A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
An evening pause: A wonderful song, but the images, most of which were taken during the recording session, will give you a taste of the wild, crazy, irreverent, and often foolish 1960s. Today, a half century later, we still are reaping the whirlwind of that decade, for good and ill.
An evening pause: Helmet cam during one of Jeb Corliss‘ wingsuit flights.
An evening pause: July 6, 2012: Watch as 127,141 out of 128,000 dominoes fall, setting two world records.
An evening pause: From Ukraine’s Got Talent, an amazing performance by Kseniya Simonova, telling the story of World War II from the Ukrainian perspective, all with sand. From the youtube webpage:
What she depicts is love and the chaos of war, it is set amidst the turmoil of the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa (Nazi invasion of USSR during World War II) and the impact it had on a Ukrainian couple, the husband is drafted into the Soviet military and never came back home, years later his wife grows old and visits a war memorial to mourn him. The last picture is her younger self and her baby saying farewell to him… with the quote, “You are always with us.”
An evening pause: I think the human choices made on September 11 illuminate well the contrast between the Islamic culture of death and the Western culture of life. This film describes the western approach.
An evening pause: A song by a band called There’s a Light, from their 2012 album Khartoum, expressing nicely in words, music, and images the human insistence on doing great things.
An evening pause: An incredible hand shadow performance set to Louis Armstrong singing “What a wonderful world.”
An evening pause: “Silly, isn’t he?”
From 1944, with numerous references to the war effort. What I like most, however, is the brazen confidence. Bugs Bunny in more ways than can be imagined so clearly represents the American spirit of the war years.
An evening pause: As Dawn begins its journey away from Vesta, the science team has put together this stunning video tour of the giant asteroid.
An evening pause: Of the movies from which these dance sequences come, how many can you name? All of them are worth watching, over and over again.
An evening pause: A taste of what every man and woman in the military has experienced and lived through.
But only a taste.
An evening pause: This short clip from the Discovery Science series Rocket Science illustrates one reason Neil Armstrong got the job to land the first spacecraft on the Moon, even though it shows Armstrong crashing his test vehicle!
The man was cool-headed. Not only did Armstrong not panic when a thruster failed, he kept trying to regain control of the craft until the last moment, ejecting less than a second before impact. Then, he was calm about it afterward, hardly mentioning the incident to others.
An evening pause: Apropos of the uplifting nature of modern political debate, especially on the left, let’s find out why “Bob is a racist.”
An evening pause: Beatrice Martin, aka Coeur de Pirate, performs two songs, “Place de la Republique” and “Adieu” live in Toronto’s the Great Hall. That the songs are in French makes no difference.
An evening pause: New Music by Chinese lute player Shao Rong, from her second album, Orchid II.
