In Search of PHOTO : can anyone help

[hardrainfallin]

I don't know if GD's the right place for this query (if so, sorry mods and pls move):

It was from a MSM video footage (can't recall which, maybe MSNBC, maybe CNN)

Group of guys dressed up in street cleaning uniforms comes out (this must have been either BEFORE or shortly AFTER the levees broke--before the streets were entirely flooded):

They line up in drum-line fashion, and, before they get to work, do a little "routine": I know folks here commented on that very scene in at least one thread, I know the reporter was quite bewildered by it too (though I wasn't: I immediately recognized it as an improvised "jazz funeral").

I am now desperately in search of that image.

If anyone remembers it, maybe cached or screen-saved it, maybe knows where it might be buried (excuse horrific pun) in some gallery or slideshow....gosh I'd appreciate it...

[Lisa]

1. I think I saw that broadcast on CNN

It was in Mississippi. I believe the date may have been Sept 1? So the reporter who was featured in that clip would have been the guy who was near Biloxi?

I noticed a few other comments on this, on the web, but no luck finding images so far.

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050829/018488.html

[Lisa]

3. p.s.

Re-reading your description, I may be describing the wrong clip. Do you recall whether the work crew with their tools did a march up and down the street? In my recollection, the Mississippi group included young people with actual drums.

[hardrainfallin]

5. Hmmm.

It's like the subsequent images have somehow wiped the memory slate fuzzy. I don't even remember if they actually had drums (we have many many groups in the city of Chicago, for example, too poor to afford real drums, who play on buckets, we call them the "bucket brigade")--so to my mind: bucket, drum: fucket, same thing! LOL

I THINK there was at least one real drum, and yes they had rakes, shovels, etc. hoisted over their shoulders.

I didn't remember it being Biloxi, thought it was NOLA. Do remember seeing posts about it here and on DailyKos, people wondering: WTF?

They did a march behind the cameraman, and the cameraman didn't quite know what to make of it. Looked slightly irritated that they were making so much noise and HE couldn't be heard (said to myself: dumbfuck, why don't you just SHUT UP and FILM Them!)

Anyone else notice that it's very hard to find NOLA fotos by google, unless you know exactly where they are or exactly what you're looking for.

At any rate, thanks Lisa for the tips: lots of great shots in there, and the text from the ibo list seems to refer to the incident....though I could swear it was NOLA, not Biloxi.

My reasons for wanting the pic are too complicated and for most people boring, so I'm just going to kick this up a bit, maybe someone else can help.

I KNOW there was a thread HERE about it.

[hardrainfallin]

6. kick for pics

[Lisa]

9. I am trying to remember the name of the CNN reporter ...

For the report I was thinking of, I know it was a guy, and I'm pretty sure it was filed from the Mississippi coast. I don't think it was Anderson Cooper (I seem to remember dark hair), and anyway he was in Baton Rouge. Maybe it was Gary Tuchman or Rob Marciano?


http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/29/scene.blog/

[redacted]

2. Didn't see it, but try these:

Google image search (stills only).

Also Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com) and Corbis (http://pro.corbis.com/) license current event photos and video.

Good luck.

-r

on edit: Welcome to DU. Also a hint: if you don't get many responses at this hour try kicking topic in the morning.

[paineinthearse]

4. hardrainfallin

welcome to DU

:hi:

[hardrainfallin]

7. Hi paininthearse

[hardrainfallin]

8. heres a KICKintherse just for good measure