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The Merry Band of Brownies

"A brownie, brounie/Urisk (Lowland Scots) or ùruisg/brùnaidh (Scottish Gaelic) is a legendary kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and England (especially the north). He is the British counterpart of the Scandinavian tomte, the Russian domovoi or the German Heinzelmännchen. Customarily they are said to inhabit houses and aid in tasks around the house. However, brownies do not like to be seen and will only work at night, perhaps in exchange for small gifts or food."

The Brownies is also the name of "series of humorous verse cartoons about the mischievous but kind-hearted Brownies. The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book (1887). Due to the popularity of Cox's [Palmer Cox(1840-1924)] Brownies, one of the first popular handheld cameras was named after them, the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera."

Quotes from Wikipedia

Links

Brownies in Wikipedia
Palmer Cox in Wikipedia
Palmer/Brownies site
The Merry Band of Brownies (pictures)
Brownies collections (Cameras, books and dolls)
Article with pictures of Brownies items
Read "The Brownies canoeing"
Read "The Brownies: Their School"

Design: How about some fun looking cars?

...check some out at Barris...
...and more at Jet Set Modern.

Music: Moonlight Cocktails

Animation: [ airport ]

Short animation made with public domain airport symbols:
[ airport ]

Via Boing Boing

Photo: Square America

I've posted this before but I was just reminded of how great this collection of lost and found vintage photos is. So here's the link once more: Square America Snapshots & Vernacular Photography

Music: Always Look On The Bright Side...

Photo: Christer Strömholm

Homepage for Christer Strömholm
Swedish photographer 1918-2002

Selfportrait, 1988 (a pretty egg-shaped head, right?!)

Via Coudal Partners

Design: The Egg Chair

"The Egg Chair" by Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) / Arne Jacobsen 100

Illustration: Yamauchi Kazuaki

Yamauchi Kazuaki (re-post)

Happy Easter to all Martin Klasch readers, contributors and Martin Klaschians! I've just noticed that Martin Klasch has had over 50.000 visitors and we have almost been running for a full year. On the 2nd of May we'll be celebrating our birthday by opening the big Re-postorama - a week of glorious re-posts!

Animation: Get Your Eggs Here!

"Come in to my tummy oh so very yummy!"

Egg Song English Korean
(re-post)

Quiz: Know your eye patches

Do you know your eye patches? And do you have any other favorite eye patch carriers?
Who would you add?

Reader patches:

Space Debris would like to add
G.X. Jupitter-Larsen (performance artist)
I didn't know him, thank you, Space!

Secretly a Terrific Whistler nominates
Nadine Hurley Queen of the Silent Drape Runners!!!
Yes, of course! Mad Nadine (Wendy Robie) from Twin Peaks who was obsessed with silent drape runners and suddenly thought she was a high school student again and somehow gained super powers!

Desoto's candidate is Ryan Cawdor (Vincent Spano) from Deathlands.
I hadn't heard of this show. Thanks for enlightening me, Desoto!

Music: Sing-a-long with The Carpenters

Why do birds
Suddenly appear?
Everytime you are near
Just like me
They long to be
Close to you

Why do stars
Fall down from the sky?
Everytime you walk by
Just like me
They long to be
Close to you

(*) On the day that you were born
The angels got together and decided
To create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moondust in your hair
Of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue

(**) That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me
They long to be
Close to you

Repeat (*)
Repeat (**)

Just like me
They long to be
Close to you

Woo... Close to you...

(Music & Lyrics Burt Bacharach and Hal David)

Uploaded to YouTube by Bibi

Stuff: Pipecleaner Dance

Awful music but funny moves:
Pipecleaner Dance

Photo: Shark pics

Scary shark pictures! Are they for real? I don't know and I don't particularly care... I just know the are scary.

Via Look At This

Illustration: Space Art in Children's books

"In post-World War II America anything seemed possible, even going to the Moon! There appeared in 1949, a book The Conquest of Space , which led to a new trend in children's books. These books outlined the future the children of the "baby boom" would grow up in, the world of space..."

Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's

Via Look At This

Illustration/Science: Rube Goldberg

Until today I had never heard of Rube Goldberg. I had seen some of his comic illustrations but certainly never heard of the concept of "a Rube Goldberg machine".

Read about him and the machines here at Wikipedia and visit "the Official Rube Goldberg Web Site". Below you can watch a couple of videos of Rube Goldberg machines (via Milk and Cookies).

If you feel inspired maybe you'd like to play this game.

Illustration: Serge Gainsbourg in Comics!

Go here (link at the bottom of the page) for a couple of pages of Serge Gainsbourg comics (!). And then go to Bibi for more on French comics.