AMNH: The Video
The Silk Road exhibit was SO COOL. I was able to get a couple of photos on Wednesday, when one of the exhibit folks took me on a behind-the-scenes tour, but I told her I wasn’t going to publish those. I’ll try to get the publishable photos processed soon.
In the meantime, the AMNH folks have posted the video edit – this is the video that shows every few minutes on the 48″ HD screen:
Wheee! that is so cool. I’ll be dragging my family up for a field trip soon.
Short, sweet, and to the point. And reminds me that the four or five cocoons I bought on a whim are *not* going to be enough for me to try my hand at silk reeling 😀
Yeah… I usually don’t advise people to start with fewer than 50. You really want to reel together about 15 – 25, but if you have lots of extras it keeps you from getting too stressed about the individual cocoons.
That’s a wonderful demonstration. Wow, what an operation you have!
Have I ever told you that I love to hear you saying the word “cocoon”? It sounds very cute when you say it. 🙂
How do most people say it? Or is it just something about the accent?
LOL I don’t know how most people say it. Not my native language, remember?
I just like the way your voice sounds when you say it. 🙂
Ah; I didn’t know if the Bulgarian was similar. Some of the languages, the word is at least recognizable as a cognate… others, nothing like.
It was great to hear you talk (you weren’t anywhere near as ‘Texan’y’ as I expected) and moving – you in the flesh
The vid was very informative
The insertion of the historical pictures was lovely. (including the little animation!)
No, the Bulgarian word is “nothing like”. 🙂
I guess the simplest transcription into the Roman alphabet for you would be “pashkul” (with the “u” stressed and pronounced like in “put”). I have no idea what the etymology is.
The Video
I love the video. It is very interesting.
Trillian