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Twenty Eight Feet: life on a little wooden boat from kevinAfraser on Vimeo.
A short documentary about David Welsford, who has given up the luxuries of land in search for happiness and adventure on a 50 year old wooden boat he restored from a scrap heap. Featuring music from Bahamas, Acres & Acres and Ben Howard!
Director & Cinematographer: Kevin A Fraser www.kevinAfraser.com
Featuring & Additional Photography: David Welsford www.TwentyEightFeet.com
Pickin’ & Trimmin’ from Matt Morris Films on Vimeo.
Off the main highway between Greensboro and Asheville is the little town of Drexel, North Carolina. There’s a barbershop there. The freight trains rumble slowly right through town, right next to it. In the back room, old guys come from all over to tell stories and play music.
Really good music.
Datura Inoxia time lapse
One night, about 30 years ago, I was walking down a sidewalk in an old neighborhood in Richmond, on the way home from a social engagement. It was very late, the streets were empty. I was tired and pleasantly overstimulated – much scintillating conversation, coupled with subtle inebriants consumed on a visit with some very creative friends.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh
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wylieoverstreet.comCopyright 2015
When my daughters were young we spent a lot of time looking at the sky. Comets, meteor showers, constellations, satellites, planets. On camping trips, especially; but sometimes we juat went out into the country to find dark places so we could see better.
Laying in the dew-wet grass, or bundled in winter coats on the still-warm hood of the car, we’d listen to the whippoorwills, the crickets and katydids, the owls, and distant trains, and look up into the big dark and empty that seems so full when the sky is clear.
In elementary school they made models for science projects, and posters. We used flashlights for the sun, and basketballs and baseballs for planets, and we tried to get our heads around the scale of things.
We are not alone, it seems. These guys did that, too, and tried to make it real on a much bigger scale. It’s beautiful on many levels.
Vector Trio Live
Here is video from the live performance of Vector Trio on August 15, 2015. This is 24 minutes of improvisational Jazz, from musicians who have played together for 3 decades. Performed at The Auxiliary, the basement of a contemporary art gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
The crowd was full of dancers, musicians, artists, who all clearly “got it.”
Awesome stuff. More of their music at Music | Vector Trio
Previous post of photos here:
Live Jazz in Richmond VA | Marginalia
Atherston Hall B&B in Urbanna, Virginia
Urbanna really is like Scottsville on the Rappahannock, even more than we imagined.
The old town of Urbanna is only a couple of blocks long in any direction. Resting on the bluff above the harbor, it’s easy to walk the whole thing in a few minutes. Several stately buildings pre-date the Revolutionary War: the old Custom House, a former Scottish general store, the original courthouse converted to a church in the 1850’s. Side streets are narrow and shaded by big trees.
