Tag: New Orleans

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

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Chronicling the lives of real people who lived through the hurricane and its aftermath, Brooklyn comic artist Josh Neufeld has created New Orleans After the Deluge, an online webcomic that captures the human comedy and tragedy of one the most devastating natural disasters in our lifetime. "The characters are real, the dialog is taken from direct quotes, the depictions of the inside of their homes …

Green Project

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A fresh take on disaster relief, the New Orleans-based Green Project is a positive approach to the deconstruction of damaged or collapsed homes and buildings. Rather than simply tearing the destroyed properties of new Orleans apart to make room for new structures with bulldozers, the Green Project carefully salvages and deconstructs the buildings by hand. Focusing on the importance of New Orleans' unique architectural history …