I tune in at 6 pm (All times are NY time.) The DSU page takes forever to load, as usual. I switch between the DSU cam and the paradecam. The DSU cam shows the parade before it has started. The paradecam is still on the roof at Fat Harry's and just has hum, which it will have throughout. Getting sound on both cams.
The DSU cam has some nice shots of the floats. (The stream is pretty good, slightly jerky.)
6:15 no movement. Some good band close-ups. The white noise we hear is the generators of the floats. We see the Atomic Bulldogs band, some cheerleaders practising, some good drumming, a giant dog outfit on somebody (when he leans over the dog's face is looking right at you, woefully. A great costume!)
6:31 pm We see an Entergy truck moving on the paradecam.
Back on the DSU cam we have a sort of battle of the bands; The Atomic Bulldogs vs Baker High School. I'd say the Atomic Bulldogs won.
The paradecam has the #1 float for Proteus. Very hard to hear the hosts and bands on the paradecam. We see movement on the DSU cam. The DSU cameraman climbs to the top of the DSU truck and takes mostly long shots of the parade. Sometimes, for uknown reasons, the DSu feed will totally black out.
We see the Ninth Ward Marching Band! They have a streetcar bell! Good dancing within the band.
Nice dragon float, #7.
Nice face on float #8, the title is "Entertaining the Nobel Head." What is that from?
The paradecam has a bad stream, getting ghosting and losing audio.
Rachel Wulff interviewed a young girl, Stacy, on the DSU cam. The parade has passed her at this point.
No audio on the paradecam, Hitting pause fixes it.
We see a nice close up of Rachel in her pink hat. She then does her stand up. Her audio is overmodulating and the audio is ahead of the video.
Orpheus
Orpheus starts on the DSU cam. Their camera position is ahead of the paradecam. 7:15 m
The DSU cam turns on a spotlight and it illuminates the crowd from far away. I wouldn't want to be in front of that. We see bugs rising up in front of the lens.
The DSU cam blacks out a few more times.
Eventually they switch to the downtown cam so I watch the paradecam.
The paradecam hosts are very low level, very hard to hear.
O Perry Walker's band and dancers are good.
The paradecam interviews Jessica from Omaha. The audio is in sync!
I didn't see her but Joan Rivers was on a float.
LW Higgens HS had some cool dance steps. Good flags, good yellow-outfitted dancers, the drum major did some cool moves.
The paradecam hosts say that they will do the Bourbon Street Awards tomorrow at noon. (I looked for it then but couldn't find it. I really would have loved to have seen it.)
As the Jim Belushi float goes by the paradecam the hostess says she would gladly "give birth to his children."
The paradecam signal is breaking up. We're getting blue screens. (I think there is a cable problem. They're using a cable?!)
Good dancing from Helen Cox HS dancers in white (and afros?) and a good band.
A 3 horse team carriage (and was that a calliope in the cart?)
Smokey Mary comes around the corner. I like the "Drinking car" written on the side of at least one car/float. 6 floats! A nice goose on the back of float #6.
Every time the the third woman host of the paradecam goes nuts over something in the parade, we get blue screens. Cable problem. (We hear ,"Watch the cable, Kate." but that is in reference to the other woman host.)
Beautiful Indians on horses.
The How The Forests Were Planted float has a naked woman on the front. I'm not sure how the two relate.
George Washington Carver marchers look good. Nice dance moves, good band, good red and green flags.
Arlington, IN marchers have nice moves.
The paradecam hosts talk about having designated walkers. I can see having a designated driver but a designated walker? Maybe it's necessary in New Orleans, probably for crime reasons as much as just getting home at all when drunk.
More blue screens. At one point we overhear one of the hosts, one of the guys, talk on his cell phone about them, probably to the nola.com office.
8:24 pm The parade has reached the DSU cam downtown but it has stopped.
The paradecam is out of focus but the guy apologizes for it.
WT Fisher HS has nice dancers.
We see The Leviathan, which has nice smoke coming out of its nose. Its riders masks are lit up!
We see the LA Rough Riders on horses.
I switch to the DSU cam and see a float I missed earlier that had a screaming child as its figurehead. We get very good sound quality on the DSU cam. (No, not of screaming children...)
The How Oil Springs From The Ground float has an earth goddess on the front. Hunh?
The How The Rabbit Snared The Sun float has a nice sun face on it.
The How The Milky Way Was Born float (#17) has a nice blue sky background with some stars.
The Petosky MI band again. I see that they are a steel band now.
The How Learning Was Instituted float ("learning was instituted?") has an Egyptian figure on it, a queen.
A converted fire truck goes by with a steam organ on it? On its side, "Barney."
The wetlands animals come by, walking this time.
A good band in red goes by.
I can't hear the paradecam hosts at all.
#21 Why The Moon Bewitches float has a nice moon character painted on it.
#23 How Transportation Was Oriented. What a strange title. Written by a businessman, not someone who understands public psychology.
#24 How Salt is Formed, Nice character.
Orpheus ends on the paradecam. It looks like it is just starting on the DSU cam. See the NOPD truck.
The Angola Prison Rodeo cart. Motorcycles. ATVs. The Trojan horse appears about 2 hours after we saw it Uptown.
Some nice spotlights, sirens. A smokey flambeaux. (Most burn cleanly.)
I go have dinner in another room. When Smokey Mary comes by, the whistle almost makes me jump out of my seat. (I have the computer hooked up to the stereo so it's loud!)
An hour later I'm back from dinner.
The parade ends at about 10:50 NY time.
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