Three staff members from my trip were interviewed for a CBS Boston special that was aired on July 4th that you can view here.
Jason Clinkscales wrote a rap about the trip that he asked me to perform on. You can view that here.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
New Press!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
TV Taping
Today I was filmed for a CBS-Boston special concerning our NOLA trip. It will air between 7pm-8pm in the Boston area on Ch. 4 on July 4th. Webcast address coming soon.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
Last Day!
Yesterday after our fourth day of work we all boarded the Steamboat Natchez dinner cruise along the Mississippi River. They had a Dixie Jazz Band that I shot some footage of.
After that Jason, Brian and I went to Harrah's for some gambling. I played my first table and lost about $15 in ten seconds. I moved on to slots and won $70! After that we retreated to the hotel and I went to bed. The next morning the inevitable happened....I OVERSLEPT! Luckily I woke up on my own at 7:12am, we leave the hotel at 7:15. So I had no shower, no coffee and had to eat my bagel in the taxi. Rough start but so far another great day.
Well it's hard to believe but today was my last day on the work site. I had an absolute amazing time down here. My group and the other cross country volunteers were beyond a pleasure to work with. I gotta say my only complaint working wasn't the heat, it wasn't the workload, it was the desire to do more. Some projects required a job to be done first before we could get our hands in. Other times we were overstaffed and had people with nothing to do at times. I guess when it comes to volunteer work this is not so bad of a problem to have. We accomplished so much yet there is so much left.
After our last day on the work site I went out with one of my co-workers Rob and Jim, the New Orleans video director. Turns out he shot footage for the Imax movie we all checked out in Boston. He had me call the owner of this famous bar that was founded in 1856 called Tujagues and make reservations for our group. As Jim would say "food is a religion here." After that we plan on checking out some jazz at "Ray's Boom Boom Room." Tonight I think we all have some celebrating to do.
I will leave you all with my last set of pictures here and a good bye message I filmed at the work site this afternoon. I will never forget this experience. I'm coming home with a lifetime full of memories. Thanks for sharing them with me.
After that Jason, Brian and I went to Harrah's for some gambling. I played my first table and lost about $15 in ten seconds. I moved on to slots and won $70! After that we retreated to the hotel and I went to bed. The next morning the inevitable happened....I OVERSLEPT! Luckily I woke up on my own at 7:12am, we leave the hotel at 7:15. So I had no shower, no coffee and had to eat my bagel in the taxi. Rough start but so far another great day.
Well it's hard to believe but today was my last day on the work site. I had an absolute amazing time down here. My group and the other cross country volunteers were beyond a pleasure to work with. I gotta say my only complaint working wasn't the heat, it wasn't the workload, it was the desire to do more. Some projects required a job to be done first before we could get our hands in. Other times we were overstaffed and had people with nothing to do at times. I guess when it comes to volunteer work this is not so bad of a problem to have. We accomplished so much yet there is so much left.
After our last day on the work site I went out with one of my co-workers Rob and Jim, the New Orleans video director. Turns out he shot footage for the Imax movie we all checked out in Boston. He had me call the owner of this famous bar that was founded in 1856 called Tujagues and make reservations for our group. As Jim would say "food is a religion here." After that we plan on checking out some jazz at "Ray's Boom Boom Room." Tonight I think we all have some celebrating to do.
I will leave you all with my last set of pictures here and a good bye message I filmed at the work site this afternoon. I will never forget this experience. I'm coming home with a lifetime full of memories. Thanks for sharing them with me.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Worksite Day 4
Today was a busy day as I spent all of it installing floor beams and support blocks for a home in it's early stages. Hammering in the summer sun while James Brown is cranked on the stereo makes me feel like a kid again. I am really getting the hang of the construction life as each day gets more gratifying. I didn't get to take too many pics b/c of my workload but the few I did you can check out here. A few of these pics were taken by other members of my group, but thought they were so cool you all had to see them. One of my new friends, Roya, also shot some video footage of me working away. Hope you enjoy it!
Tonight the group will be having dinner on a Mississippi River Steamboat Cruise. I'll try to take pics if I can for tomorrow's post. In other news two members of my group did a radio interview for 90.7 WWOZ, a killer blues/jazz station here in town. We usually listen to WWOZ when eat breakfast on the balcony.
That about sums up today. I will now leave you all with a blog post that I just wrote for the Berklee page. It basically sums up my feelings of being here. Miss you all!
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Picture this…200 workers of all ages, from all over the country working in 95 degrees of pure humidity for absolutely no compensation. There are no egos, no slackers, everyone is friendly, equally contributing to the task at hand and enjoying learning about one another. ABC News in New Orleans came today to shoot footage of this reality. It’s hard to believe amongst all of the negativity in our media that this environment really exists but believe me when I say it does. I have been cut, bruised, had fiber glass in my eye, even felt like passing out at times and I am loving every minute of it. I am beyond blessed to be here and can not believe tomorrow is our last day. I will miss the love here but hope to spread it on to all of you. Take care of one another for me.
My best always,
Matt
Tonight the group will be having dinner on a Mississippi River Steamboat Cruise. I'll try to take pics if I can for tomorrow's post. In other news two members of my group did a radio interview for 90.7 WWOZ, a killer blues/jazz station here in town. We usually listen to WWOZ when eat breakfast on the balcony.
That about sums up today. I will now leave you all with a blog post that I just wrote for the Berklee page. It basically sums up my feelings of being here. Miss you all!
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Picture this…200 workers of all ages, from all over the country working in 95 degrees of pure humidity for absolutely no compensation. There are no egos, no slackers, everyone is friendly, equally contributing to the task at hand and enjoying learning about one another. ABC News in New Orleans came today to shoot footage of this reality. It’s hard to believe amongst all of the negativity in our media that this environment really exists but believe me when I say it does. I have been cut, bruised, had fiber glass in my eye, even felt like passing out at times and I am loving every minute of it. I am beyond blessed to be here and can not believe tomorrow is our last day. I will miss the love here but hope to spread it on to all of you. Take care of one another for me.
My best always,
Matt
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