This weekend Jillian, Ben, Alexis and I traveled down to the southern coastal town of Jacmel to see what this whole Carnival thing was all about, and it was pretty amazing. Hundreds of thousands of people were there to see what had to be thousands of hand made paper mache masks in one of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Haiti Carnival 2011!!! (Jacmel)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Art, Ben, Carnival, Chaloska, Haiti, Jacmel, Kanaval, Lanse Kod, Masks on March 1, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Pakistan Needs Help, (Too)
Posted in Picture of the Day, tagged Art, Graffiti, Haiti, Jerry, Pakistan, Picture of the Day on September 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
While riding around the city today on our trusty steed, Pinotage, I started snapping photos of some of the recent work that local graffiti artist, Jerry has been doing. I mentioned him before after I interviewed him for a yet-to-be completed video project on the work he’s done after the earthquake, and his work just [...]
A Belated Anniversary Present
Posted in Picture of the Day, tagged Art, Jillian, Picture of the Day on June 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Jillian and I were married on September 6, 2008, and on our first anniversary last year my Father and Step-mom gave us some money to buy some Haitian art to celebrate the occasion. It was a great present, and Jillian and I were going to wait until I moved down permanently to go out shopping, [...]
-
Photos
More Photos -
Recent Comments
michelle v on Saying Farewell (Nawe pit… maralena on Saying Farewell (Nawe pit… Mor Goldberger on Saying Farewell (Nawe pit… Clay Cook on Saying Farewell (Nawe pit… Tehan on Saying Farewell (Nawe pit… Archives
- March 2011 (9)
- February 2011 (16)
- January 2011 (7)
- December 2010 (8)
- November 2010 (12)
- October 2010 (5)
- September 2010 (13)
- August 2010 (12)
- July 2010 (7)
- June 2010 (22)
- May 2010 (22)
- April 2010 (20)
- March 2010 (13)
- February 2010 (3)
Tags
Copyright – Frank Thorp
