August 19, 2009
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August 17, 2009
Vintage Ads: Radio Nord
Radiohistoriska arkivet: Radio Nord
via Larssons Blogg
"During 16 months from March 1961, Jack S. Kotschack and his staff shook the Swedish establishment by broadcasting radio from a boat anchored on international waters in the Baltic Sea.From the ship came modern pop music, news - and commercials. The Swedish audience loved Radio Nord, but the politicians raged and threatened with reprisals and government purchase boycotts against companies that advertised on the pirate radio station. Behind the scenes urgent and detailed investigations were made on how to stop the broadcasts ..."
HIT THE ROAD JACK! -
History of Radio Nord
written by Jan Kotschack
To buy the book see link at the bottom of this page.
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Illustration: Noel Sickles
Today's Inspiration: Some Sickles for Readers to Digest: Illustrations by Noel Sickles.
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August 15, 2009
Gif Animations: When Eight Bells Toll
Gif animation made by myself from When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
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my other gif animations
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Vintage Postcards: Film Cards
Flickr: Truus, Bob & Jan too!: Film Cards
"These are all scans of vintage postcards of the European cinema between 1895 and 1970."
via the Museum of online museums
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August 14, 2009
Illustration: Jon Klassen
Flickr: Artwork from We Are The Friction, a book of illustration and short fiction, more information on which you can find here.
via grain edit
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Vintage Ads: Carlsson på taket
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Related posts about soft drinks
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Vintage Cars: Carlsson på taket
Swedish rally driver Erik "Carlsson på taket" Carlsson in his SAAB.
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August 13, 2009
Illustration: Staffan Wirén
Front and back.
"Ingen rädder för ABC inte heller för 1-2-3" ("No one is afraid of the ABC, nore of the 1-2-3") is my best thrift store find of this summer. It's a tiny children's book from Sparbanken ("The Savings Bank") and as the title suggests it's an ABC book with some math teaching kids the benefits of putting money in the bank. The wonderful ABC animal illustrations by Staffan Wirén are glued in and I wonder if they came with the book or if you got them one by one at the bank. It doesn't say what year this was printed. It's probably from the 50s. Here's an excellent opportunity to learn about the Swedish letters Å, Ä, Ö.
I wish I could tell you something about Staffan Wirén except that he was/is (?) a very good Swedish illustrator. I know that he has illustrated a number of books but it is hard to find examples of it on the Internet. However there is "Vårt svenska samhälle" ("Our Swedish Society") uploaded by David at The Klockarp Institute and there is the cover of "Kondition och hälsa" ("Fitness and Health").
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August 12, 2009
Question: Free Photo Sharing Sites
I like Flickr and Picasa Web Albums but I've just about reached my free upload limit. I'm a cheap guy who doesn't like to unnecessarily pay for things and I'd rather not get stuck with a service which will be hard to give up. So now I'm thinking I'd better come up with a really good option. There are a number of services out there, I know. I have an ImageShack and a PhotoBucket account, and they are OK but I don't like the navigation and they have a busy appearance and they are perhaps a bit slow.
I need the site to be:
- totally free (at least up to 1 GB)
- clean and easy on the eye
- logic in its navigation
- rather fast than slow
Do you have a favorite to recommend?
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UPDATES:
First suggestion is in from josephzohn: eSnips
(and I actually already have an account there! I forgot about it.)
Update on this: I've tried it but it doesn't seem to allow linking. I'm sure it's very good in other ways like sharing with other eSnippers.
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Carl suggests KoffeePhoto.
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Matt Hunter Ross says "get more than one account" at Flickr or Picasa.
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Anonymous says www.zooomr.com
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