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Subjects: Art and Design

  • A Design Project

    Produced by Classroom Video for the NSW Board of Studies, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art. The video looks at four innovative caravan designs, focusing on the design process. This documentary films the prototype caravans in detail, interviews the designers about their approach to the design process and highlights the essential steps in that process.

  • Brush Up Your Skills 1

    Ed presents a detailed examination of the paints, brushes and equipment, along with the basic techniques to create the phenomenon of the Northern Lights and a bouquet of vibrant wild flowers.

  • Brush Up Your Skills 2

    Ed presents the basic techniques to paint clouds, water, mountains and rocks. Utilize these techniques to paint a tropical storm, snow capped mountains and icy blue mountains in wintertime.

  • Brush Up Your Skills 3

    Ed presents the basic techniques to paint cabins, fences, trees and bushes. Utilize these techniques to paint fall splendor, old barn under a sheet of crisp snow, and a pond in the woods.

  • Yoga for the Rest of Us with Peggy Cappy

    At last, a yoga program that anyone can do! Yoga for the Rest of Us will ease you into the world of yoga–whatever your age and ability–and can become your personal at-home yoga trainer. Use it in the morning or at night and discover how easily yoga can be incorporated into your daily routine and how quickly you’ll see the benefits for your body and spirit.

  • Here’s Looking at You

    Here’s Looking At You! is an entertaining, thought-provoking, and positive look at the many choices Americans are making to celebrate themselves by shaping, designing, and adorning their bodies. While other films have focused on the freakish aspects of body art, Here’s Looking At You! challenges audiences to think about adornment as a spectrum–a sliding scale on which each of us has some position we occupy. This is a warm and joyful celebration of the diversity and beauty of body art, capturing a full range of personal aesthetic expression–regardless of age, race, or economics.

  • The French Chef with Julia Child 2

    This special collection presents 18 of Julia Child’s kitchen classics from her groundbreaking series. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as crêpes suzette, omelette gratinée, pâté de campagne, bûche de Noël and many more. Disc 1 – Starters, Sauces and Sides: Cooking Vegetables, Vegetable Adventures, Elegance with Eggs, More about Potatoes, Terrines and Patés, The Hollandaise Family
    Disc 2 – Main Courses: French Crepes I, Cooking Your Goose, Roast Suckling Pig, Fish in Monk’s Clothing, Cheese Souffle, Sole Bonne Femme
    Disc 3 – Breads and Desserts: French Crepes II, Buche De Noel, Croissants, Gateau in a Cage, French Bread, VIP Cake: Le Prantome
    432 min on 3 DVDs

  • Walking the Bible

    Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible presents one man’s epic journey–by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel– through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler’s inspiring odyssey will forever change your view of history’s most legendary events.
    The stories in the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah, come alive as Feiler searches across three continents for the stories and heroes shared by Christians and Jews. You’ll visit the slopes of Mount Ararat, where Noah’s ark landed, trek to the desert outpost where Abraham first heard the words of God, and scale the summit where Moses received the Ten Commandments. A once-in-a-lifetime journey, Walking the Bible offers new insights into the roots of our common faith and uncovers fresh answers to the most profound questions of the human spirit. 168 min on 2 DVDs.

  • Misunderstood Minds: Understanding Kids Who Struggle To Learn

    You feel like the luckiest person alive: your seven-year-old is a bright, social, athletic child with countless friends. His potential seems unlimited, his future success unquestionable. Then one day a teacher calls you to tell you that your child can’t read. Misunderstood Minds illustrates the emerging view that specific identification and customized management of learning problems is the key to success for the millions of children struggling in school. Misunderstood Minds features leading experts in the field of learning problems, including Mel Levine, M.D., G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and Richard D. Lavoie, M.A. M.Ed.

  • Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers Book

    A 96-page companion book to the video Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers, contains the complete transcript of the three-hour conversation between Sister Wendy and Bill Moyers–including additional dialogue not in the video.