New Orleans based Musician, Writer, Photographer, and Decomposer
As we are moving towards the end of Vol. 1, Locamortis, here is your song of the week, Dawn.
Listen, Share, Enjoy.
Free download/Steam/Purchase: Locamortis by Cup of Sun
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyDAHvPbVI)
“Chameleon” is a piece for music and dance composed, decomposed, choreographed, and shot in one take on the evening of November the 19th, in my home in St. Roch, New Orleans, Louisiana. A block where racism, hatred, misogyny, and bigotry of any kind are not welcome. Here in New Orleans, of all places, we march to the beat of our own drum. This is my way of saying: all are welcome on my block, all religions or no religion, all genders, colors, and shapes.
I was born a white man in America, with every social and economic privilege one could have. But I was also raised by my mother, the dancer and healer, and my father, the professor and world-traveler. I have been blessed my entire life, and now appreciating being raised with “the weapons of privilege” comes with a responsibility. I feel that responsibility is to speak out as a male feminist and a musician, artist, and human being who stands against all bigotry, hatred, and fear. I vow to stand with the movements of progress in the face of those who intend to destroy mother earth and take all the resources she has blessed us with.
I wear a safety pin on both my cape and also on the pocket over my heart to say: you are safe here, whomever you are, from the systemic illness of fear that divides us all. The most prevalent disease of our society as a whole: fear. There is sanctuary inside of all of us, as long as we hold onto each other. Here, we are together. Here, we are light. Today, we are not afraid. We will not be terrorized in our own country by hatred and fear, nor will our brothers and sisters of every faith, race, sexual orientation, or gender. Not on our watch. Not on my watch.
-Sam Dillon (Cup of Sun)
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Francis
Los Angeles, CA
Photo by Emma Elizabeth Tillman
One of my favorite photographers capturing one of my favorite musicians. I’ve had chance encounters with both of them in my life, and both were sweet and thoughtful people. Someday I’d love to photograph them both and sing songs with them in my living room. I’m not even moderately famous, but I see them both as peers and wish I knew better how to connect with the artists in my community who I respect and admire.
Louis Armstrong plays for his wife Lucille in Giza, 1961.






