This video features Alexander Overwijk, a mathematics teacher at the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Canada. He draws circles.
In fact, he claims to have won the World Freehand Circle Championship.
And even though I can’t find any proof that there is an actual championship that he mentions (apart from an event created AFTER the video became popular) I wonder how you’d tell his story at his funeral.
August 14, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Hi Tim,
What a fascinating video. It’s true what they say, everybody’s good at something, and everybody’s certainly got a story. I suppose I’d start his off something like this:
“Alexander Overwijk was famous for his perfect circles, the elegant rings he drew in white chalk, which he spun so masterfully around the blackboard. He was a world champion at drawing them, with speed, precision, and perfection, as if his hand were affixed to a compass. To those who knew Alexander, however, he was beloved not for the circles he drew, but the circle he drew us into, as a loving husband, father, teacher and friend.”
August 14, 2007 at 3:15 pm
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