September 17, 2012 By Matt Palmer I have been busy the last few weeks with a number of things, and sadly that has kept me from writing here. Later this week I am heading off to New York for some meetings on my project, and then on October 5th I am off to Cannes for [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H37yNkrw3_4] It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made that [...]
August 31, 2012 By Matt Palmer [Urban Bees] I have a love/hate relationship with insects. Generally, I love to hate them. Unfortunately, my sons love insects, and my oldest is a great grasshopper hunter. We have a number of plastic containers filled with the green jumpers sitting on our front steps, collected on a walk [...]
August 31, 2012 By Matt Palmer [Urban Bees] I have a love/hate relationship with insects. Generally, I love to hate them. Unfortunately, my sons love insects, and my oldest is a great grasshopper hunter. We have a number of plastic containers filled with the green jumpers sitting on our front steps, collected on a walk [...]
August 29, 2012 By Matt Palmer Bill Gates is working to transform the developing world with a toilet. Before I go into that, I want to offer a little personal context to the story. I made my first trip to Kenya in March of 2006 for the making of my feature documentary “Letters From Litein“. It [...]
