Frequent contributor to Neatorama, Miss Cellania, brings us the story of the first Star Trek cinematic adaptation that was never extracted from pre-production limbo. The original pitch from Gene Roddenberry himself concerned an encounter with a godlike plenipotentiary that had a beat that spanned all of creation, seeding worlds with religion and worshippers—leaving Spock unimpressed and probably too risky a statement for the studio to stand behind.
Wednesday 16 March 2016
m-class planet or studio-system
catagories: ๐ฌ, ๐, myth and monsters, Star Wars
fourth wall or study hall
Messy Nessy Chic, in anticipation of finer weather, laments how classrooms out of doors have been, in the main, unfortunately relegated to the distant past.
While we still do have Waldschulen (though I’m given to understand now it’s more like a weekly field-trip, weather-permitting, than a regular occurrence), which started the tradition back in 1904 under the auspices of better ventilation and fresh air made young people more hale and hearty, but after the late 1950s, the popularity of al fresco education has waned considerable. The idea once, however, held almost universal esteem in Europe, with the founding in 1922 of the League for Open Air Education at the International Congress in Paris, mandating schools to adopt floorplans that included pavilions and breeze-ways and even retractable roofs. This gallery of classrooms without walls does make one reminisce for the educational experience that we never had, especially whiling away the hours confined to the office, with only a tantalising glimpse outside.
catagories: ⚕️, ๐, ๐, architecture, environment
mycological characteristics
Kottke informs that the variety of mushrooms that certain dishes and culinary presentation calls for—and what we are readily willing to pay a premium for—are the same species of fungus but harvested at different points of maturity. The portobello mushroom is no different than dime-a-dozen button mushrooms, just with a better P-R agent. It makes me think of the great baby-carrot fraud, which are just the whittlings off of club-sized carrots that would not be seemly for the produce-aisle.
sweded
Dangerous Minds features a comprehensive and retrospective article on the Mah Nร Mah Nร song by Piero Umiliani, who originally scored the scat number as part of the soundtrack for a Italian exploitation documentary about the racy lifestyle of the Swedes. The tune, since covered by Benny Hill, Red Skelton and Nancy Sinatra before being popularised by the Muppets (the lead beatnik singer was called Bip Bippadotta, voiced by Jim Henson, and the backup singers were called the Snowths—snout plus mouth), accompanied a scene set in a sauna and was first titled “Viva la Sauna Svedese.” Several versions of the performance are expertly curated at the link above.