Animation: De Fabeltjeskrant

De Fabeltjeskrant (Eng: "The Fables Newspaper", Swe: "Fablernas värld") is a classic Dutch children's TV-show made during the periode 1968 and 1992. (I believe there was a big gap in the production from the mid 70s to 1985. Correct me if I'm wrong). The show was shown in many countries in western Europe and in South America and is probably the must successful show in Dutch history. Many of the fables were adaptations of the writings of French 17th century fabulist Jean de la Fontaine.



Click the image and watch a Dutch episod at Drommels.

A link to the Dutch De Fabeltjeskrant website and one to a Dutch Wikipedia page and one Swedish Wikipedia page and one to IMDb.

Simma lungt!

Photo: Fun for Swedes

Flickr: Cool Old Stuff

Cool Old stuff - a photoset on Flickr created by grickily /Dan Goodsell who also is responsible for the excellent blog A Sampler of Things and Tick Tock Toys.

Via PCL LinkDump

Architecture: New Swedish embassy in Washington

"House of Sweden" -the new Swedish embassy on 2900 K Street in Georgetown, Washington DC was inaugurated by the royals today. The architects are Gert Wingårdh and Tomas Hansen.






Top image from DN

Illustration: "Now it is Fall"

Now it is Fall - Glyph Jockey

Architecture: Cinema Fontänen in Vällingby

Watch a clip about the building and inauguration of the movie theater Fontänen (clip link) 50 years ago. It was the theater of the equally new Stockholm suburb called Vällingby (clip from inauguration of Vällingby Centrum). That suburb was one of several being built around Stockholm at that time. They were so called new ABC-suburbs/towns. A stood for workplaces, B for living and C for center. Internationally these towns built up from virtually nothing were called, rightfully so, New towns. Vällingby was the first and probably the better one and it caused quite some international interest (and still do among architects and city planners). Today Vällingby is going through major change with outdoor shopping being roofed and so forth, but as it is now a part of Swedish architectural history it has to be done carefully. The Fontänen is no exception. Four salons has been added underground but above ground it pretty much looks like when it first was built.

This and That: A Monkey Post

Monkeys
Sock Monkey Series
Monkey Paintings by...?
Twenty Monkeys With Hats (and One Squid)
Peter Jones' Monkey Paintings
Monkeys and Apes Gallery
Monkey Paintings Photoshop Competition
Monkeys in Art
Andy Warhol's "Four Monkeys"
Famous Monkeys Through History
Sea-Monkeys
3 Monkeys Online Game
Classic Monkey Clip

Gif animation: Last one?

OK, just one more. As you might understand I'm not going to reveal the identity of this poor sod! But you can watch the TV-show here! ;-D

(Happy now, mr...?)

Gif animation: Stationsvakt

I'm sorry you have to see all these amateurish gif animations. Blame Johnny - he got me started!

Gif animation: Martin Klasch

Gif animation: Elephantman walk

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Architecture/art: Iakov Chernikhov

Iakov Chernikhov (1889 - 1951), Architect-artist

Via BibliOdyssey

Radio: Franco à gogo

Architecture: Buildings in the former USSR

Buildings in the former USSR

Tip via sweet Natasha over at Radio Oh-la-la. Visit for some great francophone music! Mercí and spasiba!

Illustration: Jim, Jock and Jumbo

"Jim, Jock and Jumbo" is a children's picture book from 1946 by Swedish illustrator Einar Norelius (story by Nils Bohman). Norelius is probably best known for his illustrations for the annual fairy tale collection "Bland tomtar och troll" (John Bauer and Gustaf Tenggren had been doing the work before him and Hans Arnold succeeded him). Follow the link below and enjoy the charming pictures.

Flickr: Jim, Jock and Jumbo

Architecture: Taiwanese Resort Ruins

Mod Taiwanese resort in ruins
Flickr set #1, Flickr set #2, Flickr set #3


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Photo: Alexandre Vitkine

Alexandre Vitkine at HackelBury Fine Art

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Video: Solid Potato Salad

From 1944. In 2006 Potato salad is still a very tasty dish.
Video added by mubix
(via WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Video: If Martin Scorsese made Sesame Streets

Sesame Streets (YouTube)

Need I say: Watch out for four-letter-words?

Exhibition: Stig Lindberg

"Stig Lindberg's (1916-1982) designs for household items – notably ceramics – are familiar to almost all Swedes, as are his illustrations to popular children’s books. The exhibition gives a picture of Stig Lindberg's work as an industrial designer during the latter half of the 20th century."


Stig Lindberg Exhibition at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm























A nice photo display of some of his works.