Saturday April 25th at the Big Top on Clio Street here in New Orleans I will be performing (in one man band mode) for an audience of friends family and stragglers. Please join us for the evening. More info on the venue at http://www.3ringcircusproductions.com
AIGA New Orleans is having it’s 10 Year Anniversary Birthday Bash at the Conti St. Wax Museum in the french quarter. We got to have a look around the place in preparation and I just had to snap off a photo of my hero Mr. Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton. All of the musicians depicted are depicted in their younger days, signifying what they looked like when they lived here in New Orleans. Jelly stayed here through his days playing in the sporting houses in storyville, so I imagine that’s what this scene depicts. His life is fascinating and reads like Homer’s Odesssy. Check out any books you can find on the man, as well as his music of course.
One of the special projects of AIGA New Orleans chapter is the History Of Graphic Design South Louisiana project. Most of the results of this project will live online until AIGA finds a location to house the archives that my colleague Nancy Sharon Collins is collecting. Outside of a collection of oral histories captured on video as well as a digital visual archive, there is one component that I am getting my hands dirty on if only in the production aspect, the ADDA New Orleans slideshow from 1962. At around 30 minutes the slideshow originally was conceived to present local creatives with Advertising experience to a crowd of business types to show them the importance that design can play in their brand. The slideshow narration, jazz guitar sountrack and eccentric photography all combine to produce an effect that is close to watching an episode of Mad Men. I am very honored to be a part of this act of preservation and cannot wait to post the presentation link once we have uploaded the finished piece.