Art: Mark Rothko




Green over Blue, 1956 , Oil on canvas


Mark Rothko

Paintings and bio.


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Earlier post at Martin Klasch about Rothko.
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Art: The 2008 GlyphJockey calendar!













What to make of
some Anthon Berg candy bottles and a handful dollar store celebrity dolls? Well, if you are Lex10 of GlyphJockey the obvious answer is to make The Dollar Store Celebrity Hoochies - The 2008 GlyphJockey calendar! Click the link for the slide show!

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Architecture: The Space Needle



About the Seattle Space Needle and the rest of the Century 21 Exposition of 1962 in this post at BibliOdyssey.


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Graphic Design: Helvetica turns 50






















Image from Designing With Type. Click link or the image.

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Music Video: Kraftwerk - Autobahn


Trippy 1970ish (1979) animated music video for Kraftwerk's Autobahn.
Via The Cartoonist

Blog: Biggest Part Of My Life Is Me.

Those of us who has followed Mr Peanut Butter Sandwich knows that he every once in a while gets tired of his blog and starts over in an other shape. Now he has done it again! Last time, when he closed down Earnest Little Cartoon Guy, I and several others had a hard time finding him so for all of you here's a link to the new blog: Biggest Part Of My Life Is Me.






Update: He says about the new blog "I think I wanted a blog that's a bit more personal and a bit more like a diary with links and other stuff I dig intertwined, so to speak."

PS He also says he'll keep the old blog but he won't update it.

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Graphic Design: 500 fonts





If you are in need of some more fonts here is a nice collection for you, thanks to Alessandro of FreeDance.

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Blog: The Groovy Age of Horror


The Groovy Age of Horror has been doing a lot about Naziploitation (Nazi exploitation). I guess that the concept means pulp books, comics and films with a Nazi theme. Sex and violence are the other two main ingredients. Sometimes it makes pure porn with Nazis exploiting their dominating position. If this, for whatever reason, sounds interesting you know where to go.

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Record covers: ...from the thrift store














Just a few cool looking thrift store record covers. Sorry for the poor photo quality, but you get the main idea ...I think.

Vintage Ads: Apelsinmarmelad etc


I've uploaded some new stuff to my Flicker page. Swedish vintage ads for instance. Perhaps you'd like to check it out.

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Music Video: Brook Benton - Mother Nature, Father Time



















Yes! It's finally here.
I've asked Bedazzled for it before and now at last everybody can enjoy this fantastic video. Just to make sure you'll watch it I've posted some teaser screenshots for you. But of course it doesn't even give you half an idea.
Mother Nature, Father Time was both the name of a single and an album from Brook Benton in 1965. Neither of them did very well on the charts but that's neither here nor there today. No, for today you'll see the video which is ranked #1 on my weirdo chart. Enjoy!

Watch it at YouTube or go to Bedazzled for other options.

Note: For Swedish readers I'd just like to say that I saw this at least once on the TV show Nattsudd with Svante Grundberg and Björn Wallde some time between -85 and -88 and was instantly smitten. And the sounds and images has stuck in my memory since. And now you know. Soon they will have stuck to yours.

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Movies: Film Stills




































Some film stills
from the classic movie Night of the Hunter found on this blog. There are much more to find over there.

Via Bedazzled!

Some more or less related posts
Movies: Hitchcockmania
Design: Steven Hill's Movie Title Screens Page
Design: Förtexter designade av Saul Bass

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Illustration: T. S. Sullivant

Hippo: Say, Bunny, I'll toss you to see who pays for the lunch.

"T. S. Sullivant
is one of the most important cartoonists in the history of the medium. He pioneered many of the elements of caricature and anthropomorphism that we now take for granted."


I reckon this should be enough for wanting to continue reading the article about T. S. Sullivant over at ASIFA.

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Illustration: Dick Bruna





The World Of Kane
has an article about the Dutch illustrator and graphic designer Dick Bruna, mostly known for his minimalistic children's books about Miffy. Here and in this vast gallery you'll however find other book cover designs of his hand. Visit The World Of Kane for more links and info.

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Animation: Winnie the Pooh in the Soviet Union

A year ago I uploaded a few snippets of the Soviet made Winnie the Pooh which I thought were truly delightful. And now I'm happy to say that YouTube signature kuba0000 has done the good deed of uploading full episodes in 4 parts. They were made in 1969-1972 by the acclaimed film company Soyuzmultfilm, known for a number of celebrated animations like the series about Cheburashka and short films like Hedgehog In The Fog and The Heron and the Crane (Watch them at Videos With Bibi!).

For your convenience I have collected the Soviet-made Winnie-the-Pooh-episodes into one playlist. (see below). I found them through this article in the blog Think In Pictures where the image of Pooh is discussed. For me Pooh has many faces; I love the originals from the book made by Englishman E H Shepherd, however one can't deny that the Disney version exists in one's conscience but now they have both been joined by the fresh images of the Soviet Pooh. I hope you too will enjoy him, although there are no subtitles. You probably know the stories well-enough to follow. Follow?



PS. You'd better hurry watching it. You never know for how long it'll be available!

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