#gnu Jim Henson

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Muppet eye contact. Open Captions (top of the screen).

[anothermanoutoftime]

GNU Jim Henson

Remember Jim Henson Born: September 24, 1936, Greenville, MSDied: May 16, 1990, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NYSpouse: Jane Henson (m. 1959–1986)Children: Brian Henson, John Henson, Lisa Henson, Heather Henson, Cheryl Henson

[elijones94]

🎶🐾 “…all of us, we're here for a very, very short time. And in that time that we're here, there really isn't any difference in any of us, if we were to take time out to understand each other. And the question is, do I know who you are? Do you know who I am? Do we care about each other? 'Cause if we do, together we can … turn the world around.”~ Harry Belafonte (1927-2023) 🐯🐧🐃🐾🎶

[steelblaidd]

Watch "Jim Henson Memorial 'Turn The World Around' Sung by Harry Belafonte" on YouTube

Same to you.

GNU Harry Belafonte.

[internutter]

Challenge #02184-E355: The Chaos Creator

Third Bohemian Rhapsody prompt.

This video. The Muppets are always an outstanding technical achievement when they do anything more complex than stand there and open and close their mouths, and it is a tribute to Jim Henson that his techniques have been used for such a wide range of media, from Sesame Street all the way to big-budget films like Star Wars and Labyrinth, to a TV series like Farscape that wanted a higher level of verisimilitude for their non-humanoid characters than CG can provide on a TV budget even now.

But the Muppets, admittedly in their aimed-at-older-audiences-than-Sesame-Street The Muppet Show doing a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody (altered for added silliness that fits the characters so well, and does not take away from the song)? That dozens or hundreds of people spent weeks or more of their life to recreate the song that was rejected by the band's manager at first for being nothing that anyone would want to listen to and then initially panned by critics, with Muppets filling all the vocal roles, and it currently has almost sixty-nine and a half MILLION views, almost thirty million views higher than the next most popular Muppet music video, when the Muppet Youtube channel does not even have two-thirds of one million subscribers, says something about the lasting impact this song has had.

(of course, the sheer fact that the official Muppets channel has almost two-thirds of a million subscribers in the first place, as well as multiple videos above the twenty million view mark and even more above the ten million view mark, says something about the lasting impact the Muppets themselves have had - don't want to give any impression otherwise!) -- RecklessPrudence

This had to be one of the most bizarre things that Shayde had ever dragged him along to. The travelling museum had, like most travelling museums, a central theme. The Museum of the Missing, for instance, was eternally attempting to track down what happened to various artworks lost to the Shattering. This one was called the Hensonium, and showed the Galactic scene works of pre-Shattering technological prowess in the arena of entertainment.

The pieces on display were not the originals. They were modern replicas made with authentic materials. The originals were long since lost to attrition or too fragile to be manipulated at all. There was one original piece, however, a bronze statue at the entrance of a bearded man sitting on a bench apparently talking to the effigy of a frog. It had no cultural impact on Rael, but Shayde left a single rose and got a wobbly lower lip from the sight of it.

"I thought your deity didn't have a face," he murmured, attempting to show a proper level of respect. He was vaguely aware that one aspect of Shayde's pre-shattering religious figures was pictured as a man with a beard, but otherwise the iconography didn't match.

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[joqatana]

There is not enough SQUEEEEE in the whole world. Discworld and MUPPETS.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Hey! Who here remembers old school YouTube Fan!vids, from the 20-Aughts?

Here's one from 2007, featuring footage from the documentary "Of Muppets and Men," and music from They Might Be Giants.

It's lived rent-free in my head for at least a dozen years, and I get happy!teary-eyed every time I watch it.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

My jukebox brain immediately thought of this song:

As I reblogged this post, about reblogging.

Lyrics:

La la la la la (Squeetly-dee squeetly boing) La la la-la la la-la (Deedly-dee diddly doing) La-la la la la (La la la) La-la Pass it on When it's nice and bright And it brings delight Let your heart choose right Gotta pass it on When it rolls real good Like a rollie should Then it's understood Gonna pass it on When you're giving love away Love will come again to stay What you give is what you gain When you pass it on When I give a gift to you I know you're gonna give it too That's why givin's what we do As we pass it on Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on Wish upon all the good things that you do Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on Pass it on When it's gone It will bring good luck to you When you're giving love away Love will come again to stay What you give is what you gain When you pass it on When I give a gift to you I know you're gonna give it too That's why givin's what we do As we pass it on Pass it on

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Many of the references and inferences in Soul Music were quite clear... but I always wondered if this was a subtle nod to Meatloaf/Jim Henson. “I remember everything, as if it happened only yesterday.” It has to be, right??

"NO. I REMEMBER EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. DOORKNOBS. THE PLAY OF SUNLIGHT ON HAIR. THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER. FOOTSTEPS. EVERY LITTLE DETAIL. AS IF IT HAPPENED ONLY YESTERDAY. AS IF IT HAPPENED ONLY TOMMOROW. EVERYTHING. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

Soul Music

[elijones94]

🐯 Butch the Tiger and the Gnu 🐃

[elijones94]

🐯🐧 The final result of my rough studies of the gnu Muppet, resulted in this drawing of not just the gnu, but also a tiger and a penguin from various Muppet productions, mostly related to “The Muppet Show” and “Sesame Street”. This was largely due to my disappointment in how I drew the wildebeest/gnu in my two “Turn the World Around”-themed drawings last week. As always, I prefer to sketch out my ideas before jumping right into action with my drawing without analyzing the possibilities adequately. 🐃

[elijones94]

🐃 Today I did a series of quick rough sketches of a wildebeest Muppet character from the Chris Langham episode of “The Muppet Show”. Half of the sketches were done during some of my free time at Little Learners shortly after arriving at the middle school to meet with my dad. Next, the remainder of the sketches were of Frankie the Wildebeest from “Jim Henson’s Animal Show”. I decided to do these sketches to get a better idea for a Muppet-themed drawing that came to mind.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Speaking of Alphabet songs, does anyone else remember this one, form Early Sesame Street?

Summary: Sesame Street character Big Bird mistakes the alphabet for a single long word, and wonders what the word means.

Pirated video, auto-generated captions. Eye contact.

You know what [Americans] treat as though it's set in stone, but is actually a perfect example of a Social Construct?

The "Alphabet Song"!

Here's a video I made 12 years ago, to prove that point.

The first two times I sang it through, it's the "right" melody (aka "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") but the "alphabetical order" is scrambled. The third verse is in the right order, but it's sung to the tune of "Three Blind Mice."

Please forgive my wobbly voice, and less than ideal microphone; I was working with what I had (lyrics on screen).

After the first verse, are these words (silent): "If at first you don't succeed..." After the second verse: "Third time's a charm (I hope)?" After the last verse: "You know what? I need a nap. ... I'll see you later."

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I have just one thing to say about that “Kermit the Frog” Meme-Appreciation post.

(Which you can find here, and it’s great. It’s also very long, because there are so many Kermit the Frog memes, which is why I’m making a separate post)

GNU Jim Henson.

Here he is on The Johnny Carson Show, shortly before the Special (Pilot) that would go on to become “The Muppet Show” [Auto-Generated captions):

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

Builder and Designer Tim Miller

Tim Miller held the position of Supervisor of Puppet Design at the Jim Henson Company.

CREDITS

The Muppet Show - Muppet designer; built Winny, Gnu, Doug Henning’s Assistant, Sundance, Jabberwock, others

The Great Muppet Caper Muppet builder, Muppet designer

Fraggle Rock - Muppet designer, Canadian Workshop Supervisor; built Gobo Fraggle (with Caroly Wilcox), Sprocket, Murray, Brool

The Muppets Take Manhattan Muppet designer

The Dark Crystal- Creature Design and Fabrication: Environmental Creatures

The Christmas Toy - Muppet design group, built Meteora

The Jim Henson Hour - Dog builder, built Clifford and Chip

The Muppet Christmas Carol - Creative supervisor: Muppet Workshop, New York

Muppet Treasure Island

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland - Muppet builder, Muppet designer, built Bug

Muppets from Space - Muppet builder, Muppet designer

Mopatop’s Shop

It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie - Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop