” Your entire community is gone…

You can’t go home, it doesn’t exist anymore”

-Jay Electronica

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The Sounds of VTech / jay_elec_3rdward_v5b

as per B+ and Coleman

In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Coleman and B+ were invited to New Orleans to screen Brasilintime and to make photos by the folks from Common Ground. Documenting the damages and the obstacles people were faced with to rebuild what was lost. In five days they had made enough images to have a benefit show at Self Help Graphics in LA.

Three years later on Halloween Weekend of 2009, VTech invited Mochilla back to New Orleans again – to attend the Voodoo Festival and to meet with Jay Electronica – New Orleans favorite representative – well, besides the Saints!

This video was shot that weekend. Though Jay proved to be quite elusive during our stay, we managed to get him over to his beloved Magnolia Projects in the Third Ward. His memories of growing up there and what it means to be there now stand as a striking reminder to all those of us lucky enough to escape these kinds of unnatural disasters.

It has taken us a second to bring you this video but the events that have occurred over the past few weeks mean that the message hasn’t lost any of its potency.

Courtesy of T&S…check out Kill The Ego, an audio portrait of NYC visually interpreted as a motion-painting film by Rostarr, the man responsible for much of artwork featured on the T&S covers. This is an incredible project and is well worth checking out. The film opens July 8th. Check the trailer.

B+ (Brian Cross), legendary Hip Hop photographer and once-upon-a-time Limerick man has a limited run of 25 hand-printed photographs of the Beat Konducta himself Otis Jackson who you probably know better as Madlib available to buy on the Stones Throw website.

Copies of Brian’s photos are pretty sought after items at the best of times so having a chance to own a photo developed by his own hands in his own darkroom is pretty rare.  If you’re a Hip Hop historian or just a fan of beautiful photography click here to check it out.

Jeff Jank has some great stuff available also – if your a Lord Quas fan you’ll recognise his work….