Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Another merger? Takeover? I'm getting fed up with this business. MediaGuardian.co.uk | Advertising | Japanese ad giant buys stake in London agency I'm just back from a party in a posh bar off Carnaby Street held by a London recruitment agency. It was kind of bizarre (but also a great party!): 70% of the guests there were unemployed art directors and writers, desperately trying to get at least some freelance work ("A permanent job? Fully employed?? Are you kidding?"). Like, you're sipping your free champagne and ask the person next to you: "What are you doing?" - "Oh, I'm just another unemployed Art Director". And the place was full with people like that - your cartoonist included, of course - really good designers, copywriters - all out of work. The ad industry is going downhill. Did some 'networking' though and met lots of nice folks. 11:54:43 PM   London | |

Tsk. Failure for super rocket. Europe's new heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket explodes shortly after launch. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 11:36:50 PM    | |

And then there is this Franquin site: André Franquin 4:17:42 PM    | |

The netbib weblog asked for it, so here's a repeat of my André Franquin links: First, there is the wonderful official site of Gaston Lagaffe, created by Mostra &Marsu, available in french, dutch and english. Then we have Franquin est Modeste, a website in french about Modeste and Pompon. And last (but not least) an article in english: Franquin died on 5th of January 1997. His work will live on... 4:13:32 PM   Literature | |

Laurie Anderson's amazing "here" website from 1997 is still online: Here This web project was designed with Hsin-Chien Huang in 1997 and remains on line. It was created under the auspices of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Holland. Shockwave alert. Bigtime. But worth it. More or less "schock", who posted the link to Laurie's homepage. BTW, is she still Lou Reed's girlfriend? 10:28:42 AM   Literature | |

This was bound to happen one day: Libel case could change the future of the internet. Online: Australian court gives millionaire go-ahead to sue US website. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:31:17 AM    | |

A website about Don Martin with quite a few samples of his cartoons and posters. Also of interest is The Don Martin Web - both websites are horribly designed though. 9:25:13 AM   Literature | |

New Google toys. Google debuts reputation, slideshow experiments. Labs toys [The Register] 8:18:57 AM    | |