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1st, N.O had the Afro Pick of Peace; now it’s a V.R slave market with digital ghosts
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:33 pm
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‘Slave Trails’ high-tech art display marks where some slaves were sold in French Quarter
Artist Marcus Brown’s “Slavery Trails” sculptures don’t exist in the real world. But if you stand beneath the oaks on Esplanade Avenue on the edge of the French Quarter and activate your iPhone with a special QR code, a dozen eerie, digital ghosts will appear on your screen, hovering a few feet above the dusty neutral ground.
Brown's ghosts mark the spot of a former market where men, women and children were bought and sold. Like the ghosts, the long-ago slave market is invisible now. But Brown wants people to know that, sociologically anyway, it’s still there.
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The technology Brown employed is called augmented reality. On the steamy afternoon of June 20, passersby studied the instructional marker that Brown has placed on the ground beneath an official historic marker describing the slave trade, and coaxed their phones to summon the ghosts. They discovered you can see them from all directions, and –disconcertingly — you can walk right through them. More disconcerting still is the fact that, from certain angles, the pink figures seem to be hanging from the trees
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Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:34 pm to SPEEDY
White guilt must be mightily profitable
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:35 pm to SPEEDY
Really cheaped out on the graphics
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:35 pm to SPEEDY
Someone should go and paint over half them, "Bought and Owned by a black person."
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:35 pm to SPEEDY
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the pink figures
Odd choice. Black seems most logical.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:35 pm to SPEEDY
this makes more sense to me than the pick
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:36 pm to SPEEDY
Very strange. Some people just like being slaves.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:38 pm to SPEEDY
I could have accepted this as a legitimate artistic display if they hadn't insisted on pulling down all the statues.
Either it is too painful to be reminded or it isn't.
Either it is too painful to be reminded or it isn't.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:39 pm to Loup
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this makes more sense to me than the pick
Same. I think it's cool.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:40 pm to SPEEDY
I saw a Scooby Doo movie with a similar plot.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:42 pm to bad93ex
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White guilt must be mightily profitable
Sure as shite is in New Orleans. Now go get yourself a $20 PB&J at Turkey and the Wolf, and wallow in your guilt while dining in such an overly gentrified area of town.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:43 pm to Loup
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this makes more sense to me than the pick
Just wait until Latoya puts a weave on the Court House. Then it will all come together.
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:44 pm to BugAC
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Just wait until Latoya puts a weave on the Court House. Then it will all come together.
How much money do they have left after the pick?
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:45 pm to bad93ex
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White guilt must be mightily profitable by way of Federal grant money
FIFY
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:50 pm to SPEEDY
Kind of cool, but now let’s do one at the location of every black person murdered by another black person in this city. He’ll stay a busy man…
I value human life, but I’m hard pressed to care about the sanctity of black lives from 160+ years ago when today blacks don’t give a shite about other black lives.
I value human life, but I’m hard pressed to care about the sanctity of black lives from 160+ years ago when today blacks don’t give a shite about other black lives.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:53 pm to ibldprplgld
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but now let’s do one at the location of every black person murdered by another black person in this city.
They already have. Live aerial shot.
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:57 pm to bad93ex
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White guilt must be mightily profitable
Yes
I think it’s ultimately about power though. It justifies special privileges for the minority, and the suppression of the majority.
For that reason it will never end. These people will never give it up.
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:57 pm to BugAC
The new Purple Rain video looks sick
Posted on 6/22/22 at 3:03 pm to SPEEDY
This is a private thing right, and not something the City funded correct? If so, then I have zero problem with this and can actually appreciate someone putting the time in to research this if these locations are factual. They really could have made the graphics a little better though lol. As long as this is strictly for history, I don't have a problem with someone raising awareness to what took place in their city. So long as it's not taxpayer funded and in the mold of white guilt
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