Hi Lance, I conclude, per your comments, that I am not “up for making something of great value” because I disagree that art’s subject dictates rules to the artist. It’s a long, long discussion often started early in one’s career whether art has rules or is, in fact, the closest we can get to expressing…
Author: Varg
Nola.com Gets All African Antelope On Us
In this blog’s ongoing documentation of the historical record on how our local media outlets were covering the decay of the Gulf and poisoning of our food supply and the unabated decay of coastal wetlands, and the erosion of the middle class in the last years of New Orleans before it all went down the…
Re: Hello Ork Posters!
Ork, Oh, I understand! But just for fun, will you indulge me in a bit of a discussion on the value of art? Sometimes in the creation of my own art, I wrestle with the urge to take a shortcut and make things easier and more accessible. Though, I always feel like I would cheat…
Hi Lance…
Hi Lance, Yes it was a hard decision to leave off Algiers and the other neighborhoods, but we did so because we didn’t want to propose in black and white (literally) where ‘New Orleans proper’ ends east of Algiers (include the whole peninsula, or just Algiers and then snub the people in the other neighborhoods…
Hello Ork Posters!
Hello Ork!!! My name is Lance Vargas and I am a blogger and artist here in New Orleans, the City That Care Forgot in the Neighborhood Ork Forgot! http://www.orkposters.com/neworleans.html See, a friend recently Facebooked (is that a verb?) me the neighborhood poster for New Orleans available for sale on your site (and thank you for…
Supplemental Reading / Listening / Viewing on the Steve Gleason Story…
I read more words in a dead tree edition than I have in a many years Sunday afternoon. Like almost everyone around town I was gripped and saddened by the Steve Gleason story. More so because earlier that week I was cleaning up the iTunes folder and listened to several podcasts on not only ALS…
‘vanquished villain’
An action-narrative piece on triumphing over any sort of obstacle, but this one depicts a protagonist using a paintbrush (art) to triumph over a sword wielding villain (complacency, doubt, insecurity, rejection). The positioning of the heroine’s feet on the hill portray a better position for triumph over the back-peddling antagonist. The star indicates that since…
Nola on Netflix Instant
Even though they have pissed everyone off recently (though I remain in a perpetually far more pissed off state in regards to Cox and their worthless service), there is somewhat of a loose course in New Orleans social history going on if you seek it out… Some of this is review for locals. A lot…
Repost from January 2007
I just thought I would dig these images out from when The Chicory was just a wee blog. Please Saints. Fuck these fuckers up and savor the ass whipping…
Casey Jones!
I have been meaning to post these photos of the taxidermy animals at Casey Jones Supermarket in Gretna for a long time. Casey Jones is a family-owned store that is a warm departure from Wal-Mart or even Rouses. One time, I asked the teen kid for a bottle of whiskey and he hollered at the…