Jean Lafitte National Historical Park

We went to a swamp tour today, but unfortunately, we didn't see any alligator. Now, at the beginning of October, there are a lot of weeds in the river. The guide of the swamp tour told us that they would clean the weeds up at the beginning of December. It was a tired trip, but I still saw some natural animals, such as: snakes, lizard, spider, squirrels. The second picture, the big yellow spider was sleeping at that time. It didn't move until we left. There are a lot of lizards in Jean Lafitte National Historical Park. I saw several different kind of colors. The guide, who is a kind and helpful volunteer person, told me the lizards could changed their color. During the copulate season, the male lizards change their color to find the female lizards. Sometimes, the male lizards fight with the same male lizards, but they don't real fight a lot. I really enjoyed this swamp tour, hope I can see alligator next time.   

The Backstreet Museum

The backstreet museum is a small house where you can see mardi gras costumes and funeral jazz information and their history and why they are like that.

The mardi gras indians are part of the parades and the

Traditions of the mardi gras, they are African American people who dress costumes that are influence by the Native

Americans.

These costumes are handmade and their made of feathers,

stones and cardboard and they take almost 1 year to make

them and they are really expensive. They are different

costumes for each person in the tribe they have the chief

costume the wife of the chief the flag boy who avoids who carry the flag of the tribe so the others tribes can see them.

Other thing that catch my attention was the north side bone gang, they are a group of people that

dress skeleton costumes during mardi gras and they go knocking door to door waking you up and

the chief is Bruce Sunpie Barnes.

The Backstreet Museum

The backstreet museum is one of those places where you can smell history and tradition. It is a small house at the Treme, but is full with customs, photos and other interesting things from the African American culture.One of those things are the Mardi Gras Indians.

The Mardi Gra Indians are one of the most important traditions in New Orleans. It is all about people in customs who go out to the streets and dance, but what a customs! The customs are handmade since the year before with feathers, beads, stones and a lot of things that make of these customs really art objects. These customs can cost an average of 60,000$

There are also different types of customs and each one represent a character in the group. There is The Big Chief who always wear the biggest suit, then comes The Queen who is the Chief's wife, also is the flag boy and his job is to go ahead from the group looking for other Indian's Families and avoid their encounter, and is also the wild boy, his custom have horns and his job is to put away the crowd to give space to the Chief and his group to pass trough. All the representers from a group wear the same color and each group have a different color

There are also The Baby Dolls. These are woman dress up whit fancy customs and umbrellas and dance with the parades through the Treme. The history behind this tradition is that these Baby Dolls where in fact “ladies of the night” who where used to stand on the corners of the Treme and wait for the customer to satisfy their carnal desires.

Houses in New Orleans

This is my favorite house in New Orleans. In front of the house, it's Mississippi River. The location is not very good, but the area is very quiet. There are many colors and styles of houses in that location. In my hometown, the houses are almost the same style. It is the best place to have a excellent party. people will crazy about party.

This is a single shotgun house. The address is 2508 Burgundy St, New Orleans. This house looks very easy. It's convenient for a small family to live. It's very easy to clean and this house is welcome for the people, who don't want to live in a big house. People live in single shotgun house easy to have good environment.

 This is a double shotgun house. The address is 926 St. Roch, New Orleans. If you have good friend, who want to live next you. This is an excellent choice. During the breakfast, lunch and dinner, you can talk with your friends. I like this color of the double shotgun house.

This house has a nice location. It's on the corner of two streets. Actually, I am living the house is like this one. It's really convenient for parking. But it's difficult to have a party. Usually, two family live in the whole houses. It's smart for the old people live in the downstairs. 

Houses

This house make me think about great parties, maybe because is at the corner of the street it is a house where the owner usually can see the parades go and have a lot more neighbors just because this house has more view to the street.

This one instead make me think about a quiet family, who sit at their porch at the evening to talk to the other neighbors about their days. You can see the kitchen from the street if they leave the door open and the contact with the surroundings is permanent.

Last for not least, this house for me represents the epitome of living together but separate. Three families, three houses, divided just by a wood wall. I can imagine how you can hear all the noises from the other families in your own house.

After look at these houses and compare them with the ones at the garden district is so clear to me why the culture between those two is so different. At the Marigny all the houses are so close one each other and some times with no space at all that the people there learned to interact

all the time, and that become part of their every day life. On the other hand, at Uptown the houses are separated not only by gardens but also by fences making people retreat to their own houses and avoiding any contact with their neighbors.

houses

the reason of i like this house that is surrounded by green . and it's miditerranean style ,bule and white colours.it's reminds me the greek islands by the side of aegean sea. it's really fantasy.

i'm not sure is an double shotgun house or not ,
if sure. i guess is an special double shotgun.it's has white colour , pitched roof and bench floor.


This is my favourite house.There is a dog statue out side of the house, The road in front of house has two tying horses on either hand . Do you see the two iron art lamp on the wall .it's very classical , maybe this house is antique.



Next, i discuss about the different culture of people who lives in st.charles and marigny.why arts come from marigny circle. i guess is depends on people who lives here and communication.

The prototype and phenomenon is the source of artistic creation and inspiration.that's all of the small thing in the life or happened is provider of art material and prototype. The Nikolay Gavrilovich chernyshevsky has a saying "Arts originates from life ,but higher than life".I think this is the reason.