|
The Cartoonist
 |
Saturday, November 30, 2002 |
|
 Lots of Helvetica there, I'm afraid. Nevertheless beautiful posters, which you can send to friends as e-cards: Swiss Poster History
7:42:20 PM  | |
|
|
|
 The famous Karuselli chair is still being produced by Avarte. You can download a brochure and a 3D model of the chair - and of course look at all their other fabulous furniture.
11:36:07 AM | |
|
|
|
Friday, November 29, 2002 |
|
 Annette, giving instructions to the Orion for liftoff from underwater base 104.
4:43:30 PM Orion Pics | |
|
|
|
I don't get it. Why should I do that? Google Voice Search Demo: "Search on Google by voice with a simple telephone call
To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 318-0165.
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results."
2:59:13 PM | |
|
|
|
 Here's a website dedicated to Apple's Lisa computer. "We're going to blow IBM away. There's nothing they can do when this computer comes out. This is revolutionary, it's incredible." - Steve Jobs
9:42:01 AM | |
|
|
|
 Everything you ever wanted to know about the Apollo missions to the moon you'll find in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: Images, videos, press kits, flight plans...
9:01:10 AM | |
|
|
|
Thursday, November 28, 2002 |
|
 More sixties! If you ever need a proper Mod outfit, furniture or records, just go to this website.And in case you desperately need some Cuban Heels, visit Beatwear Liverpool Rocky, you'll love this site...SHOES!!!
8:40:31 PM London | |
|
|
|
 A great website with free Comic book fonts and tips and tricks about cartooning, a true classic on the web: http://www.blambot.com/
8:20:09 PM | |
|
|
|
 And have I mentioned my own website yet? There are quite a few Raumpatrouille related 3D models to download...
8:39:10 AM | |
|
|
|
 More 3D models. This time for all the Trekkies out there. The Star Trek Meshes and Objects Collection offers an incredible amount of free models in various formats, all divided into categories like 'Federation Starships', 'Klingon and Romulan ships', 'Starbases and Stations' and so on and so forth.
8:32:16 AM | |
|
|
|
Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
|
 Great. The rather disturbing Struwwelpeter is online in English, German and Hebrew. Via Fact or Fiction Weblog. Phil, get well soon!But that's not all: http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html is a website specialised in 19th century German stories: Wilhelm Busch (Max und Moritz, Hans Huckebein etc), The Grimm Brothers, ETA Hoffmann, Ludwig Tieck and lots more. Good stuff, and all in German/English.
7:45:14 PM Literature | |
|
|
|
 Didn't I mention Maya below? Well, here's a website with highly detailed 3D models from 2001-A Space Odyssey. The models come in various formats and are amazing. Reimund Bertrams via email.
5:27:12 PM | |
|
|
|
Tuesday, November 26, 2002 |
|
 The RatSwine again - this time hassling a bobby.
8:06:37 PM The RatSwine | |
|
|
|
Monday, November 25, 2002 |
|
 Formula 1. The belgian artist Carlos Ghys has a website with historic and modern Formula 1 pictures and paintings.
6:14:17 PM | |
|
|
|
John Freeman is running a very good website about comics and cartooning:
downthetubes: "Welcome to Downthetubes.net - a simple resource for comics editors or other companies looking for an artists who can bring more than a spark of originality to your next design project, be it print, new media or something more."
12:37:28 PM | |
|
|
|
Sunday, November 24, 2002 |
|
The stony heart. Rainer Hendricks has put together a website (in german) about Arno Schmidt's novel Das steinerne Herz, with maps and photos of Ahlden. A few broken links unfortunately, but apart from that very interesting.
Ahlden und Das steinerne Herz: "Arno Schmidt:
Das steinerne Herz
Der "Historische Roman aus dem Jahre 1954"
und der Flecken Ahlden an der Aller -
Eine neue 'illustrierte Ausgabe'."
9:19:30 PM Literature | |
|
|
|
 Grey Sunday and I'm lazy - so here's another Raumpatrouille picture, showing Commander McLane's Astro-Disk, the main control unit of the Orion. Modern technology - fantastic!
2:59:26 PM Orion Pics | |
|
|
|
Look, look... Independent News: "US special forces are reported to be on the ground in western and northern Iraq, and military engineers are preparing and upgrading airfields in the Kurdish zone. In many ways, the war on Iraq has already begun.
"
10:52:16 AM | |
|
|
|
Saturday, November 23, 2002 |
|
 Mr Sherlock Holmes still resides at No 221b Baker Street. 48 out of the 60 stories by Conan Doyle are online as PDF or Palm DOC files (or both), many of the old Strand Magazine illustrations by Sidney Paget, sound files and links. Game's afoot...!
11:33:27 PM Literature, London | |
|
|
|
 Here's another cartoon with The RatSwine...
4:46:19 PM The RatSwine | |
|
|
|
Friday, November 22, 2002 |
|
Lots of Bruno Bozetto (my hero!) links at ::: koewi.log :::: "Im Laufe der Jahre hatte ich schon den Namen vergessen, genauer: einfach nicht mehr dran gedacht. Bruno Bozzetto." Great stuff, Robert!
7:47:19 PM | |
|
|
|
Strange. I always thought the people in Apple's 'Switch' campaign were real people who have 'switched'. But in the interview Feiss also reveals how she landed the Apple advertisement by accident. She's a friend of Hamilton Morris, the son of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who directed the ads. The pair went to watch some ads being filming in Los Angeles one day and there happened to be a couple of open spots. Both she and Hamilton were filmed, and their spots were chosen for the campaign.Does that mean she just read a text from a piece of paper? Something out of the keyboard of an ad copywriter? She never 'switched' in reality? And neither Hamilton? In that case it could have some legal implications for Apple... Switch stoner speaks. Ellen Feiss, the Switch ad stoner poster girl has broken her long silence and given an interview to a college paper.
Link (viciously slashdotted site, here's a vanilla text mirror)
4:50:35 PM | |
|
|
|
 Just another weird idea I had this morning: The RatSwine!
2:19:02 PM The RatSwine | |
|
|
|
 Mrs Peel, we're needed... A huge The Avengers site can be found here:http://theavengers.tv/forever/welcome.htm The website features complete episode guides, images, links, whatever you want.
12:06:33 PM | |
|
|
|
Have I already mentioned the fab XML tutorial?
XML Tutorial In our XML tutorial you will learn what XML is, and the difference between XML and HTML. You will also learn how to start using XML in your applications.
8:51:41 AM | |
|
|
|
Very interesting article on OS X:
MacFixIt - Comments on Jaguar by anonymous Tenon Engineer: "Mac OS X, Apple's new operating system based on BSD Unix, offers Macintosh users greater flexibility, stability, and multitasking ability than previous versions of Mac OS. Although it has many strengths, Apple still has more to do in a number of areas relevant both to a Unix and server environment.
"
8:48:56 AM | |
|
|
|
 The Mookse and The Gripes, the last illustration out of eleven: And there were left now an only elmtree and but a stone.
8:13:47 AM Literature | |
|
|
|
Thursday, November 21, 2002 |
|
 The couple on the left are La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, and they were photographed by my friend Jutta Brandt, who finally has her own website packed with photos - concerts, portraits, landscapes...
9:42:15 AM | |
|
|
|
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 |
|
Fantastic! And very funny. Reimund, you will like this. In german.
::: koewi.log ::::
"Blickwinkel
Stadt. Schuhladen. Über der Tür das Logo als Wortbild. Pumps. Meine Frau geht drinnen auf Jagd, ich stehe gelangweilt draußen und nehme einen Schuh aus dem Regal. "
12:40:27 PM Blogs | |
|
|
|
 The car that never was.
A probably very expensive portfolio about Andre Franquin's Turbot Traction 1. Pure art. Wonderful.
11:54:02 AM | |
|
|
|
The 'Payphone Project' contains thousands of payphone numbers, with photos, stories, and links related to pay phones and phone booths throughout the world. Via Linkfilter.
9:56:14 AM | |
|
|
|
Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
|
 This is cute: Apple I replicas, built to order.
Nice story on a guy who's building replica Apple I PCs, duplicating the machines that The Steve and The Woz built in their garage. The I's will be built to order, but unless Apple licenses out its Apple I ROMs, it won't be functional.
Via [Boing Boing Blog]
But who wants Apple I replicas? Mhm...I still have a Dragon 32 somewhere in the loft...
5:22:19 PM | |
|
|
|
 Andy's chest. If God showed up tomorrow and said Do you want to be President? No. Do you want to be in politics? No. Do you want to be a lawyer? No. What do you want? I want to be a rythm guitar player.
It's Lou Reed and his official website is here: Sister Ray Enterprises, while one of the best sites about him can be found here: The Wild Side of Lou Reed, maintained by Olivier Landemaine, who also runs The Velvet Underground Web Page.
And there's always The Andy Warhol Foundation.
Photo reference:
Andy Warhol, artist, New York City, August 20, 1969
Richard Avedon (American, b. 1923)
Gelatin silver print; 154.3 x 123.8 cm (60 3/4 x 48 3/4 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© Richard Avedon
5:09:11 PM | |
|
|
|
I'll leave that to Armin. He's much better at commenting on those things than I am.
Guardian Unlimited: Some tips on DIY protection against terrorism
Better safe. Barely a day goes by without some new warning about an imminent terrorist attack. But what exactly can we do to protect ourselves? Should we be looking for a bunker? Where do you buy a gas mask? And is it safe to breathe on the tube?
2:00:59 PM London | |
|
|
|
Changes. This page is getting longer and longer and it takes quite a while to load. So I've changed the 'days per page' from 7 days to 4 days. Meaning: If you want to read items older than 4 days, you have to navigate through the calendar in the top right corner.
And I'm still having the flu. So don't expect any new cartoons before next week. Probably tomorrow I'll scan in the last Finnegans Wake illustration and maybe something from my sketchbooks. Right at the moment I'm freezing, although the heating's turned on.
1:50:12 PM Blogs | |
|
|
|
Monday, November 18, 2002 |
|
 The German Standards - Deutsche Standards are now online at http://www.deutsche-standards.de/out/marken_des_jahrhunderts/ A nice compilation with pictures of famous german brands and background information about the companies (in german). The author, Jörg Kriechbaum, used to be a copywriter at GGK Düsseldorf.
6:06:27 PM | |
|
|
|
 Awesome Raymond Loewy drawings of the Studebaker 'Avanti' automobile. Via BoingBoing
5:23:25 PM | |
|
|
|
Nice one!
victorian book arts. A recent Metafilter entry and subsequent comments bring us some excellent links to examples of Victorian bookbinding, printed materials, including... [Typographica]
5:12:57 PM London | |
|
|
|
Sunday, November 17, 2002 |
|
Speed back to normal. Pipex was suffering from another Denial of Service attack.
5:10:59 PM | |
|
|
|
Pipex or BT have screwed up again. My dsl connection is slower than dial up at present. Time to read a book. See you tomorrow.
2:05:32 PM | |
|
|
|
 Now this is absolutely fantastic. Create your own face, or, better, the suspect's face. Great. Flash alert, but it wouldn't work without Flash. Via Koewi.log.
12:27:25 AM | |
|
|
|
Saturday, November 16, 2002 |
|
NetRing: PhotoBlogs Intriguing. The idea, surely, is fab; but sampling a few of those photo weblogs, all I could find were family pictures, party pictures and a lot of cat pictures. Where's the art then?
1:56:13 PM Blogs | |
|
|
|
 Angus MacLise, the original drummer of The Velvet Underground:
Midheaven's Angus MacLise virtual shrine: "The late percussionist, poet, calligrapher, mystic, shaman and visionary Angus MacLise was pure '60s free spirit all the way. He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground -- but promptly quit as soon as he found out they were being paid to play their first gig. He claimed the band was too structured (!!) for his tastes, anyway."
11:37:15 AM | |
|
|
|
 My mate Reimund Bertrams has a really nice gallery of Science Fiction based 3D-renderings. I hope he includes his Bonestell 'remakes' soon. Reimund, where are they?
10:42:54 AM | |
|
|
|
Cursor brilli.ant - internet von idoten has written a fantastic article about online ticket orders. In german - for all of you german-bashers at Motorola in Swindon!
9:50:22 AM | |
|
|
|
Nice, but Radio still keeps crashing in OS 10.2.2...
system.verbs.builtins.radio.weblog.writeRssFile changed on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:22:10 GMT: When generating the copyright sub-element of channel, encode entities in the author's name. [Radio.root Updates]
9:19:50 AM | |
|
|
|
Interesting website about the 
Spooky. 1300 Pictures from 174 
The swinging sixties! Have a look at this website: 
In den späten Fünfzigern des vorigen Jahrhunderts baute die US-Firma Philco ein extrem futuristisches Fernsehgerät: das 
Came across a website about the 
James Bama. He is best known for his striking 
Zettels Traum. The first 200 Zettel to Arno Schmidt's really big book Zettels Traum are available as a zipped 
The RatSwine strikes again!
Found a nice 
Because there was another Edgar Wallace flick on German telly just now, here's a link for all the fans: