tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76219434555802571472024-02-02T06:13:36.143+01:00The Loop 365 days a year...your rrretroeuropaThe world through rose-tinted glasses, the glass half full a shiny reflection in the chrome of the future its not what you do but the way that you do it fast forward to my fabulous future calling nowAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-12677795269687427072012-10-10T20:15:00.002+02:002012-10-10T20:15:18.360+02:00VIVA DADA! Retro Design Trends from Retroeuropa <br />
What is Dada?<br />
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<a href="http://stabi02.unblog.fr/2010/01/24/le-mouvement-dada-3-7/">DaDa</a> was born of a desire to use the printed medium of letters and processed images to express art. Forerunner of Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism and much of Modern Art, its perpertrators started by using print cut up from existing magazines and books and pasted together.</div>
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A precursor and origin of montage, collage and modern design process and also product, dada was a reaction by artists who felt there was more to the sheer entertainment of art than understanding how to use a paintbrush or record a sunset.
During its moment dada was mould-breaking and shocking as nothing before and created huge changes in the creation, value and qualification of art.
Traditional and modern art parted ways and Expression: a revolutionary idea in a time when civilisation was already shifting into a new formation including women, war and political differences. </div>
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This created a unique jewel of escapism, ridicule and irreverence that was a record of the absurdity of and aspiration to hope intrinsic in existence that still influence us today as one facet of the human need to share without compromise or rules. </div>
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New and Old books now available include: 'DaDa El Espiritu' A full
colour glossy book at half size A4 Hardback 10€ Reference Art
Collections including Eileen Gray, Klimt...
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Extra services: Booklists!<br />
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Create a booklist or have one researched free,<br />
and we will keep it on file for you!<br />
Ideal for Festive Gifting, Academia or New Plans in Life...or maybe you want everything an author has ever written?<br />
We will do our best to locate and list for you and you can pass around the list in virtual form!<br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comMarbella, Andalucía, España36.5099367 -4.886352336.4078367 -5.0442808 36.6120367 -4.7284238000000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-20153924004878951062012-01-09T17:33:00.010+01:002012-01-09T20:31:37.248+01:00Desserts spelled backwards is Stressed.<a href="http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.215775225.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:10 10 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 370px; height: 370px;" src="http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.215775225.jpg" border="10" alt="" /></a>
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<br />In this austere moment of crisis, and after Christmas/Thanksgiving Year End Celebrations, it becomes notable that the <a href="http://spanishfood.about.com/od/discoverspanishfood/a/chocolatehist.htm"><span style="font-weight:bold;">chocolate</span></a> has run out and there is a need for and indeed addiction to tasty items to supply peckish cravings for sugar.
<br />The denial of these cravings can be quite depressing> in the Winter Months, spurred by <a href="http://www.shrinkyourself.com/articles/Phantom_Hunger_vs_Real_Hunger.asp?bhcp=1"><span style="font-weight:bold;">the desire for sustaining nibbles</span></a to alleviate the cold, and the longer spaces between eating, and of course the now noticeable habit developed over the festivities.
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<br />It is probably best to remember that <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjU3MjczNXwxNzU0MDIzNDEw/operation-bikini-deny-chocolate">ANYTHING you eat now, you will regret</a> on holiday in June, July and August, until it becomes necessary to fully clothe once more
<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_170x135.244353440.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 135px;" src="http://img0.etsystatic.com/il_170x135.244353440.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-7682624035327819712011-05-06T09:27:00.013+02:002011-10-03T19:19:51.248+02:00Walls that Speak<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fototravel.net/image/17353/AD666E/ESMD-02179-00.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 194px;" src="http://www.fototravel.net/image/17353/AD666E/ESMD-02179-00.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span style="font-style:italic;">Madrid Bars-Decoration on the Outside!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.vam.ac.uk/vamembed/media/versions/uploads/new_images/2006al7137_bemrose_and_sons-wallpaper_advertisement_custom_290x393_06200842.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 393px;" src="http://media.vam.ac.uk/vamembed/media/versions/uploads/new_images/2006al7137_bemrose_and_sons-wallpaper_advertisement_custom_290x393_06200842.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/short-introductory-history-of-wallpaper/">Wallpaper</a> and Paint, decoration of the space around us, has always been the ultimate luxury- till now...and we love Ikea.<br /><br /><br />Since the advent of showhomes it has become de rigueur to demonstrate the latest trends and awareness of them to all and sundry.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.symphonyshowhouse.com/Websites/symphonyshowhouse/Images/2011%20images/Showcase%20Theater.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 128px;" src="http://www.symphonyshowhouse.com/Websites/symphonyshowhouse/Images/2011%20images/Showcase%20Theater.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">The Symphony Showhouse!</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Wallpaper has existed since walls needed decoration...They named a magazine after it<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.wallpaper.com/images/thums/219_ltdedcovers_jt120210_f.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 169px;" src="http://www.wallpaper.com/images/thums/219_ltdedcovers_jt120210_f.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giflight_objects/asia/p/painted_and_coloured_paper_flo.aspx">Wall decoration was around in the 10th Century</a>...or up until polished concrete was possible.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.homeportfolio.com/1676/308278/400.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://images.homeportfolio.com/1676/308278/400.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <span style="font-style:italic;">'Serafine'hand-painted wallcoverings.</span><br /><br />Papers were painted by hand, and by bespoke creators.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Previously, walls were decorated with tapestries or decorated with <a href="http://www.alhambradegranada.org/en/info/artisticintroduction.asp">wood panelling</a>, in Winter or in Castles, but in hotter climates, were decorated with tiles, mosaic or frescoes. Some rooms were completely clad in <span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="www.travelinginspain.com/porcelain.html">porcelain.</a></span><br />Some decoration addicts: <a href="http://www.classicaladdiction.com">Nureyev and Marie Antoinette..</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Fontainebleu Palace</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.classicaladdiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fontainebleau-boudoir-door.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 157px; height: 250px;" src="http://www.classicaladdiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fontainebleau-boudoir-door.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />These influences were carried over into the first decorative papers, and are still traditional motifs, with flowers, leaves, and frescoe-style skies, angels and cherubs...Famous decoration addicts: <a href="www.classicaladdiction.com">Nureyev and Marie Antoinette</a><br />Today we are modern, printing has revolutionised our idea of possible 2D or flat decoration incuding decals, lit surfaces and giant photos and manufaturers vie for the perfect answer for YOU. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s31.dawandastatic.com/Product/17912/17912517/listview/1301062144-642.jpg?20110504200505"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 120px;" src="http://s31.dawandastatic.com/Product/17912/17912517/listview/1301062144-642.jpg?20110504200505" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Street Heart Decals<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-18151170632926313062011-04-24T20:11:00.011+02:002011-04-24T23:10:42.495+02:00Retro Words on the Wall<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA2lS5BBxXKd1VuU-I2WXSvUkxQBIFWyHk1hoMH4dVZSp9ed9NEEWO85_0WgQaR8tTXfupey1R4aQG7LdcEletYnCXM8Rsqw0ikEs3HPw3jiWilg-aQqp85LGHIlA7r6CJ41BPjIKgRI/s320/KellsFol019vBrevCausLuke.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGA2lS5BBxXKd1VuU-I2WXSvUkxQBIFWyHk1hoMH4dVZSp9ed9NEEWO85_0WgQaR8tTXfupey1R4aQG7LdcEletYnCXM8Rsqw0ikEs3HPw3jiWilg-aQqp85LGHIlA7r6CJ41BPjIKgRI/s320/KellsFol019vBrevCausLuke.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>
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<br />After the invention of the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html">printing press (1450)</a> shifted monk-powered <a href="http://www.bookofkells.com/videos/bookOfKellsDVD-ROM-short.html">hand-illumination</a> and calligraphy,
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<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Font</span> for newspapers was set in lines on a printing plate carefully aligned with '<a href="http://typophile.com/node/72917">pica</a>'units or kerning done by hand and eye, twice a day!
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<br />Everyone knows <a href="http://www.linotype.com/259/times.html">Times(1931)</a> from the <a href="www.thetimes.co.uk"> Newspaper </a>,
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<br />Retro Typefaces or Fonts from the 1900s stare at us from marketing and urban living, the London Tube (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill">Gill</a> Sans)and the Paris Metro (1900)
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<br /><a href="http://www.searchfreefonts.com/articles/ascenderfonts-designer-toolbox-july.htm"> Goudy </a> created ampersands, a curiosity we use extensively,
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<br />The exitement of font and its transferral from the typewriter is seen in
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<br />with its flat serifs and wide stamped letters, and who could forget
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<br />MORE:</span>
<br /><a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/typecasting.html">
<br />'USE AND MISUSE OF TYPOGRAPHY IN MOVIES'</a> and
<br /><a href="http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html">'THE SCOURGE OF ARIAL'</a> <span style="font-style:italic;">Mark Simonson</span>
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<br /><a href="http://www.searchfreefonts.com/articles/ascenderfonts-designer-toolbox-july.htm">'ANDS AND AMPERSANDS' </a> Steve Matteson
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<br /><a href="http://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/biba/">'BIBA'</a> Angie Smith
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<br /><a href="http://www.goodlogo.com/cases/336">'GOOD LOGO'</a> www.goodlogo.com
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<br /><a href="http://www.stanleeorg.blogspot.com/">'STAN (THE MAN)LEE'</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-40375164401392508232011-03-22T15:25:00.011+01:002011-03-22T21:42:38.810+01:00RRRetroMarch Ideas<br />Here we have a space to extoll the beauties and coveting of <a href="http://www.retroeuropa.com">retro</a>, vintage and general delight in all things of quality, prestige and pre-mass marketing delight...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7IH5mYC54hyphenhyphenSX0YY8GbMuEcoM7zMlYJfuKdcohi2wqGo1O4-sVSgg6YL3HIljQHdlHjPy0dfOe8ODs05kmfRyR9KNN7nWHHxRXhBQmm3TjOR1kHK5WtlkoNiCbuXtB73pjEhbXeCfjZmA/s1600/il_170x135.224547821.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7IH5mYC54hyphenhyphenSX0YY8GbMuEcoM7zMlYJfuKdcohi2wqGo1O4-sVSgg6YL3HIljQHdlHjPy0dfOe8ODs05kmfRyR9KNN7nWHHxRXhBQmm3TjOR1kHK5WtlkoNiCbuXtB73pjEhbXeCfjZmA/s400/il_170x135.224547821.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586956150745348626" /></a><br /><br />Some people love <a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/the-collectors-vintage-advertising-tins-12471/">tin cans</a>...<br />Here are some sources that first thrilled and expressed the decoration possibilities of simple home kitchen accessories, for example the <a href="http://www.labelsforeducation.com/Arts/grammy-artists.aspx">Campbells Soup People</a> now support the arts, after their cans were made world famous by Mr <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79809">Warhol</a><br />The desire <a href="http://nga.gov.au/ModernPoster/index.cfm">to dazzle with modernity</a> being started by <a href="http://public.csusm.edu/HarkVSAR404/history-paper.html">Alphonse Mucha</a>...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cs.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/MED/36415.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 300px;" src="http://cs.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/MED/36415.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Modern packaging gone wild! Soap, gravy, washing powder, egg, cigarettes, peaches, and of course BEANS.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmccFA92HoFvAM-y1xKrAbFV71uhVv5X87ZXPnWIsT3aEqwXPg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 185px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQmccFA92HoFvAM-y1xKrAbFV71uhVv5X87ZXPnWIsT3aEqwXPg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Warhol was on a roll...<br />Victorian reproduction of graphic and illustrative works; signs, posters and labels and the printing of these <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O128063/biscuit-tin-literature/">'lithographs' onto tin</a> and aluminium was one of the first practical applications of this process, the flimsy but light and airtight results being used for tin signs, advertising plaques and finally conserves, pasteurised, treated and dried goods and foods with lasting success. The invention of plastics has not really eclipsed them even now, but that's another story.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTU0q5FeNsb7VEypl74IThH1oebb7g8wWcB-bW9QekW4vIr-XHECA"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 87px; height: 65px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTU0q5FeNsb7VEypl74IThH1oebb7g8wWcB-bW9QekW4vIr-XHECA" border="0" alt="" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-73985813373820803122011-01-04T12:55:00.003+01:002011-01-04T13:24:51.236+01:00New Year Jingles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidMX_BDghAaBajyB5ISYg9Q7W0wq1F8G_xt2UKVpyKKryFygPUrzerhpJpq7Retg1RqytiD7fYHgfdwhCLRprBlqfLbYmIf9-xtiFJGM_zGuFtmLJ6NzDVGzodgeidST703-QSEqQ8uK6J/s1600/FF.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidMX_BDghAaBajyB5ISYg9Q7W0wq1F8G_xt2UKVpyKKryFygPUrzerhpJpq7Retg1RqytiD7fYHgfdwhCLRprBlqfLbYmIf9-xtiFJGM_zGuFtmLJ6NzDVGzodgeidST703-QSEqQ8uK6J/s400/FF.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558305335110826850" /></a><br />Resolutions as follows:<br />Music: Lets crank up the available tracks and tunes to accompany a breathtaking new wave of positivity and wade through the floods, snow, torrential rain with joy, <br />and beforehand buy GOOD WELLINGTONS. <br /><br /><a href="http://podcast.fredflare.com/boombox/flare_player.html"><br />Fred Flare has a great colection of music for this purpose...n a handy pop-out window complete with multicoloured letters and a fab list of DJs or salta-discos (disc jumpers: so cool)to select your mood.<br /><br /></a> <a href="http://www.fredflare.com/customer/home_robo.php">Get it here!</a> Just click the tiny boombox next to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Retroeuropa/338894315628?ref=sgm#!/fredflare">Fb</a> logo...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-80620260399731712922010-12-13T17:40:00.005+01:002010-12-13T18:17:40.238+01:00Merry Christmas One and All<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjTAKW3pIM0E5fSI6SQ7zalluysopW4-5_eEaUEvCtQxUBIWq-OXYX76H81pge8FHzzcomCXe3Bqii2felslS1x_yyOiVC2HPckgliX7_wUmCc4L5rBtw40EN7uh4DNH9Tb9XRNmqoUNr/s1600/articles_39.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjTAKW3pIM0E5fSI6SQ7zalluysopW4-5_eEaUEvCtQxUBIWq-OXYX76H81pge8FHzzcomCXe3Bqii2felslS1x_yyOiVC2HPckgliX7_wUmCc4L5rBtw40EN7uh4DNH9Tb9XRNmqoUNr/s200/articles_39.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550208630251165298" /></a><br /><br />Hmm cheese and wine, hot toddy, christmas pudding and rum sauce, brandy butter, chocolate, marzipan, liqueur (chocolate/s), turkey, chestnut stuffing, a series of small salty things shapd like fish, wheels, coins, sticks, chocolate log, oranges, plums in chocolate, wine, slightly macabre experimental animals-in-animals roasted, sweets, advent calendar chocolates, ham, nuts, dried fruit, oranges. 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<br /> A FAN PAGE FOR THE STRIPED SOCK LOVERS OF THE WORLD... To love striped socks or striped hosiery of any kind and share pictures, thoughts and colour combinations here, amongst friends. Yes it's on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Striped-Socks-For-Real/160197563996049?ref=sgm&v=info#!/pages/Striped-Socks-For-Real/160197563996049?v=wall&ref=sgm">FACEBOOK</a>
<br /> Let us consider the best of the Striped Sock Cine moments and the impressions, fears and delights that stripes inspire, especially in <a href="http://www.tabio.com">hosiery<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a>...
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<br />A wintry walk in the sock visions of the past and present, and a craft review of the talented <a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c922b9dcabf8eef281ebc8e/halloween-striped-socks?index=0">striped sock creators</a> still out there...
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Meaning?Well what is Success? <br />We asked some random people and came up with intriguing answers! <br />See what you identify with...<br /><br />What does success mean to you?<br />A: A full bank account<br />B: Tons of friends<br />C: A house in Antigua<br /><br />Do you think you are successful?<br />A: Not yet, but I will be!<br />B: I try, I believe success is communication not indifference<br />C: I think you have to know what you want<br /><br />Do you think succssful people are nice people?<br />A: Well, its not a nice world<br />B: It takes all kinds<br />C: No<br /><br />What is a successful wage to you?<br />A: Millions<br />B: Enough to relax and think about who else might need a hand<br />C: 100,000 a year?<br /><br />What does a successful person eat for breakfast?<br />A: Nothing, maybe an expresso<br />B: Healthy food<br />C: Nothing<br /><br />What does it take?<br />A: Very hard work<br />B: Hard work and/or luck<br />C: Sponsors<br /><br />Considered successful achievements:<br />A family man<br />A lawyer<br />A wedding planner<br />A doctor<br />A prime minister<br />A president<br />A popstar<br />An art dealer<br />A car owner<br />A house owner<br />A sponsor<br />A lottery winner<br />God<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-5026029391501635192010-06-01T13:21:00.004+02:002010-06-01T13:38:00.576+02:00A Winning Post! Another Author takes the track by storm!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiE1cYCKkT0ee1gPQXi9q3m1rcF5jdSFp9PeI1Dd6ABSI6AaqWpmaCTt9yWooHchirALbh8Lv8iI80O9BzF64LxVumKaCKeSpBD7ZouaN1s3kgN-Fr2rWORsk8zxB802Gc9QaFk_VCvzt/s220/andy-on-the-furai.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 80px; height: 80px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiE1cYCKkT0ee1gPQXi9q3m1rcF5jdSFp9PeI1Dd6ABSI6AaqWpmaCTt9yWooHchirALbh8Lv8iI80O9BzF64LxVumKaCKeSpBD7ZouaN1s3kgN-Fr2rWORsk8zxB802Gc9QaFk_VCvzt/s220/andy-on-the-furai.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This time we have caught a winner and not just in his fields of Cycling and Coding repute but a Father and now Writer!<br /><a href="http://barringmechanicals.blogspot.com/2010/03/australia.html">Andy Allsopp - Author of 'Barring Mechanicals'<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a> (available and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barring-Mechanicals-Edinburgh-recumbent-bicycle/dp/1445255103/ref=tag_per_edpp_url">selling fast<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a> world wide!)<br />Has graced us with entertaining and philosophically profound answers to our questions, as asked by the fans...<br /><br />1. What is the inspiring thing about cycling?<br /><br />You remember the feeling you get when you're a child and you stick your head out the window in your dad’s car for the first time? The way the wind buffets your face, the way the air feels solid as it flows under your hand, the ground rushing by just out of reach, above you only sky? Cyclists get that every day.<br /><br />2. Do you prefer open roads or peopled zones?<br /><br />Cycling is a deeply immersive way to travel. There's no boundary to divide your body from your surroundings. As such, the dynamics of cycling change necessarily when you enter / exit a highly populated area. Intersections, crossings, erratic drivers, distracted pedestrians combine to pose an interesting set of hazards that demand your full attention. Navigating each successfully gives a good feeling of reward, and offers plenty of opportunity for pleasant interaction. Most of my riding is done on the daily commute across London.<br />The same activity on the open road is an entirely different experience. Weather systems and geology which are rendered irrelevant by the necessary commute suddenly become dominant. Pushing the pedals becomes a meditation. You literally lose yourself in the landscape.<br /><br />If I have to chose, I'll take open roads, with a friend alongside.<br /><br />3. What inspired you to write about your experiences?<br /><br />When signing up for LEL as a relative newbie, I joined a cycling forum to get some advice. There is a strong culture within the online community for providing ‘ride reports’ of activities undertaken, and it wasn’t long after I finished that requests started coming in. The resulting serialisation was driven by gentle peer pressure from the outside, coupled with a cathartic demand from the inside to provide an account of my experience.<br /><br />4. Is there a lot of work for you in typing, or does it come smoothly?<br /><br />I write much like my riding style: lots of exploratory jabs down dead ends, meandering routes, diversions and sudden climbs, mere pauses where others would stop, all ending up considerably further across the page than might be entirely necessary. In terms of a formalised process, I tend to start with a few thoughts about what the chapter should include, allow it to brew in my mind for a day or so, then try to get it onto the page in a single hit as a simple stream of consciousness. Moving it from mind to (electronic) paper allows me to evaluate the record from a third person perspective. I read back through it and tidy up where necessary, seeking substitutes for repeated words, ensuring the sentence flow and rhythms work towards my intent.<br /><br />5.Was the book a natural progression?<br /><br />Yes. Feedback from the ongoing ride reports had been very favourable, and a few readers contacted me to ask if I had considered publishing. These were tailed by offers of assistance that saw me through a series of proofs and typesetting.<br />As a body of work, I would estimate around 95% of the narrative used in the book is lifted from the original forum posts, representing around 50% of the total effort. ‘Online’ is a very forgiving medium for writing: the words spill from the top left to the bottom right of a page that is exactly as tall as your chapter, definitions for any specialist term employed are available at the click of a button, supporting material can be brought to screen in seconds. In comparison, the printed word is a harsh mistress, readers flailing in and out of footnotes, the flow orphaned by unexpected page breaks, geography requiring the reader brings a handy atlas.<br /><br />What was to be a quick once through for grammar became a fairly heavy task, but I feel the end result has been worth it. I’ve had favourable feedback from non riders, and this suggests that the revisions have been a success.<br /><br />I believe it is important that the book retains the original structure wherever possible. This is the closest I can get to the ‘first generation’ record of my experience. Some of this is visible in the book’s episodic flavour, informed by the forum’s strict 5000 character limit on a single post.<br /><br />6. You have chosen an interesting publishing form, do you find that made the process easy?<br /><br />Without self publishing, I the project as it arrives today would have been largely impossible. When approximately half way through writing the original posts, I knew I would like something physical to justify the time commitment outside of the cycle forum: an analogue printed version to keep on the bookcase, maybe share with my family. Originally seeking academic book binding solutions, I was soon pointed towards self publishing via Lulu. This has allowed me to produce and distribute copies considerably cheaper and easier than would have been possible otherwise.<br /><br />7. Has it been an adventure? What do your family think of the many skills of their Pa?<br /><br />It has certainly been exciting journey, and even in this largely digital age a book has an instant currency that can legitimise the effort required to get words on the page. My family’s contribution of time and understanding has been an essential part of this process, and I couldn’t hope to have done it without them. At 27 months, Ted is still a little too young to realise that a writing a book is anything other than common, but his mum is extremely proud.<br /><br />8. Do you plan to bring your art into the cycling arena? and to your fans?<br /><br />I think there’s always a little crossover. When you ride long distance, the friends who come along bring much of themselves to the mix. The peloton is a very open community, and most of us know each other’s passions and histories. This side of the screen, all of us are indexed pretty neatly on the web anyway. Its never too hard for interested parties to dig up my cyclechat, deviantart, or youtube account.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-51722275187937770222010-04-20T12:17:00.003+02:002010-04-20T12:34:05.625+02:00We Got One!! An Author in Waiting...here with answers...HEllo Crowd, <br />Well we finally hoodwinked an actual author - apart from ourselves, obviously- to give us the scoop on the skills and actions, as well as the focus, determination and personal effort required to make it big. <br />Steve Watson's tome is already a success and says something about women, society and the future! <br />Check him out on <a href="http://twitter.com/StevenJWatson">Twitter<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a> <br />Steve - Do you have a fan page on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/?ref=mb&sk=messages#!/steveneven">Facebook???<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8WpFKwk5ll3fI0iX5Tu7rmJKpCGnjpID4N4572PJyWOJGVh7xGSPC1kDT3sd8sNRYc70Z-SHl5FgNuR7JDEsoPPQ9M77M0gaIwiNcqTMh3n5Z0hpxm5FMMmvPMPzpzzOT-bK5dcjVKY5/s1600/steve.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8WpFKwk5ll3fI0iX5Tu7rmJKpCGnjpID4N4572PJyWOJGVh7xGSPC1kDT3sd8sNRYc70Z-SHl5FgNuR7JDEsoPPQ9M77M0gaIwiNcqTMh3n5Z0hpxm5FMMmvPMPzpzzOT-bK5dcjVKY5/s320/steve.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462162775173249922" /></a><br /><br />Have you considered a filmscript that could bring your story to the hard of reading? <br /><br />I have. I love film, particularly films that have been adapted from books. I'm interested in the way that film has to work differently from a book, yet achieve the same end - they're just two different ways of telling the same story, after all. I've already been working on a screenplay of 'Before I Go To Sleep' and it's helped enormously with the redraft of the novel, in helping me to see just how pared down a scene can be yet still work. Novels will always be my first love, but screenwriting is definitely something I'd like to explore more. <br /><br />Have you written many other works?<br /><br />I have written my whole life. I can't remember a time when I didn't write. Stories, novels. Some poetry. But as far as work that I would be happy to call finished? Not that much. But then I think it's rare for any piece of creative work to be finished. There's always a disconnect between the idea of the work and the work itself, a tension between what you want the piece to be and what the piece itself wants to become. Plus, for me the process of writing is one of exploration. When a piece has taught me all it can I find myself itching to move on. <br /><br />What do you think of the contemporary written field?<br /><br />There are some great books being written. Some of them are being published. But there's an awful lot of crap being published, too. And books coming out, supposedly written by a celebrity who claims to never read? Part of me thinks it's good, if the fact that it's got a glamour model's name on the front means that someone picks it up who wouldn't otherwise, but part of me thinks it's all feeding the celebrity beast, the idea that celebrity, that being famous, is an end in and of itself. It shouldn't be. But, if I had to decide, I'd rather see the tube train full of people reading crap than not reading at all. <br /><br />What do you consider outstanding mainstream ficton currently?<br /><br />I'm not reading much at the moment. When I'm in the middle of a project I don't have time for much other than research. And re-reading. I re-read a lot. So I don't know. But there aren't many risks being taken in literature at the moment. Most books disappoint.<br /><br />What do you eat for breakfast?<br /><br />Today? Coffee and cereal. At the computer. I do my best work when I'm half asleep, and not really aware I'm doing it.<br /><br />Where do you see yourself in five years?<br /><br />Writing. I want to have seen 'Before I Go To Sleep' published, and successful, by which I mean 'being read'. I want to be on at least my third book by then. But as long as I am in a position in which I can write then I'll be happy.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-87732647029366553522010-02-25T15:19:00.011+01:002010-02-26T19:11:38.482+01:00Great Movie Quotes and Moments<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.startrek.com/html/images/headers/series/TOS_splash.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 374px; height: 128px;" src="http://www.startrek.com/html/images/headers/series/TOS_splash.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Who can forget?<br />Scripted versus Spontaneous communication on film<br /><br />Apparently<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc">Star Trek</a></span> was just one long glib jam session, with comic and comic strip genius in every episode, created by joint effort to blow everyone's mind and defy humour with futuristic and challenging aliens and alien activites and a leader that denied the posibility that only earth ladies were his domain and mobile communicators have great reception in any planet system, when we have still not overcome the frozen aisle's lack of network even today, 30 years later.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE"><span style="font-weight:bold;">*</span></a><br /><br />Its not what you do but the way tht you do it; who can forget <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7130Bjec4">Bogart</a></span> in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Maltese Falcon </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(<a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7130Bjec4">John Huston</a>)</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp7130Bjec4">'<span style="font-weight:bold;">The stuff that dreams are made of</span>'</a></span>, and the perfect casting that lead to The Shadow's servant and evil merchant '<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA">Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg</a>'.</span> <br />Only Milla <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jovovich</span> could carry off a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVbI4Dla5ts">Multipass</a></span> with such innocence and determination and we must ask ourselves who thought of the immortal <span style="font-weight:bold;">'coffee grounds'<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5XpJ2x-Io"></a></span> moment in <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutuTxNmD7I"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5XpJ2x-Io">Heath Ledger</a></a>'s </span>'<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZutuTxNmD7I"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5XpJ2x-Io"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Casanova</span></a></a>'?<br /><br />It's all <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8shdlcJjAJ8">Noodle Salad</a>'</span></a> as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8shdlcJjAJ8">Jack Nicholson</a> says in '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8shdlcJjAJ8"><span style="font-weight:bold;">As Good as it gets</span></a>'<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-55826179619814801962009-12-30T11:16:00.005+01:002009-12-30T11:38:41.005+01:00New Year Resolution<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP_C_vhobKTH1xSPG6cm3zBu5-snC1SufrVDx-R8E6oBposa1aYfcN7NvIsYs7LzATuO2PEDeMBwoZ0abiiG41yuV29AYBhR6KB-Ug25dQ0HT-FfQUsuGESbr8XU-zrq87oKkhEOBFzeW/s1600-h/Image836.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP_C_vhobKTH1xSPG6cm3zBu5-snC1SufrVDx-R8E6oBposa1aYfcN7NvIsYs7LzATuO2PEDeMBwoZ0abiiG41yuV29AYBhR6KB-Ug25dQ0HT-FfQUsuGESbr8XU-zrq87oKkhEOBFzeW/s320/Image836.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420974162921482866" /></a><br />Being that this is the year I received my first photo mug from a tiny relation, I feel the need for greater erudition.<br />Ace: Ah! Improved rudeness! <br />Ed: Sadly, no, but things like reading, and to this end we shall be interviewing NEW WRITERS. There will be a list on twitter!<br />Ace: HAPPY NEW YEAR!<br />Ed: SO I am compiling to start with a worthy NEW WRITER, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/stevenjwatson">STEVE WATSON<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a>, who has written about memory, and the woman of today. <br />Ace: Can you read?<br />Ed: I've read some...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-53150517117381768632009-11-02T19:00:00.003+01:002009-11-02T19:04:41.725+01:00Moment of reflection on a DIFFICULT year<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX690hJ4ENh2LqXQCsFKhSsNcECPi0gqtKP99T8GA2awE9SNaVuJVLtzHY7zFzfdfEUo2Jc0Rga08JbGByTHEGzOmHWtYpPFLutIpqGqIQsKGMbEDO-TJCQMN_tE8fZx1fn3sP0ieO6k_v/s1600-h/Haiku+paper.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX690hJ4ENh2LqXQCsFKhSsNcECPi0gqtKP99T8GA2awE9SNaVuJVLtzHY7zFzfdfEUo2Jc0Rga08JbGByTHEGzOmHWtYpPFLutIpqGqIQsKGMbEDO-TJCQMN_tE8fZx1fn3sP0ieO6k_v/s320/Haiku+paper.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399568138083558962" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Checking out tumblr.com... See Retroeuropa there..<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-26302741380560077642009-10-12T12:50:00.002+02:002009-10-12T12:54:57.837+02:00When things look black...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipn9LMH1lIudHAgKbpVvZQokVQqmpY6Bm0ZJ6nzkCpwAuzTyZPVmsRs5gtQx72UB1l1xHNfB4qr1h0vS-3nHCmnp5_UN7_sS_rSDS5LrouTxj__zyNpqlOj5brhlabZ0G0bVTsqKVCvJsh/s1600-h/when.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipn9LMH1lIudHAgKbpVvZQokVQqmpY6Bm0ZJ6nzkCpwAuzTyZPVmsRs5gtQx72UB1l1xHNfB4qr1h0vS-3nHCmnp5_UN7_sS_rSDS5LrouTxj__zyNpqlOj5brhlabZ0G0bVTsqKVCvJsh/s320/when.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391664726392767826" /></a><br /><br /><br />‘When things look black, paint them with polka dots’ <br />A motto for our times, delight in being the lemon with a flamenco dress WITH THE PAINTBRUSH.<br />The horse may even enjoy it too.<br />Minute Maid campaign ‘Limon y nada’<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-41946038909299446192009-07-21T23:01:00.006+02:002009-07-21T23:19:44.455+02:00Northern Hemisphere midyear blues<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOyl0YYMnRN6HTJ_UjShhkeOkmwfPo9sHtvv9ZMTNFK0A7hXCO-W1ioYkQVO5XEwHZRms-C-869pogCSALU568UTlpzm9zYcb7HbH2XbhZXYlr0HdI9vJgVtQoSpPHUqxdDQ9lNKvOCfOX/s1600-h/Vindepiquenique.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOyl0YYMnRN6HTJ_UjShhkeOkmwfPo9sHtvv9ZMTNFK0A7hXCO-W1ioYkQVO5XEwHZRms-C-869pogCSALU568UTlpzm9zYcb7HbH2XbhZXYlr0HdI9vJgVtQoSpPHUqxdDQ9lNKvOCfOX/s400/Vindepiquenique.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361024699704263746" /></a><br />Ed: So, Ace, oracle of our time, what's the 'word'? Ace(8): Well ideally, something cool and energy-giving that was not a strain on the vital organs, Ed. A swim perhaps. I feel that as we approach the delightful though party-hard sign of Leo, that those who know will be reaching for the ice pack, chilling and leaving the baggage behind for a relaxing new wave of activity. Ed: Well ok, thankyou for your deep and appreciated though vague and non-directional insight. We follow the<a href="Www.twitter.com/retroeuropa"> haiku<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a> as usual and I personally enjoyed the recent 'washing' reference, didn't you Ace?<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-61550928683230474872009-07-13T21:14:00.003+02:002009-07-13T21:24:02.490+02:00It's Life, Jim<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.contemporist.com/photos/lofoten_130709_02.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 630px; height: 316px;" src="http://www.contemporist.com/photos/lofoten_130709_02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Special recognition deserved from Europe to Australia for this delightful offering to the world of loungers and pool living. Instant retro elegance by <span style="font-weight:bold;">Corey Baker</span>.<br /><br />Eco Bamboo as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.contemporist.com/2009/07/13/the-lofoten-lounger-by-corey-baker/#comment-224555">My favourite new email...C<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span>ONTEMPORIST DESIGN</a><br /><br />Other delightful and memorable home additions..<a href="http://www.stylingworld.com/thesource/features/birchplyfurniture/index.php"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Corin Mellor</span>'s Plywood pieces</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-863087136815025212009-07-09T10:32:00.000+02:002009-07-09T10:33:28.609+02:00It may never happen Ace Ball brings you the words of the day.. If you think 'Ah, today I will look for that confused and distracted soul in the street, and tell them to smile, it may never happen' DON'T. Say happy birthday, and see if you are right... <div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-63131430122675773682009-07-05T18:51:00.005+02:002009-07-05T19:28:05.719+02:00Mod if I cautionNews in of our new collaboratorrr, A (8) Ball. <br />The Ace will inform us of our best move for the day <span style="font-style: italic;">(of course we do not uphold any of his advice) </span>but you may find it useful during procrastination...It will be as if your conscience were speaking, much like the cartoons, though I hesitate to suggest which ear he hides behind...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ED:</span> So Ace, what's it to be for today? A day of Tennis, of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and etc? <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ACE:</span> Today I say - Maybe take the first bus that passes your destination. He who takes the first bus reaches their destination quicker.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ED:</span> Wise, wise...<br /><br /><br /><br /> <iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzFR0ZcqGt-0KB50fh3IR_L9fvwp5nterBj77J2LgewZrYs-KvKJRLBxkpX7sWZ166UEZ3KwJlISwP-BXdGYg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-68010933400710079952009-05-05T21:29:00.008+02:002009-05-05T22:36:21.756+02:00Edition 3 : And here comes sucess...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHszuN5JTre0mykxzTjg5kNjoq8liJdOWeEIyLQjU6rANluLR7PthYJdNYfZ2y5XJY9y6Nj7Frna9DNtLPnDAj87zSm3w1fIzobeUUxwIm9cwcYvNZUZkpvizM47Gyr7K-17YmRbnWoL_/s1600-h/palms1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHszuN5JTre0mykxzTjg5kNjoq8liJdOWeEIyLQjU6rANluLR7PthYJdNYfZ2y5XJY9y6Nj7Frna9DNtLPnDAj87zSm3w1fIzobeUUxwIm9cwcYvNZUZkpvizM47Gyr7K-17YmRbnWoL_/s400/palms1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332434676418833826" /></a><br /><br />Here comes my chinese rug...so sang Iggy whom we admire..and now our Haiku delight of the day:<br /><blockquote>"Palms welcome sun and rain;<br />Green fingers up outstretched,<br />Cool dawn sand dunes rest. "<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></blockquote><br /><br />Japan-style triplets are by Andrea who seems so talented at them. <br />We are always on the lookout for more authors so keep us informed for the next editions.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-61960550495905699512009-05-03T20:25:00.004+02:002009-05-03T20:49:00.581+02:00Buds of Spring<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR-VvggvnuRVOuOriPBnXiAK68Y0x78_8_Mh8MpB5hMhjSftwdIOfI4nz_AMAT7cAX-Rgnhqsv3FLy8JPx0e5q5SQTWvtrDkgaoTCzMzOZ_rO6hOWJ1vhXMAwikhJVj8aMmJfaHy1IdgeB/s1600-h/HAiku030509.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR-VvggvnuRVOuOriPBnXiAK68Y0x78_8_Mh8MpB5hMhjSftwdIOfI4nz_AMAT7cAX-Rgnhqsv3FLy8JPx0e5q5SQTWvtrDkgaoTCzMzOZ_rO6hOWJ1vhXMAwikhJVj8aMmJfaHy1IdgeB/s320/HAiku030509.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331671534795423074" /></a><br /><br />Bringing you the Haiku of the day:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />"As the buds open<br />Growing Season's stillness bursts<br />Through sleeping branches"</span><br /><br />More Anon anon...Loop365 <br />Buy the book and Calendar 2010 - taking orders now: <br /><a href="http://retroeuropa.etsy.com"><span style="font-weight:bold;">http://retroeuropa.etsy.com</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-61985533910424710712009-05-02T19:20:00.006+02:002009-05-02T19:43:57.912+02:00Teamwork and Loop it<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPg3EN65hEV_Oca-BikbkcDYL59PhBhXy7LFrSVm0o8EwU34zeAGGfU_NtamlTptIy2eOsOp7oEj27EWyVP3srapeBbdTgqYmxHP4du60GbyQbLuegMKhfL_sSaeDsis2x1VaZ265BWGjT/s1600-h/haiku2WINDOW.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPg3EN65hEV_Oca-BikbkcDYL59PhBhXy7LFrSVm0o8EwU34zeAGGfU_NtamlTptIy2eOsOp7oEj27EWyVP3srapeBbdTgqYmxHP4du60GbyQbLuegMKhfL_sSaeDsis2x1VaZ265BWGjT/s320/haiku2WINDOW.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331279985321742770" /></a><br />Teaming up with <a href="http://haiku.ash.com"><span style="font-weight:bold;">HAIKUCHALLENGE</span></a> of Facebook Fame, we are bringing you a tiny, <span style="font-weight:bold;">daily</span> (ha, let's see...) inclusion of oriental style peace and tranquillity in the crisis strewn wreckage of the mad city and money and omg etc.<br />RSS to Reset superconscious!<br />Coming up en seguida, as they say...<br />:Loop dee loop, loop dee la...<br /><br />Todays fragment of fragile fun:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">" Light of morning dawns,<br />Paper cool, slides through<br />My open Window "</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-91827664079656383462009-03-04T16:56:00.011+01:002009-03-04T17:41:32.002+01:00Food Glorious Food<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtDWiFD0pOhGhLt7tyvkTZtn3qibUx4jy4b5htndq2KtFWQ46W5tA6Kso8Pdz2AUpbc9xa6MQgJB2eq7SBheO4t8pF5t5Mz6VLx5kNeD5WL1NQ5Oq5eQv6EWUUbqVx7n4c4qUVng2Yn3b/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZtDWiFD0pOhGhLt7tyvkTZtn3qibUx4jy4b5htndq2KtFWQ46W5tA6Kso8Pdz2AUpbc9xa6MQgJB2eq7SBheO4t8pF5t5Mz6VLx5kNeD5WL1NQ5Oq5eQv6EWUUbqVx7n4c4qUVng2Yn3b/s200/untitled.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309367429208636434" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSVx1u3F7hoRSiKM7Nv1YOpV3P0zmdO8R1dW7FvgZYMX84zqPiUDp8Zv2OBk0Zq75X3-s4R0EfH0yycpFP6tVpG8Q2SMTa1dYaADUqAhT5ChVwEqPkTt5ZCwqmP9psBIOMv9ms18LnRl6/s1600-h/212995344_a5532cfcfe_m.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSVx1u3F7hoRSiKM7Nv1YOpV3P0zmdO8R1dW7FvgZYMX84zqPiUDp8Zv2OBk0Zq75X3-s4R0EfH0yycpFP6tVpG8Q2SMTa1dYaADUqAhT5ChVwEqPkTt5ZCwqmP9psBIOMv9ms18LnRl6/s200/212995344_a5532cfcfe_m.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309363583348429058" /></a><br />Today a check on the madness, an update on mad food and delightful scientific activities with fruit and veg. Ah! <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/EdibleOrigami">Origami Croutons!<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a><br /><br />Of course my favourite is the specialist cake designer ShiminLi and her <a href="http://www.idreamofcake.com/">Insane Cakes<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a> that could only spring from a glazed imagination, in designer shoes...<br /><br />Last but not least- How to make huge pink sugar roses look edible.. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUJxXkN8fs&feature=channel_page">Gum Paste Bows<span style="font-weight:bold;"></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrA9KH_IdTpScHfFVQi1CEHHXo_fSFUOgMzD022VfQASsx5SkM3sZaS-4Fog-A1_hXF2k_At7IMMhqomCuphMNr-TLj7SgGBil13fFIMn4TqrSGZO8e59yirnhFj0ZKOe2kfDJ1EWEeVVd/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrA9KH_IdTpScHfFVQi1CEHHXo_fSFUOgMzD022VfQASsx5SkM3sZaS-4Fog-A1_hXF2k_At7IMMhqomCuphMNr-TLj7SgGBil13fFIMn4TqrSGZO8e59yirnhFj0ZKOe2kfDJ1EWEeVVd/s200/untitled.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309369639115138130" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7621943455580257147.post-57323729714101909052009-02-04T21:32:00.010+01:002009-02-04T22:30:55.540+01:00A Sense of Humour, A sense of taste<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaoe3sCq9-OFYda_4qvd2rPcFkh0KS0NfUA2NDV4oRb3_Ik9ae21kFmYgY65PZgGIWfFdQvDwR-T7HfpdG7Wh9u_xMwAAX-wVYcYv_e4MZAYyAUuASSuwE5oEJjMtY6culuXX4F3dF9Oh/s1600-h/330px-Kanikama.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaoe3sCq9-OFYda_4qvd2rPcFkh0KS0NfUA2NDV4oRb3_Ik9ae21kFmYgY65PZgGIWfFdQvDwR-T7HfpdG7Wh9u_xMwAAX-wVYcYv_e4MZAYyAUuASSuwE5oEJjMtY6culuXX4F3dF9Oh/s200/330px-Kanikama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299051305165016802" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH8FXpI8u-MTVBEASecubFElJRkLalP_k98GVkr5cZYLDLTQ6F6MlDWjihYPETLdVaO_xefRVO50FafbRImnszqmoqPPsu23o3RYBFSfoWQt82JVW6tG8nHszwXtIdUQUN0JXJNQ8fUd_l/s1600-h/fizz_wiz_cola_small.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 82px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH8FXpI8u-MTVBEASecubFElJRkLalP_k98GVkr5cZYLDLTQ6F6MlDWjihYPETLdVaO_xefRVO50FafbRImnszqmoqPPsu23o3RYBFSfoWQt82JVW6tG8nHszwXtIdUQUN0JXJNQ8fUd_l/s320/fizz_wiz_cola_small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299046891726727202" /></a><br /><br />Food is becoming a more important commodity in the marketplace every day, but what kind of food matters more. <br />I like to ecologise but with melancholy and alarm I oversee the noxious and bizarre sythesized comestibles I have encountered and consumed, when it was fun at the time.<br />Who can forget <a href="http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/space-dust-sherbet-c-103.html">Space Dust</a>, and the story of the boy who exploded after combining his fix with a cola drink!<br />Candy Cigarettes of course, and jelly worms, and prawns made of strange pink substance not like meringue. <br />However, the savouries are far more disturbing- Ok margarine is an invention that seems to have ben justified like NYLON, and in the same age group, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-Tarts">PopTarts</a>? <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKTy3rAQSGNyC-ZkroPuKZseqR-2SzTYemnah225PWgA88Ut6gDeuFRh4mnWiGr15pXsi0LBFR3QIUy58vFnXL6s1hSepXNM5nvl9Y0_IoeiXdrtTLVuGO1vyry3ByLfdd8c6BxwPzH4O/s1600-h/200px-Pop-Tarts_Frosted_Strawberry.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKTy3rAQSGNyC-ZkroPuKZseqR-2SzTYemnah225PWgA88Ut6gDeuFRh4mnWiGr15pXsi0LBFR3QIUy58vFnXL6s1hSepXNM5nvl9Y0_IoeiXdrtTLVuGO1vyry3ByLfdd8c6BxwPzH4O/s200/200px-Pop-Tarts_Frosted_Strawberry.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299054473643021090" /></a><br />And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_stick">Crabsticks</a>? <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN46-wEvrg6-pX0F6BY1la6suFUBTbOnDtI7-fgw-9O__LoG3tWRunA0uBLxKxnDuBxNMsTpYg2mJ7M_l_9GCK-KWtr8k9BK9CNG-JC24xqkQAkkf79UgbVnhRLO6P1kBM-epcdeJWqt1W/s1600-h/spag.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 91px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN46-wEvrg6-pX0F6BY1la6suFUBTbOnDtI7-fgw-9O__LoG3tWRunA0uBLxKxnDuBxNMsTpYg2mJ7M_l_9GCK-KWtr8k9BK9CNG-JC24xqkQAkkf79UgbVnhRLO6P1kBM-epcdeJWqt1W/s200/spag.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299052900400688578" /></a><br />I know an Italian's pride that is wounded by <a href="http://images.google.es/images?um=1&hl=es&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=alphabet+spaghetti&btnG=Buscar+im%C3%A1genes">Alphabetti Spaghetti</a>, and the spanish are horrified by baked beans, <span style="font-style:italic;">made with sugar??! In cans???</span><br />It gives the supermarket experience that extra exitment and distracts from the concrete pillars - or is it just the lighting... <br />Let's play <a href="http://www.iceland.co.uk/trolley_dash_game">TROLLEY DASH</a> I've got my eye on the creme eggs...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Loop365 is a member of the Retroeuropa team, currently at www.myspace.com/retroeuropa and so on and so forth...</div>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15271607391572126395noreply@blogger.com