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Doctor Who Theme with Music

I generally do a music post on Saturday night, and tonight being the 50th anniversary of the very first Doctor Who episode, that pretty much locks down the theme. A number of fans have done their own version of Doctor Who Theme, and I thought I would share a few of the ones I really liked today. The first one is by Camille and Kennerly Kitt, also known as the Harp Twins, and they have done a truly unique version. The next is Doctor Who Meets Metal from Eric Calderone. Then we have Lara plays the Doctor Who theme on violin, and I would like to point out the posters behind her and her R2D2 skirt.

Finally, we finish up with the famous Doctor Who Theme Song played with Tesla Coils by Ark Attack! If you haven’t already played with the musical possibilities inherent in Tesla Coils, it is really pretty simple. They are spark gaps (sometimes some pretty freaking big spark gaps) through the air generated by Alternating Current. How frequently they spark per second determines the frequency of the sound they make, which allows you to use them to play music. It works best with a standard synthesizer keyboard structure, where the key you press engages the preset oscillator circuit that feeds power to the coil at the desired frequency.

Silly A Capella Who and Karen’s take on 50

There does come a point where you have to admit some of this might just be the tiniest bit silly. But what’s not to love? The following video is quite tasty, an interview with Karen Gillan about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary that also talks about her role on another excellent Sci-Fi franchise, Guardians Of The Galaxy, part of the Marvelverse, and perhaps one or two other projects she is in the middle of.

A Capella Doctor Who Theme

The Doctor Who theme has been sung A Capella on more than one occasion, so as we gear up for the 50th I thought I would present a few of them. Some have been done better than others. OK there might have been an A Capella version of I Am The Doctors sneak in there somehow.

The 2nd Doctor Psudo Paintings

The same thing again some more; taking black and white photographs from some VERY early Doctor Who stories, convert them, colorize them, and create my own version of the colorize portraits. This time around it it the 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and a companion or two of his.

Doctor Who 50th Radio Plays this week!

BBC4 Extra is pulling out all the stops this week in honor of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, and running a complete Radio Play story every day. Not that you can tell if you look at the episodes at 6PM and 6:30PM each day, since that is only the first two episodes of each story. But if you start at the following Midnight you will see every episode of that story listed, starting with Doctor Who and the Daleks this past Sunday morning, the 17th, which ran 8 or 10 episodes long. I should probably also mention that that one, along with a lot of the rest of them, are brand new, never before available Doctor Who stories, or at least not available from the BBC Radio service. They are only online for a single week, so start listening to them now, so you can hear them before they evaporate. They also have some serious original programming coming up that is only available in Radio format for the celebration, including Who Made Who, a three hour documentary on the anniversary itself next Saturday. Be sure to check the Doctor Who 50th web site, and absolutely hit the Guide to Doctor Who Specials across the BBC, which lists out every program on every channel.

The First Doctor Psudo Painting

I continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and wanted to create my own images to use as wallpaper, icons, buttons, and other applications. For this set, my inspiration was an art form developed somewhere between 1880 and WWII, where they only had the chemical set to capture black and white photographs. They would print them out at the highest resolution they could manage, which usually made the grain of the film stock on the negatives obvious (kind of the 1930s version of pixelation), and then hand paint the prints to create their own version of classic portrait paintings. The results were often quite attractive, in a paint-outside-the-lines kind of way, and it was interesting to see which areas they decided to color and what they left black and white, showing what they thought was important within the image. So here are a few pictures I created in that style celebrating the first Doctor, and I will probably share a few more over the next week or two that celebrate other Doctors.