Category Archives: orleans

Faub.org Wants You.

Written by Peter. Posted on October 6, 2007. Filed under design, fauborg, flash, graffiti, guerrilla, interactive, katrina, orleans, politics, technology. No comments.
Faub.org is celebrating its official formation and public launch with a bash at Barrister’s Gallery Saturday, November 3rd. Food and drinks at 7pm, and DJs Brice Nice and Joey Buttons will fire it up into the night. Multimedia piece Pssst. Pass It On by Grow Design Work’s Brian Dougherty-Johnson will be shown, along with Faub.org [...]

NOLA Brand Mayhem

Written by Peter. Posted on October 5, 2007. Filed under brand, katrina, orleans, politics, pranks. No comments.
Malcolm passed along this cartoon from SF Gate. Sad but true. Or hilarious. I can’t decide. After losing a few friends here, probably just sad. top

Faub.org is Alive.

Written by Peter. Posted on September 24, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, design, fauborg, guerrilla, interactive, internet, katrina, orleans, politics, pranks, projects, technology. No comments.
Kudos to Ness & Erik, who went deep and gave us faub.org. We’ve graduated from temp splash page to this wonderful and fun interim site, which will someday give birth to the full site, which has been an ongoing labor of love since the early days. What’s Faub.org? A growing handful of New Orleans-based creatives [...]

Ignition.

Written by Peter. Posted on September 1, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, interactive, internet, orleans, projects, technology, trumpet, user interface. No comments.
We launched a local non-profit’s site recently, with a nice custom PHP content management system. top

Please Don’t Shoot.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 29, 2007. Filed under katrina, orleans, politics, trend. No comments.
Please Don’t Shoot.
There’s something very strange and unsettling seeing your hood get militarized. After Katrina, NOLA was flooded by machine gun-toting Army, National Guard, and Blackwater personnel. Despite the media saturation in the weeks and months surrounding the storm, I just can’t get used to seeing gangs of these nuts strolling around. If you zoom to the [...]

Habitat.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 13, 2007. Filed under design, katrina, orleans, politics. No comments.
Habitat.
My mother came in from San Francisco today to work with Habitat for Humanity, building new homes for hurricane evacuees in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.  I saw this poster at Cafe Reconcile, and it really hit me.  Thanks, mom!

How Vitter got Busted.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 12, 2007. Filed under brand, dirty, orleans, politics. No comments.
How Vitter got Busted.
This is a great story on how Larry Flynt’s investigators tracked down (married) Louisiana Republican senator David Vitter on phone database records, showing that he frequented a D.C.-area escort service while vilifying adulterers and those not espousing “family values”…

Local Wildlife

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under food, orleans. No comments.
Local Wildlife
I don’t know where to start with this one. I’m a vegetarian. Love the illustrations. This struck me as really bizarre initially (I’m a city-dweller at heart), but this stuff’s probably healthier and safer than most of the mass-produced food product sold in chains. Still – muskrat?

So Far Ahead, We’re Behind.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under dirty, orleans, shirts. No comments.
I had the pleasure of visiting the folks at Dirty Coast the other day. If you don’t know of them, they’ve got some spectacular NOLA-centric apparel and merchandise for sale here. The above tee is among my favorites. Get yourself one for $20. If you don’t understand this shirt, you don’t understand New Orleans. The [...]

Constance 02

Written by Peter. Posted on June 1, 2007. Filed under design, orleans. No comments.
Constance is now accepting visual art and writing submissions for Issue 02, Delicate Burdens. Delicate Burdens seeks work that confronts the everyday experience of making New Orleans home. Bring honest and uncompromising portrayals of yourself, your city and of those that look on or even look away. There’s a double meaning to everything in New [...]