Katrina photographic currents from Boing Boing

Boing Boing: Katrina:

"Farhad Manjoo from Salon says,
This might be the most informative, compelling, amazing thing I've seen so far about the storm. A photographer/hotel worker/Nicaraguan immigrant who lives in the city took about 200 pictures from the time before the storm struck, during -- including the eerie, beautiful calm when the eye passed through -- and after. There are some fantastic pictures of what the wind did to the city before the flooding came through, all the surreal damage (a line of cars whose back windows only were blown out), buildings completely destroyed. And then you see how things got progressively worse, how the devastation of wind was compounded by water, how the looting began, how the whole thing was destroyed. It takes a while to get through, but it's well, well worth it. -link-

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And Boing Boing reader Gabriel says,

"Cool" people can be truely tastless sometimes, as you can see here with Imitation of Christ's take on the sidewalk memorial to Vera, an elderly woman who died on the street in New Orleans from the effects of Katrina. Presumably she was someone's mother, friend, sister, daughter. -link-
He was responding to this snippet and photograph from a recent fashion show:

A model wears a look from the Imitation of Christ spring 2006 collection, Friday Sept. 9, 2005, during Fashion Week in New York. The quote on the back of the dress, 'Here Lies Vera, God Help Us,' are in reference to a photograph taken of words on a sheet covering a victim of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)