Lee Hazlewood: The jingling of silver spurrs has subsided

The American country/pop singer, songwriter, and record producer Lee Hazlewood died on the 4th of August. He passed away in his home in Las Vegas after a long battle with renal (kidney) cancer.
He had expressed his wish to be cremated and have his ashes "strewn on a Swedish island where he composed some of his favorite songs." According to Swedish newspaper SvD this would be the island of Gotland. If his wish is fulfilled he will, by the way, be resting close to Ingmar Bergman...


Lee Hazlewood and Siw Malmkvist singing "Summer Wine" in a Swedish TV special "Love and other Crimes" from 1968.

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Ingmar Bergman: Persona - the Prolog

uploaded to YouTube by ropbo

Of the much fêted opening scenes in the film, Bergman has said that he wanted to make a poem in images: "I reflected on what was important, and began with the projector and my desire to set it in motion. But when the projector was running, nothing came out of it but old ideas, the spider, God's lamb, all that dull stuff. My life then consisted of dead people, brick walls, and a few dismal trees out in the park."

from Ingmar Bergman Face to Face

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Ingmar Bergman: Posters

The original Swedish movie posters for Bergman's films. The images are pretty small but nevertheless nice. (This is a repost)

Once again Mr Josephzohn found this!

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Ingmar Bergman: Goes commercial

A series of Swedish soap commercials made by Ingmar Bergman in 1951. (This is a repost)

Via the one and only Mr Josephzohn (not Erland)


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Ingmar Bergman: Demonology

Demonology. There has over the years been a lot of talk about demons in connexion with Bergman. In early days it was mostly because of his great demands on actors and other personnel that he was named a "Demon director". Later on it was his own demons - his fears - that he showed on the screen and sometimes talked about.

The little drawn devil that Bergman used to "brand" documents with.


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Ingmar Bergman: Playing chess with death

A church painting from late 15th century depicting a man playing chess with death. The painting which is found in Täby church in Sweden was made by a painter or rather a painting company lead by a man they called Albertus Pictor.

This was of course one of the major sources of inspiration for Bergman's world famous image of Death.

An old post, another parody.

Ingmar Bergman: Chessmate

Foto: Louis Huch © AB Svensk Filmindustri

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
died this morning.

"ANTONIUS BLOCK
Nothing escapes you -- or does it?

DEATH
Nothing escapes me. No one escapes from me." 

Ingmar Bergman Face to Face

Also, to brighten up this sad day watch this funny Bergman parody called De Düva.

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Poster Art: Vintage Spanish Movie Posters

71 scanned images of Spanish movie posters.
Via Bibis Box

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Blogger: Hey! I've got a cloud!

Do you also think that the list of labels that Blogger offers is boring? And have you also jealously been admiring some of those neat tag clouds out there? Do you also consider yourself as, more or less, ignorant when it comes to changing codes to make your blog look nice? Don't worry. I managed to create a tag cloud and so can you. Just take some time (maybe an hour or so), copy your blog code for backup and follow the instructions carefully.

Oh and yes, I will place the cloud at the bottom of the blog as soon as I have shown it off a bit (it's there now) ;)

Thanks to Bibi for boosting my confidence!

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Music Videos: Before they were Bjorn!

Ephemera: Volvo booklet

The other day I found a nice vintage Volvo promotional booklet in a thrift store/nostalgia store. The booklet is from the late 50s and written in English. It definitely is promotional material targeting the American market. We follow the American couple Philip and Janis Benson on their trip to "Volvoland" - Sweden.

"They love their Volvo. Every day they get a thrill out of its wonderful driving characteristics - its roadability, convenience, comfort, pick-up, the way it "parks on a dime," and above all, the honest quality built into every inch. They often wondered, "How can a car be this good?" When Phil Benson, instructor at the University of Minnesota, received a year's fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to study theater in Sweden, he and Janis thought, "Aha! Sweden - now we can drop in and find out what's behind VOLVO QUALITY"

I have made a pdf document (58,9 Mb) out of the whole booklet. You'll find it here (MegaUpload), here (DivShare) or here (Files-Upload)
The file is in rar format and the password is: martinklasch

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Illustration: School book stickers

If I had a kid (or knew one) of the right age and if I, or rather the kid, was anglophone there would be absolutely no reason left not to get these print out school book stickers (pdf)! They are illustrated by the brilliant French illustrator Marc Boutavant whom I have briefly covered before. I sure wish his children's books would be published in my language!


The stickers link was found at The Small Objects, worth a post or two of its own (coming!). Actually it was found at its old address.

PS. I wonder if this Japanese commercial is made by Boutavant...

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Art: How about getting an owl?

"Friend Owl" silk screen paper print by Heather Amuny-Dey can be ordered here.


Via Design Milk

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Blog: I'm Learning To Share!

A little bit of everything with a taste of yesterdays - visit I'm Learning To Share!

There is no way you'll be disappointed at these great shares.

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Fun: I was going to recommend you...

...to visit this picture thread (LOL80s) where quite outrageous pictures of 80s pop bands are shown; what 80s pop band didn't look outrageous?! However, the main idea seems to be attaching a "funny" little text to them and I think it ruins the whole thing. Why can't they get that the pictures are funny as they are? So I won't recommend it, but sure do swing by if you have nothing better to do! ;)

By the way, name the band. Anyone?

Via Grow-a-brain

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Art & illustration: Mope the Onion & Company

Have you seen Dan Goodsells parade of mini watercolors? No? They are really charming and they are displayed on his Flickr site so why not pop over there and have look.

It's been raining all day so I kind of feel like Mope the Onion... waiting...

Dan Goodsells blog: a sampler of things
His personal art site: The World of Mr Toast
...and: Tick Tock Toys

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FYI: mod*mom is getting a make over! (edit)

No, the excellent blog does not need a make over! OK, here's the deal: mod*mom thinks she needs a make over and she's among the final few to win one (over here). If you know her stylish blog you might also know that she has been fighting breast cancer for a while now. So if she says she needs a make over I'll believe her.

UPDATE:
Voting is over - MOD*MOM WON!!

Thanks for voting for her!

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Le Jukebox Français 4: Sylvie Vartan

Le Jukebox Français is back! As if you would care! Anyhow, this time it's finally time for a lady. She is one of the most famous yé-yé girls and her name is Sylvie Vartan.

Other artists found in Le Jukebox Français:
Michel Fugain
Jacques Dutronc
Michael Polnareff

Thanks to the artist and to those who uploaded the videos to YouTube!

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Commercial: Japanese yé-yé clothes in 1967

Vintage ads: Take me to the cleaners!

Vintage cleaners ads from public transport in Stockholm. Click the images to enlarge!

From a book called Reklam i rörelse (Advertisment in motion) published by Trafik-Nostalgiska Förlaget (in Swedish)
Buy "Reklam i rörelse" here. It's a great book with loads of images and it only costs about eight bucks!!

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