I interviewed an artist up in Covington for my day job. He asked if I had seen any of Prospect.1, the international art exposition going on all over New Orleans. There are installations and showings of 80 artists from all over the world. The U.S. Mint and the Contemporary Arts Center are the main...
Halloween 2008. It’s been planned for at least a month now. Flash mob, Jackson Square, New Orleans. Pirates vs. Ninjas. Pirates gathered in Pirates Alley (duh), Ninjas in Pere Antoine Alley. At 5pm sharp, an air horn sounded, both sides met at battle in front of St. Louis Cathedral. Now, I have no doubt...
Met the folks today for a nice little brunch at Ralph’s on the Park. Before heading to the park, that is, for some Japan Fest at NOMA. Started things off with a Sazerac and a little chicken and andouille gumbo: Finished with the BBQ shrimp and grits. Pretty good, a nice touch is they...
We went to catch up on streetcar photos for StreetCarArt.com today. They placed another set last week; Nola caught the ones in Lakeview last week and today we went to get the ones installed on Chartres, Jackson Square and at Cafe du Monde. They’ll be posted at the streetcar site soon. I collided with...
Great news via a press release I received today. The opening is set for this coming spring: FAMED ROOSEVELT HOTEL IN NEW ORLEANS BEING REBORN AS WALDORF=ASTORIA COLLECTION PROPERTY NEW ORLEANS – Oct. 9, 2008 – The revered Roosevelt Hotel name – which for nearly a half-century meant the finest luxury accommodations, entertainment and...
As Maitri, Karen Gadbois and NolaNotes and many others have pointed out, Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes sustained major damage from Hurricane Gustav. Everyone in the small fishing and shrimping communities, like Dulac, Pointe Aux Chene and Chauvin are severely affected, most are now homeless. Hard-hit were the Houma indians, many of whom lived close...
It was quite the strange trip yesterday, Labor Day 2008. Gustav beat the odds and made landfall at the exact spot the models had it going to 18 hours before, and within 50 miles or so of the models from 48 hours before. It was not nearly as strong as predicted, which was the...
Well, it’s two days since the Katrina Anniversary date and here we are expecting another hurricane, Gustav. The storm’s birth and slow growth and progress in the Caribbean have been torturing us for over a week now. It’s certainly distracted me from keeping up with my promised picture-a-day Katrina memorial. The Twitter is all...
One effect of the storm that couldn’t go away quickly enough for some was the proliferation of signs. In the grand scheme of things—like the large pile of debris in the background, flooded homes, lost lives—the temporary signs advertising demolition and construction services that sprouted up and covered every available inch of neutral ground...
This isn’t a destruction photo. It’s from St. Louis No. 1 cemetery on Basin Street. Our family has a tomb there. The archdiocese opened the cemetery on Nov. 1, All Saints Day, in 2005. It was the first time since the storm it had been open to the public and would not be open...
View from the roof of Harborview Condominiums. You can see where the roof was peeled off, exposing the units in the front of the condos. Out of 100 units, only a few escaped wind and rain damage. Flooding wasn’t an issue for the living units; the building’s ground level was for parking (see example...
Alright already. So we’re running behind a bit. Can I say I spent the weekend hunting streetcars for StreetCarArt.com? Remains of the West End lighthouse and Southern Yacht Club. A view up the canal along Hwy. 11 in Slidell, you know, where Tites used to be. And, finally, I give you Boat Mountain.
In the Lakeview area off of Fleur De Lis. I never paid attention before, but the car has its own rescue X heiroglyph.
Boat houses along West End that line the marinas. Right after the storm, NOAA release a series of high-resolution aerial photos of New Orleans and Slidell. You could see how bad things were all around West End, the burnt remains of the Southern Yacht Club, the boats piled up in places they were never...
Alright. The craziness has subsided at work. This should be the last multi-day posting for this series. Here are three from Slidell, where I was living at the time. I came home the last week of September. Most of the trees in the yard had been blown down, but all fell either parallel or...
I’ve been remiss in my postings. I know, how long can it take to upload a picture? Well, I’m busy. Here are two more boat-out-of-place photos. The first is a boat I just couldn’t get enough of, photographing it several times until it was finally removed. It’s been tossed up at the floodwall gate...
Since I was out of the office yesterday, I’ll make it up by posting two pictures today. The first is a photo of a Porsche Boxter UW (under water edition) that got left behind in the parking garage under my sister’s condo building near the Marina. The second shot is a view east down...
Well, this one is the house that I believe once stood on the spot where I took yesterday’s picture. It ended up a few blocks down at the corner of Bellaire and 36th Streets.
This is the side of a house on Bellaire. Its backyard was bordered by the 17th Street Canal levee; which broke directly behind it, to the right in this picture. It’s a wonder the whole thing didn’t get washed away. I’d like to be able to say something poignent, like the people looking at...
Taking a pause from cleaning up my sister’s Lake Marina condo, I was intrigued by the way the light struck these mops leaning up against the wall.