In this Photo Gallery you will see 16 of the winners of the 2006 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, an annual contest for the best microphotographs of living (or once living) things.
Benthic diatom from the North Atlantic
Differential interference contrast microscopy
Dr. Stephen S. Nagy; Helena, Mont., U.S.A.
Via Bibi's Box
Hand painted homemade Ghanian Movie Posters for both domestic and international movies. I've posted the following link before and some of the posters shows up on both sites but not all:
...and I don't know why. I googled the key words but I could't even find it (not in the top results anyway). Well, I don't really need to know why. Put your dancing shoes on - here's the link.
Flickr profile nyctreeman says about his set "German Culture Magazines": "From Art Deco, Bauhaus, High Fashion, and Modern 1930s German Life...
These images are taken from Illustrirte Zeitung Magazine. There are about 1200 of these magazines from 1930 to 1939. This is going to be a big set." - Let's hope so!
Via Las Insólitas Aventuras de Pez
Arch Hall - Konga Joe (1959)
"Strangely, we find none of this terror in the song “Konga Joe,” by Arch Hall Jr., despite the fact that his song title implicitly references the most menacing figure conjured by the west out of the Dark Continent — King Kong. We might expect something more nightmarish from Mr. Arch Hall Jr., a grinning, blonde pompadoured, failed teen idol more famous for starring in a series of exploitation movies written and directed by his father." text and photo from The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf
- Unlikely American Idols / Eye of the Goof
- The WILD GUITAR! of Arch Hall, Jr. / Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau
My Baby Just Cares For Me... "featured on her (Nina Simone 1933-2003) debut album Little Girl Blue (1958) and was unnoticed for many years. Then in the mid-1980s, the song gets used in a Chanel no.5 advertisement. It was released as a single, and became one of Simone's biggest hits, causing her comeback."
Wikipedia
"Simone would never benefit financially from the album (Little Girl Blue), because she sold the rights for 3000 dollars. It meant that she missed out on more than 1 million dollars of royalties (mainly because of the successful re-release of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" in the 1980s)."
Wikipedia
The animation is of course made by Aardman Animations.
Musselsoppans Vänner has been updated with a bunch of new images. Get your can opener and enjoy!
Have you noticed that new Blogger is slower when it comes to showing the images on your (or my) blog? Or is it just me and my machine?? :(
Via Rollmops in Kanzlerbunker
"Futuro is a round, prefabricated house designed by Matti Suuronen, about 100 were built during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The distinctive flying saucer like shape and airplane hatch entrance... /continue wikipedia article (short)/"
www.futuro-house.net
Photo gallery
PS I thought I had posted about this a long time ago but I couldn't find anything in the archives. At the worst it'll be a repost ;)
I'm missing the darkish green-blue post background. It's all grey :( Why? I don't know, I didn't fiddle with it.
Update
Strangely enough it looked alright in IE but not in Firefox... I shouldn't have had to but I made some changes in the code (which I'm lousy at) so now the green-blue background is back but I lost the white shadowed outlines (wrap). However I don't think I mind. Time for some more change? I'm thinking of an all grey background including the sidebar. Or is it time for white? We'll see.
Mastermind was a nice little board game I had as a child. Better still was the cover! What does the image tell us? With a master mind we'll get hot Asian babes? Isn't that James Last by the way?
Found here.
Clip added by cinema16
"This was an ad that was shown in Drive in theaters to try and get people to buy snack chip"
I'd buy 'em!
/mrdantefontana
The "Disco Volante" from Thunderball
Cross-cut pictures of locations in James Bond films, from The Secret World of 007
Via The Crime in your coffee
Miles Davis - trumpet J. J. Johnson - trombone Jackie Mclean - alto saxophone Gil Pettiford - bass Kenny Clarke - drums (Recorded May 9, 1952 New York City)
Photos from Flickr (search "Stockholm")
was a song from the The Beginning Stages Of... album.
The Polyphonic Spree's Official Site - The official homepage. Under construction.
The Beginning Stages Of... Official Site - Features lyrics and liner notes from The Beginning Stages of.... Flash site.
Together We're Heavy Official Site - Features lyrics and liner notes from Together We're Heavy. Flash site.
Quest For The Rest - A Flash game featuring members of The Polyphonic Spree and music from Together We're Heavy.
At Make:, where I found it, they call it "a Mesmerizing video" and I would agree. Watch for 8.54 minutes as Janez Jevnikar "Sprayman" creats a piece of "science fiction art" using only spray paint. In Sweden we might call this Hötorgskonst* and that's not, generally, a flattering description. But this is fun to watch!
* Hötorget is a square in Stockholm where similar kinds of "art" was/is? sold. Konst is art.
You must see this outstanding collection of ads and posters for tobacco products - beautiful, crazy, sexy and sometimes sort of scary. Flickr: Photos from lamarde
More stuff on the subject of tobacco.
