Lover of anything vintage.
I spend my free time looking at antiques,watching and collecting classic films,and reading some of the greatest literary classics known to man.This blog is just my way of sharing my interests with other people.
We are excited to post this first entry of the new year, even if it is fairly small and seemingly insignificant.
Thank you once again for participating in another immensely successful year of A Very Vintage Christmas throughout the month of December.
Have you noticed the new look here on the site? This will be our design for 2014, and we are excited that you finally get to see.
Things will run according to a regular schedule beginning in February, with regular Star of the Month and Movie of the Month posts. We would also like to begin Silent Saturday segments again, which would be once a month. You can also be looking forward to a classically sweet post in honor of Valentine's Day within the next couple weeks.
We are ready to take part in all kinds of classic adventures with you in 2014!
Stay tuned!
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Did you know we have a Twitter AND a Facebook account?
Do you like the new page and logo? It was time for a bit of a makeover since it is now officially 2013. We were kind of thinking "less is more."
That's not all that's new around here, though. This year you can still look forward to our regular posts and stories in conjunction with the TCM Star of the Month. You can also count on having special seasonal posts again this year like A Very Vintage Christmas. But we're excited to announce a couple of new ideas that we are going to test out in an effort to catch the attention of people who hold an interest in more specific genres.
The first one, inspired as you can no doubt guess by our most recent post, is a new segment titled Silent Saturdays. We often overlook silent films even though we love them, and we'd love to share that interest with you. So, one Saturday a month we will be doing a post on great actors, actresses, and their movies of the silent film era. We'll also post full features and short silent films in conjunction with that on our Facebook page as they are made available.
The second one we are going to do is Musical Mondays. It hasn't escaped our notice that musicals also tend to have their own special following these days because they are so often automatically dismissed and brushed aside unjustly for supposedly being "corny" or "cheesy." Well, we love musicals (of course we do). So here's another chance to highlight a specific genre that isn't getting much love anymore. It'll work just the same as the other new segment--one Monday a month we'll highlight a different musical and why we love it, and we'll upload hit songs onto our Facebook page to go along with it.
We hope you'll be cinematic nerds along with us and get jazz hands over these new posts, as well as all the old ones!
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the new page for Think Classic!
I really hope you like it.
I just figured I would try something a little different for the new year.
A little on the bright side? Yes, I know. But it's fun, and still vintage, so I think it will work for a while even if it's not permanent.
Just a forewarning though--As you can see, the text colors I have been using for the last year or so just aren't working as well with the new layout and background, so I will be playing around with what colors work.Right now I'm thinking: dark pink for key words, powder blue for dates/numbers, and pastel purple for titles, etc.
I also want to extend my apologies for being absent for a little while.
You know how the holidays go. I was traveling, and didn't always have internet access, and starting back to school, etc.
But I'm getting cozily settled back into my routine again, so I should be getting back on my horse and getting this show on the road.So, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your patience.
Now, I have a couple announcements:
First, just a heads-up, that I will be doing a post on TCMStar of the MonthAngela Lansbury this Sunday, January 15. So look out for that.
Second, I am interested in doing a little contest. We'll see if this is actually achievable, but I would like to do some sort of a photo contest, where the winner will get their own brief background mention in a post that also includes a write up on who they would pick for Star of theMonth and why. I think I'll tie up all the loose ends of this idea and the official details will beincluded at the end of the post for Angela Lansbury.
So, I think that's about it for now.
I'm so excited about a whole new year of posts on everything classic and vintage. A whole new year of being able to share my passion.
Welcome back, if you're one of my faithful followers, and just plain welcome if you're just joining us here at Think Classic!
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And comment, whether good or bad, as always. You have no idea how great it is to get feedback.
There's a lot of good history and tradition behind New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations, and since the new year is in sight, I thought it'd be fun to give a little backgroud.But not in a droll, boring kid of way, of course.
As most people know, even if they don't live in the United States, in America, one of our biggest celebrations for New Year's Eve is the ball drop in Times Square.
The original ball was dropped on New Year's Eve in 1907.
The ball was made of wood and iron, weighed around 700 pounds, and only measured 5 feet in diameter.
Now, if you know anything about the New Year's ball we currently have perched in Times Square, you couldn't help but notice that it has undergone some drastic changes for the better since 1907. It was replaced for the first of several times in 1920.It remained the same size of 5 feet in diameter, but was made only of iron, and weighed around 400 pounds.That ball stayed in use until the 1950s, when it was replaced for a second time with a ball made of aluminum, making it weigh a slight 150 pounds. The year 1995 brought some interesting changes.Rhinestone and strobe lights were added to the ball.This was also the first year that the ball was lowered with computer technology. A new ball was designed for the new millenium-radically different from the old ones. This new ball measured 6 feet in diameter, weighed over 1,000 pounds, was covered in over 500Waterford Crystal triangles, and was illuminated with 600 bulbs (both internal and external) plus strobe lights and spinning mirrors. One thing I hadn't known before today, but I think is really neat, is that many of these triangles on the New Millenium ball were inscribed with messages like "Hope for Fellowship," "Hope for Wisdom," "Hope for Unity," etc. The New Millenium ball was used for 7 years. Then, for the 100th anniversary of the ball drop, yet another ball was made.This ball was 6 feet in diameter, weighs 1,212 pounds, and was lit with LED lights. This fifth Centennial ball was used for only one year (which seems a little extravagant/excessive to me, but what do I know?). It was then replaced by the ball we will be using tomorrow night.The same design was kept, but it was enlarged so that the current ball sitting in Times Square as I type is 12 feet in diameter, weighs over 11,000 pounds, and has over 9,000 bulbs that light it.This new ball is so much bigger and heavier that the flag pole it sits on had to be rebuilt to support it.
"Should old acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot And old lang syne? For auld lang syne,my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne."
First verse and chorus to the song Auld Lang Syne, based off of a traditional Scottish poem. The phrase "auld lang syne" translates to something along the lines of "old times," and is sung at many things that signify the ending of one chapter in life and the beginning of another, but is most widely known today for being sung at midnight on New Year's Eve. Listen to the song here:
And, with that, I wish you a verysafe and happyNew Year's Eve tomorrow. Celebrate it with people you love. Here's to resolutions hope for a new year and hope that the New Year's Eve ball really doesn't get stuck halfway down the flagpole. ;)
"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."-T.S. Eliot
"Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the whole world coming together to celebrate the hope of a new year?"-New Year's Eve, 2011
