Super Happy Fun Time @ Handsome Willy's

Super Happy Fun Time!!!
On July 18th - NoLA Rising teams up with the STORM SURGE crew for

SUPER HAPPY FUN TIME
at
HANDSOME WILLY'S

Why? Because we just decided to throw a party to celebrate the warm embrace of summer. Bring some candy, we'll have the paint, Cease, Oktane and Housefly will bring the beats...and let it get funky!

Handsome Willy's is at 218 S. Robertson
http://www.handsomewillys.com
http://www.nolarising.org


Flyers by A Minus Design

Dave Eggers Discusses and Signs ZEITOUN at Garden District Bookshop

Dave Eggers Discusses & Signs

ZEITOUN

Thursday July 16 @ 6:00 PM
Garden District Bookshop

Zeitoun - When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous 47-year-old Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.

Eggers's riveting nonfiction book, three years in the making, explores Zeitoun's roots in Syria, his marriage to Kathy -- an American who converted to Islam -- and their children, and the surreal atmosphere (in New Orleans and the United States generally) in which what happened to Abdulrahman Zeitoun was possible. Like "What Is the What," "Zeitoun" was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research -- in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria.

If you cannot attend any events call or email to order your signed 1st editions.

Garden District Book Shop
2727 Prytania St
New Orleans, LA 70130
phone: 504-895-2266
email: GDKrewe@aol.com

Lessons Learned With Fists - Goodchildren Gallery - Sat., July 11th

SATURDAY, July 11TH - 6-9 p.m.



LESSONS LEARNED WITH FISTS
Daphne Loney & Dan Tague

GoodChildren Gallery Opening
4037 St. Claude
Saturday, July 11th

Priest Comes to New Orleans

Priest has come to New Orleans to add to the commentary on the Grey Ghost and give a little personal flare to our abandoned and run-down buildings that have long been neglected by the owners.





For those who are unaware, the Grey Ghost is a "buffer" who illegally takes it upon himself to "buff" graffiti (consequently making himself a tagger). Despite the police protection he has and uses with impunity to assault the culture of New Orleans, it still doesn't seem to deter street artists from commenting. Many business owners have finally taken notice of his totalitarian attitude and realized that his extreme philosophy (that of Broken Windows which has since been widely disputed), actually causes more graffiti.



Spot Team crouching on urban patrol...


Priest...

Burlesque 101 :: Featuring the Students of Bella Blue

NoLA Rising will be headed out on Thursday July 9th @ 9pm to see the students of Burlesque 101 who will take the stage for the very first time in the Burlesque 101 Student Showcase. The students are those of our illustrious Bella Blue

Come see the hottest new burlesque acts in the city and support a great cause! Half of the proceeds will be donate to Le Petit Theatre New Orleans. $5 at the door.

Host: Bella Blue and the students of Burlesque 101
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Allways Lounge
Street: 2240 St. Claude Ave
City/Town: New Orleans, LA

For more information: See this FB Group

Street Styles - A Young Audiences visual arts workshop by Holly Combs

Our brother Chris at Robots Will Kill recently put up a post about Holly Combs from PEEL Magazine and her program Street Styles. Chris says:

"The program aims to teach kids the basics of visual art using graffiti and street art as a jumping off point. The program also teaches respect for other artists, and their school and community. In the workshop the students learn about the history of graffiti and get to make their own stickers. Holly has taught two workshops in Indianapolis schools so far, and the kids are seriously diggin' it."

Holly's website, Street Styles, explains: "The Street Styles workshop was begun by street artist Dave Warnke in San Francisco. Dave has worked with Holly Combs to bring the program to Indianapolis through Young Audiences. The Street Styles workshop teaches students the basics of art: line, composition, balance, flow, color theory, rhythm, contrast, value, depth, perspective, etc. using street art and graffiti as the foundation for exploring these basics. It also teaches students important social values with an emphasis on respect for themselves, their teachers, and their community."

To see more about Street Styles or schedule a workshop, check out her WEBSITE

Also, If you want to send some stickers for Holly to give to her students, or donations of markers, labels, and other art supplies, you can send them to:

Holly Combs
3404 B Oliver Ave
Indianapolis IN 46241 USA

Quote of the Day by Chris McCandless (a.k.a. Alexander Supertramp)

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

— Chris McCandless

A Ride to Jerusalem

Inspire takes us for a ride "between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...a view of the border fence, watchtowers, and wall seen along the way..."

Joe Iurato Sports the NoLA Rising message at WK Interact / Invader Show at Jonathan Levine Gallery

ReX salutes Joe Iurato for sporting the NoLA Rising message
@
WK INTERACT / INVADER
JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY
JUNE 27, 2009
NYC

(Photo by Joe Russo)

NoLA Rising T-Shirts are Available!!!

NoLA Rising has just opened up to the online world the opportunity to buy NoLA Rising shirts to support the General Fund for NoLA Rising. As many of y'all know we have some fairly big goals set for the city. In the coming months, we'll continue to keep fresh designs to support the NoLA Rising in the various art projects designed to increase the quality of life in New Orleans through public art displays. Paypal link below...

All Black

Women's Medium $25.00 Women's Large $25.00 Men's Medium $25.00 Men's Large $25.00 Men's X-Large $25.00 Men's XX-Large $25.00

p.s. we're new to the t-shirt aspect of things, so we'll be getting in our second shipment of sizes very soon...

Priest Takes Mobile by Storm

Priest, a stencil artist, has recently put up some work in Mobile. While we weren't able to catch up with Priest while in town, we came across a variety of his work. Enjoy!

Jonathan Blum Returns to Re-Paint a Mural

Last month, Jonathan Blum returned to the Crescent City to re-paint a mural he painted in 1989. Now, there's more of a modern adaptation almost 19 years later. Jonathan used to live in the space with a friend of his that is a photographer.

The building is now home to friends of NoLA Rising, Rick and Deborah, who went through the permit procurement process to ensure that the ghastly ghost cannot illegally coat their artwork with his unsightly paint. Wanting to make sure everything was in order, the brought Joanthan down for Jazzfest and invited him to repaint his mural.

On May 2nd, 2009, they held a private party to unveil the new Rabbi that is entitled with a peace offering. Savvy news reporter Doug MacCash was on seen to do a Nola.Com video as seen below. Those of us at NoLA Rising applaud Rick, Deborah and Jonathan for brightening up the neighborhood! We could all use a little more color around New Orleans.

St. Roch Avenue mural

Swoon Video on YouTube by our Friends at Upper Playground

Barrel Monsters by "U Live and You Burn"

Sometimes, there are folks who decide to make art in public. We found this story on Wooster and am repeating it here for anyone who might be interested...

NO PROMISE OF SAFETY

REPEATED FROM WOOSTER:
Autoblog reports that a North Carolina State University student was arrested and charged with larceny for converting orange construction barrels into "Barrel Monsters". The artist, who goes by "U Live and You Burn" is seeking support by asking them to write the prosecutor on his behalf:

Wake County Prosecutor C. Colon Willoughby, Jr.
Tenth Prosecutorial District
State of North Carolina
8th Floor, Wake County Courthouse
Post Office Box 31
Raleigh, N.C. 27602-0031
telephone (919) 792-5000

Our hope is that they treat him fairly, as they did Roadsworth in Montreal.

REPEATED FROM AUTOBLOG

A student at North Carolina State University has been arrested and charged with larceny for swiping some of those bright orange construction barrels from the road and creating what has been dubbed the "Barrel Monster". Joseph Carnevale, who also went by the handle "U Live and You Burn" before he was caught and his real name revealed, has made barrel art before (see gallery below), but none were so brash, or so big, as the Barrel Monster. Aside from being an artist, Carnevale also does graffiti and is an "Urban Explorer", which basically means he trespasses in all those cool places that citizens aren't supposed to go like construction sites, sewer drains and abandoned buildings.

He has also chronicled his exploits on a blog at nopromiseofsafety.com where he is currently soliciting compassionate parties to write on his behalf to the prosecutor. Let's hope the DA doesn't browse his blog, as it's filled with evidence of trespassing, vandalism and the like. Though some public property was damaged in the case of Carnevale's Barrel Monster, we do hope they let him off light. Frankly, most highways could use a Barrel Monster.

Banksy Hits Up the Bristol Museum

The iconoclastic graffiti artist Banksy unveils his largest project to date this weekend, when the doors of Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery are flung open to reveal that he has “remixed” the entire building. Renowned for infiltrating museum collections without their knowledge, Banksy has this time sought co-operation from the museum’s director and used it to install marble statues of drunken ladettes and paedophile bishops amid the columns of the three-storey Edwardian baroque building. A burnt-out ice-cream van replaces the usual information counter as a policeman in riot gear rocks perpetually on a fairground horse. The sound of chicken nuggets singing fills the vast rear hall, and a live leopardskin coat sleeps on a branch. Among the museum’s collection of old masters, an oil painting of parliament is now entirely populated by monkeys.

Elsewhere, the museum’s permanent collection has been infiltrated in more subtle ways — the vitrine holding locally produced pottery now shares space with a used hash pipe (also locally produced) and the life-size Bristol biplane suspended from the ceiling provides refuge for a Guantanamo Bay escapee.

Organised under tight security, the event has been kept secret from the museum’s entire staff and trustees, allowing the artist to work inside the venue, creating what promises to be the most exciting graffiti show held in a regional southwest museum this summer.

The exhibition is open daily, 10am-5pm, until August 31; admission free

***Words jacked from The Sunday Times***