5 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Audio: Share a song that evokes a powerful memory.
Submitted by MalieKai.
Etta Jones ~ Don't Go To Strangers
Opening track on the first album I heard on my first date with Kristina.
That staggered drumbeat at the very beginning of this track instantly rolls back the clock and ricochets to the present.
There isn't a jazz vocal album that even comes close for me. Ella, you were swell on your 40th in Rome. Blossom, you're awesome. But my heart's in this one.
Books: Show us a great children's book.
Not only will I show you a great children's book. I will show you THE BEST children's book:
Alexander and the Car with the Missing Headlight
by Peter Fleischmann and Morton Schindel
Illustrated by children of ParisFeaturing stills from a stop-motion animated story written and illustrated by children of Paris, 1966.
The imagination and creativity is unlike anything I've ever seen published since. Even more fascinating is that it was created as an animated film project which appears to be lost in time. I have searched for years and have yet to find it.
This was the very first book I ever checked out of the school library when I was in kindergarten. My mom, who volunteered in the school library, saved the little card after it was filled up. I signed my name on 11 of the 16 lines on that library card.
Alexander hears a crash outside his window. A little car has crashed into a tree and broke one headlight. Fearing the sad little car would be junked, he starts it and rescues it from the scrap heap, only to be chased by a huge dog through the streets of Paris and into the country.
He meets a woodpecker, who was crying because there were no more trees to peck. He takes the woodpecker to a jungle where there are lots of trees to peck. They cross the sea on the back of a whale (for a piece of bread) and rescue a little elephant in the process. The little elephant pushed them up a steep mountain and they arrived at a palace where they met a beautiful African princess.
Alexander and the little car did high wire tricks for the princess. The wire broke and so did the remaining headlight. When he asked the princess for a light bulb, she said, "..we only have stars." So the woodpecker flew the car up where Alexander could retrieve a star to install for a headlights.
The elephant stayed in Africa and the woodpecker flew Alexander and the car back to Paris, where the hue dog was waiting for them. They eluded the dog for a long time, but the little car got tired. They covered the car with the web of a giant spider so the dog wouldn't see them. The dog left and they snuck silently home.
he bid the woodpecker goodbye and promised to visit him in the jungle, since, now he has a car. The End.
The imagination and creativity of these little children in 1966 is unlike anything I've ever seen published since. Even more fascinating is that it was created as an animated film project which appears to be lost in time. I have searched for years and have yet to find it.
My wife found this outstanding first edition for my birthday two years ago. Best present, ever.
Runner-Up:
The Orphans of Normandy: A True Story of World War II Told Through Drawings by Children, by Nancy Amis.
In the summer of 1944, a hundred girls left their orphanage near Caen to escape the danger of the Allied invasion. Wearing red, white and blue dresses and carrying white flags, they walked a hundred and fifty miles to safety, passing German tanks in flames and avoiding American bombers. An amazing story, illustrated with heart-warming drawings by girls in the La Maison du Clos orphanage.
This is the most touching children's book I have ever read. The practical, yet oddly idyllic life of this orphanage is contrasted by fears of war and fortitude of the human spirit. I am profoundly moved every time I read it. It makes me want to bash every slick Art Center grad who sells thousands of books about obscenely bratty, nose-picking kids and farting dogs.
Second Runner-Up:
Mike and the Modelmakers, by Miroslav Sasek
In his inimitable illustrative style, Sasek takes us on a tour of the Lesney factory in England, where Matchbox® cars are made. With painstaking detail, he shows the entire process from measuring, scaling, modeling, casting, assembling and packaging.
Yet another first edition acquired for me by my incredibly resourceful wife.
Show us your first car.
Submitted by The Greenhows.I purchased my first car in 1985, the fall after I graduated high school...and I still have it.
It is a 1962 Studebaker G.T. Hawk, eggshell white with a teal green interior. It has Studebaker's own 289 V-8 mated to a Borg-Warner 3-speed automatic and a Dana 44 3.73 Twin-Traction differential. It hauls ass with class, save for the deep thrum of the dual exhaust.
This design is the final iteration of the famed 'Loewy Coupe' of 1953, designed by Robert Bourke of Raymond Loewy and Associates, who designed for Studebaker from 1936-1963. The G.T. Hawk was refreshed in 1962 on a shoestring budget by industrial designer Brooks Stevens, who shaved off the fins of the previous Hawks, installed a squared-off roofline with recessed rear window, and emphasized the elegant taper of the fenderline with stainless steel. It looked altogether like a new design, thoroughly modern and ironically, much closer in appearance to the first iteration of 1953.
Ask any automotive (or art/design) historian and they will acknowledge the 1953 Studebaker coupe as one of the finest designs of the postwar era, and perhaps even the entire 20th century. The design embodied the best features of European and American design. It was longer, lower, and wider than previous models. Indeed, the Museum of Modern Art acclaimed it not as a design, but as a "WORK OF ART."
Though it was designed long before the use of wind-tunnels, the coupe proved to be very aerodynamic, making it a popular model for top speed trials at dry lakes such as Bonneville.
The car resides with my retired parents in Ohio, where they enjoy driving it to local cruise-ins, car shows and leisurely drives on beautiful backroads. The happiness they share together with this hobby is exceeded only by my own in giving them a small something in return for all they have done for me.
Audio: Share your favorite track from a live album.
Submitted by -Lisa.
The Jesus Lizard
Killer McHann ~ Show
My favorite live track demonstrates the previously mentioned interaction with the crowd that devolves/elevates the experience, depending on your attitude. In my case, both, blissfully.
Stick around for Yow's reaction to a smartypunk's pseudo-philosophy at the end. Priceless.
Video: Show us a clip from your favorite cartoon.
