Magazine Covers: The Fastest Mustache in Sweden

From Farbror Sid


Successful Swedish racing driver "Picko" Troberg - "The Fastest Mustache in Sweden" - on a magazine cover (Teknikens Värld - "The World of Technology") from 1962.

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Bulletin Board: Have You Seen This Man?!

From Martin Klasch


Missing: German, Male, known as rideyourpony (AKA RYP and klein-pferd-ritter), admired excellent director of the Twilightzone! music blog (http://rideyourpony-twighlightzone.blogspot.com/) Last seen ? (a few days ago? Edit: yesterday) the blog has ceased to exist! Voluntarily or forced? If you have any information about this case please leave a comment.

:((

PS. If anyone wonders about the image it is one of the posters for "Jour de fête" (I've removed some details from the original image) not that it matters on this "Jour de tristesse"...

UPDATE: Here he is! :D
Thanks to the commentators. Now we can celebrate this "Jour de fête" after all!

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Album Covers: The Batmen

From LP Cover Lover


LP Cover Lover: "The Batmen “Batman” b/w “Tell Me Baby” CBS Records This band is from Germany. Here’s a neat website about records inspired by Batman."

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Illustration: Roy G. Krenkel

From DataJunkie

DataJunkie: "Here's a buch of preliminary cover sketches by Roy G. Krenkel done for Warren in the early 60's." (Eerie, Creepy)

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Photography: Make Your Own Fish-eye Lens

Here's Johnny!


Did you ever wish you had a fish-eye lens on your camera? Johnny did. So he made his own using a door eye, an empty roll of toilet paper and a kitchen cloth. Here's his manual on how to do it (not very complicated).

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Vintage Satire: Krångel-Svea



Oh, no! The Smorgasboard is going!!

This is a detail of a poster showing a 1940s satirical take on Swedish war-time rationing, bureaucracy and patronizing by the government. Krångel-Svea would translate Hassle-Svea, Svea being the personified Sweden (like John Bull or Uncle Sam). I found the poster in a thrift store today. Originally it's probably a black and white print that has been hand-colored. See the whole thing and more details here: Krångel-Svea.

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Cartoons: "Sorry Scandinavia"


"We are working hard

to resolve our pre-existing contractual obligations and bring you Full Episodes as soon as possible." - South Park

via stationsvakt


Now you know what we'd look like - the Scandinavians - if we were ever to visit South Park. German Lederhosen, Ukranian, Polish and Dutch folk dresses ...or something.

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UPDATE:
Attention Scandinavia! Until the official South Park site will show us the episodes there's this site: www.southparkzone.com!!

(via stationsvakt)
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UPDATE 2:
Swedes can now watch full episodes again at www.southparkstudios.se
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Children's Illustration: "Au paradis des bêtes"


from Agence eureka