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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
How To Make A Gumby Costume
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner it’s only fitting that the Classic Nickelodeon Fan Blog post something…well…green. So in honor of St. Pat’s here are your instructions on “How To Make A Gumby Costume”.
Now I must admit that I have never attempted this myself if you read this and make it please send me your pictures and I’ll post them!!! In fact I will not only post them here I will also post them on my new Classic Nickelodeon Forever website! So everyone put your creative hat on and start sending in those pictures!!!
http://classic-nickelodeon-forever.jimdo.com/
How To Make A Gumby Costume
by eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor
Link - http://www.ehow.com/how_2067142_make-gumby-costume.html
Introduction
This cute television icon seems like a good candidate for a Halloween costume, but Gumby is actually an ambitious choice. For a complete Gumby, the costume will cover the entire body, and it might take awhile to get using to walking inside of it. Nevertheless, there are always different ways to go based on degrees of authenticity.
Things You'll Need
Styrofoam sheets
Glue
Exacto knife or scissors
Green craft paint
Step One - Get Styrofoam sheets. For an authentic Gumby costume, Styrofoam is the best, You'll want a sheet at least as tall as the person who will wear the costume, and several feet wide, enough to cut out limbs and spare pieces.
Step Two - Cut out the body, arms, and legs. You can use an exacto knife or even scissors, but you'll probably need to hold the material down as you cut, or it will be too hard to cut through.
Step Three - Lay out the pieces so you know what goes where. You'll want two of each piece, a front and a back.
Step Four - Glue pieces together. Experts recommend a PVA glue like Weldbond, but with the disclaimer that PVAs need pressure to bond. You can use heavy objects to pressure the Styrofoam pieces while they dry, or you can go with a lighter glue that bonds without pressure.
Step Five - Let pieces dry.
Step Six - Paint them green. Use craft glue that is found at a craft or hobby store.
Step Seven - Add features such as mouth and googly eyes. You can use any kind of material for the eyes.
Tips & Warnings
Make sure your Gumby costume is properly ventilated. Design a hole for breathing and two holes for eyes. Also, make sure any fumes from the glue have dissipated before putting the costume on.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Mike Holoway Interview
For those of you who are fans of the original series The Tomorrow People and remember actor Mike Holoway who played Mike Bell Andy Potter from BBC Local Radio conducted an interview with him but if you want to hear it you need to heard because the link is only good for five more days from today (Friday, February 25, 2011)!!!
Thank you to Jackie and Sue for the information about this interview.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search?q=mike+holoway
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Classic Nick Alert!
Merry Christmas yall. I hope yall see this in time to be able to watch it.
Nickelodeon will be showing the Curious George movie from 3 to 4:45PM Central time, please check your local listings. ~ Curious George was a Pinwheel cartoon and was created by Margret and H.A. Rey.
2006 – The simple joys of story telling are on animated display in a delightful and sweet-natured adaptation of the misadventures of the impish and impetuous chip from the kid-lit classics by Margret and H.A. Rey. (Comedy, 86 mins.)
Monday, October 25, 2010
YCDTOTV Halloween
YCDTOTV Halloween
Hey yall, well it’s that time of year again. Time for ghosts and goblins, tricks or treats and witches and black cats; yes it’s Halloween!!! I’ve been looking for some Classic Nickelodeon Halloween videos to share with you and I’m very happy to say I found this episode of You Can’t Do That On Television. (I’ve been trying to find the Today’s Special Halloween episode but I can’t find it.) So enjoy this Halloween treat!!!
Hey yall, well it’s that time of year again. Time for ghosts and goblins, tricks or treats and witches and black cats; yes it’s Halloween!!! I’ve been looking for some Classic Nickelodeon Halloween videos to share with you and I’m very happy to say I found this episode of You Can’t Do That On Television. (I’ve been trying to find the Today’s Special Halloween episode but I can’t find it.) So enjoy this Halloween treat!!!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit
Curious George Swings Into A Museum Exhibit
By: ANN LEVIN Published: March 28, 2010
By: ANN LEVIN Published: March 28, 2010
NEW YORK — Ever wonder why Curious George is so curious? Or why the monkey hero of the "Curious George” children’s books is so fond of travel, so prone to mischief yet always narrowly escapes disaster?
A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum suggests that curious readers need look no farther than the real-life adventures of the intrepid husband-and-wife team that created the beloved character.
H.A. and Margret Rey — he changed the name from Reyersbach — were German Jews living in Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, increasingly concerned about finding safe haven. Two days before the Germans marched into Paris, they fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their picture books, including one about a mischievous monkey then called Fifi.
Curator Claudia Nahson said Hans and Margret created the monkey character that is always on the run while they themselves were on the run. The recurring motif of the monkey’s narrow escape from danger is another autobiographical detail.
Twice in the months leading up to their escape, the couple were questioned by authorities suspicious of their German accents. Both times they were let off the hook when officials learned what they were doing: making children’s books.
While the exhibit touches on the harrowing conditions they endured on their four-month journey in 1940 from France to New York, it’s more about the unusually long and fertile artistic collaboration between Hans and Margret, whose fiery personality is said to be the inspiration for George’s insatiable curiosity and spunk.
Hans Rey was a gentle, pipe-smoking, self-taught artist who toiled for a time in commercial art designing circus posters before launching his career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Margarete Waldstein, who shortened her name to Margret, was the more assertive of the two. She had studied art and photography at the famed Bauhaus School in Germany and had strong opinions about nearly everything, including her husband’s work.
Both loved animals. Hans liked to sketch in zoos, and the couple kept pet marmosets in their apartment in Brazil in the 1930s. Margret even knitted sweaters to keep the monkeys warm on the couple’s cold ocean passage to Europe in 1936, but the creatures didn’t survive the voyage.
The exhibition features nearly 80 original drawings and vibrant watercolors for the more than 30 books the couple wrote and illustrated. The most famous, of course, is Curious George — the "good little monkey” captured in the wilds of Africa by a man in a large yellow hat and taken to the city to live in a zoo and later, the man’s home.
The idea for George began in an earlier book about a lonely giraffe named Raffy who befriends nine monkeys, the youngest of which is called Fifi. Eventually, the Reys decided to develop a story just about Fifi. It was one of the stories they brought from France, only to learn when they got to the U.S. that American publisher Houghton Mifflin had doubts about the name Fifi for a boy monkey.
So, Fifi became George in the United States — and Zozo in Britain. The "Curious George” books eventually were translated into many languages, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.
It’s not hard to see why. With simple lines and bright, buoyant colors, the Reys created an imaginary world full of innocence and optimism.
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A new exhibit at New York’s Jewish Museum suggests that curious readers need look no farther than the real-life adventures of the intrepid husband-and-wife team that created the beloved character.
H.A. and Margret Rey — he changed the name from Reyersbach — were German Jews living in Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, increasingly concerned about finding safe haven. Two days before the Germans marched into Paris, they fled on bicycles carrying drawings for their picture books, including one about a mischievous monkey then called Fifi.
Curator Claudia Nahson said Hans and Margret created the monkey character that is always on the run while they themselves were on the run. The recurring motif of the monkey’s narrow escape from danger is another autobiographical detail.
Twice in the months leading up to their escape, the couple were questioned by authorities suspicious of their German accents. Both times they were let off the hook when officials learned what they were doing: making children’s books.
While the exhibit touches on the harrowing conditions they endured on their four-month journey in 1940 from France to New York, it’s more about the unusually long and fertile artistic collaboration between Hans and Margret, whose fiery personality is said to be the inspiration for George’s insatiable curiosity and spunk.
Hans Rey was a gentle, pipe-smoking, self-taught artist who toiled for a time in commercial art designing circus posters before launching his career as a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Margarete Waldstein, who shortened her name to Margret, was the more assertive of the two. She had studied art and photography at the famed Bauhaus School in Germany and had strong opinions about nearly everything, including her husband’s work.
Both loved animals. Hans liked to sketch in zoos, and the couple kept pet marmosets in their apartment in Brazil in the 1930s. Margret even knitted sweaters to keep the monkeys warm on the couple’s cold ocean passage to Europe in 1936, but the creatures didn’t survive the voyage.
The exhibition features nearly 80 original drawings and vibrant watercolors for the more than 30 books the couple wrote and illustrated. The most famous, of course, is Curious George — the "good little monkey” captured in the wilds of Africa by a man in a large yellow hat and taken to the city to live in a zoo and later, the man’s home.
The idea for George began in an earlier book about a lonely giraffe named Raffy who befriends nine monkeys, the youngest of which is called Fifi. Eventually, the Reys decided to develop a story just about Fifi. It was one of the stories they brought from France, only to learn when they got to the U.S. that American publisher Houghton Mifflin had doubts about the name Fifi for a boy monkey.
So, Fifi became George in the United States — and Zozo in Britain. The "Curious George” books eventually were translated into many languages, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide.
It’s not hard to see why. With simple lines and bright, buoyant colors, the Reys created an imaginary world full of innocence and optimism.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Yo He Ho
I've been having a nice chat with my friend Michael and we got to talking about several of the Classic Nickelodeon show and I mentioned Today's Special. Then he mentioned that now he had Sam's sailing song on his mind so I decided to post it for all of you to remember and enjoy. :)
YO HE HO
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Our sails they flutter in the breeze
As back and forth we’re tossed
Our ship it sails the seven seas
Because the captain’s lost
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
The cook he serves up soggy cheese
And toast that’s over done
The captain’s cat is full of fleas and
Scratches everyone
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Our sails they flutter in the breeze
As back and forth we’re tossed
Our ship it sails the seven seas
Because the captain’s lost
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
The cook he serves up soggy cheese
And toast that’s over done
The captain’s cat is full of fleas and
Scratches everyone
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Singing yo he ho sailing cross the ocean blue
Singing yo he ho I’m commin home to you
Sunday, November 29, 2009
At Walmart
I love it when I get to bring yall updates on new Classic Nick stuff and this one is very exciting for me, especially when my, or rather my Mom’s, discovery was so unexpected.
Okay so ya know you’re bored and you’re walking through Walmart with nothing to do, you’re just kinda killin’ time and looking at everything just to have something to do. And one of the things you like to do is kinda walk by the $5 movie bin, or in this case the 4-way, and casually look through the movies, not really expecting to find anything of any great impertinence, when low and behold you find a jewel in the mist of stupid movies. Well that’s what happened to Mamma and me a couple of weeks ago.
My Mom and I were over by the $5 movie display and I wasn’t looking through them b/c I figured why bother right? It’s the same movies they always have. Then all of the sudden my Mom picks up a DVD and says, “Isn’t this that cartoon of the snowman that you like?”, and she handed it to me.
I took one look at it and almost screamed my head off. She handed me the DVD version of Raymond Briggs’ “The Snowman” from 1982!!!!!!!!!!
Alright so the next question you’re going to ask is, “Why should we, the Classic Nickelodeon community care about this?” I’ll tell you why. This classic cartoon was showed on Nickelodeon as one of their Special Delivery movies!!!
This is a true holiday classic with the most beautiful animation I think I’ve ever seen in any movie and the musical score is just as lovely. And I think we all remember the beautiful “Walking In The Air” that was sung as the snowman and the little boy fly through the night sky.
If you’re looking for a true holiday classic, which also just happens to be a Classic Nickelodeon Special Delivery as well, then pick up a copy of Raymond Briggs’ “The Snowman” on DVD and fall in love with your childhood all over again.
Okay so ya know you’re bored and you’re walking through Walmart with nothing to do, you’re just kinda killin’ time and looking at everything just to have something to do. And one of the things you like to do is kinda walk by the $5 movie bin, or in this case the 4-way, and casually look through the movies, not really expecting to find anything of any great impertinence, when low and behold you find a jewel in the mist of stupid movies. Well that’s what happened to Mamma and me a couple of weeks ago.
My Mom and I were over by the $5 movie display and I wasn’t looking through them b/c I figured why bother right? It’s the same movies they always have. Then all of the sudden my Mom picks up a DVD and says, “Isn’t this that cartoon of the snowman that you like?”, and she handed it to me.
I took one look at it and almost screamed my head off. She handed me the DVD version of Raymond Briggs’ “The Snowman” from 1982!!!!!!!!!!
Alright so the next question you’re going to ask is, “Why should we, the Classic Nickelodeon community care about this?” I’ll tell you why. This classic cartoon was showed on Nickelodeon as one of their Special Delivery movies!!!
This is a true holiday classic with the most beautiful animation I think I’ve ever seen in any movie and the musical score is just as lovely. And I think we all remember the beautiful “Walking In The Air” that was sung as the snowman and the little boy fly through the night sky.
If you’re looking for a true holiday classic, which also just happens to be a Classic Nickelodeon Special Delivery as well, then pick up a copy of Raymond Briggs’ “The Snowman” on DVD and fall in love with your childhood all over again.
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