Vintage Food: Hakon's Cook Book

How about some vintage food? Some Swedish vintage food? OK, but if I mention the recipes were composed (so they say) by the Swedish king's chef monsieur Paul Arbin! Any better? The color images from this cook book are really great and they are here: Hakons kokbok

And for no extra cost here's a recipe for veal kidney canapé (click for larger):






Oh. Sorry, didn't I tell you it was in Swedish?! Heck! Use one of those fancy-schmanzy online translator things! There will be more of these recipes later on so get used to it!! Ya lazy bum!
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Video: Professor Balthazar is gone too!

Damn! The Professor Balthazar episodes are gone from YouTube too. I'm not surprised but it feels like we are in the middle of an epidemic!
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Music: Melodifestivalen 1974

Do you remember Melodifestivalen 1974? No? Refresh your memory!
Update: Sorry you've missed your chance. The YouTube user has removed the videos!

Commercial: Postbanken

This is a Swedish commercial, from the early to mid 90s, made for a bank called Postbanken, but you probably got that. The brilliant actor we are seeing is Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998).
Find more Ernst-Hugo here.

Uploaded to YouTube by Bynson 2000.

Music: P. J. Proby - Somewhere

P.J. Proby - Somewhere (1965)

TWILIGHTZONE!: "Just as British and American fans discovered the Beatles, they have discovered their successor...

Animation: Best animation ever??

This is a repost, I know, but I still need help with the lyrics. This is what I've got so far:

Peddo Petterson, Peddo Petterson, Peddo Petterson - Tampong!
Farbror Petterson, Farbror Petterson, Farbror Petterson - Tampong!

Click and watch the flash animation - see if you can help me!

Music Video(s)+: Automatic Love Theme

Get everything you'd possibly would want to know (?) about Dee Dee Jackson's Automatic Lover.

Via Peanut Butter Sandwich

Art: Matryoshki

"...each artist /18/ was sent a blank set of russian nesting dolls, and this is what happened... //...and click on each doll to see the whole set!"
- The Wurst Gallery


Via Mira y Calla


Read about original Russian dolls

Illustration: scott c

scott c as in Scott Campbell. Also visit the illustration and animation blogs Stickee Hickee and Hickee Hub where he is a participant.

Blog: We are Blog of the day!

The little man with the megaphone is Blog of the Day!


Grow a brain's Blog of the Day

Music Video(s): Teddybears

"They began as Skull, a grindcore group. /continue Wikipedia article/"

Teddybear's Website
Teddybear's MySpace Page

Art: Scott Teplin

Heavy Water and other sets of drawings and sketches at Scott Teplins web site.

Via designerblog

Music Video: The Specials - Ghost Town

The Specials - Ghost Town (1981)
Uploaded by as-de-pique

The Specials (Wikipedia link)

Photo: Microphotographs of Living Things

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

Poster Art: Ghana Movie Posters

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:

More Ghana movie posters

Related link:
Bollywood posters
also hand painted and homemade!

Music Video: Desmond Dekker - Israelites

Desmond Dekker - Israelites - 1969
Uploaded by as-de-pique

Desmond Dekker (wikipedia)

Strange: I get about 10 visits a day to this post...

...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.

Ephemera: German Culture Magazines

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

Music: Aarch Hall - Konga Joe

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

Music Video: Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares For Me

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.