Celebration: Happy 2010
Altered original poster from the astonishing king of movie posters - Wrong Side of the Art.
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Children's Illustration: Iron Hand
KidPix: "Ежовы рукавицы". Иллюстрации Б. Калаушина
(Google translated: "Iron hand". Illustrations Kalaushina B.)
Year? Anyone?
Via Kickcan & Conkers
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Vintage Animation: Sportspegeln
Screen stills from a 1960s animated intro to the Swedish sports TV show - Sportspegeln ("The Sports Mirror") which has aired regularly since 1961. I can't say for sure, though, that this is the original intro...
Vintage: Toys
"Thuringen wooden toys, 19th century"A Journey Round My Skull: Apes on a Horse and More Toys from the Void
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Christmas Music: Sant-O-Nine
Contrary to their earlier predictions the guys over at Klasch Records managed to find some time and energy to make yet another Christmas compilation. This year they call it Sant-O-Nine. All of us at Martin Klasch hope that you'll enjoy the music and wish you a Merry Merry Christmas! God Jul!Alternative: download SANT-O-NINE 09.rar at zshare. (Password = the name of this blog without space) Christmas is over for this year!
PS) Get it before 31/12/2009
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Here are some of the sources of the music on the compilation:
A Christmas Yuleblog
Falalalala.com
Ernie (Not Bert)
Jul igen - Christmas Again
77 Santas
And the cover photo I found at senses working overtime's Flickr.
Thanks you all and Merry Christmas!
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Illustration: Vintage Pipe Smoking and Christmas
A couple of nice pipe smoking vintage men from senses working overtime's Flickr tagged christmas.
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Comics: The End of Assar?
By Ulf LundkvistRumors say that Sweden's largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) will cut its popular comic strip Assar after 20 years.
If you are a fan of the comic consider joining the Facebook group Vi som vill ha kvar Assar i DN.
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Ephemera: AXA
Larssons Blogg: AXA catalogue of car accessories from 1958.
Not much posted from it yet but Larsson has promised to do so in the future.
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Christmas Music: Klasch Records 2005-2008
Klasch Records sadly informs us that they will not release a new Christmas record this year. There just wasn't enough time and energy. (Edit: Sant-O-Nine!) However they send our readers their best wishes for the Holidays and kindly lets us repost Santaism (2008), Santaphonic (2007), Santology (2006), Santalicious (2005).
Click the individual images to get to the music and to unpack you type the name of this blog (without space).
Get it while you can and happy listening!
Update: Christmas is over for this year!
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Ephemera: Hotel Door Hangers
Michael Lebowitz: hotel door hangers collected by my grandfather
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I just had to re-post this too. Now I'm off!
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Book Covers: The Maltese Falcon
I'm off on a week's vacation. I leave you wondering where I'm off to with this book cover found at coverbrowser.
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Design: Sweden
I wonder to what extent a non-Swede can identify these symbols...
Via This Isn't Happiness
As understand it, it was made by Andreas Pihlström Suprb and/or Rasmus Andersson Hunch
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Book Covers: De houn...
"Frisian detective by A. Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes or. The hound of the Baskervilles) Issued in The Netherlands early 60's. Published by AJO."
twincovercollector's Flickr
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