Spring Snow

Spring Snow (2007) by Brian L. Frye & Carrie Deming; video, color, sound, 3 minutes.

Fairbanks has two seasons: cold & hot. And the transition is brief, no more than a couple of weeks. When it comes, you can't delay. So Bob started shoveling as soon as the weather changed. A couple of days later, the snow had melted into icy clumps. The sound is from Act II of John Adams's Nixon in China: "At last the weather is warming up."

Smuggling Genet Into America

Smuggling Genet Into America (2007) by Brian L. Frye; video, color, sound, 4 minutes.

Jonas Mekas describes how Harold Pinter helped him smuggle a 35mm print of Jean Genet's film Un Chant d'Amour into America.

A Tree Fell in Olympia

A Tree Fell in Olympia (2007) by Brian L. Frye; video, color, sound, 1 minute.

Last fall, during a rainstorm, an old tree fell in Sylvester Park, downtown Olympia, nearly crushing the gazebo. It was front-page news in the Olympian. On second thought, it wasn't that big a deal.

Katie's Kitchen

Katie's Kitchen (2007) by Brian L. Frye; video, color, sound, 1 minute.

Washington in winter is perfect for a "cool breakfast."

Ice Alaska

Ice Alaska (2007) by Brian L. Frye; video, color, sound, 2 minutes.

Every winter, the Ice Alaska sculpture park hosts ice sculptors from all around the world. The park is especially lovely at night, when they illuminate the statutes with colored lights. On the night we visited, it was well below zero.