WFMU's Beware of the Blog has a great post called "A short audio-visual history of the GDR (mp3s, videos)". Listen to "Die Partei hat immer recht" (The Party is alway right), German space music like "Kosmos", "FDJ" by IFA Wartburg (more on them here and here) and more. Watch East German commercials like the one above. Ziemlich gut gemacht, Genossen!
Hot Sheila & B. Devotion moving to their disco hit "Singing in the Rain". According to the one who posted this on YouTube it's from an East German (GDR, DDR) television show. One might think it's a bit too decadent to appear there. Can someone confirm? Any Information out there about the TV-show? When is it? (The song is from 1977)
UPDATE
According to signature Terrified who commented on this (Thanks!) it's NOT an East German TV show, he writes: "The show was called Musikladen and was on from 1972-1984. It was shot in Bremen, West Germany. Before it was called Musikladen, it ran as Beat Club from 1965-1972 with the same hosts and format." Thanks again Terrified! Our preconceptions of the East German society are thus restored...
This is actually what the same architect (as the one below) , Gert Wingårdh, first came up with! But the the politicians in Stockholm are just such a bunch of cowards! They thought it was just too spaced out and turned it down! So they chose to erect a building that is plain, blends in and will probably simply disappear... (sigh!)
The new Landmark at Norra Bantorget.
Look! The front will be in glass. How progressive. Never, ever seen it before.
Rotundan, Norra Bantorget, built 1938-40, architect Holger Blom
No there wasn't a fire, they tore it down! When will they ever learn!
Catherine Bujold loves molded plastic, Space 1999 and EXPO 67 (nice link!). She is turning her apartment into a Space 1999 enviroment. Beam yourself over.
CATHERINE BUJOLD SORELLARIUM 13
Via World of Kane.
Sorry! Nothing about that here, but please stop by Martin Klasch for lots of other stuff. We are a diverse link blog. We've got many posts about funny things, music, illustration, design, movies, architecture, art and much much more.
What's the song?
The joke about "French military victories" is:
1. Go to Google.
2. Type French military victories.
3. Press "I'm Feeling Lucky".
Seen lately at Cynical-C Blog
We have posted links to Sergio Mendes before and now it's time for "Herb Alpert presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66" over at
ROCKOVERGRACELAND. Check out the cool cover! Why not swing by?
"This sublime record from 1970 seems like the quintessence of everything the composer with the dark brown baritone had achieved during his projects in the 1960's. Especially the moods and styles from the Nancy Sinatra period (Some Velvet 
Morning, Summer Wine) echoe strongly. Divine!"
Thus writes Lellebelle and offers us to download this fine record.
A nice article (från den digitala kulturtidskriften Krauss99) in Swedish about Lee.
One of several illustrations by Ernest "Ernie" Nordli found at Cartoon Modern.
"Old working Schuco clown. Height about 10-12 cm. It plays the fiddle and moves when you wind it up."
Bid for it here. It's at about 100 bucks right now.
(Note: Martin Klasch has nothing to do with it! Just thought it looked interesting)
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: The Lobby Cards of Cabral Part Two (Part Three in Martin Klasch!)
Here's Ernesto Garcia Cabral pt. 1
and pt. 2
Simon Spies (1921-84) was a wealthy excentric Dane who had made his fortune in the travel business. Villa Spies, or Villa Fjolle as it's also called, was built on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago as a summerhouse. Swedish architect Staffan Berglund designed the UFO-like house in 1969. Here and here is where you go for more info and photos.
They say he had great sexual appetite.
Thanks to Mr J who ordered this post.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa, built in 1970-72 as a capsule hotel, risks demolition.
Kisho Kurokawa's homepage.
Thanks to Mr Feckenbrenner!
The Palm Springs modern Committee is an admirable organization dedicated to saving threatened historic modernistic houses in the Palm Springs area...
There are lots of nice photos of groovy buildings at PS Modcom - Buildings
More Palm Springs modernism at Vintage Palm Springs Postcards.
"What follows is a few of my favorite crime comic books. In selecting these, I just flipped through my collection and started picking out books. Reasons for inclusion vary. Some simply have great eye appeal." This says Richard Wolfe, the person behind Crimeboss - Crime comic Books from the 1940s & 1950s, and you just got to agree. They do have eye appeal!
To go to the gallery click here!
Via RaShOmoN
"Right On Soul Hits - the stone smashes that are in the charts today! The big ones written by James Brown, Joe Tex, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett and a host of others. The tunes that are lighting up the soul charts from New Orleans to Boston - L.A. to New York. A right on collection in the original sound." (from the Liner Notes)
I don't know anything about who's playing but I think the recordings, on this album released in 1972, are great. Groovy listening!
Download from RapidShare
Password: lapaz
UPDATE: Downloads no longer possible
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"It all began in 1927. That's when Walt Disney's "Alice Comedies" cartoon series concluded - and when Disney signed a new contract with Universal Pictures. The plan was to create a new cartoon series under producers Charles Mintz and George Winkler. Disney and his colleague, head animator Ub Iwerks, devised a new character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit."
The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: Cartune Profiles: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Via Cartoon Brew
The complete classic movie Nosferatu (the original by F. W. Murnau from 1922) can be viewed on Google Video. Click here!
(Via Cynical-C Blog)
The same version can also be viewed here in YouTube (Via Bibi's Box - Bibi's YouTube) if you prefere that.
You can find a number of versions on YouTube like this one.
And finally you're able to download/view it in the Internet Archive.
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens in IMDb and in Wikipedia.
A famous photo full of jazz legends (click different parts of the image to get enlargement and more information). By Art Kane.
Sometime in the 50s SAS (Scandinavian Airlines System) made this promotional record aimed at the US market.
The B side is not very interesting it only consists of three pieces of classical Scandinavian music ("Suite ancienne" /Johan Halvorsen, "Pastoral suite" /Lars-Erik Larsson, "Champagne galop" /H.C. Lumbye). Not bad but you will find better recordings.
The A side, however, is made as a sort of musical...
"Pictures, colorful as they may be, tell only a part of the wonders of Europe. Even pictures with exciting words can't tell all the story. It takes 3D to bring a European Holiday to full, glorious life... pictures, words - AND MUSIC! And that's why this records was born.
"European Holiday" is a star feature of the giant-size S A S Travel PLanning Kit.
Here is the most exciting way ever devised for planning your trip. You see pictures of the wonderful sights in Europe... read about them....and the HEAR about hem too in this gay, romantic, Mitch Miller production. So start the music - and start dreaming!"
