2 cool videos from Different Skies 2008

"We'd like to thank everyone for their support and their patience; after some
delay, two videos are available now for viewing on the Different Skies site.

http://www.differentskies.com/DS2008/differentskies2e.html

These are links to movies streamed from vimeo.com that should work without a
password.

One video is a short piece by Jeff Kunzelman called "The Process" which is
more artistic/atmospheric than outright informational; it interleaves footage
of music being made at Arcosanti with shots of the surrounding environment and
some footage of our reaction to the sudden rainstorm that inundated the stage
and drove us all to shelter the day before the concert. (The soundtrack is an
unedited live improv session from one of the nighttime "all star jams", btw.)

This video is of particular interest to music historians because it
conclusively documents that at least once in our 20-year musical association,
Nick Rothwell gave me musical direction and I took it without arguing. It also
shows off how Jim Combs looks in a burnoose, and showcases Jeannie Allen's
expertise at catching skinks running loose in the backstage lounge.

The other video is the long-awaited Different Skies 2008 "gear porn" video.
These videos, wherein the participants in DS describe precisely what they're
using for that year's show, have been very popular since their inception some
years past. Giles Reaves and Greg Hurley have done them before, and they've
been very extensive and detailed... this year's version, by Nick Rothwell, is
(we believe) the most comprehensive one yet, covering absolutely everything
used at DS 2008 (and showing the results of the aforementioned rainstorm at
one juncture in the film).

Audio from the concerts and from the improv "all star jams" is forthcoming;
it's in the edit and assembly process. In the meantime, we hope that DS fans
and armchair participants around the world will enjoy setting aside a chunk of
time to watch these movies and enjoy a little taste of what the festival is
like.

My apologies for the crossposting; please feel free to pass these links around
to anyone you feel might be interested, especially since so many people seem
to really get off on the gear-porn movies.

Best regards,

mike"

via Cikira