Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite"--A Triptych

[dmarley]

My daughter, as some of you may know, is completely obsessed with volcanoes. I believe this to be a direct result of her watching the "Firebird Suite" portion of Fantasia 2000 approximately fifty billion times. She was eventually moved to create her own visual interpretation of the video, shown here:



Artist's comments:

Picture 1 (left): This is the fairy making flowers, then she's touching the volcano and waking it up.

Picture 2 (middle): This is the volcano chasing the fairy.

Picture 3 (right): This is the fairy making flowers and being happy.

(I have, by the way, done my best to explain that real volcanoes don't erupt when you touch them, and also explained that touching real volcanoes is a bad idea anyway. I suspect she knows this already, but I thought I'd make the effort to stave off years of therapy for vulcanophobia.)

ETA: If you haven't seen Fantasia 2000 or don't remember the segment, you can watch it here.

Comments

[perclexed.livejournal.com]

EEEE so cute!!! :D And yes, touching volcanoes = bad. Unless maybe you're in one of those vulcanologist suits? *ponders*

[sanba38.livejournal.com]

If the lava is glowing, you should avoid it, yes.

Otherwise, well, hey! I live on a volcano, and I've lived on volcanoes for years. They just happen to be extinct is all. Not that the dormant ones aren't fun to play on...

Is she obsessed enough to know the difference between a lava flow and a nuee ardente yet? To know why shield volcanoes are less dangerous than stratovolcanoes, or why cinder cones never get very big?

See if you can get Melissa to dig out that book I gave her and read that poem about the volcano and the

[dmarley.livejournal.com]

One of the first things I told her, actually, was that I have a friend who lives on a volcano. She thought that was pretty darn cool.

So far, my education on volcanoes hasn't gotten as far as typing them. I suspect there's going to be a steep Mommy learning curve soon.

[mrsdalejunior.livejournal.com]

Hi! You might not remember me but we met at hypericon last year (I went to your knitting session). Are you planning another knit-a-long at this years con?

By the way, those are adorable pictures :)

[ladypredator.livejournal.com]

Hi! Haven't talked to you in a while and wanted to get in touch. Do you have my new email? jennyann67@bellsouth.net. It would be really nice to be able to get together sometime. I'm not sure I have a working email for you or phone or I'd have gotten in touch that way. Drop me a line sometime. -Jenny