"Otto Dix (1891-1969), the great German Expressionist, was famous for his unique and grotesque style. Although Hitler's Nazi regime destroyed many of Otto Dix's works, the majority of his paintings can still be seen in museums throughout Germany." (www.mess.net)
Via A Best Truth
Portrait of the Actor Heinrich George as Terje Wiggen, 1932
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Threadbared is a retro blog devoted to all things knitted, sewed and stitched. Lots of crazy stuff! Follow this thread!
Via Eye of the Goof
This is a must! And it will only be available for download for a couple of days more - so hurry over to the fantastic blog Quite Quite Fantastic!
QQF mostly offers superfantastic mixes, which I highly recommend, but right now they offer some terrific out-of-print album rips like this one.
"Birgit Lystager is incredible, a Danish cross between Astrud Gilberto and Karen Carpenter with really artily written and composed pop songs..." (quote from Musictaste.com)
Click here for the Birgit Lystager post.
UPDATE: QQF is no longer active. Click here for a newer post about Birgit Lystager!
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A mostly cute flash thing by TokyoPlastic: Click here and then click archive and then The Little Fella (the grinning dog).
Via Totally Flabbergasted
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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?
