Joey Helms – The Curious Story of Fagradalsfjall
An evening pause: A different look at the same volcanic eruption taking place now in Iceland shown in a previous evening pause.
Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Jalan Crossland – Trailer Park Fire
An evening pause: Feature Crossland’s banjo playing previously. Takes your breath away.
Hat tip Tom Wright.
Gregory Abbott – Shake You Down
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who adds that “Motown comes to BtB.” So right.
Euler’s Disk
An evening pause: Something for all those new home schoolers, and their parents, to puzzle over and use to learn something worthwhile and real.
Note also how the concave mirror eventually forces the disk into the center of the mirror.
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
Brook Benton – Rainy Night In Georgia
An evening pause: Performed live in 1971.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy
An evening pause: I first posted this as a pause back in 2012. Time to post it again, as I empathize with Wainwright even more now than then.
We all travel a path in life. Once Americans celebrated those who chose an independent and unique path. That no longer appears true, not that it would make any difference to Wainwright, or to me. For some, to chose a unique path and be true to yourself is the only option.
The Family Sowell – Carried Me With You
An evening pause: A nice cover of the Brandi Carlile song.
Veritasium – Newton reinvents how to calculate pi
An evening pause: Much of the math goes over my head, but the story is still fascinating in showing how you can discover what later seems obvious, merely by keeping an open mind while endlessly and repetitively asking the next question.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
1776 – Hatching an Egg
A evening pause: On this day, July 2nd, the day the Founding Fathers actually signed the Declaration of Independence, I think it appropriate to once again watch this wonderful song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776. As I said in earlier posts of this song on Independence Day, “not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.”
And despite the hate being spewed against America and its founding principle that all humans are created free with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that truth still shines. As John Kennedy said of himself, ourselves, and these founding fathers. “We stand for freedom.”
David Frazer – The Deal
An evening pause: Watch as the artist creates a work of art, that can be reproduced endlessly..
Hat tip Cotour.
Alan Jackson – Mercury Blues
An evening pause: Performed on the television comedy show, Home Improvement.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Naudo – Staying Alive
An evening pause: How about a more modern instrument today?
Hat tip Cotour.
Andrey Vinogradov – A dark medieval ballad played on a hurdy-gurdy
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who calls this “Music to accompany the plague.” Seems appropriate considering the events of the last year.
More on the history and design of the hurdy-gurdy here.
The beauty of controlled explosions
An evening pause: All planned and carefully engineered.
Hat tip Cotour.
Maxi Borgaro – Unchained Melody
An evening pause: Nice cover, sung by someone who’s first language is not English.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Removing a bee swarm
An evening pause: We’ve had two bee swarms at my house in Tucson in the past decade. With the first we made the terrible mistake of taking the advice of an exterminator who destroyed it. The second time we knew better and simply waited 24 hours for them to move on.
The bee remover here removes them, but wisely without harming them. And he does it in a manner that will both surprise you and make you cringe.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
A Millennial Job Interview
An evening pause: The future, or maybe sadly, already the present.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
U2 – Mysterious Ways
An evening pause: Stay with it for what is made to appear as an impromptu addition of an audience member dancing. She steals the show.
It might be improvised, but if it was, it happened repeatedly, at different places, sometimes with a girl that looks identical to this one. I suspect they pre-planned it each time, but no matter, it works quite well this time, for sure.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Miracles – Love Machine
A evening pause: Fun stuff, but the dance choreography does make me think I’m watching an exercise video.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jerome Robbins – Mistake Waltz
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.