Prospect Everyone

10/30
Prospect Everyone
Location: New Orleans Arts District >> 300 - 600 Blocks of Julia Street
Time: 7pm - 10pm

As we all know, PROSPECT 1 begins this Saturday, but Shoot the Messsenger Productions with BIG collaborations with the New Orleans Arts District have put together a 5 block...block party with art,
music, and food by New Orleans folks..that could only deliver like New Orleans folks can.


To give you a feel for what we have cooking….

• We'll have second lines lead by Panorama Jazz Band
• You want some Big Easy Roller Girls?...got 'em!
• Pussyfooters?...coming right up!
• The Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Sumo Wrestling Ring...open and free to all who want to work those stock market crashing pre-election jitters! Featuring the most badass custom tricked out calliope that
plays off of vinyl (yup...VINYL!)...must see to believe! And Mondo Bizarro's Bruce France as your emcee!
• NOLA Rising's Jailhouse Rock
• From LeMieux Gallery, artist Jesse Poimboeuf's "Green Earth Man March"
• G.A.S.
's Art Cops on the beat
• Futureproof's "Field and Ensemble" featuring the Deisel Combustion Orchestra, Dusty Domino Projections and a 16 piece dance troupe.

• Stilt walking acrobats
• Laptop rockers Triple Delight
• ADHD's Heidi Domangue and Andrea's Travelling Body Sock!
• Lucky You! Popcorn booth, with homemade Eyeball Cupcakes!
• The Return of the Baby Pool Drive-in featuring none other than the Emperor of the Universe himself...the one, the only, (the waxy) Ernie K-Doe presiding alongside the ever lovely Miss Antoinette.

• Mr. Zack Smith's fantastic, interactively delicious Flavor Paper Photobooth with DJ Brice Nice spinning some booty shakin' good tunes.


AND -- Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, and the West Banks own, Tikki Rockers
filling your ears..

There will be the best of the best in terms of the late night chuck wagons with Nate and Que Crawl, Praline Connection, Tee Eva, Papa Joe's BBQ and 3 Ring Circus will be running the bars that will have some delicious New Orleans signature cocktails along with beer, soft drinks, etc. We will also be rolling on over to the Big Top afterwards to get blown away by The Other Planets.




"Laughing Cavalier"

Works by Brandon Mansell
Opening November 1st, 6-10pm
(thru Dec.
4th)

"This body of work is comprised of three series... Americanas, Saints, and Chiaroscuros. The Americanas represent my exploration into what makes America tick, it's infatuation with sex, death, and politics. The Saints series revolves around portraits detailing New Orleans night life. The denizens of the lower garden district gave me Polaroids taken from a now defunct photo booth located at the Saint, and I used those as a starting point to create paintings that show the personality, and characters of New Orleans.
And finally,the Chiaroscuros are an investigation of past master techniques juxtaposed against modern
practices and colors.


The first two series were conceived before Katrina and completed in an empty city. These circumstances inevitably impacted the paintings.

The Chiaroscuros are a more direct critique on the present state of painting.
What was the function of painting in the past versus today? How can it be reconciled or at least stripped of the backlash brought about by the expressionists and their progeny?

As an artist we reference the past and take from it what seems relevant, and because of this, painting is not a linear history. I feel it is time for a renaissance in the most literal sense. Ideas have taken precedence over substance, which has led to an increasingly ephemeral body of modern art. This robs subsequent generations of tangible art and creates a disconnect between an artists intentions and the reality, which increasingly is merely documentation of an event.


I wish my work to be refined, pertinent, and tangible. It should touch the viewer and in turn should be able to be touched. It should live its own life.
"

Instant Arts Grants From "The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists"

The other day the group set up a table in New York's Union Square and gave away “instant grants” to those people who pitched them projects.

From the Federation's website:

How It Works

We all learn art in school. Every kid loves to draw at some point. People get fascinated with the details of their new camera, or spend free time writing poems. But eventually, there’s a not a teacher telling you how great your are, or the camera gets put away, or you just plain get busy and stop. Years could go by before you start again, if you ever do at all.

The FSNUA aims to re-inspire creative thinking and action in everyday people by removing a small barrier and providing encouragement. We give small, unsecured grants in the form of $10-$60 for creative projects thought up on the spot by everyday people. In the past this has included a merchant marine, two 10 year old girls, a US soldier on leave from Iraq, an accordion player from Alaska, and around 40 others. We funded their new paintings, drawings, knitting, and photojournalism projects, and the repair of one accordion. Projects that may not have happened had they not come across 10 people in the park to support and inspire the thought.

Beyond the small amount of money, the project encourages people to see themselves as something other than workers or consumers even if it just for the length of time required to apply for the FSNUA grant. We also hope to re-inspire dormant desires to create while presenting an example of generosity without an ulterior motive.
generosityfoundation.org

Banksy's "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill" Opens in New York City

I am tempted to buy a ticket to NYC to catch this.
Soooo tempted.
The nuggets are brilliant.

musican bicyclist Frank Zappa

Attacks on ACORN Based Not on Facts, But on Fear of 1.3 Million Poor People Registering

Why are they after ACORN? Well, I'm sure they're going to come up with a lot of "reasons" in the coming days. But the real reason is obvious: Because ACORN, along with Project Vote, just announced that they had successfully registered 1.3 million poor people this year.
Get that? 1.3 million, including 148,000 in Pennsylvania, 152,000 in Florida, 217,000 in Michigan, and 238,000 in Ohio. How many poor republicans to you know?
So what, in the end.
Polls are propaganda just as debates and anything else political, hence the politics.
Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions.
We are a GROUP of citizens who will vote Obama into office.
Even if Mickey Mouse and some underage voters were registered! Do you honestly think that someone dressed like Mickey Mouse and be allowed to vote?
America is done with the Republican Party this round.

One of the most brilliant things I have read this election year.
"So they stole an election from Gore, made the Department of Justice into an outfit for partisan hacks, allowed New Orleans to drown, lied us into a war against a country that did not threaten us, replaced science with bad ideology, indebted our grandchildren to China, and turned our banking system into a deregulated casino"
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

From NOLA's now famous Ward Child Bounce man gone Hip Hop Lil' Wayne. It is going to be very, very, interesting indeed to see him at Voodoo fest this year.
I can't help but correlate this song with voting.
Gotta a hand full of stacks better grab and umbrella
I make it rain on em!
I hope that regardless of the fraudulent registrations that the other million people who registered legally for the first time will follow through with there intention of registering and not JUST register...actually place their vote!
Bounce!

October 7 // Daily Dose(s) of Crime From The Big Easy

Not so fat Tuesday. A guy is shot while riding his bicycle on the corner of Race and Constance where I RIDE MY BICYCLE for work, coffee, on my way to the Quarter...and then later in the evening 2 blocks away from my house
Police arrested three men Tuesday afternoon after chasing them through Irish Channel and Uptown neighborhoods where they crashed their car and one pointed a gun at a police lieutenant, drawing the officer's fire, police said. What good is foot patrol on Magazine when the shooting an illegal activity is done 2 or 3 blocks over towards the river in the Lower Garden District and Irish Channel? The madness will end when it is no longer accepted! When Police walk the beat of the streets that need attention. Magazine gets enough attention and is less likely to host a drive-by...although as I am writing this and discussing it with a friend, I am now being told that 2 stores on Magazine were robed...and that's enough. I am going to stand ground outside on the steps, show my presence say hey to my neighbors and watch the sunset..I am going to have some porch times/stoop times and that is how I will effect change.

Wave of violence brings five deaths in two-day period
by Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 9:35 AM

Police chase through Irish Channel, Uptown results in three arrests
by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 10:38 PM

The Lil' O'reilly Factor

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Thanks Susan!

Illusions- Richard Bach

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Thanks to Harold of Harold's nursery, Antoinette K.Doe and the Mother-n-law Lounge and The Storyville Stompers for helping us celebrate the life of Jessica Hawk in true Nawlins spirit. She was buzzing about and it felt good to say good-bye and wish her well into her next journey. I also hope that we brought the attention towards unsolved murders in our city. Our voices must be heard and those who have been taken from us must not get lost in the debris that overwhelms our city of government!

Get Out The Vote!