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There's a vote on Sesame Street for the best video of the 90s. I feel that some things were missing but they may have been from and earlier decade. Monster in the Mirror is totally one of my all time favourites.
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There's a vote on Sesame Street for the best video of the 90s. I feel that some things were missing but they may have been from and earlier decade. Monster in the Mirror is totally one of my all time favourites.
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I decided to look at some things that Google Reader thought I would like. I had seen the first four but not this one. Next I will try sorting my feeds by "magic".
When Sarah enters her room in Labyrinth, the camera pans past objects that inspire the look of the Labyrinth. She's got the Escher print on her wall, a Sir Didimus stuffed animal, and the ballgown is on her bed. Watching Labyrinth the day after Where The Wild Things Are makes the book a lot more obvious. I never noticed it before but I hadn't really watched Labyrinth since I was a kid and I didn't really focus on the bits before the goblins show up. But now it just jumps out at me as something really deliberate. I also watched the credits all the way through. There's a special mention of Maurice Sandek.
With all this evidence I had to assume that there was some connection between Maurice Sendak and Jim Henson's muppet making company that predated the 2009 release of Where The Wild Things Are. I'm clever that way. That's why I spend 2 days reading everything I could about Labyrinth.
There's not really a lot of information about the Henson/Sandek connection. In my mind I can see the influence in the character design for Ludo. He's a yeti. With big horns and red hair. He doesn't really fit my internal image of a yeti but he would not be out of place in Where The Wild Things Are. The cool thing I learned is that the two guys operating Ludo had screens strapped to themsleves that displayed the main camera footage and the view from a camera attached to Ludo's right horn. I don't know Maurice Sandek's work at all, so I assumed that the designs for the monsters were inspired by Where The Wild Things Are because it was shown in Sarah's room. Because it certainly wasn't Little Bear.
It turns out that the plot of Labyrinth is very similar to Outside and Over There. "With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride." Which was published in 1981. And that Henson and Maurice worked together during the start of Sesame Street.
Turns out that kottke likes this video more than I do. Enough that he went and found a bit about how it was made. I can't imagine spending that much time in post production for a 4 minute video. That's really awesome.
I absolutely love the concept of this video. Don't particularly care for the song, but the video is awesome sauce.
Edit: It turns out that sometimes Posterous want to have fun with me and I posted this to the wrong page. My next post will not make sense without it.
Auras are not atypical for migraine sufferers. In fact, migraines with auras are referred to as “classic” migraines. For me, an aura usually starts out as a tiny shimmering spot in the center of my vision. It looks a bit like the after-image you see when someone takes a flash photo of you. Instead of fading like the after-image from a flash would, the spot slowly grows. As it gets bigger, I can see that it has details: it is a colorful shimmering crescent wrapped around a white circle. Gradually, over the course of 20 minutes or so, it grows until the white center fills my entire field of vision. I’m temporarily blind. And then, over the next few minutes it slowly fades away until my vision is back to normal.
I'm really glad to have stumbled across this post, as I have always wondered, and worried about the "blank spot" in my vision that I get before a migraine.
While that doesn't make the whole experience any more pleasant, at least I know that the visions are not early warning signs of a stroke, or anything else so sinister. I'm just normal, as annoying as that usually is.
There's a bear holding a shark in the audience. It is most visible near the end of the awesome jump rope display. I really wish the camera wasn't so interested in the audience.
Given that this is from Japan, this vision of 20 years into the future is no of surgery, but a depiction of how we will have sex with robots. Horrifying sex.
Check out the site for more horrifying images.
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