I just returned from Sanibel Sea School in Sanibel, Florida, where we filmed kids for The Riddle Solvers Shark Episode. One of the highlights was this pre-teen, 40 foot long whale shark, made by hand, out of sand over the course of two hours (of course, you’ll see it all happen here in about 20 seconds).
Why did we film this? Well, our shark episode is about, of course, sharks. And while we try to solve the riddle in our movie, we get help from these children who attended a week long “shark camp”. Read more »
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The Shark Lullaby (.mp3)
Click on the arrow above to hear The Shark Lullaby, the first recorded song for our upcoming Riddle Solvers episode: The Shark Riddle. Laura wrote this song while I was away at the BLUE Ocean Film Festival, and then she recorded it at Audiowells in Portland.
Laura Sams sings The Shark Lullaby Song
This song is entitled The Shark Lullaby and will be used in a way that introduces the idea that sharks are extremely diverse – different sizes, different shapes, different colors, different senses of humor… This song is just a demo, so there may be some changes to come, but we wanted to share it with you anyway. But get ready for sweet, shark-infested dreams . . .
I just returned home from the first annual BLUE Ocean Film Festival, which was held in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. If you’ve never been to the Georgia coast, it’s something out of a dream.
Spanish Moss on Ossabaw Island
The forests are dripping with Spanish moss, almost as if the trees have all sprouted a thousand long, grey beards. The salt mashes and beaches are literally overflowing with life and constantly dancing with the ever-changing tides. I saw things with scales, things with claws, things with fins, things with enormous wings, and things with long, pointed teeth. Read more »
This is a blog entry about my Grandma Maxine, who recently passed away. (She is the voice of the adult loggerhead sea turtle in The Riddle in a Bottle.)
In 1972, a gentleman and widower named Vern spotted a lovely lady sitting in the back row of his church in Trenton, Michigan. He asked the minister about her and learned that she was “Mrs. Sams,” that her husband Oscar had died, and that she had two boys in college. The minister spoke highly of her, so Vern decided he would look up her phone number in the church directory and ask her on a date. (I recently discovered from some elders in this church that the back row was traditionally the place for single ladies – so beware of your seating choices in church. . .). Read more »
The following two paragraphs are part of an editorial I wrote for EJ Magazine, published by Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. They asked me to share my thought on current trends in environmental journalism, and after I wrote it, I decided it was important to share it here… Read more »
