In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is an video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing. Senator Pastore starts out very abrasive and by the time Mr. Rogers is done talking…
—Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (YouTube.com)
While you wait for that 6-minute video to load (it took a long time, but it’s worth it), you might want to check out “It’s a Didactic Day in the Neighborhood” and “A Sudden Case of ‘Routine Maintenance’ in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.”
This clip is like a real-life “David and Goliath,” except that Rogers, in his simple eagerness, doesn’t defeat the powerful adversary. He does something even more heroic — he wins him over.
The choreographer daughter is doing a thing.
No interior yet. Getting there. Gotta start somewhere. Low-poly background detail for a medieval theater…
This is manageable. Far better than some semesters.
Creating textures for background buildings in a medieval theater simulation project. I can always improve…
Nothing in this stack is pressing, but they do include rough drafts of final papers,…