I know, I know. You're blown away. 

The picture is by Dugald Stewart Walker from his 1920 book Dream Boats and Other Stories, originally published in 1920. I found this particular image at Old Books Illustrated, which I highly recommend if you're into vintage aesthetics/ephemera. I use their stuff all the time in my creative expressions. 

Try not to worry though, I won't over-state it. I know how quickly a pattern gets boring nowadays. 

Anyway, I went with something really simple this time because I'm going to attempt to move the image and the text to the audio next. I'd like to make it pretty in a more technologically sophisticated kind of way. I may need some luck...

Sheet music for the tune of Sleep, Baby Sleep goes back as far as 1880, but a written version is also included in Percy B. Green's 1899 book, A History of Nursery Rhymes. The audio adaptation is narrated by Ruth Golding for the open source audio project Librivox and most definitely has different lyrics. I'll figure out which version to mesh with music, later. I guess which ever version goes best with digitized synth bass... 

Moving on!

Don't you think there's something especially lovely about a gentle lullaby? To be honest, I'd completely forgotten they existed before I stumbled on the idea to put a short one on the moon picture. Now I want to call my mom and my aunties to talk about family and songs. Did your loved ones ever croon at your cradle? What did they sing? 

Love and Magic (and pleasant dreams),

- Boosh

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I made a super rough audio clip off some public domain sheet music I found on archive.org! Shout out to the titans that come before; Archive is an amazing place to spend some time when the trials and tribulations of existence have you plucking out your own eyebrows. 

I've also attached the original pdf I used for the music, so feel free to be inspired. Personally, I plan to spend some free time relaxing on the couch and coloring in this flailing, bearded man :)

Love and Magic

- Boosh

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Once I've had my fun with audio-stuff, I'm going to try to smash some text and pictures together. Then maybe I'll try to make the pictures move, and then possibly I'll try and make the text appear and disappear on the imagery AS IT MOVES. Will there be sound added in? Only time will tell. 

I know, the audio is super tinny. But I'm going to mess around with mixing in Audacity, so we'll see what happens in future uploads.

Have you ever been proud of something utterly banal? Tell me all about it in the comments. 

Love and Magic, 

Boosh

p.s. 

Text in Audio

"...and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."

 - Lewis Carrol; "Alice in Wonderland", Macmillan; 1865.

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