Just got back from an amazing experience/project in New Orleans! Read more about it here. thank you to EVERYONE who made this possible - all our friends and supporters at Kickstarter, NY2NO, and Elena Moon Park.
If you haven’t heard of NY2NO - check them out. it’s been a while since i’ve been so inspired. these folks are all young organizers and activists who have been organizing trips to New Orleans and building a community school and a farm in the lower ninth ward. with the support of an ex-NY-teacher named Nat Turner, the father/guru, they have created a movement. they are all around 19 or 20 yoa and are all wicked madd smart and motivated. they made me want to be a better citizen. great ness.
Our project documented the entire trip thru audio. i actually drove a group of about 10 kids from Philly down there in a bigass renta-van (pictured above). the goal of the project was to create an audio-documentary -radio piece about the whole experience. in doing so we had everyone participate in micing and interviewing and recording and editing - so as to deepen the process and ultimately the piece.
i learned a lot on this trip. its strange how you learn things in your life over and over again but sometimes the experiences of these lessons, perhaps even the same lessons just done up in different dregs, resound differently and reach different parts of you each time they come. anyway, my patnah jdog thal aka Jdizzle aka Sadzaboy1000 is always talking about permaculture- which is like a set of principles for setting up sustainable systems for us as humans with with nature, so like using the flow, directing the flow rather than slamming it on the ground, and shooting it dead, being nature jedhis. how the fuck do you spell jedi? as yes. that’s right. thanks wikiP. jedi. anyway, one of the fundamental principles in this circle is observation. observing and taking it all in before planning, designing, acting, judging, leaping to it, reacting. i left new orleans and took in this lesson yet again.
