ExhiBe Street Art

Imagine, you are riding your bik on the west bank of New Orleans. The only way to get there is to cross the river by boat (exept if you have a car). And dozens of blocks away from Alger point, you see an abandonned place, where the nature took control of towers, fences and roads. You ride around and suddenly, you find out a towers' amphitheater cover of thousand draws and painting all over the walls...

Even if the place is institutionalzed and locked, there are lot of sense and meaning in thoses nice paintings.
 

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How This Building Covered In Eye-Popping Street Art Explains New Orleans

Amid the crumbling concrete, smashed sinks, and forgotten baby clothes left by the last residents at the abandoned Woodlands housing complex, DJ's spin music for the crowd and lines form behind food

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040852/how-a-single-building-covered-in-eye-popping-street-art-explains-new-orleans

Comments

[Colleen]

It used to be open to the public... Officially. We had huge parties there for the opening and the closing AND Dr Martin Lurher King Jr day which was as magical as Mardi gras day. The place was packed!!! And the energy so high and so many famous people performing for free!! It was dubbed "Block Power" instead of white or black power. And it WAS powerful. I oscillated between crying and smiling the entire day because I felt so lifted, and knowing where our country was 40, 50, and 60 years ago. Brandon "B Mike" Odums who started it just went to that abandoned place to practice his art, and then magically other people started joining him and it became a thing. I met someone who used to live there the first time I went. The energy is magical no doubt. The "owners" let the artists do this telling then they had a time line... The place was scheduled to be demolished mid January or around that. But they had no idea the out pouring of interest that this would generate. As of now I'm not sure what's going to happen to the building. But it's sacred and you can't destroy something that's sacred. Aren't we blessed to have be part of/seen it?