Those conversations coming up right now. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis teller talks loud and clear in a fascinating film called tims vermeer in which an inventor tries to figure out just how vermeer created 150 years before photography those canvases of light and perspective no one was able to uplicate. I am moving my head up and both things atee the same time. That is your clue you have matched the paint exactly. It is not subject to of. It is object of. This is pbs. You can actually talk tonight. Im going to make you talk. Speaking of talking, my staff has been talking my ear off about how i have to see this roger. They want this project. They wanted me to sign off on this program. They were all excited about a project about a painter painting . When you see it, it is nothing like boring. It is quite fascinating. That is one of the jokes to make steering the story. It is a detective story in its way. 350yearold mystery of how did ver
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Isis m. Night shyamalan best known for scaring audiences with supernatural scary lines but he has taken a detour to tackle one of the most of the gold challenges this country reformw to education. He has put his work into a town called i got schooled, a roadmap for positive change. You and i were whispering to each other as the credits were rolling and the theme music about how if there is but one thing in our society we are going to get right, this would be the thing you would want to get right. And yet there are so many ideas that people have offered in the past and into the fray comes a filmmaker. How do you think that is going gete received before we into the text itself . I hope with great cynicism. You should start right there. And rightfully so. My hope was in the book that i was not giving my opinion. What i did was go around and meet with all the experts around the country and spent my time and resource
Aver mears in a, vermeer in a museum it says i may be a photograph, and so i got interested. Rose that is good. It is. It is too good, it is inhumanely good and i realize as a video guy what vermeer was painting there is really not possible because the eye doesnt see what he painted. It is the way a camera sees but not the way a human sees, and so i knew that there had to be a trick, a technique that he could have traced the colors, not only the shapes but traced the colors and the thats what got me going on it and one day it occurred to me. We went into this all fascinated with the vermeer technology, we thought, we originally called the movie vermeers edge and thought this was going to be a movie about vermeer but the more we looked at it the more we went into it the more we realized it is really a story about tim, you know, it is about this, a person who has such determination and such intelligence he can stick with it beyond any, what any ordinary person would do. Rose yes. Footbal
Aver mears in a, vermeer in a museum it says i may be a photograph, and so i got interested. Rose that is good. It is. It is too good, it is inhumanely good and i realize as a video guy what vermeer was painting there is really not possible because the eye doesnt see what he painted. It is the way a camera sees but not the way a human sees, and so i knew that there had to be a trick, a technique that he could have traced the colors, not only the shapes but traced the colors and the thats what got me going on it and one day it occurred to me. We went into this all fascinated with the vermeer technology, we thought, we originally called the movie vermeers edge and thought this was going to be a movie about vermeer but the more we looked at it the more we went into it the more we realized it is really a story about tim, you know, it is about this, a person who has such determination and such intelligence he can stick with it beyond any, what any ordinary person would do. Rose yes. Footbal
(NEW YORK, NY) Swedish street magicians and illusionists Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung achieved the impossible by stumping the legendary Penn & Teller on the first season of their long-running television show, "Penn & Teller: Fool Us!" Now Penn & Teller return the favor by producing Brynolf & Ljung in their New York theatrical debut, Stalker, which combines street magic, stunning illusions and physical mentalism, leaving audiences both thrilled and mystified. Photographer Jeremy Daniel has photos from their New York debut.