hmm no wikipedia i didn’t know that. i mean that’s pretty high praise tho how impressive could it beOH GODDAMNIT IT’S THE COOLEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE
[ID: screenshot of a Wikipedia factoid that reads, “Did you know that Script Ohio has been called one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence?”
The video shows the Ohio State University Marching Band performing its traditional Script Ohio routine, in which the drum major leads the band single-file to form an enormous cursive Ohio on the field. The crossovers require absolute precision timing. It is a FEAT. At the end, the drum major leads out a sousaphone player, who kind of high-kicks his way to dot the I. (Wikipedia calls it a “bounding goose-step.”) He gives a sweeping bow to each side of the stadium. The band then sings “Buckeye Battle Cry” while accompanied only by the sousaphone. Here’s the Wikipedia article, which has a much better description than mine. ]
Did you know that Script Ohio gets me teary-eyed? Just something about the decades of work that sousaphone player has put in with a difficult and (forgive me for saying it) somewhat unpopular instrument, all leading up to this moment, and the double high-five with the drum major, to say nothing of the song, the precision when the marchers cross through the lines of the O and the h, everything.
I’m sure part of it is nostalgia–I grew up in Ohio, most of my friends were in marching band in high school–but I think there is also something actually special about Script Ohio.
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#art #home of the brave #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#discourse cw #sexuality and lack thereof #that one post with the thing #(I’m amazed that Siikr was actually able to dig this up) #(probably because it was tagged) #comics #art #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I actually used to hate it! Like, actually despise it! Yellow was too bright, too loud, discordant, unruly, and clashed with everything. Nothing like what I wanted in my life, nothing I wanted to be.
When I first moved away from home, everything I owned was black. Jet back. As black as I could get. Smooth, cool, sleek, discrete, calm, unassuming. Flexible, cohesive, agreeable black. Fashionable black.
I had a really, really bad time. Unrelated to the decor. It was my first year out of a toxic place I’d grown used to my whole life, my first year acknowledging a mental illness I’d believed to be normal, my first year fending for myself with very little money or sleep or companionship.
I’d grown up on instant white rice and unseasoned ground beef. One day I realized that everything I’d been raised on tasted like cardboard. While out on an assignment, I passed a tent with a woman selling spices, and bought myself some turmeric. I went home and tried making curry with it. It was so yellow.
Another time, my professor took us out to a modern art gallery. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but when we got there, the whole building had been painted bright sunshine yellow.
The artist’s theme was “happiness”.
What it is. How we make it. How to share it.
All bright, lovely yellow.
The house I grew up in was beige. The walls were white. The appliances were post 9/11 stainless steel. My job was to be quiet, compliant, presentable and agreeable.
Black goes with everything. Black is neutral. Black is quiet, reserved, elegant and mysterious.
Yellow is warm. Yellow does what it wants. Yellow tastes sweet and spicy and hot and cool, like a summer breeze, like sunflower petals, powdery like dust on a long dirt road and soothing like well-worn linen.
I still like the look of black. I like the look of most colors. But I like the way that Yellow makes me feel.
Do you understand?
Thank you to everyone in the notes sharing why they love yellow!
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#art #fanart #comics #storytime #colourful #I love this #(…though I did not notice the fridge horror the first time I read it) #(even though I know I had read https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/they-got-the-lead-out-turmeric.html by then) #((possibly I hadn’t learned yet that even rich countries struggle with spice contamination to a significant extent)) #((even if not *as* much)) #(let us hope that the turmeric was‚ uh‚ not *too* yellow) #poison cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#Tumblr traditions #Christmas #so‚ traditionally I reblog this post once a year on the day I first hear ”Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” #(…technically it was yesterday‚ but it’s been less than 24 hours!) #(anyway) #my workplace is on a non-Christmas-music station right now‚ so yes‚ it did take me until December 19th to hear it #and even then… #the version on the grocery-store playlist says #instead of ”won’t you guide my sleigh tonight” #”*you can ride with me* tonight” #and *skips the last verse* #(I think it proceeds directly into ”Jingle Bells” instead) #which‚ uh
#history #art #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#Girl Genius #art #comics #murder cw? #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I also don’t go *here* but who among us has never wanted to murder someone with a block of Swiss cheese) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Lupin III #Legend of Zelda #art #fanart #comics #crossovers #I don’t go to either of these places but #I love the concept of a lucid dreamer standing in a private pocket universe musing about #how his friends are probably drawing on his real body’s face right now #(even though I assume that is not actually what is happening) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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