Archive for the 'Videos' Category

Wardell Quezergue’s 80th Birthday

Monday, April 5th, 2010

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Left to right: Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias (lead singer of what may be the funkiest funk band of all time); rhythm and blues artist Al “Carnival Time” Johnson; singer Michelle Davis; poet Chuck Perkins; composer and arranger Wardell Quezergue (seated); Ken McCarthy

Last month, I was at the 80th birthday party for Wardell Quezergue “the Creole Beethoven,” a musical genius who applied his gifts behind-the-scenes to countless hits over the last fifty plus years.

Some of Quezergue’s music with cuts from the Wild Magnolias and Al “Carnival Time” Johnson.

New Orleans Poet Chuck Perkins visits Manchester

Monday, December 14th, 2009

The plan for reviving the relationship between Manchester and New Orleans is simple.

Bring New Orleans artists, musicians, scholars etc. to Manchester and welcome Manchester folks to visit New Orleans.

Last spring, we got the ball rolling by hosting Manchester poet Grevel Lindop.

Last month, we brought a New Orleans poet Chuck Perkins to Manchester.

He’s the video of his first visit (the first one was so successful there are bound to be many more):

New Orleans poet Chuck Perkins visits Manchester

“Home” wins New Orleans Film Festival

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Matt Faust’s short animation “Home” just one first prize in the New Orleans film festival in the experimental animation category.

We’ve posted about this film before. Here’s the link again in case you haven’t seen it:

http://www.levees.tv/home

Congratulations Matt!

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Saturday, October 4th, 2008

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The battle for New Orleans continues

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Thanks for all the support our video “The Katrina Myth.”

At the moment, we’re a hair away from having had over 60,000 viewers in just 10 days.

I hope you’ll continue to spread the word about this video. It’s the only “quick read,” comprehensive source of info on levees, levee failures, and the reality of New Orleans geography.

A lot of long time residents wrote us saying they were grateful for the video because even they’d been bamboozled by the propaganda about New Orleans “doomed geography.”

New Orleans is doomed ONLY if the Army Corps of Engineers is not brought to task, reformed, and put on the job of designing and building a levee system that works.

Speaking of the Corps, finally after how many years, informed commentary about the Corps investigation of itself (sic) is appearing. Much of it confirms what levees.org has been saying since the beginning…and more critiques from more sources are in the pipeline.

It would have been great if the Corps management had copped to their errors three years ago and focused on correcting them instead of running an expensive, full-court publicity blitz obscuring the facts in an attempt to “defend” themselves.

Watch for things to heat up on this issue in the weeks and months to come. It’s not over yet.

Click here for “Corps Self-Critique Criticized”

UK media reviews levees.org “The Katrina Myth”

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

We’re already getting a some major press for “The Katrina Myth.”

This came as the result of the sneak preview at the Rising Tide blogging conference last weekend.

Click here for the review from the Guardian (UK):

The Guardian reviews “The Katrina Myth”

In the meantime, my heart goes out to all New Orleanians who are currently being terrorized by the weather news and the realization that the levee problems have nowhere near been corrected.

If you can make it to the premiere tonight, great. If not, I certainly understand.

Three cheers for Sandy Rosenthal of levees.org for keeping up the fight.

We didn’t have the runtime in the video to make a dedication, but if we had, we would have dedicated “The Katrina Myth” to her. No one has done more to fight against the Katrina myth and for the future of New Orleans than her.

Info on the premiere of “The Katrina Myth”

Earthquakes, levees and the fate of California

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

California…

It’s the home of more than 1 out of 10 Americans. All by itself, it’s one of the ten biggest economies in the world. It’s the source of much of America’s fresh produce.

And it has a fatal flaw that could render it largely inhabitable for three to five years: poorly built, badly maintained levees.

Part Three of a three-part series.

New Orleans was worse than you think

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

New Orleans was worse than you think…and other US cities are at current risk of even greater catastrophes from…levee failures.

That’s the conclusion of group of respected civil engineers who have studied natural and engineering disasters (New Orleans was an engineering disaster) all over the world.

Here’s Part One of the two-part series.

There’s more. Click here for PART TWO: California’s levees are even worse

Army Corps of Engineers buries New Orleans records

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Want to look up the status of the New Orleans levee system?

It used to be as easy as contacting the Corps local librarian. Now all the records have been removed to a warehouse and the public no longer has access to them.

Is this one of the Corp’s post-Katrina improvements?

Creole Wild West

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

A panel and performance by legendary Creole Wild West Indian tribe.

Enjoy this close up. I happened to be at this event and this short video captures the highlights very well.