late nights and early mornings http://blog.laurendarling.com Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:25:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 night of a thousand muses http://blog.laurendarling.com/2012/02/night-of-a-thousand-muses/ http://blog.laurendarling.com/2012/02/night-of-a-thousand-muses/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:15:54 +0000 laurendarling http://blog.laurendarling.com/?p=1924

Photos from the Muses Parade.

Mr. Schaemus

decorated shoes are the most prized throws at the muses parade

Elvis Krewe!

Big Minnie

Big Minnie

Gabe

Gabe!

Fallen Throws

Fallen Throws

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]]> http://blog.laurendarling.com/2012/02/night-of-a-thousand-muses/feed/ 0 in and around voodoo alley http://blog.laurendarling.com/2012/02/voodoo-alley/ http://blog.laurendarling.com/2012/02/voodoo-alley/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:27 +0000 laurendarling http://blog.laurendarling.com/?p=1894 One week in NOLA. Parade season has already begun. Costumes, cocktails to go, food trucks, pizza speakeasies, a sissy bounce video shoot, chicory coffee, bloody marys, po’ boys, graffiti, 2 hour hot tub chats, and glitter.

Cotton candy Truck

Sweets for sale outside of the beauty supply store

Parade Costumes at Hank's on St. Claude

sleep, drink, sleep, drink, etc.

Claire and Nora in Voodoo Alley

Claire and Nora in Voodoo Alley

Butt Party

Quack

Quack, one of Nicky Da B's dancers

Graffiti on Chartres

St. Roch Cemetery

St. Roch Cemetery

Rusty Lazer

Rusty Lazer

The Music Box

The Music Box

St. Roch Cemetery

Quack

Quack workin' it at Nicky Da B's video shoot

Band Costume

photos from the Nicky Da B video shoot with Rusty Lazer and Diplo coming soon!

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Big Freedia

And here is some video of Freedia performing with Katey Red, with DJ Rusty Lazer  – I finally got to see them together at last!!!

Big Freedia and Katey Red at Bounce XII – The Sissy Sweetheart Ball from Lauren Silberman on Vimeo.

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sun on the water

Bayou Flare

Bayou Trees

Bayou Trees and Cypress Knees

Marin in the Bayou

Marin in the Bayou

Sleeping Waters

Sleeping Waters

Cypress

Bayou Path

Bayou Path

Folded Tree

Folded Tree

Bayou Trees

Unclaimed Cypress

Cypress trees

 

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Graceland, Too

Paul McLeod

Graceland, Too

Graceland, Too

Graceland, Too

Graceland, Too

Wall of Fans

Graceland, Too

Graceland, Too

This is Elvisland

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Microphones at Sun Studios

Elvis recordings

Sunset on Sun Studios

neon lights and venetian blinds

 

Earnesting and Hazel's Bar

true fiction

Marin at the dive bar

map walls at Earnesting and Hazel's Bar

 

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Wigs at Fifi's

I’m planning for my one-month sabbatical to New Orleans, going through old work and coming across a lot of things I haven’t looked at in a while.  I took this one when I was down there last month.  I’m looking forward to some surprises that I dig up in old photographs and new experiences.

 

 

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This is Christian. He’s a limo-driving, trapeze-flying, metal artist I met while in New Orleans a few weeks ago…one of just the many amazing people I got to spend a bit of time with in the Big Easy.

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I’ll have some more of my party interiors from the Afterparty series to post soon, but in the meantime, here’s some science…

fishnets and polkadots

Hypothesis: parties are sexy.

Headphones

Hypothesis: Sometimes parties are hiding in the bushes. (Thank you, Christina Medina, for seeing this)!

Jackie's manicure

Fact: Don’t fuck with parties.

Wedding hair

Fact: Wedding parties are fun (especially with this much hair and sequins).

The Hug (After Nan Goldin)

Fact: Parties are for lovers. (This one is after Nan Goldin’s The Hug).

Feathered Tanya

Fact: Wear a costume!

Quit Talking to Me

Fact: This is how I feel sometimes…even at parties.

B.A. singing

Fact: It’s good to sing out loud.

Touch the Deer

Hypothesis: It’s not OK to take deer from parties.

Wedding photography

…but it is OK to take photos.

Oh! and please check out my page on the Gawker Artists website!!!

 

 

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