Hi Deep Lookers:
We're so close to funding our filming expedition to Oaxaca, Mexico! It would be our very first trip as a team outside the U.S.A., to bring you creatures you'd never see otherwise. You can make this happen.
Let's cut to the chase. We need around 100 new or upgraded patrons to reach our goal. If < .01% more of Deep Look's subscribers become patrons - fewer tha...
2019-04-25 01:12:18 +0000 UTC
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This millipede uses deadly cyanide gas to keep predators at bay. But one beetle can tolerate the toxic defense and rides the millipede like a bucking bronco. Who will win this showdown in the forest?
Across Northern California, as the rainy season is ending and spring is taking hold, bees are buzzing, flowers are growing and hikers are hitting the trails.
But down at ground level, the pastoral scenery is concealing a surprising battle: relentless chemical warfare between bug...
2019-04-19 21:47:04 +0000 UTC
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Calling all Deep Peeps. We’re in 2nd place! Let's get moving and win this thing - ✅ RT + VOTE!: https://bit.ly/2uWpyE4
2019-04-17 21:27:37 +0000 UTC
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Deep Look is 🎇 2019 WEBBY AWARDS NOMINEE 🎇 for Best Science & Education Video Series. And in order to win the People's Voice competition, we need your vote!
VOTE! : https://wbby.co/vote-vid56
For those of you who don't know, the Webbys are kind of...
2019-04-11 22:50:44 +0000 UTC
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A prickly-yet-adorable livestream just for our Patreon Supporters! Come chat with Josh Cassidy (Cinematographer and Producer) about our wild new episode on everyone's favorite spiky rodent - Erethizon dorsatum - the North American Porcupine.
If you have any questions in advance, leave them in the comments below. In the mea...
2019-04-07 05:07:09 +0000 UTC
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Porcupines may be adorable, but their quills are razor-sharp, designed to impale and next to impossible to remove. But it's not all bad news. Researchers are designing new surgical staples that mimic the quill's shape to better close wounds and speed up healing.
The quills of North American porcupines have microscopic backward-facing barbs on the tips. Those barbs make the quills slide in easy but very difficult to remove.
Researchers at Harvard are looking to porcupine quills for...
2019-04-05 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Woohoo! Deep Look has been nominated for a Webby in the 'Best Video Series & Channels Science & Education' category.
We’re in some good company, but won't you vote for us before Thursday, April 18...
2019-04-04 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hola Macronauts,
Our talented composer and sound designer Seth Samuel has graciously taken time out of his busy schedule to answer some of your questions. We hope you enjoy learning more about Seth and his work (we certainly did!)
Who do you take inspiration from? Specifically which artists?
I’ve been obsessed with film music ever since I listened to Danny Elfman’s score for Edward S...
2019-04-03 17:54:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Peeps! As most of you may know, Deep Look is a show produced by KQED, the local PBS station in San Francisco, California.
Even though we definitely punch waaaay above our weight, we don't have the big budgets of Nat Geo or the BBC, who can send big crews all around the world.
Which means our stories ab...
2019-04-03 05:06:47 +0000 UTC
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Lice, ticks and mosquitoes – oh my! We've filmed a lot of pesky parasites for Deep Look, including our latest episode about head lice. (If you missed it, you can watch it here.)
We're curious which ones personally irk you the most? Cast your vote below. And see all the epi...
2019-03-27 23:37:29 +0000 UTC
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Today 3/26 at 1:30 - 1:50 PM PST.
Get your lice questions in below!
A special extra-scratchy livestream just for our Patreon Supporters! Come chat with Gabi Quiros (Producer) and Josh Cassidy (Cinematographer) about our wild new episode on everyone's favorite ecto-parasite, Pediculus humanus capitis - the human head louse.
If you have any questions in ad...
2019-03-25 22:35:44 +0000 UTC
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Sorry. So, so sorry.
Why are itchy lice so tough to get rid of and how do they spread like wildfire? They have huge claws that hook on hair perfectly, as they crawl quickly from head to head.
Head lice can only move by crawling on hair. They glue their eggs to individual strands, nice and close to the scalp, where the heat helps them hatch. They feed on blood several times a day. And even though head lice can spread by laying their eggs in sports helmets and baseball c...
2019-03-23 00:37:57 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Peeps,
We're fortunate enough to have the talents of composer and sound designer Seth Samuel to create original music for each episode of Deep Look. Have any questions about his process, sources of inspiration and career? Any favorite music from Deep Look you want him to talk about? Post them in the comments, and we'll try and include the answers in an upcoming profile about Seth!
Image credit: <...
2019-03-21 22:25:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Peeps,
Here's our latest behind-the-scenes photo essay! We know that you'll be excited to watch this upcoming April 9th episode from Josh Cassidy, our lead producer and cinematographer. It's all about prickly porcupines, their unique quills and how they've inspired some cool new medical technology.
Meet Penelope, an adorable North American porcupine, who is the star of this episode. She resides at the Lindsay...
2019-03-19 21:22:16 +0000 UTC
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PBS Trivia Battle Night is nigh - it’s the Snuffleupa-guessers vs. Antique Roadkill!
Join me (Craig Rosa from Deep Look) and other @PBSDS hosts and producers as we assemble, Avengers-style, for the first-ever PBS Trivia Battle Night! Watch us duke it out (intellectually) at 7:30pm ET tonight on the @PBSDS YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios
2019-03-14 22:57:11 +0000 UTC
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Yep, brown marmorated stink bugs are stinky, but that’s not the worst thing about them. They're imported agricultural pests eating their way across North America. But a native enemy from Asia – the tiny samurai wasp – has a particularly nasty method of stopping stink bugs in their tracks.
It looks rather harmless at first glance. With a speckled exterior and a shield-like shape, the brown marmorated stink bug doesn’t appear to be any different from any other s...
2019-03-09 03:19:08 +0000 UTC
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As you know, Deep Look loves getting up close with marine life. Now in its 16th year, the International Ocean Film Festival is on a mission to “save the oceans, one film at a time” by showcasing films from around the world that celebrate the beauty, power and the mystery of the ocean. Two of our Deep Look episodes screen on Saturday, March 9 at 4 and 7pm, with a short Q&A with cinematographer Josh Cassidy after the 7pm program. The festival runs from March 7...
2019-03-02 00:05:22 +0000 UTC
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Today’s the last day to grab our special Patreon offer! For $5 a month, you’ll gain early access to our award-winning episodes AND get a nifty magnifying glass keychain with a cool Deep Look sticker pack. So don’t miss your chance to join us today!
And a big thanks to all of our Deep Peeps who are suppo...
2019-02-19 18:43:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Peeps,
I’m Jenny Oh, one of the producers for Deep Look. We recently had the opportunity to travel outside of San Francisco for one of our upcoming stories, and I headed up to Oregon to film some brown marmorated stink bugs.
Are they stinky? Well, they kind of smell like cilantro -- so if you have an aversion to this herb, you’d probably find i...
2019-02-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Look Fans,
All of our episodes are truly a labor of love. It takes us 6 to 8 weeks to research, edit and write music for each one. We’d really like to make more, so you can watch them all year round. Won’t you support us at the $5 level or higher? And you’ll receive a special thank you gift if you help us before February 19.
2019-02-13 18:49:18 +0000 UTC
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If you’re out on a hike and look down at a puddle, you might spot a long, brown spaghetti-shaped creature whipping around madly in a figure eight.
It’s a hairworm – also known as a horsehair worm or Gordian worm. Good news: It isn’t interested in infecting or attacking humans. But if you had happened on the puddle a few hours earlier, you might have witnessed a gruesome spectacle – the hairworm wriggling out of a cricket’s body, pushing its way out like the ...
2019-02-08 23:36:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey Deep Look Fans,
We hope you’ve enjoyed the two new episodes we released last month! (If you missed them, watch them here.) Stay tuned for more videos coming your way, but we’d also like to announce a special offer: for $5 a month, you’ll gain early access to our award-winning episodes AND get a nifty LED magnifying glass keychain, with a cool Deep Look sticker pack.
2019-02-05 15:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Potato Bug. Child of the Earth. Old Bald-Headed Man. Skull Insects. Devil’s Baby. Spawn of Satan. There’s a fairly long list of imaginative nicknames that refer to Jerusalem crickets, those six-legged insects with eerily human-like faces and prominent striped abdomens. And they can get quite large, too: Some measure over 3 inches long and weigh more than a mouse, so they can be quite unnerving if you see them crawling around in your backyard in summertime.
With their big heads and b...
2019-01-26 02:29:00 +0000 UTC
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🎉 Happy 2019 Deep Peeps! 🎉
🔧 We're moving into the new year by tweaking our rewards tiers & goals next week, so we wanted to give you some advance notice.
🎁 AND for all you loyal patrons who have been with us from the start, we have a special gift for you. Read on...
Rewards Changes
- We want to talk to more of you, and do so more regularly. So live streams are officiall...
2019-01-25 02:12:39 +0000 UTC
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Well... that didn't go as planned. :o
Apologies for the unstable stream and failed connections. We will regroup, do some more testing and get back to you with a new date for a Livestream. Thank you for your patience and continued support!
Craig (Deep Look Series Producer)
2019-01-15 23:50:00 +0000 UTC
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OK !! We've got our next livestream for Patrons today - all about the filming of our new episode on California Turret Spiders! It will be happening 4 - 4:30pm Pacific Time (PST) featuring Josh, Lauren and guest field assistant Masha!
Link will be shared with Patrons here in a new post - stay tuned.
Don't worry, if you're not a patron ...
2019-01-15 15:12:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi there Peeps of Deep, we hope you enjoy a first look at our newest episode. You can start sharing it out if you like from YouTube on 1/15 Tuesday morning. Thanks!
There are strange little towers on the forest floor. Neat, right? Nope. Inside hides a spider that's cunning, patient and ruthless.
Most Bay Area hikers pass right by without ever noticing, but a careful eye can spot tiny towers rising up from the forest floor. These mysterious little tubes, barely an in...
2019-01-12 01:29:18 +0000 UTC
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🤳🏽Deep Peeps - Just 1 week until our first episode of 2019... AND our next Deep Look livestream event. 📹
On Tuesday, January 15th, at 4pm (PT) you can join a conversation with Lead Producer / Cinematographer Josh Cassidy; Production Assistant Masha Pershay; and Host / Writer Lauren Sommer about their (quite literally nightmarish) experiences creating our episode on California Turret Spiders. :-)
🕸️ Arachn...
2019-01-10 01:21:44 +0000 UTC
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The latest video we’ve been working on - just might give you a jolt.
“It’s this really intense, visceral reaction,” says Josh Cassidy, Deep Look’s Lead Producer and Cinematographer, describing how it feels to watch a turret spider burst out of the ground.
2019-01-03 22:17:22 +0000 UTC
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🕳️👀❤️Hola Deep Peeps - It's been a great 2018, so let's count down *our 10 most popular new episodes of the year.* :-) Here's a playlist for your viewing pleasure. Let us know your favorites in the comments!
Suggestions? Nightmares? Cute things? What should we film in 2019?
-- The Deep Look Team
2018-12-29 23:11:44 +0000 UTC
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