[The view isn't from directly overhead, but it's almost there and it's steady, displaying a mahogany table top and a pair of white-gloved hands busily manipulating crochet needles. Mingled with and leading away from the needles is a line of gold wire, gleaming in the light--it's being pulled into looped stitches like regular yarn would be. Off to ( Read more... )

[When the video turns on, it might seem like an accident: there's a colorful parrot tapping its pale beak against the screen. Tap, tap, tap. The bird is white and red about the face-- Abruptly startled by something--a dark blur?--it squawks and rears back and reveals even more red feathers and the beginning of blues and greens on it wings. It's ( Read more... )

[At first, the video is dark.] --be fine. [And the voice is low, quiet, and intent. With it, the darkness shifts and scrapes near the microphone, resolving into a gloved hand that is holding on to the NV to help stabilize it. The NV seems to be hanging in the air, a little above eye-level with a still-obscured face.] Yes. Just as we practiced ( Read more... )

[Two proud Canadian geese. They're the only things of visible interest, standing no more than a few yards away. The video stays steady as a white-gloved hand moves into view, its palm turned to the sky and holding a few leaves of romaine lettuce. The geese immediately notice the offering, but they're too wary to approach for whatever reason.]You ( Read more... )