The Making of a Bee Documentary
This is completely off topic and I apologize, but it simply blew me away and I thought I should share it with you. It also illustrates very nicely the kind of interesting people you meet around the bees. In preparation for the next segment of filming I went up to Grass Valley to meet one [...]
Do I see a pattern here? Roseville, CA. Before: Savannah, LA Where will they show up next?
So you think you know what is going on in a bee hive? Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t. In any case: read Jay Hosler’s comic “Clan Apis”! The truth about life in the hive – complete with nagging larvae and metamorphosis-angst, brother Zambur with dreams of a magnificent death, some deep philosophy (“No one [...]
When researching for a bee-project, you are bound to come across all sorts of bee-related metaphors (the sting, the buzz, the workerbee etc.) and phrases. Most are easy to deal with, even when English is not your first language. But what is it with ‘the bee’s knees’? Sometimes, you can get away with taking the [...]
Wenn ich erzähle, dass ich über die Entstehung unseres Bienenfilms blogge, sind viele nicht besonders überrascht. Die Idee eines Produktions- oder Recherchetagebuchs leuchtet jedem irgendwie ein. Aber wenn ich erzähle, dass ich parallel auch viel in Twitter unterwegs bin, winken die meisten ab. Das ist doch Zeitverschwendung. Wozu bitte soll das denn gut sein? Zum [...]
… I came through Bozeman again. Those thunderstorms we were fortunate enough not to have on the helicopter day? This time they were there. And mightily so. Saw many beetrucks heading east again and looked out for “ours”. They are doing their last run this week. Then migration is over until fall, when the bees [...]
I apologize, but I have to disgress from the bee-topic once more. While in Gackle (population 335), we strongly depended on the warmth and good food of Dee’s Diner. When people heard that some of us were from Germany, they told us the most unexpected story: A girl from Gackle is now living in the [...]
When in Gackle, you don’t lock your car or your doors. When in Gackle, on the next morning, you’ll find more in your car than you had left in it the night before. Sweet. When in Gackle, the only other pedestrians are pelicans and caterpillars. They will both, eventually, fly away. When in Gackle, every [...]
