Tag: Sesame Street

Spoiler Alert

Big Bird didn’t really fly. It was all trick photography.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Billy Blob, Superstitions & Stevie Wonder

Clever animation from Billy Blob: Two radiation particles travel to Earth with a mission and a cool soundtrack.

Origins of some common superstitions [via]. They missed the obvious. Walking under a ladder is dangerous because you might dislodge it, or whoever’s working up top might accidentally drop something on you. I’d guess that the business about stepping on a crack likely has to do with walking on thin ice. Seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror? Not so sure about that one.

Stevie Wonder, live at Sesame Street, 12 April 1973. What a killer groove. I liked this one even better:

https://youtu.be/XV1DK9tSHio

Yeah. That. Head-bobbin’ trad-blues-funk at it’s best.

Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ve got more cool stuff coming soon.

Oscar Big Grouch Bird

Big Oscar Bird

That image was in the “One Of These Days I’m Going To Post It” file. Might as well post it now since Jane Henson, muppeteer and wife of the late Jim Henson, passed away 2 April 2013.

[Image found here.]

RIP Jane Nebel Henson 1934 – 2013

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Jane Nebel Henson 1934-2013

Jane Nebel Henson passed away at the age of 78 on 2 April 2013. Although her late husband is more well known, Jane Henson was an important contributor. Married in 1959, she and Jim Henson reinvented the ancient art of puppetry and created a huge entertainment industry: The Muppets.

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[Jane] Nebel and [Jim] Henson met in a puppetry course at the University of Maryland, College Park, where they were both undergraduates. At the time, Nebel was a senior majoring in art education and Henson was a freshman studying to become a commercial artist. Nebel later became Henson’s puppeteering partner on the television show Sam and Friends, and the two eventually married. [via]

Prior to the creation of Sesame Street, the Hensons produced awesome entertainment for advertisers and television shows. Here are some arbitrary pre-Sesame Street selections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxLyuw5bdyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsR5gtWtj0

Talented people are often under-appreciated until they’re gone, especially those who leave such a great legacy. RIP Jane.

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Smells Like Henson

And Jim Henson’s hand smells like Ernie.

[Found here, via here.]

Sesame Street Spoiler

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YAY! Corduroy flares!
(Looks like fun, but I’d rather be Bert and avoid sniffing the pit.)

[Image found here.]

[Update:  Mrs. Strutts ID’d  Frank Oz on the right, but doesn’t know who Ernie’s right hand man is.  Of course, that’s Jim Henson’s in the middle.]

[Update 2:  Welcome Neatoramanauts! Tell the divine Ms. C that Bunk said Howdy.]