This is a “performance” of Leroy Anderson’s 1950 symphonic arrangement, with the typewriter percussion instrument played by a combination 1960s Smith Corona electric typewriter, custom PCB, Arduino, and a Macintosh computer.
D’Angelo’s First TV Interview In Over A Decade On Travis Smiley
In D’Angelo’s first interview in 10 years, the singer talks new album, “Black Messiah” with PBS and Travis Smiley.
Rarely-Seen Trailer For Frank Zappa’s ‘Roxy – The Movie’
The rarely-seen trailer for Frank Zappa’s famed three-night stand at The Roxy in Hollywood, California on December 8 – 10, 1973.
A-Ha’s Isolated Vocals For “Take On Me”
A-Ha’s Take On Me was recorded in 1984 and took three releases to chart in the United Kingdom, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1985. In the United States in October 1985, the song became the only A-ha song to reach the top position of the Billboard Hot 100, due in no small part to the wide exposure on MTV of its innovative music video, directed by Steve Barron. The video features the band in a pencil-sketch animation method called rotoscoping, combined with live action. The video won six awards and was nominated for two others at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2013, Cuban American rapper Pitbull and American recording artist Christina Aguilera took a heavy sample of the song for their hit “Feel This Moment”, which, although not a cover version, charted at number five in the UK and number eight in the US, as well as number one on the dance charts in both countries.
The El Paso Chihuahuas hosted the Wiener Schnitzel weenie dog race. What could go wrong?
The Toronto Blue Jays’ Junior Jays after-game festivities include allowing the kids to run around the bases once. I’ve long waited to a kid to go his own path, and run amok into the outfield, dugouts, the stands…Until then, I’ll have to make do with this amazing and fun dachshund.
Alec Baldwin’s Here’s The Thing: Julie Taymor, Before and After ‘Lion King’
“The Lion King” is now the highest-grossing Broadway production of all time. Julie Taymor hadn’t seen the Disney film when she was approached to direct the project, but she had spent years studying the masks, mythology, and ancient ritual drama of indigenous peoples in Indonesia. She tells host Alec Baldwin how she incorporates theater’s primal magic into her many stage and screen projects: from the Beatles-soundtracked cosmic narrative of “Across the Universe;” to the elemental brutality of “Titus;” to her recent hallucinatory production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Brené Brown on what resilient people have in common
Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.
It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort.
She writes, “The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Second, they understand and stay curious about how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are connected in the people they lead, and how those factors affect relationships and perception. And, third, they have the ability and willingness to lean in to discomfort and vulnerability.
“Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration – it is how we fold our experiences into our being… The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has a beautiful saying: “Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.”
Mother Raccoon teaches kit how to climb a tree
A mother Raccoon teaches her kit how to climb a tree in Jeffrey Reid‘s yard.
