Why These Four?
In previous posts, I wrote about other people and projects I considered for A Life’s Work and why I chose four subjects instead of three or five or twenty-seven. But neither of those posts address why I chose these four … Continued
Other Subjects, Other Movies
When I first had the idea for A Life’s Work, I was considering a number of subjects/projects. Here are some of them. 10,000 Year Clock – “A monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking” to … Continued
A Proverb about Trees
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb Thanks to the awesome Kate Hill Cantrill for sending it my way. And here’s an in-depth article on the … Continued
Why Is This Pinned to My Corkboard? Part 3
Here’s a piece of amber. I keep it in a little, clear plastic ziploc bag and that bag is tacked to my corkboard. Why is it there? I’m not sure, exactly. It reminds me of time, I suppose. And it … Continued
The Top 10 Reasons to Support the Arts (from Artsblog.org)
This is a subject near and dear to that organ that pumps the blood throughout my body. Thanks, Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy at Americans for the Arts, for summing up this subject so well. 10. True … Continued
Happy Arbor Day! A Clip
Here’s a clip I put together just for Arbor Day. The bulk of this clip was shot on our first visit with the Milarchs in 2007. (Please pardon my little artsy interlude which was shot elsewhere.) This is one of … Continued
SETI Institute Hibernates Allen Telescope Array
The SETI Institute announced this week that it lacks the funding to keep its pride and joy, the Allen Telescope Array, up and running. The National Science Foundation awarded the SETI Institute one-tenth of what it gave previously and the … Continued
Ask the Filmmaker: The Ecstasy and the Agony
Dear Filmmaker, What do you enjoy most about making this documentary? What do you enjoy the least? D.C. Hi D.C. Thanks for the question. I’m a bad news first kind of guy, so let’s start with what I enjoy the … Continued
Milestones
This is the blog’s 200th post. That may not seem like much in 18 months (there are bloggers out there who do that in a month), but if you told me when I first started that I was going to … Continued
Happy Record Store Day: A Clip
In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 16, 2011, is Record Store Day. Many many years ago I worked in a record store in Hackensack, NJ with a whole mess of great people, many of whom I’m still in … Continued