Art: Mud muse

Mud muse by Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) at The Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. This is not a part of the current Rauschenberg exhibition - Combines - but a part of the museums collection.

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Poster Art: Hammer Film

"Hammer Film Productions is a film production company in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s." (more from Wikipedia)

The Hammer Collection De Daniel Frenette, is a French website dedicated to this film company. If you don't master the French lingo why don't you brows through the large collection of posters and cinema cards.

Via Bibi's Box






Another nice Hammer Film site is Dictionary of Hammer Horror. It contains lots of information and nice screen shots like this one:

"Original trailer for "The Vampire Lovers" a 1970 British Hammer Horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Peter Cushing, Polish actress Ingrid Pitt and Kate O'Mara. It is based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla and is part of the so-called Karnstein Trilogy of films. Other films in the trilogy are Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1972). The three films were somewhat daring for the time in explicitly depicting lesbian themes." (Uploaded by Desconocida ) Original trailer for "The Vampire Lov...

Music: Herbie Goins and The Nightimers

Herbie Goins and The Nightimers - Number One in Your Heart



You needn't watch this on a bigger screen! There's just a still image shown anyway. Just listen to this super groovy song!

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Nostalgia: The Persuaders!

The car race between Moore and Curtis in the first episode. This is how they meet. After this clip they will start a fight over how many olives goes into a Dry Martini. (Uploaded by Dansmoncafe)

"The Persuaders! is a British television series, which first aired in 1971 and 1972 in Britain's ITV and on the ABC Network in the United States. The series starred Tony Curtis, as Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore, as Lord Brett Sinclair, both millionaire international playboys, but from very different American and British backgrounds." (more from Wikipedia)
The show was a big fiasco in the States (they only showed 20 out of the 24 episodes) but it was a big success in many European countries. Moore had only signed up for one season so he could easily sneak off to doing Bond and Curtis, well honestly, his good days had already ended some time ago, hadn't they?
Maybe the fact that only one season was done the show managed to keep a high standard and thus in time creating the cult status which it holds for many. But of course then there was the fast cars, the glamorous chicks, the flashy settings, the witty dialogue, John Barry's outstanding theme music...

• The title sequence (YouTube)
• The intro scene from the first episode plus the title sequence (YouTube)
• About The Persuaders! on the Morning after website

Trivia:
- The show was called Snobbar som jobbar in Sweden (which means Snobs on the job or something like that), France: Amicalement votre, Denmark: De uheldige helte (meaning The Unlucky Heroes according to Dans Mon Café), Germany: Die 2, The Netherlands: De Versierders, Italy: Attenti a quei due

- A motion picture remake starring Steve Coogan and Ben Stiller is currently in the works.

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Music Video: "J'Attendrai"

Uploaded to YouTube by twangmon
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli forms with three more strings the quintet the Hot Club of France here playing "J'Attendrai".

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Music Video: George Benson - Breezin (Live 1978)

Uplpoaded to YouTube by Robilah
George Benson

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Videos: Pippi Långstrump

The original Swedish Pippi Longstocking theme song on YouTube and here is one in English if that's your cup of tea. And in French(!) with charming illustrations! Three more original Pippi songs. Pippi, Tommy, Annika and Astrid Lindgren on Hylands Hörna in 1970. Pippi in a sword fight with Lennart Hyland (He was Sweden's Johnny Carson - kind of.) A longer clip from an episode where Pippi's father - Beppe Wolgers - appears (in Swedish of course).

Found through Stationsvakt (image)


Related:
Beppes Godnattstund (YouTube) - an other Swedish children's TV show very well-known to my generation, featuring Beppe Wolgers.

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Music Video: La Tanguita Roja

Oro Solido - La Tanguita Roja:

Video added by dalvar3

/mrdantefontana, summer here we come!

Music Video: The Cardigans - Sick and Tired

The Cardigans - Sick and Tired. (1994)
Uploaded by Beryl02

Video: Speaking of Animals - Cow Cow Boogie

"...from the genius "Speaking of Animals" series done by Jerry Fairbanks (from an idea from his buddy Tex Avery!) for Paramount in the 1940's" More to come says PappyStuckey who uploaded it.

Via Fokital (NSFW)
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Video: Professor Balthazar is gone too!

Damn! The Professor Balthazar episodes are gone from YouTube too. I'm not surprised but it feels like we are in the middle of an epidemic!
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Commercial: Postbanken

This is a Swedish commercial, from the early to mid 90s, made for a bank called Postbanken, but you probably got that. The brilliant actor we are seeing is Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998).
Find more Ernst-Hugo here.

Uploaded to YouTube by Bynson 2000.

Music Video(s)+: Automatic Love Theme

Get everything you'd possibly would want to know (?) about Dee Dee Jackson's Automatic Lover.

Via Peanut Butter Sandwich

Music Video(s): Teddybears

"They began as Skull, a grindcore group. /continue Wikipedia article/"

Teddybear's Website
Teddybear's MySpace Page

Music Video: Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me

My Baby Just Cares For Me... "featured on her (Nina Simone 1933-2003) debut album Little Girl Blue (1958) and was unnoticed for many years. Then in the mid-1980s, the song gets used in a Chanel no.5 advertisement. It was released as a single, and became one of Simone's biggest hits, causing her comeback."
Wikipedia

"Simone would never benefit financially from the album (Little Girl Blue), because she sold the rights for 3000 dollars. It meant that she missed out on more than 1 million dollars of royalties (mainly because of the successful re-release of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" in the 1980s)."
Wikipedia

The animation is of course made by Aardman Animations.

Architecture: The Futuro House

Via Rollmops in Kanzlerbunker

"Futuro is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, about 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance... /continue wikipedia article (short)/"

www.futuro-house.net
Photo gallery

PS I thought I had posted about this a long time ago but I couldn't find anything in the archives. At the worst it'll be a repost ;)

Art: The making of Hötorgskonst

At Make:, where I found it, they call it "a Mesmerizing video" and I would agree. Watch for 8.54 minutes as Janez Jevnikar "Sprayman" creats a piece of "science fiction art" using only spray paint. In Sweden we might call this Hötorgskonst* and that's not, generally, a flattering description. But this is fun to watch!


* Hötorget is a square in Stockholm where similar kinds of "art" was/is? sold. Konst is art.

Cartoon: Professor Balthazar update

Another cool and trippy Professor Balthazar episode has been added to YouTube (by Dzmrdz):

Leteci Fabijan - The Flying Fabian. You can find it in my Balthazar playlist!

Thanks to Chris Sobieniak who has earned himself another Balthazar scouting medal! Check out his animation blogs.

Humor Video: Swenska tjej - It's the grej!

Thanks to Feckenbrenner

Music Video: Strangers In the Night

"Strangers In the Night" is one of my favorite songs ever.
The song was originally written by Ivo Robić and then re-arranged for Frank Sinatra by one of the European kings of laid back orchestral easy listening (and I mean that in the most positive of ways!) Bert Kaempfert.
(The English lyrics were written by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.)

I have a dozen of Herr Kaempfert's records. At least 2 of them has instrumental versions of the song.
Here is a wonderful clip of Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra doing the song with the talanted and beautiful Swedish singer Sylvia Vrethammar. I think this show was recorded in 1979. Enjoy!

The clip was originally uploaded by operationuranus

(Note: I posted a video earlier on here at Martin Klasch In which you could enjoy Sylvia sing with Sivuca and Toots Thielemans)

/Z aka mrdantefontana