The legendary Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) - as you may know - passed away a few days ago. Two of his most famous movies were Blow Up and Zabriski Point and here you will find a bunch of nice looking lobby cards for those movies.
Via Bedazzled!
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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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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."
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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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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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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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 (1918-2007)
died this morning.
"ANTONIUS BLOCK
Nothing escapes you -- or does it?
DEATH
Nothing escapes me. No one escapes from me."
71 scanned images of Spanish movie posters.
Via Bibis Box
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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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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"
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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"Friend Owl" silk screen paper print by Heather Amuny-Dey can be ordered here.
Via Design Milk
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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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By the way, name the band. Anyone?
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...
UPDATE:
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.
Voting is over - MOD*MOM WON!!
Thanks for voting for her!
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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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