I LOVE archaic stuff about space!
I forgot how big of a grin I get on my face when I see pictures of pointy
vibrator-shaped space rockets!
I was trying to find some infos about a composition by my newest best favorite
jazz composer <cough> — Raymond Scott. He’s the guy who composed that
one theme for Warner Brothers cartoons “duh duh daaa, duhdada da duh daah” you
you know, the one that backs up all the like sinister factory/machine scenes…
Well that song is called “Powerhouse“. And I’ve been scouring the file sharing
networks trying to find more pieces of Raymond Scott’s work to download.
One of them I found, is called “By Rocket to the Moon”, and it’s backup music
for a little children’s book, or maybe just a 78rpm record. I wanted more info.
So I did a google search for it.
I never imagined I’d find something like this kind of web dissertation right here:
Dreams of Space: Space Art in Children’s books 1950’s to 1970’s.
The site isn’t that exciting really, but gosh! the pictures really make me happy! I’m going to have to wget -r it, just in case it ever disappears.
Here are some of my favorites:
Lotsa stuff for the completion of my massive whole-arm tattoo! Dork.
