Cissie Redgwick – Gimme That Swing
An evening pause: Hat tip Judd Clark.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Al Flores – Engraving a headstone
An evening pause: This pause is a bit long, but you can watch it at a slightly higher speed and miss nothing. It is fascinating because of the high technology involved, combined with the work of a true craftsman.
Hat tip Cotour.
Fred Astair & Ginger Rodgers – The yam dance
An evening pause: From their 1938 film, Carefree, music by Irving Berlin.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Real Space – Every Space Station Size Comparison
An evening pause: Some quick visual space station history. Note how almost all the non-U.S. stations are essentially assembled using revisions of the same early Soviet-era modules. Note too how the future private stations are all very different from each other. The contrast illustrates the difference between what you get when governments control everything, and when competition and freedom rule.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Neil Diamond – Holly Holy
An evening pause: Performed live 1971.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Ricky Rialto & the Green Rats – Rockin’ Daddy
An evening pause: I’m not sure why, but the video makers and dancers all appear to be Italian.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Vivaldi – Spring
An evening pause: Seems the perfect piece of music to herald in the first weekend of spring. This is first movement of Vivaldi’s The Seasons. Performed here by Alana Youssefian and the Voices of Music.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Tijuana Brass Medley
An evening pause: Performed live on television 1975.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Seasick Steve – Walkin’ Man
An evening pause: Performed live 2010.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Celtic Thunder – Whiskey In The Jar
An evening pause: Performed live 2011.
Hat tip Alton Blevins.
Voidwalkeraudio – Desire
An evening pause: The visuals come from the 1927 German film by Fritz Lang, Metropolis, and cover the scene dubbed “Maria’s Dance.” You can see the full movie here, as well as many other places on line.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who adds, “To understand what’s going on here, one needs to see the whole movie, preferably the latest restored version, and to really understand, one needs to read Lang’s wife Thea Von Harbou’s book “Metropolis”.
Simon Sinek – How great leaders inspire action
An evening pause: Though I do not think his hypothesis goes far enough, this short TED talk posits some intriguing ideas about leadership. And it seems somehow appropriate today on the Ides of March, which also makes me wonder what Julius Caesar (and other successful leaders, both good and evil) would think of these ideas.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.