The band "OK Go" are using their signature blend of pleasant indie pop and quirky, home-grown videos to teach kids about
primary colors in a new short for Sesame Street. - SLYT
posted by Slap*Happy
on Jan 31, 2012 -
37 comments
Between February 1989 and May 1990, there were three significant deaths in the Sesame Street world. The first was
Joe Raposo, a
significant musician for Sesame Street and Electric Company. The last was
Jim Henson,
mourned by Big Bird,
remembered by Frank Oz, and
celebrated in
song by
many (from the
St. John's Memorial,
detailed here). The second person to die in this time period was
Northern Calloway,
Sesame Street's David. Unlike
Joe and
Jim, there were no
television tribute to Northern's life and career on
Sesame Street or
Broadway. Instead, David,
once a young, cool, urban guy, who was studying to be a lawyer while working at Mr. Hooper's storeand the initial romantic interest of Maria,
left the show through a letter, read by Gordon. The story behind David is told below the fold.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 12, 2011 -
25 comments
Bert and Ernie recording their voices for TomTom. This is perhaps the funniest viral ad for a product that I've seen.
TomTom in-car navigation systems offer custom voices to read out directions, and their latest additions are from Sesame Street. This is the promotional video, showing what the recording session was like... [SLYTPB]
posted by Slap*Happy
on Nov 18, 2011 -
33 comments
In 1969,
Sesame Street put together an unaired pilot to test in front of children. The pilot contained the appearance of an actor playing Gordon different from the
other three actors who subsequently played that character. Sesame Workshop has no idea who this actor was and has exhausted all leads.
Do you know who the mystery Gordon is?
posted by mightygodking
on Nov 10, 2011 -
91 comments
The Best of #OccupySesameStreet. Since its launched two weeks ago, the #OccupyWallStreet movement has gone national, spawning copy-cat demonstrations in far-flung locales like Tulsa and Boise. Its members have serious concerns--about income inequality, the influence of large corporations in our political system, and their own financial futures. The #OccupySesameStreet movement? Not so much.
posted by sweetkid
on Oct 4, 2011 -
30 comments
"'
Being Elmo,' the crowd-pleasing [
documentary film] profile of the man behind Elmo, arguably the most-loved Muppet on 'Sesame Street,' has been melting hearts on the festival circuit since premiering at Sundance this year, where it won the Special Jury Prize. ... [It's the] story of how puppeteer
Kevin Clash came up through the ranks on sheer ambition and ingenuity to become one of the best in the business is an underdog tale of the best variety."
* However, could it be that there is
an Elmo backlash brewing?
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posted by ericb
on Sep 28, 2011 -
107 comments
one, two, three, FOUR, five, six, seven, eight, NINE, ten, eleven, twelve!
The
Sesame Street's Pinball Number Count by the
Pointer Sisters reimagined with stop motion.
posted by P.o.B.
on Aug 12, 2011 -
27 comments
Still Life with Animated Dogs is a witty and candid cartoon by Paul Fierlinger, animator of Sesame Street's
Teeny Little Super Guy, recounting his life from being a dissident artist in 1960s Czechoslovakia to being a successful animator in the US. He tells his lifestory by talking about the dogs he's owned over the years, Roosevelt, Ike, Johnson and Spinnaker. Warning: Something may get stuck in your eye.
posted by Kattullus
on Dec 27, 2010 -
8 comments
Sesame Street's Grover spoofs the original Old Spice ad. As great as this is, it's not the first time
Sesame Street has parodied something. They've also done
30 Rock,
Mad Men,
True Blood,
Law & Order: SVU,
Desperate Housewives,
CSI,
Highschool Musical,
Twin Peaks (during a parody of
Masterpiece, no less) and even
Casablanca and
Shaft.
posted by Effigy2000
on Oct 8, 2010 -
63 comments
'Sesame Street' Pulls Katy Perry video from show. Sesame Workshop, which produces the long-running PBS children’s show “Sesame Street,” said on Thursday morning that it would not show a music video planned for the coming 41st season of the series that features the pop singer Katy Perry, citing in its decision the outcry of viewers who had seen the suggestive video online. The video features Ms. Perry singing a parody of her song “Hot ‘N Cold” accompanied by the “Sesame Street” character Elmo.
Via NYTimes.com
posted by Fizz
on Sep 23, 2010 -
235 comments
William Wegman, most widely known for
his photographs including his Weimaraners, has a body of
past works that includes
work for Sesame Street. If you're looking for muppets, you will be disappointed. But if you want people with dog heads and human hands, you're in luck! The clips include
a haircut and styling for dogs,
Rub-a-dub dub,
Ten O'Clock Scholar,
dogs making the letter A,
L and
K as in King,
dogs demonstrate 2 and
3,
a performance of "Jack Sprat" and
dogs baking bread (inspired by
a post on MetaChat by
Obscure Reference).
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 29, 2010 -
27 comments
Saturday morning cartoons were once a staple of American television, but by the year 2000
they had all but disappeared. Of course, the Internet
never forgets. Case in point:
Cartoon Network Video -- a free, searchable, ad-supported service that provides hundreds of full-length episodes of classic shows like
Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and
The Powerpuff Girls, as well as current offerings and scads of shorter material. Too recent for you? Then give
Kids WB Video a whirl -- it does the same thing with the same interface, but for older programs like
Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, Scooby-Doo, Thundercats, and the original
Space Ghost. If you're in the mood to learn (and don't mind some live-action),
PBS Kids Video has educational fare such as Arthur, Wishbone, and Zoom. And don't forget about
Sesame Street,
The Electric Company,
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood,
The Magic Schoolbus and
Schoolhouse Rock! Now if only we had some
Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs...
posted by Rhaomi
on Sep 22, 2009 -
160 comments
Ahmet Ertegun was profiled by George W. S. Trow in The New Yorker in a classic piece back in 1978. Ertegun was the son of the Turkish ambassador to the US and he remained behind in D.C. studying medieval philosophy at Georgetown. Instead of devoting himself to his studies he founded Atlantic Records with his friend Herb Abramson. Trow charted how Ertegun moved from tramping through muddy, Louisiana fields in search of hot new sounds to the whirl of Studio 54. Below the cut are links to the songs mentioned in the article, as best as I could find, in the order in which they appear.
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posted by Kattullus
on Aug 17, 2009 -
25 comments
There seems to be
a lot of bleeping going on lately. But now it's time, with the help of our friend Count von
Count Bleep (
wikipedia), to
bleep the number of times you can have a laugh with the
bleeping bleeps.
Start here and then go on:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5;
And more
bleeping fun with Ernie, Bert, Oscar, and the Cookie Monster:
1,
2,
3,
4.
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posted by omegar
on Feb 25, 2008 -
20 comments
