Endymion from a different place than where their camera was for the webcast... (edited post facto)
I tune in about 10 after 12 NY time. RealPlayer stops within 30 seconds. I restart it and it is ok for awhile.
Jeff is hosting.
DSU cam is black. I wonder why.
RealPlayer stops again. This isn't good. I may not be able to watch. I switch to RealOne Player. See how that does.
I give up on DSU cam. (12:22 NY time)
Nice ladybig plushie.
Damn Yankee story? Do tell!
Baby seal.
Blue then black screen w/ sparkles... weird (12:28 NY time) Audio is fine. Then it is fine. Then it happens again. Then RealOne Player stops.
I restart it. Getting blue flashes then is ok.
It stops again. I give up for now.
***
I return home at 6:15 pm NY time. The DSU cam has, I guess, Endymion on it. The Paradecam is up to the roof again. We see Arthur Hardy* and a DSU reproter on the DSU cam. Funny to watch them wait for the feed to go live, their being distracted by the parade behind them. Audio level is low.
*Make all those previous references Arthur Hardy, not Blaine Kern.
Arthur Hardy: "There's a lotta love here."
We see the parade off in the distance. DSU has again picked a spot where they can't see the parade well, can barely see it at all.
The paradecam is done yet the DSU cam still has the parade so where is the DSU cam? We see Mardi Gras Indians on trucks. This looks like Uptown somewhere. Where?
I watch, committed that I am.
One float has a searchlight that is bright even in the afternoon sun.
Two floats coming, both large heads that move with lights for eyes and mouth. They look great. Parade's moving slow when it moves at all.
7pm (NY time) the parade moves again. This float is a two-parter. Has building facades and the Superdome on it. Nice.
Maybe the DSU cam is on the corner of Orleans and Carrolton? Orleans and City Park? Floats are turning right from Orleans so I think it is Orleans and Carrolton. At least the sign looks like it says Orleans Ave but it's pretty hard to tell.
7:27 (NY time) Not alot going on.... The parade has stopped again. The other big-head float has yet to go around the corner and looks great, one big smile, all lit up. It changes from green to blue as it's eyes open and close. Gorgeous at night. "A Salute to Rudyard Kipling?" Broadway comedy and tragedy masks at each end, or just two comedy masks, I really didn't get to see the one at the back, I don't see how this is a salute to Rudyard Kipling.
The parade is now moving. Floats look great at night. People on them are showering the crowd with beads and other throws. It's raining beads. Like a snowplow flinging snow out of the way, beads are flying in a constant stream. Or a waterskier. Or like kids splashing in a pool, the water flying up are the beads.
A gorgeous Asian/Indian goddess on the next float. Blue face, red blouse. Thai? I'd say Siamese but that would be Thai these days.
The next float has a circular sun radiating on a pole in the front. That sun turns out to be a trumpet when I see it in profile. A god playing a trumpet.
A huge = long float now passing by. A three-parter.
DSU cam goes blue screen now. (7:50 PM NY time), Stream still working but blue screen. Not much point in waiting for this to get better...
I missed the parades for Wed and Thurs. True to New Orleans form, the website for WDSU still has info for last Saturday's parades (Sparta, Pegasus) at the top of the page for the Live Streams with no info on anything since then. And the page for this weekend's parades has info for only last weekend's parades.
I will watch whatever parades will be on...
I am checking out WWOZ. I am not sure if I missed the New Birth Brass Band. I think I did.
From WDSU's website: >Watch the following parades live on WDSU.com: > >Friday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m.: Hermes, Krewe D'Etat, Morpheus, Muses > >Saturday, Feb. 2, 11 a.m.: Isis, Tucks > >Saturday, Feb. 2, 4 p.m.: Endymion > >Sunday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m.: Okeanos, Thoth, Mid-City, Babylon > >Sunday, Feb. 3, 5:15 p.m.: Bacchus > >Monday, Feb. 4, 5:15 p.m.: Proteus, Orpheus, Zeus > >Fat Tuesday: WDSU.com will stream WDSU's >coverage of Mardi Gras live from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Good. I look forward to them
(HI to BourboJeff for mentioning my blog!! I'll have to be on my best behavior, which is challenging since the Paradecam is pooping out so often...)
WDSU cam and Paradecam are working fine. No audio from the paradecam yet. Hermes getting ready to go. Woman hosting on DSU. I've the 2-cam switched feed going here, Nice!
(DSU has a Bourbon St cam but it is very high above the street. I miss the Bourbocam.)
Woman w/ trooper. Audio is very low level. (Paradecam is back on the roof.)
Almost as if on cue, the marching band starts in. The DSU cam has no view yet. Paradecam is still on the roof but we can see the parade.
Paradecam has audio and host. BourboJeff? Good level. Arthur Hardy is on cam on DSU cam but not speaking and we're not getting their audio. Sounds like BourboJeff. I'll probably keep both audios on unless it gets too confusing.
DSU is missing the parade.
BourboJeff: "Back before electricity, New Orleans only got it recently..."
New float: the garden of earthly delights.
"Hermes, God of Commerce. Something NO really likes."
DSU cam is airing white noise. DSU cam is BEHIND the crowd. Behind the tall ladders so they won't be able to see anything. Will this change? They can only see what is above the crowd. Bad...
I catch Blaine getting hit with some beads. He is oblivious!
Cupid and who? are the theme this year.
Girls being escorted by nuns... not costumers in nun's outfits.
Nice dancing from girls in blue.
The birth of Dionysus. (He butchers it.)
DSU audio is real low. Paradecam audio is a bit hot.
Shaw next.
95 floats tonight! Float #7 passes by.
Beautiful white dove float! The goddess plots revenge. (40:00)
Paradecam is not handheld and is mostly staying in one position. That's ok.
DSU cam is blue screen now but the stream is still working.
Oracle of Apollo.
We see Hermes doubloon.
Great dragon float.
DSU cam is back. See kids waving for beads behind the crowd. Nice shot now from higher up. Whoa, now they get really loud audio.... Mostly noise.
Nice Hermes throw. LA women vs TX women...
DSU cam is good now. Way up above the crowd.
Got you some titty beads?
Good dancing from band in white (55:34)
I'm guessing the DSU cam is abit downriver of the Paradecam. It used to be slightly above the paradecam. (Or else it it is WAY upriver. I'm seeing on the Paradecam what might have been a float I already saw on the DSU cam.)
Things seem to be done at the DSU cam. I'm seeing vendors on the street whereas on the Paradecam the parade is still going on. So the DSU cam must be Uptown of the Paradecam.
Float 23. Rams with Golden Fleeces. (See LA State Police van on DSU cam.)
Talking Greek/Roman/Egyptian influences.
See Clydesdales on DSU cam.
Nice marching (1:15:35)
People walk faster than 15 minutes a mile...
Float 26. Psyche?
Paradecam has blue screen. Now is ok.
Float 27: Pleasure. Daughter of the lovers. "She looks a little stoned on this float."
See fire engine on Paradecam. One drunk woman on mic.
Jeff got married recently. Spent the honeymoon in Gatlinberg, TN.
Krewe d'Etat coming up next. (Seeing LA State Poice van on Paradecam so DSU cam is WAY uptown of the Paradecam.)
NASCAR, no thanks.
See Clydesdales on Paradecam... (DSU cam's parade is not moving so it will be along time before it gets to the Paradecam.)
Nice skeletons!
D'Etats Dirty Dishes flyer held up to cam. Jeff gets on cam. Great skeleton heads!
Parade is moving on the DSU cam. Big green float.
Tulane marching band.
Title float, E'Tat's Dirty Dishes.
DSU cam is rewinding! Now stuck on still.
Both cams are f'd up now. Now fixed.
Hilton float on DSU cam (8:41 NY time)
Paradecam shows Jen talking to husband on the phone.
Looks like Hilary on the float on the DSU cam now.
Guy with float sign but no float!
NC girl.
Hilton float passes Paradecam 10 minutes after it passes the WDSU cam. OK. Now I have my bearings.
Nice drumming from marching band passing by P-cam.
Hillary float passes p-cam.
Lauren's husband is from South Dakota. His first Mardi Gras. Lauren runs the ? watch on nola.com?
US Sin-Ate float.
Bush Whack float. "Regardless of your political lean, if you don't have a sense of humor, not a good place to be right now."
Half baked Alaska float. Energy/environmental.
Giant martini glass float on DSU cam.
(9:08 NY time) We lose the audio for the Paradecam . Stream stops. I restart it. It looks like it won't start. It thinks I have network problems.
City Hall float on DSU cam.
Paradecam is out and I can't change players because they don't offer that choice on the windows I am getting. STUPID! I usually have that choice but not now. I'd switch over to the MediaPlayer feed but IT ISN'T BEING OFFERED.
DSU cam scene is stopped. Now it moves.
Paradecam is back. Martini glass is passing by. (9:28 NY time)
Paradecam is moving some, handheld?, so it covers what is happening better.
Seeing vendors on the DSU cam so that is the end of Krewe d'Etat.
Nice fluorescent lights on the Navy float.
Fire roasted pig = Don Imus!
Float 18...
Paradecam stream stops again... Can't start it. Goddamit!
I quit the RealPlayer again and it works. Jeff is talking about pagans loosing Saturnalia to the Christians! Heathens, thus came carnival. The abridged Carnival as told by Jeff.
Mobile AL vs NO's Mardi Gras.
See fire engine on Paradecam.
Stream stops again. I have to quit it to get it back. Morpheus next. (9:39 NY time)
No parade on the DSU cam yet so it's gonna be awhile.... Just seeing the cop car now.
Plushy pervs. Like Jon Donley.
DSU cam audio is very low.
Paradecam vs Bourbocam. I miss Reese.
DSU cam has parade flowing.
GD Paradecam has stopped again.
Nice dancing, Helen Cock High School. Harvey, LA.
Nice marching band antics.
GD Paradecam keeps stopping. I have to quit it and restart it to get it to work. What a pain. (And a constant problem with watching and listening to Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.)BourboJeff remarks on my blog!! Thinks I see blog on how the media treats it. Well, sort of. It is more just a log of what I see that I have tried to make a little more readable, lately. Thanks, Jeff! (Calls me lipwok.)
Shot of Fat Harry's!
Parade is stopped. King of Morpeus is still sitting there.
Paradecam stopped again.
Finally King's float moves. King Jerry.
RealPlayer stops again. Godamn it.
(RealPlayer started again) Nice cat float.
I'd be cool to see the truck floats lined up on River Road. Anyone got any pics of that?
(RealPlayer stops again. I have to quit it and restart it to get it going again.)
Funny Pope story!
GD RealPlayer stops again. ****! This is happening every couple of minutes or so. VERY frustrating. The DSU cam has been pretty stable.
10:45 NY time. Talking about Barkus parade. I missed it too and don't seem much of anything good on the net of it. The video was very disappointing. Some good pics, especially one by Jon Donley of that little dog with the jester's cap on! (Which I think is from last year?)
"Do you know the Mr Bingle jingle?" and then the GD RealPlayer stops again. Very tiresome to a) quit it and restart it and b) write about it. (10:49 NY time)
"That nun has a beard!... All the nuns have extra parts." Jeff yelling out hey, pretty lady.
Now DSU cam has blue screen but is still streaming.
I see lots of blue flashing lights in the crowd. Cool.
Float 19, Hollywood South. 10:53 NY time. Now RealPlayer stops again. I really am a masochist...
DSU cam still blue screen. Muses up next. 10:56 NY time
10:57 DSU cam is back up. Paradecam has stopped. I can't take it anymore. I'm gonna watch only the DSU cam. Sorry Jeff.
We see butterflies on poles. A giant purple slipper!
(I will listen to the Paradecam but won't watch and won't care if it stops.)
Penis police and Beadwhores partying together!
Rollergirls go by.
PC stops again. 11:05 NY time.
Woman got kissed by the Roller Girls.
Very cool flashing Muses shoes on poles!!
St Augustine band. (Sound is uneven but you get the idea.)
Guest Muse is Marva Wright! Well, alright. (RealPlayer stops again. 11:10 NY time.)
There she goes sitting in the pink shoe!
Nice marching steps, Warren Easton Sr High. Nice band too.
26 floats in the Muses parade tonight. 768 riders.
(RealPlayer stops again. 11:15 NY time.)
Cool Bathtub float! With bubbles!!
Title float: All That Glitters? Jeff despairs, not knowing the title. So close...
RP stops, 11:19 NY time.
Stilt walkers! Very cool! Dressed in black.
Some nice floats on the DSU cam. A house or tower on one float. (When will we see you again, it says.)
Nice throw with the mirrors on it.
Literally hitting on him!
Nice dancing girls in white. 11:25 NY time.
Czar Wash? float! (on the DSU cam) PC has stopped again, 11:26 NY time
The "When will I see you again" float arrives at the Paradecam 11:32 NY time. Dedicated to the contractors helping rebuild..." (Paradecam stops so it is cut off!)
Good art on them? They look pretty crude on the webcam.
Czar Wash arrives, 11:36 NY time.
11:39 RP stops. DSU cam has blue screen. Hmm.
Wow, cool throw! (Psychedelic)
We see Elvis's on bikes go by! The Krewe of Elvis.
11:43 RP stops. DSU cam still has blue screen. (Turning my firewall off. Maybe that will help.) DSU still has blue screen.
The pink slips.
11:49 RP stops. DSU cam still has blue screen.
Chicks with wigs dancing! Nice! Or are those helmets? Awful music but cool to see them all dancing.
So, it seems to be that RealPlayer is stopping every 5 minutes. Why? (Still blue screen with the DSU cam. I guess I'll give up on them.)
Come on down to Fat Harry's to see this chicks bare ass...
Cameltoe steppers!!
"Daddy, who was the captain of Bacchus, Hi Daddy..."
All female brass band? (We don't hear them...)
I could do without this chick helping out.
Krewe d'Etat sounds like crudite! I always thought it was a play on coup d'état...
Great. The Bearded Oysters! Love em!
RP dies again.
The Molassies!
Bad Girls, float 20.
We lose audio on the Paradecam, 12:13 NY time. Pic is still working, for now. Audio comes back.
The chick says: "Mardi Gras tests the hand to eye co-ordination of the natives." Good one.
Family Gras?
Float 25.
"I'm all about feminism. I love Muses. But these girls can't throw!" Another good one from the chick.
The parade ends. "Vendredi Gras." Another good one.
Bye all. Paradecam starts up at 11 tomorrow, 12 NY time. (2 hrs for this one)
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