Illustration: Shining in the Distance
Uncle Deetou's Parlour: The future is the past...
"Our space-travellers will see our own earth shining in the distance."
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Vintage Postcards: Hotell Arkaden
The back of a folded postcard from hotel Arkaden in Malmö, Sweden. I guess it's from the 50s. See the front and the middle at Stationsvakt.
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GIF Animations: Drinking with Max
GIF animation made by myself.
"How to skoal with style. Swedish film star Max von Sydow engages his drinking partner's gaze. Tipping his glass backward, von Sydow drains the chilled aquavit in one deceptively cool gulp. Lowering the glass to the level from which he raised it, von Sydow again meets his companion's eyes."
Cooking Issues: "The photos appeared in “The Cooking of Scandinavia” one of the books in the amazing Time Life series Foods of the World. The shooter was none other than Richard A. Meek, one of the original roster of Sports Illustrated photographers."
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The photo I used was found at Pin Pals.
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By the way: "slut" ="the end".
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my other gif animations
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Photo: Face of Britain
"This is one of my favourite portraits. It is also my one claim to fame. I sold it back in 1979 to the V&A Museum..."
George Plemper: "In my early days I was employed, at my second school, as a science teacher at Riverside School, Thamesmead. Situtated on the Bexley/London border, it was a relatively new school in a "London" housing estate. " (continue)
Flickr: Face of Britain: Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78
via This Isn't Happiness
Article in the Guardian: Back in the picture
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GIF Animations: It's 1975
GIF animation made by myself with images from
Square America: It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
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my other gif animations
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Vintage Photo: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke and R2D2
Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke and R2D2
Find more Star Wars photos at RETrOZONe.
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Music: The Five Stairsteps - World of Fantasy
The Five Stairsteps, again, a few years before "O-o-h Girl" - probably 1966 - with "World of Fantasy".
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Record Sleeve: Xavier Cugat - Merengue
Wikipedia: Xavier Cugat
- El Merengue
This was today's thrift shop find. I hope you enjoy it too.
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Vintage Photo: Waiting For That Call
All Things Amazing: 3for3
OK, so the cars in the background indicates it's not vintage, they tell me. But who cares about the cars?
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Illustration: The First Men in the Moon
Illustrations by Adolf Hoffmeister for the 1964 Czech translation of The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.
A Journey Round My Skull: The First Men in the Moon
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Sport: Ingemar Stenmark
If you are a sports fan you have probably heard of Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg - at least if you are about my age (40). Before Sampras and that Swiss guy many considered him to be the best player ever. He is also said to be the first "rockstar" of tennis.
So you know Bjorn, but do you know the guy in the picture above? If you are a Swede you know. If you are a sports fan from a country where alpine sports are big and if you are about my age you might know.
He is the second Swedish sports superstar of the same era (roughly the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s). He is Ingemar Stenmark - winner in 86 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, three times winner of the Overall World Cup title, 8 times winner of the Giant Slalom Cup, 8 times winner of the Slalom Cup, five times Olympic gold medalist... and he didn't do downhill, combined or Super-G. It is said that World Cup rules were changed and Super-G added as a discipline because of Stenmarks dominance. True? Maybe, maybe not.
Unlike Borg Ingemar wasn't the "rockstar" type of sportsman, he was - and I guess is - a shy man who didn't like the media attention. We all got used to his taciturn interviews on the telly. He didn't want to talk about the sport, he wanted to ski and ski well. The Swedes loved him even more for his ways and his northern characteristic dialect.
Many races took place on work/schooldays, with the first run in the morning and the second in the afternoons and in workplaces and schools everything came to a halt. TV sets were rolled into the classrooms and in tense expectation we all followed Ingemar's runs, cheering him on.
And then, in the schoolyards, the kids wore the specially knitted Stenmark-cap talking about Ingemar. We all knew the names of his fiercest competitors; the Mahre brothers, Thöni, Gros, Girardelli, Wenzel, Heidegger, Hemmi, Popangelov, Zurbriggen...
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This list says something: List of Alpine skiing World Cup race winners - Men
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