Colour can be vulgar.

Poor boys are the boys that have to wear nasty fluoro vests in public. Our last weekend visit to Ogden Museum in New Orleans (Free Entry Each Thursday!) shed a lot of light (BTW: phōtós in Greek) on how I always unclearly felt about NOLA streetcar drivers.



Thanks God for artists. Artistic souls do have that sensitivity we normal people tend to lose. We do need more artists as they can see and can open up that undescribed feeling buried deeply in us:
"Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar." - Walker Evans.
So much agreed with Walker Evans (Plenty of photo exhibitions at Ogden's). Why on Earth Poor Streetcar drivers need to wear those ugly vests!? Is it because you can not hear nor see a rumbling heritage streetcar coming!? These streetcars are the very few things left of historical New Orleans - why on Earth vulgarize them in so Un-South way!?


This is my unofficial first step to call upon NORTA to ban the fluoro vests! I do see and I do hear the streetcar coming every time streetcar is coming. Please put a more jazzy uniform on our poor boys!!! You do not want poor streetcar boys to go on strike again (as the history of Po'Boys goes). Southern Artists definitely know how to mix colours in a much better fashion than that vulgar fluoro vests!

"Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of sorrow, humility, honor, graciousness, and renegade defiance play out against a backdrop of profligate physical beauty." – Sally Mann from Deep South

Please put more jazzy uniforms on our poor boys NORTA!!!  



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