Mr. Pink
By Stinson Carter
Room 100 Magazine, Summer 2008

New Orleans–It’s a late Friday afternoon in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward, and the hazy sunset is stretching across the Mississippi, gleaming against the 150 hot-pink tents dotting empty lots that were once a neighborhood (albeit a modest one).

Although it looks like a public art project, this is no Christo exhibit. It is Brad Pitt’s Pink Project. And the worldwide attention it has attracted for his green redevelopment plan has served as a pledge to those who once lived here that they have not been forgotten. click to continue reading