Video Sunday: Failure and trailers

It’s interesting, but unless I’m editing a video of myself, I have a difficult time watching me speak. I remember that this interview I conducted with the good people at On Our Minds at Scholastic is good, though. It concerns the Top 100 Children’s Novels List, which is flattering.  A nice way to close out the series.  Big time thanks to Tyler Reed for stopping by to talk with me.

In terms of book trailers, I think it’s healthy to see what folks on the adult side are doing so as to get inspired.  And now that I know the release date of my own upcoming picture book (Fall 2011, y’all!) I’m looking at videos like this one for Newspaper Blackout with a whole new eye.

Thanks to The Book Case for the link.

I’m not entirely certain when it was that YouTube allowed videos to be longer than 10 minutes.  Whatever the case, here you can see a half an hour’s worth of Lois Lowry speaking recently at the National Book Festival in November 2009.  Someday I shall create a website that compiles all videos of authors talking about their art.  Someday.

Thanks to Duane Parsons for the link.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Many thanks to CBI Clubhouse for the link.

And for the off-topic link, I’m fairly certain I haven’t shared this before, though I know it’s pretty popular already.  It doesn’t sound like much when I say that it’s merely Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the power of the Pentatonic Scale at the 2009 World Science Festival, but it’s worth watching.

Thanks to mom for the link.

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