I opened early cuts of the film with this quote. Do your work and I shall know you. Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson I ditched the idea of opening with a quote, not because … Continued
On December 11, 2010, the Soleri Bridge and Plaza will officially open in Scottsdale, AZ. When I interviewed Soleri this past July, I asked him if he had any thoughts on the fact that the amphitheater he designed and built … Continued
Here are the first few images shot for A Life’s Work (fall 2006). It’s a distillation of the first twenty minutes of footage. It’s only after twenty minutes of tape that the fifth shot, the one of Arcosanti, appears, … Continued
If you watched the “Cloning Redwoods” clip, “Jill Tarter on Growing Up in the 1950s” clip, or “Paolo Soleri at Dome House” clip, you probably noticed that archival material will play a key role in A Life’s Work. But I’m … Continued
I became interested in including the Milarchs and Champion Tree Project in A Life’s Work after I read that they had cloned the Methuselah tree, a Bristle Cone Pine that is the oldest known living thing on the planet. In … Continued
I was saddened by the news that the Paolo Soleri Amphitheater in Santa Fe, NM, is scheduled to be razed. Soleri received the commission in 1966 and it was built by him, his apprentices, and students from the Institute of … Continued
April 8, 1960. Frank Drake conducts the first SETI experiment, pointing a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, at the star Tau Ceti. To commemorate the anniversary, here’s a snippet from a sample I put together a while back. … Continued
Ta-da! A clip of the fourth subject, the Black Gospel Music estoration Project’s Robert Darden. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5BN9iMrmQ[/youtube] Wolfgang Held and I followed Robert around the South Side of Chicago in August 09. Here he is looking for some rare gospel vinyl … Continued
Back in August of ’09 I linked to editor (and new dad!) Cabot Philbrick’s website. He had included a portion of the redwoods section on his reel. That clip was truncated and sized for Cabot’s web site. Here’s the whole … Continued
My Google alerts notified me of this very good article about an exhibit of Paolo Soleri’s work. But when I read the tagline, I had to smile: “Visionary architect unveils ecological architecture designs.” If you Google “visionary+Soleri” you’ll get more … Continued