Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Blog: Quad Royal
Tom Eckersley illustrates lithographic colour printing
A great Eckersley nicked from a great new place called Quad Royal - a blog about (mainly British) posters and graphics (from the 40s, 50s and sometimes 60s).
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Architecture: UFO in the Suburbs
In the 50s this UFO landed and stuck in between two buildings in the Stockholm suburb Råcksta. Photo by Libby who runs the blog Femtiotalsjakten (my translation: "In Search of the 50s") - it's in Swedish but you might like it just the same...
Femtiotalsjakten: Råcksta - i skuggan av Vällingby
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Film Stills: I Love Hot Dogs
Quoting Grain Edit: "If your into classic + cult films it would be worth your while to check Shannon Maldonado’s I Love Hot Dogs./.../. I appreciate her selection process as she sometimes includes typographic/design details that can easily go unnoticed (think street signs, window lettering, etc.)."
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Blog: Mondorama 2000
Mondorama 2000
Selected color illustrations from encyclopedias for the young (1945-1975).
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Vintage Postcards: Popcards.fr
"Popcards.fr has changed its address. We moved to http://popcardsfr.blogspot.com" says Poupi. So note this update or else she might shoot you.
Bulletin Board: Have You Seen This Man?!
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| From Martin Klasch |
Missing: German, Male, known as rideyourpony (AKA RYP and klein-pferd-ritter), admired excellent director of the Twilightzone! music blog (http://rideyourpony-twighlightzone.blogspot.com/) Last seen ? (a few days ago? Edit: yesterday) the blog has ceased to exist! Voluntarily or forced? If you have any information about this case please leave a comment.
:((
PS. If anyone wonders about the image it is one of the posters for "Jour de fête" (I've removed some details from the original image) not that it matters on this "Jour de tristesse"...
UPDATE: Here he is! :D
Thanks to the commentators. Now we can celebrate this "Jour de fête" after all!
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Blog: Martin Klasch wins the Arte y Pico award!
I received a mail today.
The in crowd of I'm Learning To Share! wrote:
"I've passed along an 'Arte Y Pico' Award to you for the wonder that is Martin Klasch."
An award?! Me?! Wow, how cool. I don't think I've ever gotten an award before. So I rushed over to I'm Learning To Share! to check if it was just a cruel joke or what. But it was all true! There it was - a shining trophy and the one-man jury's reasons for honoring me with this award:
"Image! Color! Line! Design! Art! Inspiration! P-E Fronning's crisply visual blog sends sparks through my retinas and fires the imagination. An ongoing eclectic gallery of stuff that has COOL in common."
Wow... again. If there is any truth in those words - and I'm not suggesting otherwise - I'm just happy and slightly embarrassed. To know that what you do is appreciated is always a good feeling and it inspires you to continue. Creating a blog can be a pretty lonely business. It is perhaps especially true for these kinds of blogs where the visual experience is in focus that feed-back is scarce. Many of your readers are bloggers themselves and on a never-ending hunt for blog-worthy stuff. Often you feel there's no time to stop, reflect and comment. At least that's how I feel. Unfortunately. With this in mind I'd say that this kind of recognition is valuable. Thank you, the in crowd!
This award is, as you will see below, sort of a meme/chain letter construction created by the Arte y Pico blog. Generally I don't participate in memes mostly because they are too personal for me and they'd claim too much of my time, but an award that gives you a good opportunity to recommend and praise other blogs is a very nice thing. And if you're wondering about the meaning of "Arte y Pico" it is said to be:
"...basically, ironically, it translates into a wonderful phrase in Mexico, 'the maximum.' "It will never find its exact counterpart in English, but if it HAD to, it would be something like "Wow. The Best Art. Over the top."
Here are the rules for the Arte Y Pico Award:
1) You must choose up to 5 blogs that you consider to be deserving of this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and for their contribution to the blogging community.
2) Each award granted must include the name of the awarded blog's author and provide a link to his/her blog so it may be visited by all.
3) Each award winner must exhibit the award, and provide the name of the person who presented her/him with the award, along with a link to that person's blog.
4) Both the award winner and the one who has given the award must show a link to the “Arte y Pico” blog so that everyone will know it's origin.
5) You must also show these rules.
OK. Picking five bloggers is, to say the least, a tough chore.
First of all I'm deciding not to award any previous laureates and this leaves out I'm Learning To Share! and his other picks - Bedazzled!, Dark Roasted Blend, If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats and Fabulon. The first three could possibly have ended up on my list and the fourth one is a interesting new acquaintance.
Second there are a few blogs that I won't award for reasons that I want to have said. PCL LinkDump - I'm honored to be a contributor to this blog and even if Sebastian/Mr Dante Fontana is the great creator and the kingpin of the blog it feels just a little bit strange to award it. I know someone else will do that very soon (if they haven't already). Josephzohn gås blogger is another blog that I could have awarded. He is an artist building mostly scaled models of Swedish outhouses and he is blogging lots of nice stuff (in Swedish) but too much sport especially bandy to be awarded ;)
Please check my blogroll for all the others who just as well could have made the cut!
The pick (alphabetically):
Agence eureka - Pita ou franck is a Frenchwoman who has been scanning her seemingly enormous amount of French vintage magazines and books for years with an impressive diligence. Her material is mainly from the 30s to the 50s and it is full of great illustrations and games for children, movie stars etc. Some might prefer the Eureka Annexe. Pita, you are Magnifique!
BibliOdyssey - Paul or "peacay" is the Sydney-based curator of his blog of "wonderful things made by other people". As one might suspect it is a journey into the world of books. It is also a fantastic journey in time and one of intriguing visual experiences. Get a ticket and get on board!
Datajunkie - The hardest working blogger focusing on comic books that I know of is Hyperdave. His collection of vintage comic books and books in the genres sci-fi, fantasy, horror, crime, superheros must be simply huge, and he's scanning it for me and you. Very rare and very cool stuff! Hyperdave IS the Comic Book Guy!
Deadlicious - "Handmade rock'n'roll patisseries to die for" by the Luchadores of blog: King Santo, BigG, Filo Loco, Jimmy Pantera. "It's a strange and funny mixture that we want to share with you. It's what we are, real and rock'n'roll ! " You DO rock, guys!
This Isn't Happiness - But it is! It is pure happiness. Peteski has a infallible and unique eye for visual cool- and goodness and he creates his blog without a single superfluous word. Check out his other ultra cool X818 productions. I know nothing else about Peteski but there are quite clearly a chance he is a brilliant web designer/designer.
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UPDATE:
Related post from June 2007: Fact: I hate memes ;)
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Ephemera: Interview
Ephemera - Marty Weil's excellent ephemera blog - features an interview with Yours Truly about blogging.
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Statistics: The Three Most Popular Posts
I just realized, checking in on the stats, that Martin Klasch had a hit post almost two weeks ago - on the 1st of this month to be exact. Sure there were a few comments but not a staggering amount so I had no idea.
The average number of unique visitors a day, over the last two years is 301 but during the same period three (3) posts have created some major traffic - or so I think anyway.
The first and the most popular one was The James Bond title sequences on the 21st of November 2006 - unfortunately those videos are gone from YouTube but most or all the titles can be found if you search for them. Anyway, it generated 8,691 visitors and about 20,000 "extra" visitors all together.
The second peak visible on the chart was small in comparison peaking at 2,087 (approximately 4,500 in total). The post, on the 2nd of February 2007, was this one: Desmond Dekker - Israelites. Oh yes, go ahead - you can still watch and listen to the great Mr Dekker.
And now, finally, the third "top post" and the one I began telling you about in the beginning of this post. The second most popular post ever for this blog is... *drum roll*: Lion in a sidecar! It took in about 7,500 visitors total in one week and peaking on the 1st of August (2008) at 5,065. It seems that MetaFilter was mainly responsible for spreading the word. The other times I believe it was boingboing's fault.
So, how do we wrap this post up? Why have I been reading this, you ask. Is there a conclusion or a moral to it all? Golly, what demands! Well, I don't know, maybe it makes it pretty obvious that a post need not be very elaborate or very good to be a hit. This blog has certainly had more elaborate and some better posts. That's what I think at least. But whether or not you create a hit has a great deal to do with timing and luck. But you already knew that. Thanks for reading.
PS. No I don't think this post will grab a spot in the Martin Klasch hall of fame.
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Anniversary: Happy Birthday to PCL LinkDump!
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Happy Birthday to PCL LinkDump! - Four years today.
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Blog: Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians
I'm sorry. It's mean but I find this pretty funny. No, I'm not sorry. If you are offended please just walk on by...
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Blog: Martin Klasch is no longer unheard of
The observant reader may have noticed that I have added a little button (
Why, oh why, you may ask, and rightfully so. We are not really the text based blog that might benefit from having such a service. We have posts that consists of only an image or an embedded video and hardly any text. Well, the simple answer is that we simply had to test it as soon as we heard about it at Stationsvakt, just for the fun of it. Podcasting may be unnecessary for this blog but I must say that I'm impressed with how the automated voice sounds. I believe they have voices in English, Swedish and French. Maybe you want to test it for your own blog?
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Blog: I'm Learning To Share!
A little bit of everything with a taste of yesterdays - visit I'm Learning To Share!
There is no way you'll be disappointed at these great shares.
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