Flash Mob Glory Take 2!

Awhile ago, I blogged a video of the Copenhagen Philharmonic doing a flash mob in a Danish train station.  I guess the Copenhagen Philharmonic has a thing for trains, because they did it again.  Only this time they did it on the train rather than just in the station.



(Sidenote: I would really not enjoy being the oboist in the video.  Playing with a reed with sharp corners in a jerking train car sounds hazardous.)

I love the idea of doing this.  While I realize that it is a brilliant advertising scheme, the benefits go far beyond a little extra money in the orchestra's pocket(s).

There are so, so few people that get the rare privilege of experiencing orchestral music from the midst of the orchestra.  It's easy to appreciate music from an observer's perspective - you can turn on the radio, you can go to a band concert, heck, you can go to the BSO for only 20 bucks! - but it is a different thing altogether to be fully surrounded by it.  The sounds become richer.  The interworking parts become clearer.  And at least for me, it's incredibly moving.  So this type of flashmob?  Advertisement or not - I support it.

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Have I mentioned that they're opening a Pinkberry 10 minutes from my house?

No?

THEY'RE OPENING A PINKBERRY 10 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE.

Summer income: gone.

Historical Science Textbook?

Every once in a while when poking around online, I find something hilarious.  Or at least I think it's hilarious.  You might beg to differ.

Take this website as an example:

isitchristmas.com

But far better than that particular website is a second one that introduced the delightfully naive modern world to the illustrated horrors of people-munching creatures n 1889.  While it sounds truly ghastly, let me comfort you with the fact that these depictions of abominable deaths are hand-drawn, and in no way contain any blood.  But I will let you judge for yourself.  Be sure to read the captions.

Hopefully now you don't think that I have a terrible dark and twisted sense of humor.  However, if you were also intrigued, you can go see the rest of them here.

Birthday Fun

This evening, Meghanne threw a birthday party for Jon.

(They're engaged, by the way.  Woohoo!)

It was great fun.  Meghanne made some great cookies and a phenomenal cake, complete with a topping of heath bars that she crushed with a frying pan.  Epic.

What started as great conversation quickly morphed into an even more exciting round of the cup game.  Some of us knew it from elementary school, and others learned it for the first time, but the general conclusion was that the cup game will never lose its appeal.

Moreover, Meghanne now has her final lesson plans for the last week of school all set...

Crafts

Lately I've been wanting to do some crafting, especially after we made the cutest onesies at a friend's baby shower.  (Side note: it was a lovely shower!)

Since I don't really have a use for baby crafts, I thought I'd go with something more like these cute napkins:

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Or instead, I could just go paint pottery again, possibly using this mug as as a model:

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And if I had a tree to hang it from, I would absolutely make this (though definitely in a different color):

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However, over the course of compiling these ideas, I've decided to make a patchwork quilt.  That means fun crafting!  And a trip to the sewing store!  And new fabric!  All I need now is a sewing machine.