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Czech Stamp commemorating the 1966 European (Figure Skating) Championships in Bratislava.
If I had to guess, the figure skater on the stamp would be Ondrej Nepela, whom skated for Czechoslovakia and received bronze medals in 1966-68, and gold medals in 1969-1973, and a few Olympic gold medals here and there.
The more you know.
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(^ that’s a shooting star)
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Mike and Amanda are running an awesome Kickstarter campaign for their film and are honestly quite close to their goal. Please, if you check out their film and would like to offer support, maybe consider helping out in their campaign at krs.projectpedal.com. Also, you can see their new kickstarter campaign video there or here (below).
Another Czech stamp from the archives:
Following up the last Czech volleyball themed stamp is another volleyball themed stamp this time from two years later. This stamp from 1966 commemorates the founding of the Volleyball World Cup in 1965.
The somewhat-art-deco somewhat-cubism illustration is interesting. Again, check out the detail of the engraving work, great stuff. The artwork and engraving on this stamp are attributed to a K. Pekarek and a B. Housa. I couldn’t find any info on Pekarek but B. Housa is Bedrick Housa, whom apparently worked at the Czech Graphic Union as a graphic designer (perhaps?) and as a very talented engraver.
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This is my second audio post featuring Joe Pug. I just picked up his Nation of Heat EP on iTunes the other day, and man, I really love it. The only thing bad I have to say about it is that it is too short. It’s some great midwestern, singer-songwriter, folky music.
He actually has a free EP, In The Meantime, up on his website, with plans to release a full album in 2010. I’m making my way though it right now and so far my feelings are that you’d be doing yourself a great favor in picking that up.
I’m heading up to Mackinaw Island in a few weeks, and I’m looking forward to playing Nation of Heat on my iPod while I take a slow bike around the island in the colder fall weather with all the fall colors in full swing.
I love this woman.
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Too bad Tumblarity can’t take into account the quality of a post when calculating it’s ratings.
“Communication design is the purposeful use of words and images to address a communication challenge of a client, after a designer has understood the problem and the context in which the message will be communicated, all in order to achieve the client’s goals and objectives. Design creates value and designers should be compensated for their contribution appropriately.”—
What is AIGA’s position on spec work? And how are ethical standards determined?
iStockphoto recently announced that they would start a logo marketplace where business could search for a new logo with a price range between $100-$1000. The designer of the logos would receive half of the selling price. I think the Ric’s comment - read the entire thing - is spot on.
I need to start a business where people do all the hard work for me, I sell their work, maybe sell it if they are lucky, and then only give them half. Yeah, that sounds good to me.
In other news, renewed my AIGA membership for another year.
Another Czech stamp from archive:
This one commemorates the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Czechoslovakia came away from the ‘64 Olympics with a total of 14 medals; 5 gold, 6 silver, and 3 bronze. The men’s volleyball team received a silver medal. But it is not the Czechoslovakian men’s team on the stamp. This stamp depicts a women’s volleyball team, because Olympic women’s volleyball first debuted in 1964.
This particular stamp is interesting because while the strokes in the illustration look very painterly, when you get up close you can really see all the little cross hatching done in the engraving which is a trait these Czech stamps share.
Pretty much all of the other stamps I scanned from around this timeframe tend to have been created through offset lithography, which became very dominant in printing from the 1950’s onward.
I’m having a really hard time resisting the urge to upload my favorites from the series right away.
Anyway, this stamp features a dandelion. Dandelions are apparently pretty common sight in fields in what is now the Czech Republic, and are/were used in folk medicine to cure a variety of maladies.
Lazing around the Muskegon River in Big Rapids, MI.
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Amazing Photos From Today's Red Dust Storm in Sydney
So awesome. Some remind me of that scene in the Mad Max movie.
The Recorded Generation
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Most of us, depending on our age, are fortunate if we have photos from when our parents were young, even more so of our grandparents when they were younger. As someone whose grandfathers would have been 99 and 114 years old this year had they still been alive, I have very few records from back then because for the average working-class family it just wasn’t common to own a camera. Of my great-grandparents I have nothing except for written records of that they existed.
Imagine if you could see photos, films and read the thoughts of our grandparents and great-grandparents, just think of how amazing that would be?
As amazing as that would be for us now living in 2009, this will be the reality for our own great-grandchildren, grandchildren and maybe even children. The digital and internet revolution may not mark the absolute start of the first recorded generation, but it has allowed us to share ourselves in abundance online to anyone who finds us, whereas not long ago this was confined to private dairies and family albums.
In the future our great-grandchildren, who we might never get to meet, will be able to read in our blogs about our daily lives from back when we were young, read about what it was like to live in this day and age, and see photos and videos of us from throughout our lives. They will be able to glimpse back in time in a way that is impossible for us, and I can only imagine what a profound impact that will have.
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