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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Art
October drizzle can be quite photogenic in my part of the world. Here's a view from the bridge to Fisksätra holme. (I just discovered Pixlr, an excellent free on-line image editor that runs in your browser.)...
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Category: Psychedelic
Somebody calls you and you answer quite slowly: a girl with kaleidoscope eyes....
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Category: Archaeology
Here's a piece of fragmentology. In the 19th century a brooch (inset) was found at Vistena in Allhelgona parish, Östergötland. It's a copper-alloy piece decorated with embossed silver sheet panels in the Nydam style, approx. AD 375-450. In 2008...
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Category: Space
Stacy L. Mason is an Aard regular and a talented artist. Check out his awesome interpretation of the Swedish tardigrades that are going to Phobos! In other news, I have issues with the lyrics of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas...
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Category: Art
Near Kaufdorf, Switzerland is an auto junkyard that was in use from the 1930s to 1970. It has become overgrown with various forest flora. Recently, the government has decreed the place an environmental hazard.
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Category: Art
[More blog entries about Sweden, photography, manor; Närke, Askersund, foto, herrgård.] My part-time employers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, sometimes receive rather hefty donations. This is how they came to own Stjernsund manor near Askersund in the province of...
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Category: Film
From Birmingham art students Tanya Mircheva and Mihaela Calin, a clip about office-job boredom....
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Category: Art
North European Baroque is such a weird and lovely style. The wreck of the Vasa is a prime example, and there's a lot of it on the facades of houses in the Old Town too.
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Category: Art
29 October: Sunny autumn morning among the sailing boats hibernating along Pålnäsvägen. 21 December: The dark spot marks where our feet and the wheels of our office chair have damaged the flooring over 7½ years at the home desk...
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Category: Art
13 September: Samuel and Ludvig play the piano at Ludvig's aunt's house in Viggbyholm. 12 October: Playing Pandemic at a gaming convention in Gröndal. 21 October: A mechanical excavator is delivered to my dad's property to start work on...
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Category: Art
We've all had the same realisation: sooner or later somebody just has to make a series of several thousand short films of themselves smoking various tobacco pipes and listening to tango music, and put them all on YouTube. Well,...
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Category: Archaeology
They've stuck the Djurhamn sword point first into a vintage map of Djurö!
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Category: Archaeology
When was it made? Where? For what purpose?
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Category: Archaeology
I wonder if these clay copies may have been made by the sculptor, as a kind of backup copies?
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Category: Art
My granddad told lots of stories of his years in India, the greatest adventure of his life.
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Category: Poetry
For decades, Stockholm has been the turf of photocopy artist Renate Bauer. She paints too, but her main mode of expression is hand-written prose-poetic screeds covering every square centimeter of the paper. These she photocopies and fixes with sticky...
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Category: Art
Most artists have a large backlog of unsold work sitting around their homes and studios.
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Category: Art
I've put some pix from my recent trip to Tuscany in Italy on-line. In other news, my wife has suggested a brilliant and radical re-interpretation of the Swedish 70s dansband pop hit "Margareta", by Sten & Stanley. Comprehensible only...
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Category: Art
Got up early this morning, six thirty, and slipped out for an hour's walk. The sun was already pretty high but still veiled in mist. I walked past vineyards and olive groves toward a farmhouse until yapping guard dogs made...
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Category: Humour
Over at Podcastle, I just heard an amazing reading/performance of an amazing surrealist love story, "Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery". It was written by John Schoffstall, first published as text two years ago, and read by Heather Lindsley at Random...
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Category: Art
74 snaps from my recent visit to Orkney.
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Category: Art
My talented on-line buddy, Birmingham-based design student Tatyana Mircheva, has a new photo blog where she puts up some really interesting stuff. This series is a feminist commentary on the superficiality and narcissism of the beauty industry. The young...
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Category: Art
There's actually a use for onion peel. Wrap it around an egg, wrap egg and peel in aluminium foil, and boil the egg the usual way. Red onion peel dyes the shell yellow, while yellow onion peel dyes it...
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Category: Art
Shot at home with the aid of a bedroom lamp and a blanket from Ikea!
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Category: Language
Almost all Swedish words for civilised matters have recently been borrowed from Continental languages.
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Category: Archaeology
People before have quit digging when they reached the edge of the carved panel.
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Category: Archaeology
An old sorcerer has passed away.
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Category: Blogging
His blog is without any serious competition the wittiest one I've encountered in the Swedish language.
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Category: Archaeology
Originally strict facial expressions re-carved into cute Late Medieval grins.
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Category: Archaeology
These finds constitute solid precedent to settle the boobs vs buns debate.
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Category: Art
"Mr. Köhler is very aware of the brutal yet comic nature of the world around us."
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Category: Art
This trussed purple imp could be named Strung Up or Well Hung.
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Category: Art
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
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