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Radiant beams from thy hairy face
with the dawn of rebellion in space.
It loses a bit in the translation, but Chewie sings the carol rather well.
-via reddit
Photo: Clayton Hauck for The Wall Street Journal
What if Charles Dickens were a Trekkie? Well, wonder no more. Here’s "A Klingon Christmas Carol," performed completely in the Klingon language:
The arc of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" follows the familiar Dickens script: An old miser is visited on a hallowed night by three ghosts who shepherd him through a voyage of self-discovery. The narrative has been rejiggered to match the Klingon world view.
For starters, since there is neither a messiah nor a celebration of his birth on the Klingon planet of Kronos, the action is pegged to the Klingon Feast of the Long Night. Carols and trees are replaced with drinking, fighting and mating rituals. And because Klingons are more concerned with bravery than kindness, the main character’s quest is for courage.
Douglas Belkin of The Wall Street Journal has the story: Link
Update 12/19/10 – Oops, Miss C covered this three weeks ago. See more photos and video at Kuriositas.
We featured the Bowen Beer Bottle Band last Christmas performing “Do You Hear What I Hear?” The second annual Bowen Beer Bottle Band video features an expanded lineup of performers in “Angels We Have Heard on High.” Link -via Buzzfeed
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The Swingtop Philharmonic Orchestra, an all-star combo assembled especially for this project, plays “Oh, Christmas Tree” on instruments made from beer bottles in this ad from Belgian Dutch brewer Grolsch. -via the Presurfer
By the Bowen Beer Bottle Band. Link -via Metafilter
Barrett Haroldson of Colle+McVoy ad agency worked on Yahoo! Messenger’s newest microsite: Emoticarolers, where you can "compose" your own Christmas ditty to be sung by four emoticons sent to the digital doorsteps of your family and friends.
Here’s the Neatorama Emoticarollers: Link [Flash] – Thanks Barrett!
BTW, I just found out that Colle+McVoy has worked on quite few interesting microsites featured previously on Neatorama, including the Human Flipbook, Candle Cannon and Yearbook Yourself.
