Keep the Ghost Light on

by: Mikko Lagerstedt

some attempts at vintage pulp covers style

this is the full video of patti lupone breaking the sound barrier at the 1988 tony awards btw

In 1988, microphones for Broadway might have been uncommon, still, I don't really know (though a lot of folks I worked with who may have been in a position to know absolutely felt that microphones were a crutch, a curse, and an insult to the audience in a way we do not see these days, so I have some guesses), but the Tonys were clearly mic'd for the broadcast because we can hear the sound on the video. That floor mic you can see in the video is probably meant to pick up the taps, not vocals, but it does not look like Patti's got a mic pack, so there could be hidden booms. That means it's also possible that this is actually an amplified sound adjustment and normally she just busted it out and let the room ring but couldn't do it with the mics. So there are a variety of reasons that what we're seeing here is happening, but all of them are solved by Patti within... three beats, half a bar? Americans, think of this next time you hear someone warbling the national anthem at a sporting event in a stadium and the mic feeds back. And continues to feed back.

happy anniversary to them

Funny about that...

These are the books they are afraid of. These are the books we need to be reading.

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Art Nouveau Colored Glass | International Art Glass Catalogue

you have entered.. the scary door

Soo Sunny Park (b. Seoul, Korea) - Unwoven Light at Rice University’s Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. Composed of 37 individual sculptural units, the installation uses iridescent plexi-glass embedded in pieces of a chain link fence to cast shimmering, colorful reflections across the spacious gallery.  Photo’s via Walley Films Flickr Photostream.

reasons.

Edward Steed