Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels
Japanese matchbox labels - a set on Flickr
by maraid
Via Bibi's FFFFOUND!
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A few related posts:
Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Lables
Postcards: Welcome to Sweden
'Stadsparkens Restaurant, Kalmar, Sweden, 1960s
'It's Midsummer's Eve here in Sweden. All Swedes are not dancing around the maypole in folk costumes. A peaceful dinner for two in a nice spot is sometimes preferred by some.
The vintage postcard above is from Ultra Swank's post "Welcome to Sweden".
Please notice the table flags.
/mrdantefontana
Illustration/Vintage Photographs: Diableries
So you thought Viewmaster was first? Well, think again!
"Diableries are wonderful examples of the fascination for death in 19th Century photography and made with a lot of imagination and humor. Death in photography is seen in many different ways but here we see the subject in a less serious interpretation."
Diableries: Early Visual Media - "Life of the Devil in Hell at the End of the 19th Century - Death and Humor in Stereophotography"
Via the great Coisas do arco da velha!
Music: First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
boomp3.com
"This site features the full audio from
the rare LP record First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, published by Creative Computing in 1979. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing '78 show."
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
/mrdantefontana
Children's books: The Little Pig who Stayed at Home
"This little pig very much wanted to go with his brother, but as he was so mischievous that he could not be trusted far away, his mother made him stay at home, and told him to keep a good fire while she went out to the miller's to buy some flour. But as soon as he was alone, instead of learning his lessons, he 
began to tease the poor cat. Then he got the bellows, and cut the leather with a knife, so as to see where the wind came from: and when he could not find this out, he began to cry. After this he broke all his brother's toys; he forced the drum-stick through the drum, he tore off the tail from the kite, and then pulled off the horse's head. And then he went to the cupboard and ate the jam. When Mrs. Pig came home, she sat down by the fire, and being very tired, she soon fell asleep. No sooner had she done so, than this bad little pig got a long handkerchief and tied her in her chair. But soon she awoke and found out all the mischief that he had been doing. She saw at once the damage that he had done to his brother's playthings. So she quickly brought out her thickest and heaviest birch, and gave this naughty little pig such a beating as he did not forget for a long time." - THE END
My First Picture Book by Joseph Martin Kronheim
- Project Gutenberg
Music: Esbjörn Svensson Trio
boomp3.com
Artist: Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Song: Dodge the Dodo
Album: From Gagarin's Point of View (1999)
Illustration: Viewmaster images
Hanna-Barbera 3-D Viewmaster images at Bob Logan's blog.
Via This Isn't Happiness via PCL LinkDump
Viewmaster (Wikipedia)
PS. Does anyone know of any other nice sites showing Viewmaster images?
Blogger: What a scare!
Phew! I have cause for a huge sigh of relief. For a few of days it has been impossible to read this blog - at least for some. (I'd like to know if you managed it anyway!) When I tried accessing the blog in FireFox a window appeared saying the URL wasn't valid and that viewing the page was impossible. However, when I clicked OK the page was shown anyway (?!). IE couldn't find it at all.
"I'll be doggone", I thought, "if I've gone and sabotaged my own blog!" Had I changed the code recently? No, I couldn't think of any changes. To understand the extent of my concern you have to know that I don't know how to write code. It is true that I have made several changes to the template over the years but they are all small steps one at a time done by trial and error, copying code from other sites etc.
Now, even though I was pretty concerned by this newly arisen predicament I didn't panic. I didn't go berserk deleting, changing code randomly. But I did finally - after scanning the code without finding any loose ends - delete a couple of page elements which were totally meaningless anyway and voilá! We are back!
Beware of the evil Wikipedia search widget!
Thanks to MrJ for the image!
Vintage Comics: Stupid!!
"Dave and Shain love to buy old comic books, too. Really stupid old comic books, with stupid covers and even worse interiors."
Stupid Comics newest page and archives (my favorite is the "Golden Age section")
...and, yes, this is a repost.
Vintage Stuff: Found objet d'crap
"Boy,
do Dave and Shain love to go to thrift stores, is Dave and Shain's place overrun with hideous objet d'crap. Come see!"
Illustration: Do your strip!
Do Your Strip!
70 authors/illustrators were invited to show how to create a simple character and then draw a comic strip...
Check out the pdf preview.
Via Drawn!
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Vintage beverage: Cuba Cola
"Cuba Cola was the first cola in the Swedish market - introduced in 1953 and still going strong. The label has been kept unchanged over the years and is a good example of true 50s design. The taste is characterized by the robust taste of cola and many think this is what a real cola should taste like." - Krönleins Bryggeri
"The recipe is owned by Saturnus AB of Malmö and it's brewed on license by Vasa bryggeri, Heines bryggeri, Guttsta Källa and Krönleins." - Wikipedia
"Saturnus produced a great many products during the Second World War to supplement products that were in short supply, and thus became even more well known in Swedish households. " / ". At the same time, the trendy post-War fashions from the USA resulted in a great deal of interest in Cola drinks. The debate was heated, and Coca Cola wasn't allowed to market its products in Sweden until 1953. Saturnus was ready - Cuba Cola was launched a few months before Saturnus' American competitor began marketing its products." - Saturnus
"... beating Coca-Cola by three months. The soft drink has in reality nothing to do with the country of Cuba, although it serves as an alternative cola drink to the many anti-American (or anti-globalization) youths of Sweden." - Wikipedia
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Music/odd: Sixten Jansson's MySpace
Sixten Jansson on MySpace
- completely Ålandish.
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About Sixten in Swedish:
Sunkit 1, Sunkit 2
Wikipedia
"Pop from the Åland islands 1965-1971" (SvD)
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Illustration: Robert McGinnis
"Robert E. McGinnis (born 1926) is an American illustrator known for his illustrations of paperback book covers and movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffanys, Barbarella, and several James Bond films." says Wikipedia.
This is my second post with the same name. The link in the first one is dead so when I saw girlfriday_2's excellent Flickr set via This is not happiness I thought "Great! A perfect substitute!" So enjoy!
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Music: Mongoloid
Devo's Mongoloid
Via Coisas do arco da velha
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Related:
Popchor Berlin - Mongoloid.mp3 (WMFU's On the Download)
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Vintage animals: Cheeta the monkey man
Did you know that retired monkey man Cheeta is still alive? He has turned 76! And he's the oldest non-human primate known.
Nowadays he's into painting, watching TV, reading and playing the piano. Visit the site C.H.E.E.T.A to check him out, or his MySpace.
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IMDb, wikipedia
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Blogger: Where do all the images go? Part 2
A couple of months ago I put out a question to the readers of Martin Klasch and it is now time to follow up on that. The main question was:"If you, like me, publish most of your images in your blog by using the upload button in the blogger interface - in other words not using a separate tool - then where do all the images go?"
So, I kind of wanted to know if my blog images were collected somewhere that I and others could find them. My kind readers mrdantefontana, fisk, iluvnufc, arthur ignatowski, modmom, thombeau were all kind enough to participate in the discussion.
Iluvnufc was the first one to mention Picasa Web Albums and sure enough the answer to my question was that..."...all the photos you've uploaded since December (2006) will appear in an album there, and we're working on migrating your older photos as well. (It'll take a while though - there are a lot of them.)" - Blogger Buzz.
What do you know? There they are!! Thanks to my readers for solving this mystery. Hopefully someone else got their questions answered by this too.
Here is the link to my open image galleries by the way (Your galleries are otherwise closed by default), and below you'll find links to my three open galleries and also an embedded slide show of the Martin Klasch images.
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Art: Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
“Sometimes, it almost feels like Robert Rauschenberg and Moderna Museet are synonymous. In the same way that I can say without hesitation that there is a distinct “before” and “after” Rauschenberg’s appearance on the art scene in the 1950s." says Lars Nittve, Museum Director. (continue reading)
Mud muse by Robert Rauschenberg at Moderna Museet / The Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm, Sweden.
"Monogram" has become something of a symbol for Moderna Museet.
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