Europe
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 31
Love Jan Zrzavý's look!His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 04, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Europe, Russia, Twentieth Century
Cartoons by Moebius
The artwork of French cartoonist Moebius was eternally weird. Here are some animations of his stuff.
Playlist of all 14 here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 02, 2021 -
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Category: Comics, Cartoons, Europe
The TopPop Video Archives
The Wikipedia page, from which:TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music television series in the Dutch language area. The Netherlands broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from September 22, 1970, to June 27, 1988.
Scores of videos at their YouTube site, many of which, like the one below, are pleasingly daft. Flute and zither quasi-disco easy-listening? Why not!
Many thanks to pal Peter Danssaert!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 28, 2020 -
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Category: Music, 1970s, 1980s, Europe
Your Money Or Your Kid!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 27, 2020 -
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Category: Education, Money, 1930s, Europe
When Belgium Invaded England
Very good long article here.
Tip of the hat to pal Peter Danssaert.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 22, 2020 -
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Category: Government, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, War, Reader Recommendation, 1960s, Europe, United Kingdom
Les Djinns Singers
Les Djinns were a French choir with a distinctive singing style, composed of sixty girls[1] between the ages of nine and eighteen years, conducted by Paul Bonneau. In 1959, the French government organized a 'Master School' for the instruction of girls in musical subjects in order to ensure a supply of performance talent for the country's radio and television industry. The Master School set a course of study where the girls followed a curriculum of standard academic subjects in the morning hours, then musical courses in the afternoons consisting of scales, vocal techniques, harmony and choral vocalizing. Upon graduation, each girl was accepted into Les Djinns.
Within six weeks of the group's founding, Les Djinns were awarded the Gran Prix of the Academy of Records in France, and their popularity began to proliferate with stage appearances in France and tours in other European countries. Eventually a total of 88 tunes were recorded, including a Christmas album and an album of American favorites sung in French, and released on the ABC-Paramount label. One Les Djinns single recording, "Marie Marie" (1960), made it onto the Top 100 list.
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 01, 2020 -
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Category: Crowds, Groups, Mobs and Other Mass Movements, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Music, Europe, Twentieth Century
RIP Maria Makowska-Kalinowska, Champion Moviegoer
"Today, Ms. Maria Kalinowska, the greatest Poznań (Polish, and probably the largest in the scale of the universe) cinema lover, has passed away today," wrote the employees of the cinema to which Maria regularly visited her husband. A married couple wrote down each screening in a notebook - they could spend whole days in the cinema, equipped with sandwiches. People from Poznań who regularly visit the Muza Cinema had to meet them at least once.
News article source of quote.
Their Wikipedia page says:
Maria Makowska-Kalinowska (1945 – 14 November 2020) and Bogdan Kalinowski (1939 – 9 November 2017) were a married couple from Poznań, Poland, known as the most avid filmgoers in Poland. They watched films in cinemas of Poznań regularly from 1973 on. In 2010 alone they watched 563 films. Altogether, between 1973 and 2010 they had viewed over 11,000 films together; by mid-2015 the total exceeded 13,000.[
Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were librarians, and they met during a course for librarians. There was also a library of the films watched, which they meticulously kept. The Kalinowski family went to every film festival, sat down with notebooks in their hands and took notes of every film they watched. And they saw thousands of them together - in 2017, when Mr. Bogdan died, this number probably exceeded 16,000.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 17, 2020 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Eccentrics, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Europe
Sleep Robot
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 09, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Inventions, Sleep and Dreams, Europe
The Germ-Hun
With thanks to Lawrence Person.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 11, 2020 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Hygiene, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, War, Reader Recommendation, Europe, Twentieth Century
The Return of Pipilotti Rist
Longtime WU-vies will recognize the name of this artist, since we've been covering her almost since the blog commenced. Now, late to the party, THE NEW YORKER has discovered her "genius."Let us savor one of Rist's newer works, posted to YouTube in November 2019. Don't let the fact that its views number in the low double digits dissuade you from its worth!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Magazines, Europe
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