Freaks and Festivals
Mardi Gras, Halloween, New Orleans underground, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Scala Gay Ball, Symbiosis, Lightning-In-A-Bottle, Burning Man, March 4th Marching Band, Archedream Black Light Dance Troupe, and more …
New Orleans Second-lines and Jazz Funerals
New Orleans Second-Lines and Jazz Funerals. These parades are called “second-lines’ because back in the day of Jim Crow, the parades in New Orleans were separated in two halves – the whites up front, and the blacks in the back. Well, the real party was clearly in the back, and the negro musicians developed a [...]
Mardi Gras Indians
The Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans, an elusive subject since they are essentially black secret-societies (tribes) that ‘mask’ three days a year – Mardi Gras Day, Super-Sunday, and St. Josephs night – and wander along irregular routes through-out the poorer parts of town. These tribes are made up of generally lower-middle class African-Americans who [...]
Burning Man.
Best of Burning Man 2004-2009. A gallery of the art, art-cars, and people that occupy Black Rock City each year and create Burning Man, an annual art-music-underground culture event in Nevada, USA. With its emphasis on both art and community, Burning Man has become both the first twenty-first century art-movement and a international cultural movement [...]
