70s by Robert Myrene on Flickr.
I’ll take all three.
The Italian man who went to Denmark I was going to say, ‘Meanwhile in Italy,’ but that looks like Denmark.
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hollow talk by choir of young believers
Signaturmelodi Here’s the whole song from the titles of Bron.
Bron Remember in the 1970s, there were all kinds of TV detectives? Haggard (Columbo), bald (Kojak), fat (Cannon), Polish (Banacek), hick (McCloud), old (Barnaby Jones), etc.? Welcome to the 2010s: Geordie (Lewis), conflicted (Luther), existentialist (Wallander), well dressed (Zen), genius (Sherlock), and now, Asperger’s (Bron). I am loving this Swedish–Danish series, especially the interplay between Saga and Martin, and the locations, having been to that Malmö and København numerous times and crossing the Øresund bridge. Another example of state television (albeit in collaboration with many financing partners) delivering. (Image via mediaunfriendly.)
Classics in Lego by Mike Stimpson
In order of appearance:
- Recreation of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Behind the Gare Saint Lazare” in Lego
- A lego reconstruction of the famous photograph taken by Charles Ebbets
- A Lego recreation of Joe Rosenthal’s 1945 photograph “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima”. One of the most published photographs in history.
- A Lego version of Norman Potter’s 1954 photograph of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, completing the distance in 3 min 59.4 sec at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, May 6, 1954.
- Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon in 1969 - Photograph by Neil Armstrong
- V-J Day in Times Square, New York, August 14, 1945 (© Time Inc) by Alfred Eisenstaedt
History in Lego The backgrounds and photographic techniques impress me, too. Some folks spent a lot of time on these.
(via back2mine)
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Danske Bank Doggone, I like the type at Danske Bank. Why can’t New Zealand banks (with the exception of the BNZ) have good type?
COATS OF ARMS OF SCANDINAVIA
Scandinavia and the World rocks XD
The special Finnish lion One of the best explanations of the coats of arms of Scandinavia, and the Finnish one might explain the uniqueness of the language.
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Meanwhile, in København Matt Helm’s Lincoln Continental Mark III in København, in The Wrecking Crew. Unfortunately for Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and the cast, there’s no evidence of them ever setting foot in Europe for this film. Some second-unit actor had to don a Dino wig, a lot, and act drunk.
I can’t find much on filming locations on the web for The Wrecking Crew. While there are obvious Californian locations, such as Palm Springs, doubling for Europe, the train heist, which could have been filmed in the US, appears to have been done on the Continent.
There are various details about these train scenes in the vehicles that betray the fact they are not Stateside.
Sexist much? Amazing what you come across on YouTube. Here I was, trying to find a nice, innocent video of fellow Wellingtonian Anouska Hempel, and this was a related video. I’m not sure why this film was also known as Swedish Fly Girls in the US because, from what I can see, the number plates of the cars are Danish. Even the poster for this film (which is worse than the above) records the ladies as being from ‘Copenhagen’, and when I landed there in January, I am pretty sure that was not in Sweden.
Welcome to Denmark Now I know I’m in Denmark!
They have some different ideas about political correctness here.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
