little fluffy clouds

 




'what were the skies like when you were young?'
ain't that the most beautiful question you can ask anyone?
thank god we live now, because now is the only time that question can be asked
these gorgeous skies are from 1930 by the way

book tip : a collection a day

obsessive collector Lisa Congdon
shows in this fantastic book 365 of her
(partly imaginary) collections
fascinating how the beauty of ordinary things 
suddenly becomes visible just by putting 
a few of them together  
published by our favorite magazine UPPERCASE
order from www.uppercasegallery.ca

hey there little insect

 

in the Dutch Encyclopedia for Women from 1951 there is a chapter called 'Her Job in the House'

the chapter describes the 6 tasks a woman has at home: cleaning (sure), washing (of course), 

budgetting (smart), warming the house economically (o.k., makes sense), arranging flowers (nice!) 

and last but not least ... fighting all the insects and bugs shown below and many more 

appaling? maybe, but dangerous? no

except if you use the advised weapon that would kill most of the little bastards: D.D.T.

on the positive side: spiders are mentioned explicitly as helpful friends not to wipe out

do the evolution

 

the social behaviour of men in 1971 was evidently closer to that of baboons than nowadays

why else was it necessary to tell them  
not to use dancing as an excuse to put their hands on a woman's ass?

or not to use a flowerpot as an ashtray?

or not to let a woman climb up the tree first so he can look up her skirt?

are friends electric?

this brilliant machine from 1957 surely deserves the name electric friend

it can help you with everything!

first you vacuum-clean the house with it, then you make a nice fruit cocktail 

with that same miracle machine (with a topping of dust flocks, yummie!) 

and after that you can use it as blow dryer

it gives you that exotic look with real pieces of pineapple in your hair!

exhibition tip : bezeten van stoelen

now in the magnificent Zuiderzee Museum: a great exhibition of chairs by the famous
Dutch designer Richard Hutten

interesting prototypes, studies and sketches give an insight in the brain of the Hutten

some more is revealed by the vintage chairs Hutten personally selected as designs that inspired him

the blue chair in the pictures is the Zuiderzee-chair Hutten designed especially for the museum

until october 10, www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl

you're the best thing

the best thing that happens to us every spring is ... aspargus
Al Pacino is a great thing too of course, a man of impeccable style and taste
the seventies were his best years  
no wonder aspargus was amongst his favorite food then
the other two recipes he gives here go very well with that:
'mob lamb' and raspberry pudding