Free channel for international music from the last 110 years, Picasso's first painting etc, early Spring

After days of grimly gray skies and rain, it's lovely to see the sunshine again.

Fantastic! This website lets you explore music from almost any country in any decade since 1900.

So many obscure treasures from far flung corners of the planet.

Radiooooo.com is so fun! You can add songs too. 

One of my favorite romantic films, love song sung by Julie Delpy

Before Sunset - Closing Scene

Picasso died today in 1973. Here's his first painting, at age 8:

my inner teenager wants this

             Painting of koi fish by Terry Gilecki

 Painting of koi fish by Terry Gilecki

Painting of koi fish by Terry Gilecki

                                     Folk Art Papercuts by Suzy Taylor

Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924) 

               Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s)

                              Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924)

                 Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s)

                            Illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924)

                 Cover illustration by Artuš Scheiner for Božená Němcová's Disobedient Kids

Map of the stars by Andreas Cellarius 

Portrait Of Young K.M By Nikolaos Lytras

 May there be more peace in the world. 

Illustration by Gyo Fujikawa

Berkeley 1968-1973 Poster Collection

A great collection of political posters on the University of Berkeley website. Here. 

Link via Pat Brownlee with thanks. 

The UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections holds 250 posters concerned with the advocacy for peace, equality, and harmony during the Vietnam War era from the University of California's Berkeley campus and other regions in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

In 1979 Helmut Jung of Gold River, B.C. donated the Berkeley Poster Collection to the Library. A portion of the collection was previously exhibited at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on the UBC campus from October to December 1999. 

While the posters indicate both known and unknown authorship and publication, the entire collection demonstrates similar ideals and perspectives. The posters were all produced between the years of 1968 and 1973, a period in which the social and political climate both in the United States and South East Asia provided the genesis of tension that is seen throughout the collection. The representation of each poster within the collection is unique and eclectic supporting the idea that underground and guerilla group movements played a large role in advocacy, peace and equality. Some of the groups that are represented used acronyms on the posters such as 4973 and RAPE. 

Many of the posters were produced on computer paper while the rest are either poster or cardboard paper. Some of the posters have versos which were originally produced for the mass media.