MetaFilter posts tagged with themes

Bikes, mics, and helicopters.

hpliferaft — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:38:26 -0800

80s Film and TV composers filter: Let's hear it for Serbian-born action-flick composer Sylvester Levay. He scored a #1 Billboard 100 hit in 1975 with "Fly, Robin, Fly,", but moved from pop music to action movies. Maybe he's known best as the genius behind the alleged World's Most Expensive TV Soundtrack, the theme of which you don't have to pay $900 to hear.
Why did he move from action movies to historical musicals in the 90s? Maybe the genre was a little overloaded. Other notable compositions: Television: Time Bomb (1984) - youTube playlist Otherworld (1985) - theme Film: Cobra (1986) - homebrewed music video with the theme Mannequin (1987) - The non-Levay soundtrack is well-known but unavailable; however here's a ten-minute version of the movie. Navy SEALs (1990) - no theme on youTube, just the bangin' trailer

Study Guides, Teacher Resources

netbros — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:02:58 -0800

Shmoop is study guides and teacher resources that help us understand how literature and history and poetry are relevant today. Take for example Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. Get a technical analysis of it's literary devices, explanations of the themes, and audio/video readings of the sonnet.

-CUE THEME- Introducing...

carsonb — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:24:39 -0800

TV-INTROS - W h e r e a l l w e c a r e a b o u t i s h o w t h e s h o w s t a r t s. Main Title Heaven Paste Magazine's 40 Best TV Theme Songs of All Time Previously | Via

Herbie Popnecker's Powerful Lollipop

carsonb — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:40:14 -0800

"Herbie Popnecker is unique among superheroes. While looking less like a superhero than any other, he may also be the most powerful.
     Herbie can "fly" by walking through air, or space, or water.
     Herbie can travel through time, or the ground, or through walls (some damage occurs), sometimes breaking the fourth wall.
     Herbie is the least emotional of any super hero, and one of few words.
     Herbie defeats many of his opponents by looking at them, but sometimes, he bops them with this here lollipop."
Herbie's further powers are examined thoroughly at Herbie Popnecker: Examples of Recurring Themes. via I'm Learning to Share!

Weekly Themed Art Challenge

jonson — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:11:14 -0800

1 X Semana is kinda like a Spanish language version of Drawer Geeks (prev.). From the site: "We are a bunch of colleagues who every week propose a character, concept or idea to be drawn. In this Blog we share the results of our exercise." The site is relatively new, but so far, this result in the "Sea Monster" challenge is my favorite. Via.

(It's missing a few) TV Theme Songs

carsonb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:47:16 -0800

Name That TV Theme Song
Need help? Television Tunes has 3000+ themes available in mp3 format. 484 on my first try, 1 player, 10 rounds. Previously: 1 2 3

Things Look Like Things

jonson — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:21:20 -0800

Things Look Like Things is an interesting photoblog concept; the author spends his flickr-browsing hours finding visual similarities between images & creating themed sets, usually with a small amount of accompanying text. I'm doing a terrible job of selling it, but the results can be really compelling. Via.

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MiltonRandKalman — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:41:39 -0800

Rod McFarland's Wordpress Theme's Tired of these slick web2.0-ish blog templates? They are either inspired by OSX or seemed to be built completely around stock photographry. No my geeks, this interface will not cut it. I need something a bit more familiar, something that resonates with my inner nerd.

Cats... in... sinks

mathowie — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:21:44 -0800

Cats in sinks. Nothing less, nothing more.

classic cartoon music

Swampjazz! — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:18:08 -0800

Mike's Classic Cartoon Themes A pretty heavy collection of cartoon theme songs from the 1950's-90's as mp3's. Includes all of the obvious classics along with more than a few fun obscurities new to me, for example, "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home."

It's all about the Love, baybee

taz — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:08:41 -0800

Yeah baby! Bite my toenails! Funny, sad, simple, sweet, it's all about the luuurve. Remics Vol. 3 features illustrations by 29 artists on the theme of "love"; past editions (Flash and some sound) explored thoughts on "Place" and "Birthday".

rshah21 — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:06:54 -0800

Lucas: Powerful reteller of myth - or galactic gasbag? Salon has a scathing review of Lucas' claim that the basis of the Star Wars saga is in "man's oldest stories" and that he was guided by Joseph Campbell.
"With 'Star Wars' I consciously set about to re-create myths and the classic mythological motifs," Lucas says. "I wanted to use those motifs to deal with issues that exist today."
Hogwash, says author Steven Hart. Star Wars is based not on "The Odyssey" or the "Upanishads", but on Asimov, Heinlen, Herbert and other 20th century S.F.

shauna — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:27:29 -0800

Apple lawyers target Mac Themes Project -- Apple has issued a cease and desist order against Mac Themes Project (MTP) for creating a theme editor. Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes by "improperly copying Apple's copyrighted software code and graphic files".

jjg — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:41:18 -0800

Weblog essay genres:
Statements of intention.
Announcements of suspension.
Letters of resignation.