Lu Olkowski

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Recent Pieces from Lu Olkowski

Credit: Brenda Ann Kenneally

The Cutting Place (00:05:03)
From: Lu Olkowski

A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.
Credit: Brenda Ann Kenneally

Just a Girl (00:04:59)
From: Lu Olkowski

A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with a young son, who recently ...
Credit: Brenda Ann Kenneally

In the Office of Temporary Assistance (00:04:00)
From: Lu Olkowski

A documentary poem about an afternoon that poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett spent with Billie Jean Hill at the New York State Office of Temporary Assistance.

Life In A Dream, Life On Film (00:08:40)
From: Lu Olkowski

A profile of Jeremiah Zagar whose award winning documentary, "In a Dream" opens in theaters Spring 2009. http://www.inadreammovie.com/

Grandpa (00:08:46)
From: Lu Olkowski

A father and son have a contest to take the best pictures of their dying grandpa, the result is an up-close portrait of death.

Meet the Bees (00:06:35)
From: Lu Olkowski

How I roped my parents into becoming characters on Creature Comforts, a claymation show on CBS. (Come on, listen to it... my parents are funny people.)

J Walter Hawkes (00:05:12)
From: Lu Olkowski

Trombonist J. Walter Hawkes, who now plays with Norah Jones, almost quit music. He was going to pursue a more regular-guy path in computer programming. But then a horrible ...
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Physics for Poets (00:07:16)
From: Lu Olkowski

People often depict scientists as coldly rational. Physicist Michael Salamon takes issue with that. He explains how Walt Whitman misunderstood the beauty of the universe. ...

Cell Tower (00:06:16)
From: Lu Olkowski

Don Ingber is a cell biologist from Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and was inspired to make a major breakthrough in ...