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November 26, 2005

New Original Hurricane Katrina Images

I went through the "Hard Hit 9th Ward" in East New Orleans, on the East side of the Industrial Canal. "Hard Hit" doesn't begin to cover it. Hard to believe that I shot these images on Friday, November 25th, three months after Katrina hit. Photos appear as though they could have been shot the day after the levee broke.

Apparently, if they want something to be trashed in New Orleans, they are instructed to spray paint "TFC" on the side of it and set it on the curb. Anyone know what TFC stands for? I have no clue. Please post.

This slideshow is a 13 Meg self-playing executable named thievery.exe created using Imagematics StillMotion PE Plus. The soundtrack is Lebanese Blonde by the Thievery Corporation off of the Garden State Soundtrack. Click here to download the presentation. If you have an Apple, click here to download the Macromedia Flash version. Click here if you need help.

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Lyrics are posted in the extended entry.

Artist: Thievery Corporation
Song: Lebanese Blonde

Too low to find my way
Too high to wonder why
I've touched this place before
Somewhere in another time
Now I can hear the sun
The clouds drifting through the blinds
A half a million thoughts
Are flowing through my mind

A satellite recalled your voice
Sent me round the world again
All the night you've dreamt away
Sent me round my heart again
One touch upon my lips
And all my thoughts are clear
I feel your smoky mist
Up to the stratosfear

Did you notify my way
To hide a wonder why
I've touched this place before,
So we're in another time
Now I can hear the sound
The clouds drifting through the blidge
A half a million thoughts
Are flowing through my mind

Did you notify my way
To hide a wonder why
I've touched this place before,
So we're in another time
Now I can hear the sound
The clouds drifting through the blidge
A half a million thoughts
Are flowing through my mind

Posted by Peenie Wallie on November 26, 2005 at 4:33 PM

Comments

A few questions -

What do the Xes painted on the houses with the numbers mean?

How much of New Orleans looks this bad? A lot of the housing that you showed looks like the neighborhoods weren't in that good shape before (there are neighborhoods in Oklahoma City that look as bad as some of the pictures you showed) - is there any chance you might be able to find 'before' pictures to compare? (you might try contacting the guys who have been running http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/ to see if they can help)

What prompted your decision to publish EXEs for Windows users and SWFs for Mac users?

Posted by: Alice H on November 29, 2005 at 10:44 AM

Alice,

X's on the houses shows following information. Date house was cleared, group that cleared it, number of people found dead/alive in the house. It's basically related to that but not everyone did it exactly the same, etc. There's probably a lot more info on this, but that's basically what it means.

New Orleans wasn't in great shape before this happened, but the levees had never been breached before, to the best of my knowledge. So this was a cataclysmic event for the region.

Although most of the area that I shot was an economically depressed area, there were open stores before, and it was possible to drive into the neighborhood. Today, it is a deserted wasteland. A ruined, post-apocolyptic no-man's land controlled by the military.

The .exe file is a Windows executable. It won't work on a Unix or Mac computer. So, the .swf format is a standard format that can be played by most any type of computer, including a windows PC. However, I like the frame that the .exe file creates around the slideshow when run in Windows, so I recommend people use the .exe, and then tell Mac enthusiasts to use the .swf file.

Posted by: Peenie Wallie on November 29, 2005 at 7:09 PM

OK. I wasn't sure why you were publishing the EXEs - we use SWFs for anything that has to work for both Mac and PC.

Posted by: Alice H on November 30, 2005 at 4:16 PM

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