Two fantastic YouTube clips to introduce your kids to great works of classical music ... and puppetry. First, Beeker and his many clones perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy, then Gonzo the Great and his chicken orchestra cluck out The Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss.
2008-12-18
Everything for a Cowboy/girl
Kilakitu is a swahili saying meaning "everything". And these Africanized cowboy shirts make interesting one-of-a-kind gifts.
The depths of Nairobi's [Kenya] sprawling secondhand clothing markets provide the finest and most inspiring preloved fabrics from the four corners of the world.
This project not only reuses, remixes and renews these materials to create one-of-a-kind garments, it also provides work to local tailors and provides a portion of the proceeds to a lunch feeding program for school children.
Timeless comedy
An hilarious 1954 clip of Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray as their domestic squabble is set to the rhythm of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
A-ha! A new take on Take On Me
Many of you, my contemporaries in the '80s, will remember this song from the Norwegian group A-ha [Wikipedia link] and likely the video too. Here it is again only with the lyrics changed to a literal description of what's going on in the video ... it even makes a bit more sense than the original!
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