A Glorious Dawn

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[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for an easy to use mac program that will let you do that with computer text-to-speech.

So now we're going to have historical speeches made into songs? I wonder what Kennedy's moon mission speech would sound like put to Tom's "Rocket Ride"? Hmmmmmm

[bathtubnz.livejournal.com]

Heh yes exactly. This is one of the things the autotune the news crew did before they found that niche.

MLK sings "I have a Dream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0F4iXEzOqY

JFK sings "Ask not"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmcCzB8fwLo

Winston Churchill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW6jW9y59JY

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool! My kids liked it too.

It was so great to see you! And thanks for doing ROcket Ride at the Fogies concert. That's always SUCH fun. I defy anyone to listen to that and not feel at least a little bit better afterwards.

I also have been spreading your sage wisdom far and wide (attributed to you natch). HUGS!

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

That was seriously cool.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Carl Sagan had a way with words. He made science accessible. He made it understandable. And in a way, he made it sing. He was a scientist with the heart of a poet.

This video is simply wonderful, and it gets stuck in my head and it makes me relive the wonder when I was young and just learning space science in those heady days of the Space Shuttle, and Space Camp, when being an astronaut was what every kid wanted to be, when outer space was going to be so very, very huge in the next century.

Days of promise.

Oh, yeah. This video made me want to go and find Cosmos on DVD. =)

Anyway! The following video is simply amazing as well, and it goes so well with this one, as well. I would recommend hitting 'play' on this video when "A Glorious Dawn" hits the 2:25 mark: http://www.vimeo.com/4505537

[nimitzbrood.livejournal.com]

A wonderful video! :-)

Also just FYI all of Cosmos is available on Hulu or was when I went there a couple of weeks ago.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching the whole series on DVD last week (I wasn't able to see it when Cosmos first came out, so this is especially fun for me.

[batyatoon]

I have seen this vid before and now I kind of want to watch the original Cosmos.

:D

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I love this video. Because of it I've started reading Sagan's books. I can't believe I've gotten this far in life without reading them before!

This one is good too:

[madrona.livejournal.com]

But more importantly, Autotune makes Sagan sound like Kermit.

[smittythesmith.livejournal.com]

Kermit the file transfer protocol? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol)

[kyril.livejournal.com]

Carl Sagan + Autotune + "Boy and His Frog" lyric alteration?