As of today Martin Klasch has a favicon.
"So?" you might ask and I wouldn't really have any good answer. But I think it's pretty nice and they are kind of useful in the "favourites"making it easier to find among all the other Blogger icons.
Yes, it's true - I'm very fond of dogs.
And what's better than puppy dogs? Wide angle puppy dogs?
In the galleries there are a few wide angle kittens for the cat-lover too.
Wide Angle Puppies gallery
Via the J-Walk Blog
---
Yeah, yeah - I know. The web has been drowning in this lately, so you've probably seen it already. Anyhow, it has finally trickled down, working it's way like drops on a piece of rock, finally soaking even the Martin Klasch blog. Drop in:
Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes
Via Cynical-C Blog and others
---
I don't know anything about this and honestly I don't really care. I just happened to stumble upon it googeling for something else. It looks nice I think.
Papiertheatertreffen Preetz
UPDATE: Obsolete link
---
There's nothing to add or subtract so I'll just quote The Presurfer who wrote:"There's nothing to see at all at this site. Absolutely nothing.
But you'll soon realize that the site does exactly what the url says.
You'll need sound."
Visit the Presurfer!
---
"The HR-2 robot was constructed during a period of three months at Chalmers University in Sweden. It has 22 degrees of freedom which enables it to easily move around imitating human motions. The robot is also equipped with stereovision giving it possibilities to perform hand-eye coordination. For that task an artificial neural network is evolved. Furthermore, the artificial brain is capable of tracking faces as well as recognising them. The HR-2 is also able to speak."
This is a nerdy but very charming little thing. You will find a movie presentation of the robot (35.5 Mb) which I found well worth downloading. Maybe you do too.
Humanoid Robotics, Almir Heralic
Sorry, don't remember where I found it. But thanks.
---
Yes, oldie. But goldie. I'm not explaining this:
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products
There is a poster collection at The Royal Library (National Library of Sweden) in Stockholm. Unfortunately only a smaller part of it is available digitally. Luckily, though, there are some good ones to see and a large portion of the site is in English. There's also other interesting stuff on the site, like swedish ephemera. I haven't checked it all out but this handbook in black magic was pretty funny.
These are the poster links you shouldn't miss:
"Artistic posters" In Swedish. A lot of beer ads (!)
"The Big Brewery's Beer is the best" Caleb Althin
Posters by artist Wilhelm Kåge In English
(Ceramics by Kåge here)
"Midnight Cabaret, at Berns" Wilhelm Kåge
Posters concerning referendums In Swedish
"No! Crawfish crave these beverages! You will have to refrain from crawfish if you do not vote NO on the 27th of August" Albert Engström (referendum on wether or not to limit sales of alcohol by quotas. We love crawfish by the way. And they do crave certain beverages.) A classic!
If you are into puzzle games maybe you should have a look at GROW CUBE. I like the look of it at least. If you get tired there is a solution here. It's, however, debatable if there's any logic to it... There are a few more games to try, among them the original Grow.
Nishant Choksi - Astonish Illustration
Also check these galleries out: one and two.
Thanks to Smidigt.se!
---
Are you feeling stressed? Try this soothing game.
Orisinal.com - The Bottom Of The Sea
---
Wow! This really takes me back even if it was my brother who was building the stuff.
Matchbox Packaging - a photoset on Flickr
Via NIBLOG
---
Selected posters from the amusement park and concert scene Gröna Lund in Stockholm. All of the posters above are designed by Nils Sture Jansson.
"The two persons that probably have meant the most for the concert poster art in Sweden are Nils Sture Jansson, the man who designed the concert posters for Gröna Lund during the period around 1970-2000, and Leif Illernäs, Illernäs Screen AB. During the 70, 80- and 90-ties, regardless if you look at a Gröna Lund poster or an Ema-Telstar poster, this is the only name you´ll see. The reason for this is that Illernäs Screen printed the posters for both Gröna Lund och Ema-Telstar."
This is sort of an update to the post I made the other day about Aardman Animations. Bountiful Brazilian Bibi of Bibi's Box has found the best of the Ardman productions which is the one where the animals at a zoo are interviewed. Here it is: AtomFilms - Creature Comforts or if it doesn't work for you try this (mov.). There are more Aardman at AtomFilms - look here. Also there is this little piece of government information.
UPDATE! Here's the first and original Creature Comforts - the one that won Nick Park the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990. Also there's quite a lot of other Creature Comforts clips to watch on YouTube.
UPDATE! A clip from the upcoming new Wallace & Gromit movie can be seen here. Thanks again Bibi.
---
A collection of works by the german artist George Grosz (1893-1959). Read about the artist here.
---
Have you ever heard of Nils Holgersson? The little boy who flew across Sweden on a goose. The book was written over a hundred years ago by swedish nobel prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf.
Take a look at an interpretation of Holgersson's flight and listen to a classic swedish song celebrating the county of Skåne (or Scania)*. It contains aerial photography, trick filming and some animation.
Impressive? Well, it's from 1939. What can you expect? The heavy set artist is Edvard Persson, one of the biggest (!) movie stars in Sweden at that time. Check the video out: bigger and smaller.
Here's a sing-a-long version of another classic Edvard Persson song "Jag har bott vid en landsväg". Probably nothing for the non-swedish or even the non-scanians. But be my guest - have a go!
*By the way that's where PCL LinkDump resides.
