To my sheer delight, the first episode of KELLY'S CURIOSITIES debuted on Monday, September 23, 2013. If you've read my other posts, you know we filmed all ten episodes on August 29 and 30 of this year, and it was a crazy, fun two days of hard, amazing work. The producer/editor, the camera person and the animator are all brilliant professionals, and I think we've created something special together. So I hope you'll check them out, starting with this one.
This video was inspired by the remarkable space rock that thundered across Russian skies in February of 2013. I couldn't get enough of the videos and news reports of the stellar event. I was so hungry for information, it was thrilling. Yeah, I get thrilled by facts -- weird, I know.
As I watched and talked to my friends about the "space rock," I started wondering why reporters were calling it a space rock, rather than by a more specific name. Then I realized, I didn't know what to call it either.
All my life, I've heard about comets and asteroids and meteors and meteorites, but I realized, I didn't know what made them each DIFFERENT from one another. So I decided to find out, and this two minute video is the end result.
Each of the ten videos we shot will be about high interest, sometimes weird topics including:
Space Rocks
A Creepy 1920's Mystery Bust
Insect Fossils
Mexico's Island of the Dolls
Raptorex vs T. rex
And five more crazy subjects.
We wanted to celebrate weird information in an easy to digest format, and I think the MSN team did a magnificent job! So I hope you'll watch the videos and share the on your blogs and Facebook pages, your listservs and in your classrooms. Because they're perfect for viewers 9 and up, to be sure.
If we get enough views, we might get to do more, and I'd LOVE to do more. But even more to the point, I think this hard working team DESERVES recognition. They made me look good. And when you're a 56 year old chubby lady with gray hair, that's not as easy as it sounds.
Let me know what you think, okay?
Kelly
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