Doctor of Philosophy, Professor emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Stockholm
Links:
Olle Bærtling - Bærtlingfoundation
Olle Bærtling - a modern classic at Moderna Museet (Stockholm Modern Museum) 6th of October - 6th of January
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Japanese manhole covers
via Drawn!
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The observant reader may have noticed that I have added a little button (
Why, oh why, you may ask, and rightfully so. We are not really the text based blog that might benefit from having such a service. We have posts that consists of only an image or an embedded video and hardly any text. Well, the simple answer is that we simply had to test it as soon as we heard about it at Stationsvakt, just for the fun of it. Podcasting may be unnecessary for this blog but I must say that I'm impressed with how the automated voice sounds. I believe they have voices in English, Swedish and French. Maybe you want to test it for your own blog?
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...but this is not a cat - it's a MONSTER!!
Found at Cute Overload
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April Gertler is an artist who works with collage technique sometimes with attached sentences. The result is beautiful, not seldom with an absurd touch or/and displaying a sort of black humor. I really do like it. Maybe you will too. Check them out at her Flickr site, her blog "38" and her website.
By the way, her artwork reminds me of a Swedish favorite - Jan Stenmark.
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Dr. John A. Pojman, Sr. is professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, but he is also the man behind The Pojman Pocket Protector Collection - "523 and growing!".
Via Baikinange's StumbleUpon
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Groovy mummy dance from the animated movie Mad Monster Party from 1969 starring Boris Karloff...
Via Mod*Mom and uploaded by sirgraves
And here's the trailer for the movie:
Uploaded by psychedelicmuse
Maybe I should say "the Firefox Image Zoom extension c'est la mort".
I've had two computer related problems lately: 1. Something has been eating my CPU up totally. I've been thinking my computer is infected or just plain old (it is too) but when I tried using Internet Explorer yesterday not experiencing any problems at all, I became sure it had to do with the newest version of Mozilla Firefox. 2. The second problem had to do with not being able to resize images in Blogger and with images resizing themselves. I wrote and complained about it here.
Today I believe I found the problem! I was about to unwillingly leave Firefox for another browser when I thought I ought to try loosing some of the extensions first hoping they were the reasons. First I lost the ones I didn't really use anyway. When there were no result from that I turned to the ones I used and really liked. The first victim turned out to be the perpetrator as well - Image Zoom. It seams to have caused both problems. At least I hope so.
Also on the good side there are more than one zoom extension available.
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"Wacky packages are a series of trading cards featuring parodies of consumer products. The cards were produced by the Topps Company beginning in 1967, usually in a sticker format. The original series sold for two years, and the concept proved popular enough that it has been revived every few years since. At one time the product briefly outsold baseball cards." - Wikipedia
The most well-known and loved artist behind the Wacky packages illustrations, though there were many involved, is without a doubt the versatile artist Norman Saunders. We have posted about his Ugly buttons and linked to the exciting normansaunders.com already. Now we would like to direct your attention towards the Wacky packages website (not the official one). It's a nice big package full of wacky images. Enjoy!
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"Meet Bernadette, A.K.A Bernie. Bernie was made from a well-worn sock and is turning into a well-worn stuffed animal! Bernie loves to sit and eat goldfish crackers ALL day long. She can be shy at first but once she gets to know you she's quite the motormouth. I have to go, she wants me to throw the goldfish into her mouth so she can catch them!"- Diane Koss
"Fourteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn" by Dave Barry. These are actually pretty good and some are really funny. OK, a sample:"You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment."
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Russian Book Jackets, 1917-1942. I bookmarked this some time ago and I believe I found it via Growabrain. If you think that NYPLDG's collection is too much to browse through here are nineteen of my favorites (recommended) and below they are shown, for the really lazy of you, in a picture-play.
"A small selection of promotional photographs (early glamrock/discofunk bands and buggy eyed entertainers) from the 1970s uncovered in a Venice alleyway by one Mike Lee."
says uploader sonicexcess in LiveJournal Vintage Photographs.
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7 Unusual Propeller-driven vehicles
- here is the list. What did they look like? Were they any good?
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