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A Fresh Look On Life
A Fresh Look at Spy Satellites
It was supposed to circle the earth and spy on Russia. But it ended up, instead, in the hands of Mike Clements, trucker and amateur astronomer. Video Video
That's No Trumpet. That's Nyle Steiner.
A gizmo that looks like an insect fogger has been heard around the world.
Return to Nilbog
Returning to the set of one of the worst movies ever made. Video Video
Coffee in the Key of E flat
Not all coffee cups are the same. Some are in the key of C. Some are in E flat. Video Video
War, as a Movie Set
Blurring the line between fact and movie fiction
How I Could Tell I was at the Sundance Film Festival
Three telltale signs
What's Wrong with Julius?
A few years ago Alice Perreault was at the grocery store with her son Julius. The cashier looked at her son and looked at Perreault and asked, "What's wrong with him?" Video Video
It's a Small Film World
The man who built the body snatchers.
Carry a drunk fat man a quarter mile and change the world
There are moments that seem insignificant, but become pivotal. For a Utah doctor it was the time he hoisted a drunk fat man over his shoulder. Video Video
Now Online: From Bigfoot to Fire Tornadoes
Now online: Bigfoot, Rocketman, Dave the Meteorite Hunter, Bart the Tomato King, Rubber Band Boy,...a virtual treasure trove of the Rosenesque*.
Andy Warhol Didn't Sleep Here: The Utah Hoax
In cases of art forgery, usually it's the art that's forged. Not this time. Video Video
The Elusive J.J. Farnsworth
Would J.J. Farnsworth come to the press box please? J.J. Farnsworth. Video Video
Christmas Shopping at the Dump
Lucky you if you're on James Gouldthorp's Christmas list. He'll be doing some of his gift shopping...at the San Francisco dump. Video Video
The Origami-Epilepsy Connection
When Matt Jones feels a grand mal seizure coming on, sometimes he thinks about....origami. Video Video
Cheap, Plastic and Proud of It
Photographer Amanda Moore says her cameras are pretty crappy. Video Video
Movie Star, Aerobics Instructor, Dentist
George Hardy travels to screenings around the country. Fans cheer him, mob him for autographs and recite all his lines. But Hardy is not a movie star. He is a small town Alabama dentist. Video Video
Star Wars, The Turkish Sequel
A long time ago (1979) in a galaxy far, far away (in central Turkey), Murat and Ali crash land on a desert planet. Murat: Begin to your famous whistle which no women can resist. Ali: [Whistles] Murat: You whistle it wrong Video Video
The 7-Up-Grateful Dead Connection
When I was 14 years old I saw a TV ad for 7-Up. It had stars, bubbles, neon-like animations and glowing human butterflies. And now I know origins of that "See the Light" look. A couple of hippie artists from Utah Video Video
A Michael Jordan Lives in Sandy
He's the undisputed world champion. Hands down. He's held that position for 20 years. In Europe people line up for his autograph. A woman from Siberia drove 18 hours just to meet him. They just made a movie about the guy. But chances are, you've never heard of him. Video Video
Gimme a Break. I wrote it.
Chances are you don't know Michael Levine, but you've had his music stuck in your head. Video Video
Question to dying man: How do you feel? Dying man: With my hands.
I can only imagine what the paramedics thought when they rushed into the warehouse to find a half-naked man in a wheelchair wearing a bearskin and Shirley Temple wig who had tumbled off a platform and hit his head while filming a movie with Crispin "Back to the Future" Glover. Video Video
Bat Bombs Away!
They called it Project X-Ray. The inventor of napalm designed little firebombs to be carried by the bats. Video Video
Salt Lake's 11 Spring Street
It's uncomfortably cold. The floor plan's abysmal. There's graffiti on the walls. And it promises to be one of the hippest, most interesting art galleries in town Video Video
The Cult of Little Marcy
Just about everyone who visits artist William Robbins' house is exposed -- I think that's the proper term -- to "Little Marcy." "It's an acquired taste," he says. Video Video
Capt. Eddie's Space Camp and Virtual Photo Studio
In reality, Ed Bateman is a mild-mannered University of Utah instructor, photo retoucher, and an artist with a virtual photo studio. In virtual reality, he is Captain Eddie.
It's not Deseret. It's Deh-SEE-ret
Nineteenth century Mormons did not have a secret code. Video Video
The Accidental Sundance Filmmaker
You never know what's going to end up in the Sundance Film Festival.
My Money's on the Orangutan
Ollie was young and immature. He pulled tantrums. But Ollie knew football.
A Standup Kind of Reporter
If the reporter's wearing a gorilla suit and not speaking, is it still a standup?
Mr. Jagger, you tea is served
"How is you're mother?" She said, indignantly, "Do you mean the Queen?" Video Video
The Million Dollar Formula: Grape Juice?
Could the secret Stradivarius family recipe be salt water and grape juice?
Rubber Band Boy
And now, the eighth wonder of the world, (A wonder because so many people wonder "why."): The new biggest rubber band ball in the world. Video Video
Shoes, the Musical
I can only imagine what musical director Ralph Woodward thought when I asked him if the Salt Lake Children's Choir would sing about women's shoes. Video Video
Forget Stamp Collecting. Try Sherman Tanks.
Here's a Fresh Look at Tank Collecting. Video Video
Look What's Popped Up in Utah
While researching a Fresh Look on Moveable Books, I was surprised by Utah's pop-up connections. Video Video
Milkshakes for the Father of Talk Radio
It wasn't that I was young and stupid. It was that I was young and stupid and oblivious to broadcasting history.
Atomic Bombs and Lightning Balls
The man who made lightning...in Wendover. Video Video
The Pied Piper of Ogden, Utah
What's the sound of twenty-five hundred harmonicas playing at once? Wendover. Video Video
Bringing the Innocent to Justice
Driving on Highway 24 through another television market(Colorado Springs) with a photographer, my spidy sense began tingling.
Flick Lives
The other day I got call from a KUTV viewer in Minneapolis.
The Haunted House that Cydney Built
It's the little touches that make Rocky Point Haunted House. The dust on the organ keyboard. The smell of actual rotting meat. And dead flowers fresh from the cemetery. Video Video

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