Compare and contrast:
(via Crooked Timber)
and
Category Archives: video
Badger visits the mailbox
Kate and Shannon are at the Family Home in Nova Scotia, where the weather can be a bit dramatic:
This Is Where We Live
This makes me feel that Everything will be All Right:
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
(via MAKE:Blog)
Klezmer reconstructed
via KlezmerShack:
Tzigane
I got to poking around on the Coraline site and found THIS one:
Antikythera model
This is just TOO wonderful:
Geeking out in the shop… (via Bruce Sterling’s blog)
Oh wow
via Neil Gaiman’s Journal, this wonderful bit of urban kinetic sculpture, with simply PERfect music:
…and you’ll probably want to explore others from CoralineFilms too!
Hot Stuff
Eddie Thomas & Carl Scott – Tomorrow (November 21, 1928)
There’s tons more via PegLegSam’s offerings on YouTube, which include a lot of Pete Seeger TV (with various guests).
And (while we’re at it, and because I invoked his name a couple of days ago) here’s Rev. Gary Davis, playing in his all-but-inimitable style:
…and that led me to Skip James:
and
In the Gothic mode
I can’t think of any precedent (via Make: Blog):
Good catch, Nick
This just in, via Nick:
and a bit more didactic:
Rev. Gary Davis did always say that playing guitar was just like playing piano, and now I sort of think I get it. See marcodi.com for more information on the instrument…