A Slice of Heaven

This one isn't about New Orleans, today, folks!  Take a gander at this downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana marvel.  This is one video that should be an hour longer.

A tip of the fedora to Herb for making us aware of this!

Pelican angel

A pelican has an angel's wingspan.

Ode to New Orleans.

A face made for radio, an outfit made for Mardi Gras.

Walk down a New Orleans street and you will see people tending their own business, which is none of yours, part of an inscrutable communal body and spirit.  Faith, hope, and charity keep New Orleans running, along with talent, gumption, tenacity, mendacity, tradition, and lessons learned from the school of heart knocks.  New Orleans runs on its own fuel, ask anyone who has sniffed the fumes.  You can live the high life in New Orleans, but only after you’ve scraped the bottom.  Not every shooting star burns out.  Some of them land in the Sixth Ward, the Seventh Ward, the Fifth Ward, or the Third Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Where there are bitches, there are riches.  Where there are hens, their eggs are like gold.  

Everyone smiles every day in New Orleans, a city where blessings are counted and curses ignored.  Every street in New Orleans is an Esplanade Avenue.

Destination Unknown

Once again, I study this video to distraction and gather meaning from it:

How do you seem to be saying something, while saying nothing at all?  Tell the story like a music video.  Start with bland words, then match them with with ambivalent, sexy, symbolic visuals.  Trust me, it can work.  Work the risque but keep it subtle, the way this video does 2:01 into it.  It is all, or it is nothing at all.  Life is either or both.  Every day is better when a marching band is involved.  Good editing is a blessing.

This is opera.

Hamm's beer commercial

I cannot stop watching this commercial for Hamm's beer.  I love how it goes on and on, one element cobbled onto the next, until it becomes a piece of pure poetry.  At 51 seconds it moves one sublime rung up the ladder of of greatness.  This has to have been made by a committee, but it's vision is so unified in its diversity, none of it tasteless.

I think I'll make mine Hamm's from now on.  They still made it when I was a kid.  There should still me making it now.