Scott's Videos
Cattle Drive Heading for greener pastures
Granada is built on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. In olden days, the rich or famous of Managua came to the lake to relax with their families and built huge homes that go unused by heirs who have moved to the United States or other foreign lands for more...
” It Looks Like Hell” Masaya Volcano, outside Managua, Nicaragua
The three hundred foot rock walls of the crater go straight down as if a giant using a post hole digger, dug a hole for a fence post and then walked away without filling it. Light on the sides of the walls is the color of the fire in the bottom, and, at...
Burning Man couldn't wait till dark
This affair starts early. Usually, people wait till dark to do their exorcisms, but this bunch has already laid their body in the street in front of a business and are stuffing papers down its pants. In a world of camera phones, nothing goes un-noticed...
Old People Can Dance too Even old people can dance
While parents like to see their children participating in this parade, it helps their children to see their parents next to them on the parade route. When the parade comes to a stop, waiting for something ahead to clear up, families hug each other,...
Kids in the Spotlight Dancing in the xmas parade
It warms adult's hearts to see children doing dances they did themselves when they were little. There is always concern by one generation that the following generation is going to hell,but traditions do get passed down and kept alive. These children are...
Jazz time Jazz Society of Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador
Gilberto is trying a new reed. Sue is playing clarinet instead of soprano sax. A different bass player is sitting in. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week. At showtime, it doesn't matter how many hours you practice, how much theory you know, how many...
Boys crossing the Rio Tomebamba boys will be boys
This morning there is a Christmas concert in progress across the Rio Tomebamba, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Two young boys have decided they aren't going to walk up or down the river to either of the bridges to cross so they roll up pant legs, leave tennis shoes...
Andean Music Winay - from Otavalo, Ecuador
This band is from Otavalo, Ecuador and is playing on a corner by the Cuenca New Cathedral. Dressed in costume, the musicians play, sing, dance,and pose with a European tourist who wants his wife to take a photo of him playing an Andean pipe. Managers and...
Soprano sax soloist Sue Terry
This evening we are treated by an American jazz musician who has a home in Cuenca. She slips into the Jazz Society club with her instrument in its case, takes a seat and listens to the band, puts her horn together, finds a reed, and joins the boys for...
Performance Art Unintended Consequences
By the New Cathedral, on a cloudy afternoon, these performers stand motionless. Then, they move and beckon to a little girl to pose for a photo with them with her mom. After the photo, they blow them a parting kiss and return to their rigid pose. They...
New Generation At the Gazebo on a Monday night
Ecuador has a new changing young generation. A still small number of its children have adopted the music, talk, style of other big city children around the world. There is graffiti in Cuenca. You see some tattoos, some ear piercings and dyed hair, torn...
Protest Cuenca, Ecuador,December 4, 2015
When people are shut out from having a say about what happens to them, by those they have elected, protests are inevitable. Some protests move into chaos and violence,some are contained, others are snuffed out like the tip of a burning candle. I make...
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