Blog: The Dodo Blog























Bibi has finally started her new blog; it's the The Dodo Blog

Music: Streaking !

Some cool music for when you go streaking. Well, it's summer and it's time for the World Cup (football/soccer for those who somehow hadn't heard). Will we see some streaking, do you think?




Jean-Claude Pelletier - Streaking ! - Sounds Of Champaign ( Side 2 )

Music: Bee Gees in 1968

Ever wondered what the Bee Gees sounded like before the disco era?
Psychedelic Cinnamon: Bee Gees - Idea - 1968

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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