Posted in Art, Victoriana, tagged Art, Arts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Images, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian Paintings on June 30, 2012| 4 Comments »
Updated 30/9/2015
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Posted in Movies, Music, tagged Art, Arts, Darth Vader, Entertainment, film, George Lucas, Gotye, Humour, Movies, Music, Parody, Science Fiction, Somebody That I Used to Know, Star Wars, Videos on June 29, 2012| 8 Comments »
Click the link above to view an inspired Star Wars themed video that you used to know…
Once in a while somebody comes along with a custom-crafted video that just hits the mark. This one by teddiefilms brings together the superb combination of sound and visuals of Gotye (Somebody That I Used To Know) – and some quirky one-liners to give George Lucus and his prequels a highly qualified pasting. I love the stand-in for the ft.Kimbra role. It ain’t a woman. The actor really plays (him) well. :o)
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You treat me like a Bantha and I feel so low
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What Happened to the Star Wars that I used to know?
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And what’s the deal with having me be dubbed over (Noooooooooo!)
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CREDITS
DARTH GOTYE: Tyson Apostol
GEORGE L: Mike Loveland (http://www.ollibird.com)
MUSIC ARRANGED BY: Israel Curtis, http://Somakat.com
ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: Josh Aker, http://Somakat.com
DARTH VOCALS BY: Israel Curtis
GEORGE VOCALS BY: Ryan Richardson
LYRICS BY:
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Posted in TV, tagged BBC, Blackadder, Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff, Charles Dickens, comedy, humor, Mitchell and Webb, Stephen Fry, Victorian on June 29, 2012| 5 Comments »
Please don’t be concerned Blogsprites! The title quote comes from the BBC’s superlative little series The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff.
The show was first broadcast on the radio and was bumped-up to television status with a Christmas Special in 2011.
Heavily influenced by the searing wit and irreverent comedy of Blackadder The Bleak Old Shop is a must-see for Dickens’ fans or anyone with a taste for Victoriana and a sense of humour.
Watch wherever you can!
Posted in Books, Victoriana, tagged Arts, books, British, Culture, Great Britain, History, humor, Humour, Queen Victoria, Review, Reviews, Robert Hull, The Victorians, Victorian on June 27, 2012| 8 Comments »
*Postage stamps, matches, refrigerators, lightbulbs, antiseptic, inflatable tyres, cars, buses, telephones, iron bridges, railways, cameras, bandstands and promenades are all Victorian inventions.
*After the death of Prince Albert (1861) Queen Victoria dressed in black and had fresh clothes and a wash-stand prepared for Albert every day.
*She also spoke of “the mad, wicked folly of women’s rights”. No comment.
*Only two British monarchs have reached their Diamond Jubilee. Victoria celebrated hers in 1897.
*Britain and China went to war… over Opium trafficking!
*A large part of the world still speaks English today because of Victoria’s empire.
*The Commonwealth is made up of countries which were once under British rule.
*The River Thames was so thick with sewage that paddle-steamers could hardly move. After 30 years of work a new improved sewage system was completed in 1875. It is still in use today.
*Victorian architecture favoured Medieval Gothic and Classical Roman or Greek styles.
*The first Victorian computer was called the “analytic engine”.
All facts borrowed from The Victorians by Robert Hull.
Posted in Books, Victoriana, tagged Arts, books, British History, Facts, History, James Harrison, The Victorian Age, Trivia, Victorian, Victorian era, Writing on June 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Updated 17/06/2014
Here at The Arcade of Arts & Arcana we are not ashamed to trawl kids’ books for fascinating factoids. Here are few of our findings…
*Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital opened in 1852. If you scroll down the sidebar you will find a link to Children With Cancer UK, this site’s nominated charity 🙂
*Edward Jenner helped to wipe out smallpox in just 40 years when free vaccinations became available in 1840.
*The bell residing in the Houses of Parliament clock tower was cast in 1858 and named for building supervisor Sir Benjamin Hall. Big Ben of course.
*Building ships from steel instead of heavy iron was a very good idea.
*Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies (1863) influenced Parliament to pass the Chimney Sweeps Act. The use of children as sweeps was finally stamped out in 1875.
*Today southeast Asia produces 90% of the world’s rubber. Rubber seeds were originally sourced in South America, shipped to the UK for cultivation at Kew Gardens and re-distributed to Malaysia and Indonesia.
*The first bicycle, the Penny Farthing, was made in 1883 with solid tyres and no brakes.
*The first electric underground railway opened in London in 1890. The system soon became known as “The Tube”.
*Many UK newspapers were founded in the Victorian era. The Times rose to prominence by reporting on the blunders of The Crimean War.
*Many Scots families emigrated to Canada (settling Nova Scotia or New Scotland) due to their own, less well-known potato famine.
All these facts are borrowed from The Victorian Age 1837-1914 by James Harrison.
Posted in Movies, tagged Art, Corellian, Entertainment, Fashion, film, Han Solo, Han Solo Costume, Harrison Ford, Humour, I Take Orders From Just One Person, Millenium Falcon, Nerf Herder, People, Photography, Science Fiction, Scoundrel, Star Wars, Star Wars Costumes on June 23, 2012| 7 Comments »
Posted in Books, Macabre, Reviews, tagged Arts, books, Fevre Dream, Game of Thrones, George R R Martin, Review, Reviews, Vampire, vampires, Writers on June 23, 2012| 10 Comments »
Updated 14/06/2014
It takes a writer as bold as Game of Throne’s George R.R. Martin to pen a Southern Gothic vampire novel just three years after the publication of Anne Rice’s genre-bending Interview With The Vampire.
Martin’s Fevre Dream includes plenty of Rice’s familiar tropes – such as setting, era and two bickering immortal dandies – but Fevre Dream has less romance and more grit, as though two writers used the same remit to inspire very different tales.
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