Communication
A worker does the waggle dance before an attentive crowd of foragers. Honeybees have evolved an extraordinary form of communication known as the "waggle" dance. It is highly symbolic, separated as it is in both time and space from the activity it grew out of (discovering a nectar source) and the activity it will spur on (getting other bees to go to that nectar source). When a worker discovers a good source of nectar or pollen (note the pollen spores dusting this bee's back), she will return to the hive to perform a waggle dance to let her nest mates know where it lies. Read More...
BLOG February 01, 2017 by Sean Axmaker in Film History D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is inarguably one of the landmarks of American cinema. The distillation of the storytelling techniques, editing ideas, framing and visual composition, and nuanced approaches to performance that Griffith spent years exploring and experimenting within short subjects and mid-length films, it was the longest and most ambitious American film ever made when it was released in 1915 and took American audiences, critics, and filmmakers by storm. Read More...
Sometimes I feel like the human connector for all things Michigan. No matter what I do or who I talk to, things always seem to swing back to my home state. My recent guest on “Renaissance Man” is from Saginaw, Mich., and starred in a movie called “Detroit” about the Algiers Motel incident during the 1967 riots.
When it came out in 2017, my brother, mother and grandmother were still alive, and we watched it as a family. Read More...