BBC Earth – Swarms of ten million starlings in Rome
An evening pause: These birds know nothing of social distancing. And good for them!
Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays
An evening pause: Performed live in 1985.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Vikki Carr – It Must Be Him
An evening pause: From 1967 television.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
The Insane Engineering of the X-15
An evening pause: This history, largely forgotten, seems especially significant now that the first wholly commercial space flights are about to happen.
Hat tip Lazarus Long.
Alizee – J`en Ai marre
An evening pause: Performed live 2004, when such joyous concerts were possible.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Ethiopia’s Chapel in the Sky
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour, who adds, “Watch your step.”
Hilary Hahn – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
An evening pause: A bit long for a pause, but so what.
Hat tip Chris McLaughlin.
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Devo – Uncontrollable Urge
An evening pause: Performed live c1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Alejandro Aguanta – Zorba’s Dance
An evening pause: The main them form Mikis Theodorakis’ score from the movie Zorba the Greek (1964).
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Elvis Costello – She
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1999.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
4-Mation: 3D Zoetropes
An evening pause: I honestly don’t understand how this works, and the video doesn’t really explain it. It is quite amazing nonetheless. More information here if you want to dig about to figure it out.
Hat tip Cotour.
Olga Jegunova – Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major K331
An evening pause: How about we end the week with some beautiful music played beautifully by a beautiful woman.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Mattias Lindström (Swebounce) – Robot chair
An evening pause: What every home must have!
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Peggy March – I Will Follow Him
An evening pause: This live television performance from sometime in the 1960s, and was almost certainly performed by lip-sync to the recorded album. That audio for this video has been remastered.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa – Duo des fleurs (Flower Duet)
An evening pause: From Léo Delibes’ opera Lakmé.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
John Woodfield RC Gliders
An evening pause: Seems appropriate with Ingenuity flying about on Mars. From the youtube webpage:
This was the maiden flight of my latest design. It was a bit of a mash-up, using existing wings and tail from old models. It weighs 1.5kg and was flying in about 7-10mph of wind. I feel it will be happier in about 5mph. The all-moving tail needs changing slightly as it developed some serious flutter if I picked up too much airspeed.
Hat tip Cotour.
Utopia
An evening pause: A short film that describes the world our children and culture are working hard to give us.
June Foray & Bill Scott – Rocky & Bullwinkle
An evening pause: For those who grew up in the 1960s. Everyone else is sadly deprived.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Ian Berry – Painting with denim
An evening pause: While there is a bit of barnum in this guy’s work, the final “paintings” are quite astonishing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.