#Fransson

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Stures studio uppdaterad

I oktober tillkom ”Stures studio”, med texter av Sture Hegerfors, som han skrev för Serie-Pressen 1971-72. Stures studio är nu uppdaterad.

I oktober tillkom ”Stures studio” på sajten, med texter av Sture Hegerfors, som han skrev för Serie-Pressen 1971-72. Stures studio är nu uppdaterad. Under veckorna sedan lanseringen har det mesta från Stures penna, under vinjetterna ”Så började vi” och ”Allt om serier”, ur Serie-Pressen blivit uppladdat. Dessa texter finns nu tillgängliga att läsa på webben, med kompletterande illustrationer. De…

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[mirellabruno]

Summer Flowers, c.1930 Emil Nolde

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[papastrawbeary]

I only have doodles like this rn 😔 my Fallout oc Vik is such a mood though

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[thoregil]

2025-11-04 Kristina Fransson - PØKK, Dokkhuset

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2006 - Number 32 - Jessica Andersson - "Kalla nätter"

Jessica Andersson's going it alone for the first time at Melfest 2006. She was part of the group Fame who were Sweden's representatives at Eurovision 2003 meaning she's already a winner of Melodifestivalen. Fame are no more as Jessica and Magnus Bäcklund have gone their separate ways, and furthermore he had a song in heat one and has already made it to the second chance final in this year's competition. Jessica has a target now.

Her song is Kalla nätter (Cold Nights) - and let's remind ourselves that Melfest was broadcast in the Swedish winter, her heat going out on March 4th 2006. In March 2006, it was particularly cold in Stockholm. This was an apt song, even if it does end with Jessica wishing for more cold nights to come.

She's imaging her lost relationship and using those memories to keep her warm as she sleeps alone - something she seems entirely happy to be doing rather than moving on and finding someone else who might keep her warm with more than recollections.

The temptation is to think of Magnus with this song and that's no doubt what was intended by the song-writers. They are the somewhat prolific team of Fransson, Edberger, Larsson and Lundgren who not only wrote Sweden's 2005 Eurovision entry, but who also wrote another of my top list for this year.

Musically this is quintessential Melfest and if anything too safe for 2006. This could of have been in the first Melfest selection I went through for 1992, it's that classically Swedish. The staging has been raunched up a little using a bentwood chair and satiny night-attire. However this wasn't enough. Jessica finished fifth in her heat - not enough even to get Kalla nätter to the second chance final. Magnus won this round.

Jessica would be the one to have longevity in the music industry though. This was her first solo Melodifestival of six, the most recent being in 2021 - that's fifteen more years of music including four albums and numerous singles. She's one of the almost-ever-presents for the next while, so it's probably wise to get used to her being around.

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[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Supernova Rings

Some 20,000 years ago, a massive star blew off a ring of dust and gas that expanded into the surrounding interstellar medium. Later, in 1987, the star exploded as supernova 1987A. That explosion lit the surrounding area, revealing a clumpy ring astronomers have struggled to explain. But a new team believes they have a fluid dynamical answer: the Crow instability. (Image credits: NASA/ESA/CSA/M. Matsuura/R. Arendt/C. Fransson and NASA/ESA/A. Angelich + M. Wadas et al.; research credit: M. Wadas et al.; via APS Physics) Read the full article

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[thoregil]

2024-07-17 Coincidences vs. Sondre Moshagen Lightning Trio vs. Bliss Quintet vs. Schemes: Jazzintro finale - Storyville, Moldejazz

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Eurovision 2006 - Number 55 - Sandra Dahlberg - "Jag tar det jag vill ha"

You wouldn't think it when watching this, but Sandra Dahlberg's musical background is performing Sami folk songs, but everyone does go on a musical journey. It's Sandra's second performance at Melfest after a place in the final in 2004. Her career has been taking off since an appearance in the 2003 incarnation of Sweden's version of Fame Factory. It was on that show that she met her partner, perennial Melfest act Jimmy Jansson.

By 2006 Sandra is a familiar face on Swedish music TV with her mix of pop incorporating some folk elements - she was sweet, smiley. However in 2006, there was a newer, raunchier vibe to much of what was being submitted and accepted in the national finals. The girlbops and ethnobops had evolved into their final form - the bad girl bop.

Jag tar det jag vill ha (I Take What I Want) is a product of the summer song-writing camps, this one being written by Sandra herself in conjunction with two experienced song-writing teams. One being Johan Fransson and Niklas Edberger, who'd written Alcazar's Alcastar and Jimmy Jansson's 2005 entry. The other team was Tim Larsson and Tobias Lundgren, who'd also worked on the Jimmy Jansson song and would go on to write Malta's 2016 Eurovision entry.

Underneath its motorbike, black-clad dressing and Sandra's demands for exactly what she wants, it's a standard Melfest pop number. But it does have all the elements that have been successful recently. Choreography, hot backing dancers, a sexually forward female singer. It's not quite as horny as many other entries this year (as we'll discover later), but Sandra does her best to stand in for Nanne Grönvall in her absence.

It's slick. Highly competent in its production and presentation. Sandra absolutely has what it takes to pull this off at Melfest, and it had a good chance of getting to the final. However on the night it fell just short - just. She finished fifth of the eight songs in the heat only a few thousand televotes short of fourth position and a place in the last chance round.

It's also Sandra's last Melfest song. After this, she became pregnant and what should have been a celebration for Jimmy and Sandra with the birth of their son was complicated by Sandra becoming dangerously ill during childbirth. She pulled through, but this complicated birth and her recovery seems to have had an effect on her career and her relationship. After this there was less music and more TV work. She hosted summer shows and took part in the wonderfully named and themed Help, I'm in a Japanese Game Show, eventually getting eliminated by a poor performance in a round called Slippery Live Eel Transport.

Jimmy and Sandra split up in 2010. She remarried dancer Mathias Singh who worked with her on her TV children's show Prinsessan Sandra och Prinskörven.

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Looking through these sun-drenched photos felt like a lifeline—especially while a relentless blizzard raged outside for days, piling ankle-high snowdrifts. These frames whisked me back to our little escape to Turkey, where we traded winter’s cold and darkness for blinding sunlight and warmth so intense it made our eyes ache. It was surreal to bask in what felt like midsummer while knowing that, somewhere back home, winter still had its grip.

Now, just two weeks after that April snowstorm, the weather has flipped again—nearly summer, as if these photos willed it into being. But what left the deepest impression wasn’t just the stark contrast in climate. It was Turkey itself—a land where ancient Greek legacy intertwine with Ottoman grandeur, where Europe and Asia collide, and where religion and secularity exist in fascinating tension. Every corner held a new contradiction, a new story.

All of these moments were captured on my handheld Canon G7X using Thomas Fransson’s Crowdak film simulation. Beyond a slight contrast boost, the shots are nearly untouched—sometimes, the best edits are the ones you don’t make.