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So during last weekend's camping trip, after dinner* we were singing annoying songs at each other, as one does. And someone succeeded at annoying all too well. I STILL haven't gotten "On the Good Ship Lollypop" out of my head.

By way of attempted distractions, various short movies:

Lotte Time Lapse: from newborn to twelve years old in under three minutes using weekly video snippets instead of stills, which as many have noted adds an interesting animated quality to the progression. (via)

An asteroid flyby.

Shakespeare sonnets as pretty good modern pop songs played on period instruments, with streaming examples. (via)


* Feel free to imagine this was around a campfire, the usual setting for this sort of thing. However, comma, we've heavy restrictions on open fires these days -- instead, it was over Uno, which is almost the same thing only with fewer marshmellows.


---L.

Date: 25 April 2012 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com
"Good Ship Lollypop"???!

...man, and I thought "The Bear Went Over The Mountain" was bad...

Date: 25 April 2012 05:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] negothick.livejournal.com
I couldn't hear the whole sonnet preview because that site was down, but I did play the "making of" video, and the tunes sounded mediocre at best. Sort of Richard Thompson meets ABBA, with a bit of Enya. . .Give me The Bear Went Over the Mountain any day--it's singable and has a strong iambic pulse (unlike the "settings" of Shakespeare). Sigh. Waste of a lot of great Renaissance instruments.

Date: 25 April 2012 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com
It's weird how certain hairstyles/expressions/lighting conditions made the girl look *way* older than she was. Maybe that's just an artifact of the rapid montage, though, and if I'd been able to study the images for more than a second, they would have looked closer to the real age.

Date: 26 April 2012 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rymrytr.livejournal.com

If you need to punish yourself some more, take a look at this (and try to sneak by 3:30).


Shirley (U. Jest) Temple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtL51V8ed5g&feature=related)


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