Music: Merit Hemmingson & the Meritones

OK, it's time for a repost. I'll even use the words from last time:

Merit Hemmingson & the Meritones "at the Esquire Club" (or perhaps Discoteque dance a go go if this is not the name of a series of records. Does anyone know for sure?) was recorded live on the 1st of February 1966 and released in 1967. This was the first record Merit ever did and (perhaps) not the most interesting and personal but I definitely think it's worth listening to. I don't believe it has ever been reprinted so until it's released on CD (if ever) here we go:

UPDATE: You can find it at Spotify nowadays.

Download from Files-Upload.com
password: martinklasch

The link will be kept alive during a limited amount of time, perhaps only a week or two. You've been warned so don't come crying, OK?

If this gets you interested in Merit's music please visit Merit Hemmingsons own website.

Our thanks to Erik - the Fettfräsare number 1.

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Music: Who Is Harry Nilsson?

Well, as it is said in the trailer for documentary "Who Is Harry Nilsson? And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?" - either people get it (who he is) right away or they have no idea.
It seems that everyone who do know who Harry Nilsson was will agree that: 1...he was an extremely talented singer and songwriter 2...he was an extremely complicated person "a big bunny with really sharp teeth".
While being a very productive and successful songwriter, both for himself and others, like the song "One" recorded by Three Dog Night, the two largest hits for Nilsson as a performing artist were not written by him. Those songs are the theme from the movie Midnight Cowboy "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Without You".
Nilsson lived a life that took a toll on his body - partying, drinking etc with friends like John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon - and Nilsson sadly died in 1993 before the age of 53.

Here follows a collection of the YouTube movies that had a Nilsson connection and that I found worth putting together. There's the documentary trailer, a couple of versions of "Everybody's talkin'", "Without You", "One" with Three Dog Night, "Daddy's Song" - a song he did for The Monkeys, A documentary about some of Nilsson's recording session in five parts and some more... Enjoy!



A great blog: For the love of Harry
Nilsson's MySpace
The Harry Nilsson Web Pages

Harry Nilsson at Bedazzled!

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Art: Henrik Olsson

The art of Swedish artist Henrik Olsson. Finnish and Swedish landscapes and more through his eyes...
Via Canta Piriquito Canta

Animation: Who I Am And What I Want

The Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley co-directed and wrote this little animated film of seven minutes and forty-two seconds. It's well worth the time. I put in a few other Shrigley films in the playlist for your enjoyment too.



Links:
http://www.davidshrigley.com/
http://www.mudam.lu/shrigley/
animate!: David Shrigley biography
http://www.whoiamandwhatiwant.com/

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Vintage fashion: More bad ads from back in the day

The ad has been cropped.

If you dug this one you gotta dig these "bad" ads from Ebony Magazine, 1970-76. Thanks to The In Crowd who is getting real good at sharing. He's The Pimp.


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Album Covers: Matching Album Covers

Matching Album Covers

Via Stationsvakt

This is obviously not the first time this technique has been used. Check out the ones made by Christian Marclay.

...sort of related to:

Art: Olle Baertling

"There is one Swedish artist who has made an entirely original contribution to the art of our time, comparable with the foremost masters of modern art history, and that is Olle Bærtling." - Gunnar Berefelt
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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Design: Japanese manhole covers

Photo uploaded to Flickr by OrigamiKid

Japanese manhole covers
via Drawn!

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Animation: Angst

AniBOOM

Blog: Martin Klasch is no longer unheard of

The observant reader may have noticed that I have added a little button () in the sidebar. You will find it just below the equally new headline "ReadSpeaker AudioFeed". Yes it's true - from this moment on you can listen to and even download as mp3 files, your favorite blog - Martin Klasch!

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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Vintage fashion: Black only

From LiveJournal Vintage Ads

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Art and illustration: Ben Newman

Ben Newman

Via Bibi


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Pets: There are too many cats on internet...

...but this is not a cat - it's a MONSTER!!


Found at Cute Overload

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Art: "Sandra loved her salami"

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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Collection: Pocket protectors

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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Nudity: ...calls for certain measures

Found at skatemoss

Trading cards: Monstruos Diabolicos

Monstruos Diabolicos

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Animation: Do the Mummy!

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

Computer: CPU feast

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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Illustration: Wacky packages

"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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