Spiral Jetty

What do rocket ships have to do with Robert Smithson's seminal work, Spiral Jetty? A whole lot. After a number of years the lake has left the art piece land locked and the white salt patina that once covered the piece has worn off to return it to the original volcanic darkness. A few years back we went and took a look and some video.

Frozen Music

Musicians Village, Ninth Ward

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Having just come back from this Habitat for Humanity project again after seeing it two years ago, it remains in my view the best example of affordable, sensible, housing to be constructed in the United States in long time.

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Thom Mayne/Brad Pitt

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Brad Pitt in the Lower Ninth Ward. Martin Mull once said "Hollywood is high school with money"

Naw Oleans

The Contrarian recently returned from New Orleans where I had the chance to see some of the reparation work being done in the Ninth Ward. These photos were taken a few days before the off shore oil rig catastrophe. I mention this, because my perception of the progress since Katrina is still a fragile effort, at best, in certain areas. Will this new evironmental disaster reach as far as to affect the reconstruction still ongoing from the previous event. In the distance in the photo below is the canal that failed in the Ninth Ward. There is still much to do.