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Has anyone seen this documentary? It's showing at Omnimax and Imax theaters. I saw it last night before dancing on over to the Oyster Bar for some Gumbohead. Great perspective on the wetlands and the need to protect and rebuild them. Tab Benoit and Amanda Shaw take you through this great journey. It's a bit short, but worth seeing for sure. Check it out if it's in you city.
http://www.hurricaneonthebayou.com/
VWGal
02-03-2007, 03:42 PM
Hey Jada, I've seen it twice -- and can highly recommend it. My company has naming rights to science centres across Canada and they show IMAX/stardome pics. I have the great job of supporting those relationships in three western cities.
HOTB just opened in Edmonton and Vancouver last week. The interesting comment from people in Edmonton was that they loved the music but wanted more than an overview of the wetlands issue and were hoping they'd get that in the movie. I didn't find that a negative, because it was good to know people are already educated about global warming, the disappearing wetlands and particularly Louisiana's unique exposure to the risk. It felt great to recommend some books for them to read and to suggest they donate to organizations like Voice of the Wetlands.
On the prairies in Canada, we are particularly interested in wetland preservation because nearly all our birds who migrate south when the temps drop winter over in Louisiana.
It was also one of those surreal things to be bopping along to the music in the movie and have everyone around me hear Tab, Amanda, John Boutte, Dr. John, Iko Iko likely for their very first time. Go see it -- take the kids -- you'll get a tear in your eye when Amanda finds her grandfather after Katrina. McGillivray Freeman was already filming when Katrina hit, which added perhaps too much realism to the movie.
funkkjunkie
02-03-2007, 03:45 PM
la ti da just saw this and mentioned it on the gen music forum. sounds great.
Michelino
02-03-2007, 04:02 PM
Wow, thanks...will keep on the look for it....
Theotherone
02-03-2007, 06:20 PM
Saw it opening day just before New Years at the Imax in St. Paul and plan on seeing it at least once again before it closes. Also bought the CD. Its a great movie. Lots of Tab - which - depending on how you feel about Tab - is a good thing.
pokerchick66
02-03-2007, 06:27 PM
Do you know what it's rated? In other words, could I bring my 7 yr. old?
Fred (Texas JF Fanatic)
02-03-2007, 06:46 PM
Heck, just from reading your post VW Gal, I have tears in my eyes.
ScoopJohnD
02-03-2007, 07:06 PM
Do you know what it's rated? In other words, could I bring my 7 yr. old?
It's gets shown at museums and such so I would think chicklet would be able to see.
Out here it's only out on Long Island at the Cradle of Aviation Museum (?!?!?).
WTF? Why isn't this in Manhattan at the Musuem of Natural History???
pokerchick66
02-03-2007, 07:22 PM
Oooh, I just looked and it is playing at our Imax in Birmingham. Movies there are great cuz it's one of those Imax Dome theatres and we'll feel like we're like right in the middle of it. I would love to go see that. Maybe we'll go next weekend.
I just hope it doesn't scare chicklet. How intense are the storm scenes?
Jada, what say you? And how long is it?
VWGal
02-03-2007, 08:19 PM
The storm scenes are equivalent to what we saw on CNN -- a couple of things blowing apart -- some people wading thru water at the height of the storm. No pictures of bodies or anything like that. The only intense thing might be that those scenes on a very large screen feel more dramatic and scary. I think she'll probably be fine as the whole movie is truly aimed at a family dynamic. And I think if you want your chicklet to understand the importance of the wetlands in Louisiana, it's an excellent introduction for her.
Amanda is tres cute in it -- your chicklet will love her. Also, they use a momma gator and her babies to great effect throughout the film -- Amanda and Tab head out on his airboat and find the momma before the storm, and see her nest, then babies hatch.
After the storm, they find momma gator, but unfortunately only one baby is left. That combined with Amanda's very real emotion about her missing grandfather, who is then found, is what will put tears in everyone's eyes.
By the way, they use New Orleans music in some fun ways throughout the movie, which you and chicklet will enjoy. A couple of scenes feel a bit staged, but only because we've been to NOLA and know that they might ring that way.
If you've never been to New Orleans, I think it's actually a darn good travelogue. Come and see the wetlands NOW. Here's the website for the film:
http://www.hurricaneonthebayou.com/
VWGal
02-03-2007, 08:21 PM
Oh, forgot to say that it's probably about 45 minutes long. Absolutely stunning aerial footage of the bayou throughout.
VWGal
02-03-2007, 08:35 PM
Just booming through the website myself, I didn't realize that Iko Iko in the film was performed by....IB's fave...Zachary Richards. Mr. Toussaint plays a fairly big on-camera role, as himself of course. Proceeds from CD sales go to the Audubon Institute.
pokerchick66
02-03-2007, 08:40 PM
Wow, thanks VW. That was extremely helpful. I'm glad you shared that. I really look forward to going now. I'm from Louisiana and grew up there but she hasn't and I think this will be very educational and very good for her to see.
Who is Amanda?
VWGal
02-03-2007, 08:43 PM
Oh, it's Amanda Shaw.
sophisticated sissy
02-03-2007, 08:45 PM
We in Cincinnati were graced with Amanda Shaw's presence at the opening of HOTB. Our IMAX here had just been refurbished and this was the premier. She was on hand for a shake & howdy after the screening. It was a special treat.
pchickie...ever hear of Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys?
pokerchick66
02-03-2007, 08:47 PM
We in Cincinnati were graced with Amanda Shaw's presence at the opening of HOTB. Our IMAX here had just been refurbished and this was the premier. She was on hand for a shake & howdy after the screening. It was a special treat.
pchickie...ever hear of Amanda Shaw & The Cute Guys?
Sorry to be so music ignorant but . . . no, I haven't. I have, however, heard of Fab Tab. :D
VWGal
02-03-2007, 08:48 PM
Sissy, so great that Amanda was there in person. I was at the opening night in Edmonton, followed by a reception. They made a valiant attempt at providing Louisiana-style food! Not.;)
sophisticated sissy
02-03-2007, 08:54 PM
You'd love her, Mon. She is a young violin virtuoso. Classically trained, I believe. She started playing when she was knee-high to a chicken. Exceptionally talented young woman.
Corona
02-04-2007, 06:13 AM
We've watched her grow the last few years and little miss fiddle is fantastic. We saw her for Lundi gras fest last year and will again. Her Dad is in the band and I think now she's about 18? Cute as a button and can ROCK on that fiddle. I love her and Sam loves her. Betcha the chicklet would love her too....you guys are leaving Monday right? Maybe you should try to stay for part of Lundi Gras fest? It's soooooo fun!!
pokerchick66
02-04-2007, 10:46 AM
We've watched her grow the last few years and little miss fiddle is fantastic. We saw her for Lundi gras fest last year and will again. Her Dad is in the band and I think now she's about 18? Cute as a button and can ROCK on that fiddle. I love her and Sam loves her. Betcha the chicklet would love her too....you guys are leaving Monday right? Maybe you should try to stay for part of Lundi Gras fest? It's soooooo fun!!
lol Corona, you crack me up. Yes, she has school and I have work. You know, those pesky things. And I'm prolly gonna be hungover already from the night before. And then comes the fun four hour drive . . .ohhhhhh yea, baby. :cool:
stlbarb
02-04-2007, 11:52 AM
Has anyone seen this documentary? It's showing at Omnimax and Imax theaters. I saw it last night before dancing on over to the Oyster Bar for some Gumbohead. Great perspective on the wetlands and the need to protect and rebuild them. Tab Benoit and Amanda Shaw take you through this great journey. It's a bit short, but worth seeing for sure. Check it out if it's in you city.
http://www.hurricaneonthebayou.com/
since it was sold out, i hope they run it again. were there a lot of no-shows do to the date change? i believe gumbohead was suppose to play the original date (cancelled due to weather), but last night was the zydeco crawdaddies. Bennet played with Funkabilly at the Banana Ball last night - guess that's why they had to switch bands for the benefit.
since it was sold out, i hope they run it again. were there a lot of no-shows do to the date change? i believe gumbohead was suppose to play the original date (cancelled due to weather), but last night was the zydeco crawdaddies. Bennet played with Funkabilly at the Banana Ball last night - guess that's why they had to switch bands for the benefit.
It's running all the time. Last night was a benefit, that's all. It still shows almost every day.
stlbarb
02-04-2007, 12:00 PM
It's running all the time. Last night was a benefit, that's all. It still shows almost every day.
great. the kid has been bugging us about going to the science center - more incentive.
great. the kid has been bugging us about going to the science center - more incentive.
Here ya go, Barb.
http://www.slsc.org/content.aspx?id=2215
stlbarb
02-04-2007, 01:02 PM
Here ya go, Barb.
http://www.slsc.org/content.aspx?id=2215
feb is booked for us between MG & Beale St festival. doesnt give end date. hope its still there in march.
have you stuck your nose out the door today? its so cold. good day to spend at the science center - but I should be working on costumes.
have you stuck your nose out the door today? its so cold.
There was steam coming off my dog's poop. Ewwww!
stlbarb
02-04-2007, 04:12 PM
There was steam coming off my dog's poop. Ewwww!
i think 'Steamin Dog Poop' has played the Wayout Club.
i think 'Steamin Dog Poop' has played the Wayout Club.
LOL, Barb! Have you ever been there? I can say, I have not.
La Ti Da
02-05-2007, 07:15 PM
yup as I mentioned elsewhere, saw it last weekend, heartbreaking in parts but really spectacular visually. That Amanda Shaw is really something - I first saw her at fest a few years ago when I was wandering by the kids tent and heard some smokin sounds coming out of there - it was Amanda Shaw and the cute Guys! she was playing electric guitar and fiddle.
She really is something. Amazing!
luvdancin
02-05-2007, 08:12 PM
LOL, Barb! Have you ever been there? I can say, I have not.
I've been there. Very strange. The guy that owns it was on the KDHX board with me, but I can't remember his name right now. And his wife had the show on the radio called Dangerous Curves with Sherry Danger (not her real name). Don't know if it's still on. Haven't listened to KDHX since 2001.
I've been there. Very strange. The guy that owns it was on the KDHX board with me, but I can't remember his name right now. And his wife had the show on the radio called Dangerous Curves with Sherry Danger (not her real name). Don't know if it's still on. Haven't listened to KDHX since 2001.
Yes, Dangerous Curves is still on the air.
mamaroux
02-05-2007, 09:52 PM
Saw it opening day just before New Years at the Imax in St. Paul and plan on seeing it at least once again before it closes. Also bought the CD. Its a great movie. Lots of Tab - which - depending on how you feel about Tab - is a good thing.
I don't think there's ever enough Tab! I could stay up all night just talking to him about the wetlands. Oh wait... I have. :)
mamaroux
02-05-2007, 10:06 PM
Has anyone seen this documentary? It's showing at Omnimax and Imax theaters. I saw it last night before dancing on over to the Oyster Bar for some Gumbohead. Great perspective on the wetlands and the need to protect and rebuild them. Tab Benoit and Amanda Shaw take you through this great journey. It's a bit short, but worth seeing for sure. Check it out if it's in you city.
http://www.hurricaneonthebayou.com/
Jada, we got a bunch of folks together to form a little "hurricane party" before going. Timing in Philadelphia was tres bad. It was playing at the Franklin Institute but they had a fund raiser scheduled months in advance, but it happened to fall on the very same night as the Saints/Eagles football game. Dr. John was the live entertainment for the night at the Franklin Institute, too. They offered "tastings" of the bayou, which was supposed to be tastings from various restaruants in the city that offer Cajun/Creole cuisine, but they ran out of food very early on, so most of us ended up with a slice of pizza, a handful of crackers and some cheese and picking through the various Abita or wine offerings at the cash bar. There was a woman from the Audubon Institute there, who before each showing of the film, would get up and give a little talk about how much has been lost. We all had VIP tickets, which were $35, so we could get into the Dr. John concert, too. Even though we had a group of about 14 people with us, it really wasn't crowded, even though the local CBS tv station gave it tons of publicity and their weather person even did a lot of hands on activities with kids thoughout the day for part of the family events being offered earlier in the day. Guess the game was on everyone's mind... and the Dr. sang "When the Saints come Marchin In" and they sure did that night.
pokerchick66
02-11-2007, 05:31 PM
Ohhhhhhh wow, I finally went to see it and it was AWESOME. I had a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat almost the whole time. I could hear people sniffling all around me throughout the show. I was so mesmerized I even forgot to take out the popcorn I brought in my purse! I am soooo glad I brought chicklet; I encourage every parent to bring their kids. It was a great introduction to Tab and Amanda who I've never had the pleasure of listening to before. I am definitely gonna add them to my must see list. Amanda is so cute!
Everybody who hasn't seen HOTB, PLEASE GO! You'll be so glad you did. It was so good and such a treat. I encourage it wholeheartedly.
Now. I was an advocate for saving our wetlands before but now I want to do more. Is there one charity that's more effective than the others? I'd like some more information. I wish it was one of our charities for the Patry.
Now. I was an advocate for saving our wetlands before but now I want to do more. Is there one charity that's more effective than the others? I'd like some more information.
http://www.voiceofthewetlands.com/
pokerchick66
02-11-2007, 05:44 PM
Okay, I found Tab's Voice of the Wetlands site. It sounds like a great organization and I'm getting involved somehow. lol, I already see they take donations through Paypal. I will be utilizing that one.
Here is the link and introduction:
Louisiana's wetlands are inhabited and surrounded by life. A life nurtured historically by the natural flow of the Mississippi River, America's mighty artery which deposited sediment to create and shape the wetlands of south Louisiana as it held the Gulf of Mexico in check.
It's more than a Louisiana culture. It's America's culture. As the wetlands supports this culture, it serves a crucial role in the American economy. Seafood. Natural gas. Oil, petrochemicals. Plastics. Protection of population centers and major industrial hubs from hurricanes.
The wetlands of Louisiana fade daily due to erosion - at the rate the size of one football field an hour. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Mississippi with levees, it cut the river's ability to hold back the power of the Gulf. The Gulf has been winning for nearly 100 years - and its spoils are lost land that equals the state of Delaware (and then some) in size so far.
Louisiana and all of America will be affected if the demise of Louisiana's wetlands should continue. Voice of the Wetlands (VOW) is the voice of those people who seek human intervention to fix a natural balance disrupted by human intervention.
We ask you to join us and take the VOW to save America's wetlands, America's homes, America's culture and heritage, crucial elements of the American economy, and above all, America's people.
Continue to visit this Web site to learn more about the problem, possible solutions, funding sources, plus Louisiana's culture and heritage to help us make the changes necessary before these problems become too big to overcome, no matter who tries to intervene.
I ask you to VOW to make a difference.
Tab Benoit -President, Voice of the Wetlands
http://www.voiceofthewetlands.com/mainpage.html
pokerchick66
02-11-2007, 05:45 PM
http://www.voiceofthewetlands.com/
lmao, Jada! We were typing at the same time. :D
I sure wish this was one of our charities for the Patry. Maybe it can be for next year and just maybe Tab will come play at the Patry! Ooh! And bring Amanda with him! :D
lmao, Jada! We were typing at the same time. :D
I sure wish this was one of our charities for the Patry.
There are so many great NOLA and LA charities. I think I recall the patry krewe talking about other charities, but we decided the NOMC fit best again this year.
pokerchick66
02-11-2007, 06:09 PM
There are so many great NOLA and LA charities. I think I recall the patry krewe talking about other charities, but we decided the NOMC fit best again this year.
Yea, I know. lol, I'm just so fired up after seeing that today.
NeenAtlanta
02-12-2007, 08:02 AM
Can't wait to see the movie. I decided to make it part of my birthday celebration in a few weeks. I've got some friends joining me at the IMAX, and then we'll all head over to Little Five Points for dinner and drinks at the Yacht.
pokerchick66
02-12-2007, 11:48 AM
Can't wait to see the movie. I decided to make it part of my birthday celebration in a few weeks. I've got some friends joining me at the IMAX, and then we'll all head over to Little Five Points for dinner and drinks at the Yacht.
lol, bring tissues.
VWGal
02-13-2007, 01:33 AM
PC, I am so glad you and the chicklet got to see HOTB. She will forever remember her mom taking her...and didn't they do a great job of matching up the music to the storyline? Our kids are going to need to be much more environmentally aware and activist than most of their parents.
MzJoey
02-18-2007, 05:48 PM
..oh, my goodness i couldn't open my eyes wide enough to drink it all in!!! I am SO thankful for the memories I have of staying south of New Orleans and seeing first hand how beautiful it is on those waterways and groves of trees, communities that line the banks..on an airboat tour i took once, guide took us way out where the treeline was miniscule against the horizon of vast marsh teaming w/life...it was scary but so so beautiful...this production was nicely done indeed.
ETinCali
02-18-2007, 08:41 PM
I just saw it today here in San Diego..it just opened yesterday.
Thought it was very well done...very dramatic. Nice to hear the story from the eyes of a young girl..Amanda is pretty amazing!. ...love Tab too...I am gonna tell everyone to go!
ETinCali
02-18-2007, 08:42 PM
..oh, my goodness i couldn't open my eyes wide enough to drink it all in!!! I am SO thankful for the memories I have of staying south of New Orleans and seeing first hand how beautiful it is on those waterways and groves of trees, communities that line the banks..on an airboat tour i took once, guide took us way out where the treeline was miniscule against the horizon of vast marsh teaming w/life...it was scary but so so beautiful...this production was nicely done indeed.
We might have been at the same showing?!?!
ScoopJohnD
02-18-2007, 09:17 PM
2 wetlands projects receive $34.2 million cash infusion
Jeff, Tammany areas slated to be restored
Friday, February 16, 2007
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer
A coastal restoration task force agreed Thursday to release $34.2 million in federal and state dollars for construction of two wetlands restoration projects.
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Officials said $15.2 million will be to use soil dredged from Bayous Perot and Rigolettes to create or restore 504 acres of marsh in the adjacent Barataria Basin Land Bridge, located just south of Lake Salvador in Jefferson Parish. The filled-in space will be seeded with marsh grasses.
A second project, costing $19 million, will use material dredged from the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain to re-create 566 acres of marsh in open water on the lake's north shore at Goose Point and Point Platte, on the southern edge of the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge in St. Tammany Parish.
The Breaux Act Task Force, comprising representatives of federal agencies and the state who oversee a program to build small restoration projects, also agreed to spend about $9 million to expand the size of an upcoming federal shoreline protection project.
The Grand Lake Shoreline Protection project will be paid for mostly with $10.6 million from the federal Coastal Impact Assistance Program, a separate program that will provide the state with about $530 million in federal offshore oil money over four years for a variety of coastal restoration and infrastructure improvement projects.
The Breaux Act money will be used to add protection to an additional section of the lake's shoreline and keep about $6 million available for the first three years of operating and repairing the project.
At its next meeting in April, the task force also will consider adding several million dollars to another state coastal impact assistance project aimed at rebuilding the southern edge of Grand Terre Island in southern Plaquemines Parish. The state plans to spend $27 million.
The task force decisions Thursday were in line with federal and state efforts to better coordinate theirseparate restoration efforts in ways that will result in projects being built as quickly as possible.
Indeed, the task force also asked its staff to identify older projects that seem stuck in engineering design efforts, to determine whether the money allocated for them can be spent on the more than $250 million in Breaux Act projects that are now ready for construction but are being delayed until money is available.
Some of the older projects were approved in 1991, the first year of the program.
The Breaux Act originally was designed to build small coastal restoration projects but also has been used to design larger projects with the hopes that their construction eventually would be paid for by other federal or state programs.
The program is underwritten with a tax on fuel used by small gasoline engines, which this year is expected to deliver $84 million to the program when combined with a 15 percent match in state money.
The program has spent $329 million of the $786 million in federal and state dollars received since 1991 on design and construction of projects, including 70 that have been completed, 18 that are being built this year, and 55 awaiting construction.
Based on estimates of future tax collections, task force officials estimate another $1.6 billion in Breaux Act money will be available for restoration projects through fiscal year 2020, when the program is scheduled to expire.
The task force includes voting representatives of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Interior, with a representative of the Louisiana governor serving as a nonvoting member.
. . . . . . .
Mark Schleifstein can be reached at mschleifstein@timespicayune.com or (504) 826-3327.
NeenAtlanta
02-19-2007, 12:22 AM
Sccop - do you work for a clipping agency? ;)
You always find such interesting articles.
sophisticated sissy
02-19-2007, 11:15 AM
Yes, he does!
Thank you, scoop, for passing this along & sharing some good news!
stlbarb
02-19-2007, 07:45 PM
Tab's voice does something to my wetlands too.
NeenAtlanta
02-20-2007, 08:42 AM
Tab's voice does something to my wetlands too.
OMG Barb - that may be your best one yet. You GOTTA do buttons!!
glinda
06-29-2007, 02:10 PM
Well I'm late to the theater on this one but finally caught Hurricane on the Bayou today at Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry.
Especially after seeing Amanda Shaw at Ingrid's, this was so special. Course, I cried before it even got started. Now I gotta get all my Chi-town friends over there to see it. Really well done film, some amazing footage and of course the music and then there's hunky ol Tab too.
bluedog
06-29-2007, 03:37 PM
it's playing here too and I just can't find the time to get to the IMAX and see it ... BUT! It's out on DVD now so I can purchase it & watch it in the comforts of mi casa:) https://secure2.convio.net/ani/site/Ecommerce/1821911448?JServSessionIdr011=hfl79xeij1.app7a&VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=2561&store_id=1141
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Belle
11-26-2007, 11:24 AM
We spent a few days exploring the wonderful town of Baltimore this weekend. Spending time at the Inner Harbor with the kiddios. Doing this and that, taking my youngest sax player son and his friend to see some great music at the 8x10, exploring the National Aquarium, eating some really good food and such.
This film was showing at the Baltimore Science Museum at the end of the evening on Sunday, so after exploring the museum for hours we stayed for the showing. The Museum had closed and the 7 of us went to watch and had the place to ourselves.
I cried through most of it so did hubby. I had no idea just how hard this would hit me. My God even today my heart is heavy. All weekend they knew we were going to see an IMAX movie and they wanted to know why I was so insistent that we see this instead of the other 3-D films like dinosaur's whales. etc.
After we walked out they knew why. It moves you.
Besides their parents being crazy for New Orleans, they got the reason without even being asked. It moves you to do something, to care, to understand we are not isolated from each other on this planet. The kids talked for the whole ride home ( 2 hours) on the importance of wetlands, what they could do, stewardship of the Earth, etc.
During one of our trips to New Orleans after the storm we had taken them on an air boat ride. We wanted them to experience the proud people of coastal LA. and to explore the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary. We learned so much on that excursion about the importance of wetlands from a wonderful man who lived his whole life in Marrero, Louisiana. They now understand what you cannot by being in a boat, in a town or on a road driving by. The aerial photography is beautiful.
This film put our little costal exploration into the global view for them. It is powerful. Take your children, nieces and nephews. It is a show for kids to see as they will carry on for our generation.
Go see it if you can on the big screen. Rent it if you have to but do watch it and share it with a child.
Zbonnie
11-26-2007, 12:49 PM
Thank you for that thoughtful and moving post.
mamaroux
11-26-2007, 01:28 PM
what Bonnie said... yep.
jolie
11-26-2007, 03:52 PM
I think this will make a very nice Christmas gift for a few folks on my list.
ScoopJohnD
02-01-2008, 02:41 PM
Very late on this train, but I just went today to see it. It's at the Liberty Science Center here in Joisey City which has the largest IMAX screen in the world. Others are tall, but this one is in a dome so the image is all around you as is the sound. Quite breathtaking.
Wow, wow, and WOW!!! What an amazing, amazing film. Moving, sad, uplifting, gorgeous, I could go on and on. I was touched and like Belle had tears in my eyes, both tears of sadness and tears of hope. Beautifully photographed and well written, for both adults and kids. And special kudos should go to Tab and Amanda Shaw for while the film would still have an impact, the fact they both let the cameras stay with them in the aftermath added an emotional wallop that wouldn't be possible if they didn't have the courage to do so. It added SO much and showed just how deeply they believe in the message they wanted delivered.
Just a beautiful, amazing touching film. Go see it if you haven't yet and go see it again if you have.
Amazing.