Poster Art: Soviet / Russian Posters
1.469 posters (!)
in bpx's USSR posters slideshow on Flickr
Via Smidigt.se
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Design: Nisse Strinning has passed away
I just heard on the radio that Swedish designer Nils Erik "Nisse" Strinning has died at the age of 88. He was, among other things, the man behind the best-selling String bookshelf.
"Certain things are so closely associated with a particular time that they become timeless. There is no better example of this than the String shelf system designed by Nisse Strinning in 1949." (from the String site)
String ad from 1958.
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Blog: Random things
Henry at Random Things has announced he'll stop updating the blog. This is really sad news if you ask me! I've admitted stealing a number of cool images from his site to put on Musselsoppans Vänner. He's the king of strange robots and yetis and other odd stuff. These news are just sad :( Henry, if you go on I promise I'll try to give you credit for every picture I steal! No, I'll just stop stealing them. I'll borrow instead!!
Can you beat an image like this one?!
Music: April Stevens - Teach Me Tiger
Spiked Candy has the song - April Stevens singing Teach Me Tiger.
Game: Sesam Katapult
Sesam Katapult
Catapult a little guy across Norway...
Via IDG Surftips via Uffe
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Music: Ja, Dä Ä Dä!
Ja dä ä dä!* by Pugh Rogefeld was one of the first important Swedish records with Swedish rock music performed in Swedish.
Psychedelic Cinnamon: Pugh Rogefeldt - Ja, Dä Ä Dä! - 1969
* means yes it is but with a "speech-like" spelling
Photo: Gérard Laurenceau
Black and white photography by Gérard Laurenceau
Via Las Insólitas Aventuras de Pez
Stuff: Combo Non-Grata
APA, ARG, BAJ, CUC, CUK, DUM, DYR, ETA, ETT, FAN, FEG, FEL, FEM, FES, FET, FNL, FUC, FUL, GAM, GAS, GAY, GET, GEY, GLO, GOM, GUB, GUC, GUD, GUK, HAL, HAN, HAO, HAR, HAS, HAT, HER, HES, HET, HJO, HKH, HMO, HOM, HON, HOR, HOT, HRA, HUD, HUK, HUS, HUT, JUG, JUK, JUO, JUR, KDS, KUC, KUF, KUG, KUK, KYK, LAM, LAT, LEM, LOJ, KKK, LSD, LUS, LUZ, MAD, MAO, MAS, MEN, MES, MLB, KUF, MUS, MUT, NAZ, NEJ, NJA, NOS, NRP, NUP, NYP, NYS, OND, OOO, ORA, ORM, OST, OXE, PAJ, PAP, PES, PKK, PLO, PNS, PRO, PUB, PUC, PUK, PYS, RAS, REA, ROM, RPS, RUG, RUK, RUS, SAB, SAC, SAF, SAP, SAT, SEG, SEK, SEX, SJU, SOP, SOS, SPY, SSU, SUG, SUP, SUR, SWE, SYF, TAJ, TBC, TOA, TOK, TYP, TOT, TRE, UCK, USH, UFF, UPA, USA, UFO, WAM, WAR, WTC, WWW, XTC, XTZ, XXL, XXX.
The Swedish license plates look like this: "ABC 123" but certain combinations of letters has been removed from public use. For some the reasons are very understandable even for a non-Swede and some are not very obvious at all...
From SVT via STA TIO NSV AKT
Exhibition: Pastille Boxes
At Kulturhuset in Stockholm there's an exhibition of candy pastille boxes from the 50s to the 80s. Most are Swedish (and Finnish) so it's a nostalgic experience, if you are too, revisiting long lost lables. Many are classics, though, and still in production. And many are really pretty to watch. Or funny.
Here's the collector's site and there's a book too ("The Pastille Boxes of the Childhood").
On the subject from I like (repost)
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History: Brazil goes Åtvidaberg
It's the summer of 1966. The Brazilian national football team has been invited to the Swedish town of Åtvidaberg by the AB Facit company, at the time a large successful producer of calculators and typewriters. It is all a part of the Brazilian team's training program for the World Cup in England later in the summer. They have just played a training game against Åtvidaberg FF and now it's relaxation and party time. Singer Lill Lindfors is entertaining, Pelé, guys in viking helmets are there and meat is being grilled over the Churasqueiras...
View the clip
Via Josephzohn gås blogger
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Music: Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander, The Shortest Distance from Hitler to The Velvet Underground. (WFMU's Beware of the Blog) The article contains wonderful mp3:s!
More about Zarah Leander (Wikipedia)
Via PCL LinkDump
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Info: Musselsoppans Vänner updated
Martin Klasch's image dump blog - Musselsoppans Vänner - has been updated with 57 (I think) new (old) images. I hope you will enjoy them. They are all "stolen" from around the web. I wish I could give due credit to all the sites/blogs from where I got them but it wouldn't be the simple image dumping it's meant to be if I did that. I hope noone gets sore.
Here a few of the sources for today's batch:
BibliOdyssey
Agence Eureka
Ultra Swank
!WOm!WAm!
Random Things
Fun All Around
A Sampler of Things
If Charlie Parker was...
Mod*mom
Thank you and to all the rest!
Posters: Bergman
A nice collection of Swedish posters for Bergman movies.
Thanks Josephzohn gås blogger
Fetish: Women doing things to men
"...the dropping of the Atomic Bomb in 1945, which radiated a sexual energy across the planet, changing the media projection of WOmen to hyper-erotic levels, at first embodied by Marilyn Monroe and fully fleshed out through the 60s..."
"...and the Dream Girl transforms into The Dominatrix...Sex transmogrifies from Simple Pleasure to Kinky Death, the Playboy Bunny becomes a SlayGirl, and the 19Sexties explore The Dream Girl as The Angel of Death..."
!WOm!WAm! Probably NSFW
Thanks to Mod*Mom
Art: More Decollages
I recently posted decollages made from movie posters and dear Fede of El Burlador was kind enough to show me to this Flickr-link of other decollages: GrafficHavoc
What is decollage?
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