Pretty Scientific

The Real Witches of Los Angeles

DP — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:16:12 +0000

My abstract video for the Madeline Brand Show on KPCC. This interview with Maja the White Witch of LA was fascinating to work with! Plus it was great collaborating on this video with radio producer, Jennifer Sharpe.

watch it on KPCC!

Good news: Darwin’s Tortoise maybe not extinct!

DP — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:33:31 +0000

“Scientists think a species of giant tortoise that influenced Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and has been feared extinct since the middle of the 1800s may still be alive in the Galapagos Islands. Researchers did DNA testing of 1,600 tortoises and found that at least 84 were the direct offspring of the species thought to be extinct.” – Elizabeth Weise in SciTech Today.

Click here for the full article.

Blue-footed boobies hanging out

DP — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:34:35 +0000

Blue-footed booby gets comfortable

DP — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:43:46 +0000

in the Galapagos: Land Tortoise

DP — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:55:03 +0000

Blue-footed boobies: FISHING

DP — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:16:04 +0000

Galapagos Dragon

DP — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:47:09 +0000

Technically it’s a Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

Maja the Oracle

DP — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:08:23 +0000

This video is the result of a collaboration between myself and Jennifer Sharpe, to accompany her radio story ,”The Witches of LA County,” on the Madeleine Brand Show, KPCC 89.3.

Click here to listen to the full story.

The Solar System REMIX

DP — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:02:37 +0000

I re-recorded the first six minutes of narration to the 1970s educational classic, “The Solar System.”

Slate V – “Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?”

DP — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:19:58 +0000

more about “Slate V – Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?“, posted with vodpod