, Sexy
Countdown to Mardi Gras: NOLA Slideshow of Street Scenes Seen
Parties, protesters and counter- protesters. God is Unfair? No shit, Sherlock. He’s the Top, and it’s a life-long scene that ends in a snuff. Enough? There is always more where that came from. That’s the way it works, you see. More to come…
Posted in New Orleans, Photography, Surveillance
Tagged Culture, Gay, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Photography, Sexy, Surveillance
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