New Orleans' Bayou District - 10 Years After Katrina
The Purpose Built Communities model of neighborhood transformation grew out of the revitalization of the East Lake neighborhood, which began 20 years ago with the founding of the East Lake Foundation. Ten years later, three business leaders from New Orleans came to Atlanta after their city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Upon seeing East Lake’s successful revitalization, they were moved to replicate what they saw in their own city as a part New Orleans’ rebirth. The East Lake Foundation allocated staff and resources to help the New Orleans team find a path forward. This experience led directly to the creation of Purpose Built Communities. Today, the Bayou District Foundation is not only one of New Orleans’ greatest post-Katrina success stories, it helped inspire a national movement of local leaders working to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty that now spans neighborhoods in 11 states, including the three most populous, across the country.
More info at purposebuiltcommunities.org and bayoudistrictfoundation.org.
Lower 9th Ward Rebuild - AHF PSA - N.O.
Lower 9th Ward Rebuild - American Home Front PSA
New Orleans, Loisiana
The American Home Front PSAs are a series of videos created for DMA Anacostia (NAVY/DOD). The PSAs were to be one minute in duration and shot on location.
The PSAs feature aspects of small towns located around the Continental United States. Each PSA highlights a particular aspect of each town.
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Canon 5D & 7D with an assortment of lenses:
EF 85mm f/1.2L II
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS
EF 50mm f/1.2L
EF 35mm f/1.4L
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L
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Sennheiser G3 Series Mics
Zoom H4n
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10 Years Forward: Lower Ninth Ward continues with Katrina recovery struggle
The Lower Ninth Ward was undoubtedly the area hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina. Years after the waters receded, people there are still struggling to stay afloat and return home. Subscribe to WDSU on YouTube now for more:
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City Park: 5 Years Later
An update and thank you to our volunteers and donors with images of the Park's damage from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding, followed by images of its rebirth.
The President on the 10-year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
President Obama delivers remarks in New Orleans on the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. August 27, 2015.
Hurricane Katrina Documentary(2) OFFICIAL.
Directed by Spike Lee
Theme music composer Terence Blanchard
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Producer(s) Spike Lee
Samuel D. Pollard
Editor(s) Geeta Gandbhir
Cinematography Cliff Charles
Running time 240 minutes total for part 1 & 2.
Production company(s) 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Release
Original channel HBO
Original release
August 23, 2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise is a 2010 documentary film directed by Spike Lee, as a follow-up to his 2006 HBO documentary film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The film looks into the proceeding years since Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region, and also focuses on the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its effect on the men and women who work along the shores of the gulf. Many of the participants in Levees were also featured in this documentary.
It won a Peabody Award in 2010 for ambitiously chronicling one of the hugest disasters in American history, interrogating the well-known narratives and investigating other stories that could have easily fallen through the cracks.[1]
Houston: Prophetic City – What Houston Can Teach the Rest of the Country
This year’s Anton-Lippitt lecture will focus on the theme of community engagement, citizenship, and partnerships.
The open keynote event features Stephen L. Klineberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rice University and the founding-director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Houston clearly exemplifies the trends that are refashioning the social and political landscape across America. The new high-tech, knowledge-based, fully global economy is generating mounting inequalities based primarily on access to quality education. At the same time, an epic transformation is underway, as this city and country, once predominantly composed of European nationalities, is rapidly becoming a microcosm of all the world’s ethnicities and religions. And as urban regions compete for the “knowledge workers” in the new economy, quality-of-place attributes now increasingly determine the fates of cities. The panel reviews the findings from 38 years of systematic surveys to show how the new realities are unfolding, to assess the changing attitudes and beliefs of the general public, and to consider the implications of these ongoing trends for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Together with several panelists, Professor Klineberg will discuss how some destination cities have evolved toward inclusion and explore the institutions and strategies that support inclusive evolution.
Panelists include:
Angela Blanchard, Brown University
Amanda Edwards, Houston City Council
Armando Walle, Texas House of Representatives
Moderated by: Susan Moffitt, Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Criminal Justice Up Close - From Jailhouse Lawyer to Law Student: The Story of Calvin Duncan
At age 19, Calvin Duncan was wrongfully convicted of murder. After serving over 28 years in Angola prison for a crime he did not commit, he was released in 2011. While incarcerated, Mr. Duncan learned the law and offered legal services to hundreds of fellow prisoners, including those on death row. Since his release, he has been awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to vindicate the rights of incarcerated people and is the program director of The Light of Justice Program, which helps incarcerated people gain access to the courts. He is now applying to law school.
In this video, Mr. Duncan discusses his remarkable journey, the challenges that incarcerated people face when trying to litigate from inside prison, and his ongoing efforts to create systemic reform in the indigent defense system.
This event was co-sponsored by Lewis & Clark's Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of History, the Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Center for Community Engagement.
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Fantastic Negrito - An Honest Man (Hand Of God Theme Song)
Official lyric video for An Honest Man, the Hand Of God theme song by Fantastic Negrito
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Directed and Edited by: Jeremy Leaird Koch
This is the title song from Amazon's TV show Hand of God starring Ron Perlman, directed by Marc Forster, written by Ben Watkins.
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Fantastic Negrito is a man’s truth told in the form of black roots music. Each song is a real story about a musician from Oakland who experienced the highs of a million dollar record deal, the lows of a near fatal car accident that put him in a four-week coma, and is now in the phase of rebirth despite his playing hand being mangled. Negrito’s music emphasizes rawness and space. Slide guitar, drums, piano. Rather than update the Delta Blues, Fantastic Negrito leaves the original sounds of Lead Belly and Skip James intact, building bridges to a modern sound with loops and samples of his own live instruments. But the primary element that drives Fantastic Negrito’s music is uncut realness and zero concern for “pop” anything.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)