Just Released!
A sampling of current projects and events.
Documentary HD_DVD: Eurythmy, Making Movement Human
What is Eurythmy? It's a movement art, akin to modern dance and, perhaps, a bit like tai chi. It was developed around 1912 by Rudolf Steiner, who also started the Waldorf Schools. Eurythmy is taught in many Waldorf Schools as an adjunct to the curricula in grades 1-12. This DVD program, shot in HD and soon to be available on BluRay, is primarily aimed at parents considering a Waldorf education for their child(ren.) It is also of interest to a wider audience interested in dance history as it truly answers questions about this unique yet little known art.
Watch the Video: Windows Media
Documentary: The Guzzo Gang Goes Global
The Volvo Ocean Race is a 32,000 mile yacht competition around the world and is run every 4 years. It is considered the "Everest" of sailing challenges, the ultimate in testing of skill and tenacity of skipper and crew on high tech boats. But this is a story about possibility in public school teaching. Kathy Guzzo chose the Volvo event as an internet topic for her second grade class. She and her "gang" engaged in the 2001-2002 run of the race as an exciting, yearlong integrated learning experience, which drew in all of her classroom subjects. A bus trip to Baltimore Inner Harbor highlighted the year with the kids meeting the crews they had been writing to by email and also appearing on TV.
Watch the Video: Windows Media
Follow up to "Shooting the Apollo Moonwalks"
The year 2003 saw the reunion of the Apollo Flight System Controllers near the NASA center in Houston, Texas. These are the guys who, among many other things, helped bring Apollo 13 home safely. I attended the reunion and did meet up with an old buddy, Ed Fendell, once known as "Captain Video." It was Ed who was the prime controller of the moon-buggy television camera on the last Apollo missions. He read my article and caught me at breakfast the next morning. "Great article, but you got the ending wrong! We did follow lunar liftoff as planned!" Planned for a long following shot of vehicle's ascent, the coverage was constrained by where astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt had parked their moon buggy, and by the limitations of the camera. Ed and his INCO team had adapted and did the best tracking possible for Apollo 17 liftoff, my commentary to the contrary. Here's my acknowledgement of that and an apology to Ed and his team.
