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October Drizzle

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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Badger Carcass, Stunted Corn Cob

Category: Art

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Psychedelic Circus

Category: Psychedelic

Somebody calls you and you answer quite slowly: a girl with kaleidoscope eyes....

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5th Century Regional Brooch Design

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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Phobos-bound Tardigrades Portrayed

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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Swiss Auto Graveyard

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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Stjernsund Manor

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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Office Boredom Art Video

Category: Film

From Birmingham art students Tanya Mircheva and Mihaela Calin, a clip about office-job boredom....

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Baroque Lion Mask from the Peerless Palace

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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Phone Pix October-April

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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Phone Pix September-October

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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Pipe Smoking, Tango Listening Auteur

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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Djurhamn Sword Artwork

Category: Archaeology

They've stuck the Djurhamn sword point first into a vintage map of Djurö!

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Tåby Figurine

Category: Archaeology

When was it made? Where? For what purpose?

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Royal Medals Copied

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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Arabic Brass Folding Tables

Category: Art

My granddad told lots of stories of his years in India, the greatest adventure of his life.

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Notice Board Screed

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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Rental Sculpture

Category: Art

Most artists have a large backlog of unsold work sitting around their homes and studios.

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Tuscan Photographs

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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Snakes and Saints and Ants

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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Surrealist Love Story

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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Orkney Photographs On-line

Category: Art

74 snaps from my recent visit to Orkney.

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New Mircheva Photograph Subverts Beauty

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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Onion Peel Egg Dye

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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Bike Crash Glamour Shot

Category: Art

Shot at home with the aid of a bedroom lamp and a blanket from Ikea!

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With the Varnishing Ahead, I'm at My Shavings a Lot

Category: Language

Almost all Swedish words for civilised matters have recently been borrowed from Continental languages.

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Norwegians Dig Rock Art

Category: Archaeology

People before have quit digging when they reached the edge of the carved panel.

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Karl Hauck 1916-2007

Category: Archaeology

An old sorcerer has passed away.

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David Nessle

Category: Blogging

His blog is without any serious competition the wittiest one I've encountered in the Swedish language.

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Fornvännen's Spring Issue

Category: Archaeology

Originally strict facial expressions re-carved into cute Late Medieval grins.

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Antiquity's Spring Issue (With Polish Flint Babes)

Category: Archaeology

These finds constitute solid precedent to settle the boobs vs buns debate.

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Peter Köhler on Broadway

Category: Art

"Mr. Köhler is very aware of the brutal yet comic nature of the world around us."

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Strung-Up Purple Imp

Category: Art

This trussed purple imp could be named Strung Up or Well Hung.

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Stockholm Art Shows

Category: Art

Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.

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