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Photo: Christopher Wilson

"The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal"

Christopher Wilson Photography

Via GlyphJockey

Generator: Absolut Bottle Sign Generator

Music: Linda Perhacs

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms.

If you had been fast enough you would have been able to download it at Music on the Fringe. Check the blog for other cool stuff.

Cartoons: Pink Panther Title Screens

"DePatie-Freleng (often abbreviated DFE) mostly made animated commercials for television, but they're big break came when Blake Edwards commissioned them to create an animated opening for his movie, "The Pink Panther"."

Check out som nice Pink Panther (and others) title screens here: DePatie-Freleng Website

Blog: Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie

Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie

Via Drawn!

Blog: Where did Earnest Little Cartoon Guy go?!

The link to the excellent blog "Earnest Little Cartoon Guy" is dead and so is the link to his old blog "Happy Palace"! ....sad! Does anyone know if he's moved or just bailed? You are missed! Start over!

UPDATE:
Oh, happy day!!!
Mrbalihai informes us that "The Cartoon Guy" is alive but has transformed into Peanut Butter Sandwich! He seems to be in good form. Thanks for the info, mrbalihai!

Now we can all sleep snug as a bug.

Video: A Bit Of Fry and Laurie

Illustration: Disney Album Covers From the 50s and 60s

Beautifully designed Disney record covers from the 50s and the 60s at ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog.

Blog: Musselsoppans Vänner Updated

Martin Klasch's sister blog Musselsoppans Vänner was updated the other day with a new large batch of nice and/or interesting pictures picked from around internet and from scanned images. Have a look, why don't you!

PS. Once again thanks to all blogs from where many pictures has been taken. As usual only a few has been credited but most can be found in the sidebar. The general idea of Musselsoppans Vänner is to be a simple imagedump blog and noting every image source would be far to much work and work against that idea. I hope this is alright with you all.

Stuff: Giant Flying Sharks and Acrobatic Cows

Animation: De Fabeltjeskrant

De Fabeltjeskrant (Eng: "The Fables Newspaper", Swe: "Fablernas värld") is a classic Dutch children's TV-show made during the periode 1968 and 1992. (I believe there was a big gap in the production from the mid 70s to 1985. Correct me if I'm wrong). The show was shown in many countries in western Europe and in South America and is probably the must successful show in Dutch history. Many of the fables were adaptations of the writings of French 17th century fabulist Jean de la Fontaine.

Click the image and watch a Dutch episod at Drommels.

A link to the Dutch De Fabeltjeskrant website and one to a Dutch Wikipedia page and one Swedish Wikipedia page and one to IMDb.

Simma lungt!

Photo: Fun for Swedes

Flickr: Cool Old Stuff

Cool Old stuff - a photoset on Flickr created by grickily /Dan Goodsell who also is responsible for the excellent blog A Sampler of Things and Tick Tock Toys.

Via PCL LinkDump

Architecture: New Swedish embassy in Washington

"House of Sweden" -the new Swedish embassy on 2900 K Street in Georgetown, Washington DC was inaugurated by the royals today. The architects are Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.

Top image from DN

Illustration: "Now it is Fall"

Now it is Fall - Glyph Jockey

Architecture: Cinema Fontänen in Vällingby

Watch a clip about the building and inauguration of the movie theater Fontänen (clip link) 50 years ago. It was the theater of the equally new Stockholm suburb called Vällingby (clip from inauguration of Vällingby Centrum). That suburb was one of several being built around Stockholm at that time. They were so called new ABC-suburbs/towns. A stood for workplaces, B for living and C for center. Internationally these towns built up from virtually nothing were called, rightfully so, New towns. Vällingby was the first and probably the better one and it caused quite some international interest (and still do among architects and city planners). Today Vällingby is going through major change with outdoor shopping being roofed and so forth, but as it is now a part of Swedish architectural history it has to be done carefully. The Fontänen is no exception. Four salons has been added underground but above ground it pretty much looks like when it first was built.