Yasuto Tanaka β The Swan
An evening pause: By Camille Saint-SaΓ«ns.
Tag: entertainment
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
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.
Weird Planet fractals
An evening pause: There is really a very thin line between math and life.
Patty Cake
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Jeb Corliss – Grinding The Crack
An evening pause: Helmet cam during one of Jeb Corliss‘ wingsuit flights.
Watch 127,141 Dominoes fall
An evening pause: July 6, 2012: Watch as 127,141 out of 128,000 dominoes fall, setting two world records.
Kseniya Simonova – sand art
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 turmoilο»Ώ 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.”
There’s a Light – We Choose to go to the Moon
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.
Hand shadow performance
An evening pause: An incredible hand shadow performance set to Louis Armstrong singing “What a wonderful world.”
Joe Hisaishi – Asia Dream Song
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Buddy Rich – Impossible Drum Solo
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Andre Rieu – Annie’s Song
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Gorillaz – Melancholy Hill
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Dizzi – River Flow
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Bugs Bunny – Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
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.
Speed Flying down from Mont Blanc
An evening pause: The music is by Elijah Bossenbroek.
Henri the cat and the videos about him has won the Golden Kitty, first place at the Internet Cat Film Festival in Minnesota.
News you can use: Henri the cat and the videos about him has won the Golden Kitty, first place at the Internet Cat Film Festival in Minnesota.
The winning video is below the fold.
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Let’s dance
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.
Nine substances that only exist in science fiction.
Nine substances that only exist in science fiction.
Until some engineer invents them, that is.
Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon
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