Our post this morning on The Tranquil Parent got me thinking about crayons - specifically, about an old Sesame Street segment that shows how crayons are made at a crayon factory. I remembered the visuals from childhood, and fortunately it's right there on YouTube. This is great stuff for broadening young kids' horizons using items with which they are intimately familiar.



But in my search I discovered something even more inspiring: A musician who loved the music from this segment so much that he tracked down what authorship he could (it's only partial) and then reconstructed the score himself and performed and recorded it. Cross-fertilization like this is usually confined to videoblogging essayists conversing (which is great in itself, especially if you find people who are actually good at it), so this was a rare treat for me. This video also makes great use of YouTube's new text-note feature to provide commentary and detail throughout without interrupting the music or requiring a lengthy expository intro.


- Jeremiah