Michael T. Martin

You cannot police a bird…the streets belong to the people. Mardi Gras Indians; St. Joseph’s Night

New York in the 1970’s. Inspired by the new book “Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever”

Chinese painter-turned-photographer Wang Qingson’s art project that recalls walls of Bejing being covered in posters of opposition factions of the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution.
(via Paris Review) — Chinese painter-turned-photographer Wang Qingson’s art project that recalls walls of Bejing being covered in posters of opposition factions of the Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution.

(via Paris Review)

Why are barns red? via Print Magazine

Every urbanite has rural fantasies, right? Especially those urbanites who grew up in the country…

While sissy-bounce bookings offer them a rare chance to raise their national profiles, the last thing any of them wants is to put homosexuality at the forefront of what they do. At home, they perform in every sort of venue, before every sort of crowd: at sports bars, at Jazz Fest, at a recent museum benefit called “Sippin’ in Seersucker.” On record too, they fuse freely with other genres. Freedia, Nobby and Katey are all guest vocalists on the latest record from Galactic, a respected (and white) New Orleans funk outfit. And that is the music’s volatile essence: inside New Orleans, the genius of sissy bounce is how perfectly mainstream it is; in the world beyond, the genius of sissy bounce is how incredibly alternative it is. New York Times Magazine feature on New Orleans “Sissy Bounce”