BOYSIE BOLLINGER: UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

Boysie Bollinger: A Unique Opportunity from OPP and Vimeo.

Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger is a member of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, Mayor Nagin’s rebuilding committee, which is driven by the Urban Land Institute. 

Bollinger is also Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., a family-owned business established in 1946 by Boysie’s father. Bollinger Shipyards,  is a full-service marine construction and repair operation headquartered in Lockport, La., with 12 divisions in Louisiana, two divisions in Texas, and activities extending into the international market. Learn more about the Bring New Orleans Back Plan.

Music written and composed by Michael Houser (Door Harp album). Please visit: Houser Tribute.

Emergency Communities

emergency communities from OPP and Vimeo.

An out-take from Vignette 2 - The Art of Falling Together. Emergency Communities was started in St. Bernard Parrish. This footage is from late 2005.

SOCIAL DRESS NEW ORLEANS - 730 DAYS AFTER

Social Dress New Orleans - 730 Days After from OPP on Vimeo 

Takashi Horisaki and a small team of volunteers were working 20-hour days in the 100-degree heat when OPP found them completing an art project in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Working on a largely abandoned block of the city, they worked with a mission to remind people of "what is still happening" in NOLA two years after the floods.

Takashi's ambitious media project involved the laborious process of covering the surface of the shotgun-style house in latex and cheesecloth to create a replica that itself could be "displaced" as a sculpture.

Falling Together in New Orleans: Vignette 4 looks at the process and motivations and then visits the artist and the sculpture at it's first home in New York City's Socrates Sculpture Park.

Takashi hopes to displace the sculpture across the U.S. and world to raise awareness about the still displaced people of New Orleans struggling to return home.

The film features music by Kevn Kinney. (http://www.kevnkinney.com)