Look at me! I did a thing! I finally noodled around with the GIMP software I downloaded and with exactly zero help, videos or user guides, I added some text to a pretty picture.
I know, I know. You're blown away.
The picture is by Dugald Stewart Walker from his 1920 book Dream Boats and Other Stories, originally published in 1920. I found this particular image at Old Books Illustrated, which I highly recommend if you're into vintage aesthetics/ephemera. I use their stuff all the time in my creative expressions.
Try not to worry though, I won't over-state it. I know how quickly a pattern gets boring nowadays.
Anyway, I went with something really simple this time because I'm going to attempt to move the image and the text to the audio next. I'd like to make it pretty in a more technologically sophisticated kind of way. I may need some luck...
Sheet music for the tune of Sleep, Baby Sleep goes back as far as 1880, but a written version is also included in Percy B. Green's 1899 book, A History of Nursery Rhymes. The audio adaptation is narrated by Ruth Golding for the open source audio project Librivox and most definitely has different lyrics. I'll figure out which version to mesh with music, later. I guess which ever version goes best with digitized synth bass...
Moving on!
Don't you think there's something especially lovely about a gentle lullaby? To be honest, I'd completely forgotten they existed before I stumbled on the idea to put a short one on the moon picture. Now I want to call my mom and my aunties to talk about family and songs. Did your loved ones ever croon at your cradle? What did they sing?
Love and Magic (and pleasant dreams),
- Boosh