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Friday, January 31, 2003 |
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 By hand. :::koewi::: has some nice links on Graffiti and Arabic Calligraphy. Go and have a look. Hop.
11:57:18 PM  Cult | |
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 Quacks. FreeBooks4Doctors is a fabulous website with hundreds of online medical books."FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet. We welcome your comments and suggestions." Via The JWalk Weblog.
11:52:04 PM Literature | |
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 I'm excited. Big Little Books are comics. They're books. They're a joyless synthesis of both. Fantastic: Major Matt Mason is there, The Invaders, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - a really nice cover gallery. Lots of thanks to Anita for the link.
4:31:45 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 Remember David Vincent? The bloke who fought The Invaders from Vega? That was a fabulous TV series in the 60s. They even did a new Mini series in 1995, which was really spooky. It all started off in front of an old diner ... so have a look at the Diner Museum. Sadly, not a lot of pictures - you have to sign up to their e-group to access those. "It began with a closed deserted diner ... and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy ... "
3:20:28 PM Cult | |
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 Signs. Let's post something positive about the USA for a change. After all, some of my best friends are Americans and you really can't blame all of them for their mad government. So have a look at the Sign Museum. Plastic Signs, Neon Signs, Signs of all sorts ... brilliant.
3:13:04 PM Cult | |
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 Nice one. Bush approves nuclear response -- The Washington Times. " A classified document signed by President Bush specifically allows for the use of nuclear weapons in response to biological or chemical attacks, apparently changing a decades-old U.S. policy of deliberate ambiguity, it was learned by The Washington Times."
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"head2"Maybe I should try that? Steve Hall's Adrants. "The staff at ZDNet Tech Update has been laid off. How are they looking for work? They have put themselves up for bid on eBay as a turnkey online publishing solution. A new form of classified advertising? Will it work? Monitor their bids on eBay to find out."eBay has pulled the 'auction' meanwhile.
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 Flicker. I was actually looking for Tony Conrad's Site, but that has been taken over by a Country & Western singer with the same name. So if you want to know more about the Tony Conrad I mean, there's not much out there; a short article here and a review here.So let's go to Flicker instead, which has got nothing to do with Tony Conrad, but with downloadable Underground Videos, Performances and Films. "Welcome to Flicker, home page for the alternative cinematic experience. Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy."
2:17:39 PM Cult | |
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"The Computer History Museum maintains a broad range of artifact, documentary, and media-based sources in computer history, one of the most important and comprehensive such collections in the world. The museum's strength is chiefly in post-WWII electronic computing but it also maintains a representative collection of objects from earlier eras." "link"
12:32:50 PM Cult | |
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Nelson speaks out. Times Online.
"NELSON MANDELA, South Africa's former President, made a scathing attack yesterday on plans for war against Iraq, denouncing the United States and Britain for seeking to plunge the world into 'a holocaust'."
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Thursday, January 30, 2003 |
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 The Flash in Flash is an exhibit at wordsandpictures.com about the 'fastest man alive' and his creator, the great Carmine Infantino. Well done.
6:09:11 PM Cult | |
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"A total of 11,200 bolts on 2,800 motors will be replaced after preliminary investigations showed the cause of the accident was machinery falling from the train and hitting the track.
The safety work will mean there will be no service at all on the Central Line and Waterloo and City Line for at least two weeks."
1:38:57 PM London | |
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 Mr Mutato. The funny bloke on the left is Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. And Mutato Muzika is here.
1:36:18 PM Cult | |
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White stuff. Snow in London. I hate this cold white stuff.
1:21:06 PM London | |
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 Bishops having fun. A new cartoon from the cartoonist.
12:17:33 PM Cult | |
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Interesting article for OS X newbies. Taming Mac OS X : As the deadline looms for the transition to the new operating system, here are some helpful hints for making the switch as effortless as possible. (Baltimore Sun via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Wednesday, January 29, 2003 |
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 Tony? Are you still here? Are you actually living on this planet? Here in the UK? On this world? Blair: North Korea is next. 3.15pm: Tony Blair today pledged that after dealing with Iraq, the UN would confront North Korea about its nuclear weapons programme. [Guardian Unlimited]
11:44:01 PM London | |
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 DAF. Reformed, reunited, back together again. For tonight this is the last of my Pop/Punk links. Gabi was a friend of mine, when he was still in Düsseldorf. Their first single is called "Der Sheriff", Untertitel: "Ein anti-amerikanisches Lied". (Spiegel). The official website is here. And as Gabi says in the video: "Wenn es ein Symbol gibt für Terror, Unterdrückung, Folter und Mord, dann ist das die Flagge der USA." Sorry, guys. He's right.
7:43:30 PM Cult | |
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 On Returning. More Wire. Dammit, they're GOOD! Nice linkpage with a live video (Top link). Real Player as usual.
5:10:43 PM Cult | |
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 More Pop. Jennifer Jeffery has an impressive portfolio of live concert pictures. And while I'm at it, may I also recommend my friend Jutta Brandt again? You will find weird fellows like LaMonte Young and Terry Riley on her website. Wonderful black and white photography.
4:08:03 PM Cult | |
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 Dotdash. On the border there's movement. 12XU. It's a lowdown. Reuters. I am the fly. Map Ref.41N 93W. Fits nicely with the Punk links below. Here's Wire.
2:12:42 PM Cult, London | |
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 Palermo Catacombs. Creepy. "Welcome! This is a photographic trip to the Capuchins' Catacombs located in Palermo, Italy. There are thousands of corpses lined on the walls like paintings." Thanks, Reimund!
1:49:39 PM Cult | |
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 Looking through Gary Gilmour's Eyes. Hate and War. Whole Wide World (with Ian Dury on drums!). And more. Old Punk videos at The Bunker. Have fun. "link"
12:46:16 PM Cult | |
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 Bela Lugosi's dead. Yes, that's indeed Pete Murphy on the left. Hundreds, no, thousands of Punk and New Wave photos are on Phillipe Carly's website. Fantastic.(Siouxie and the Banshees: 808 pictures!)
12:27:39 PM Cult | |
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 Toys, toys, toys! The most bizarre action figures are at Kidrobot. Great stuff. Via Whykay's.
12:02:02 PM Cult | |
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"bird"Bush. Being completely fed up with The President's Speech, which is being broadcasted live on German Telly, I'm just doing a Dietmar Schönherr ("Der Präsident ist ein .... ") Good Night.
2:42:47 AM Cult | |
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Rumour. As I've just heard from a trustworthy source, (This is a secret of course) British Troops have been given the order to attack Iraq in about 2 weeks time. How great. Shall we celebrate now? Guys, this is for real. I'm scared. Bastards!
12:12:01 AM Cult, London | |
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Tuesday, January 28, 2003 |
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"head3"Junk the Junk. It might not work in Germany, but it certainly works here in England and it's a great idea. So Junk the Junk. "schock"And here's for the Spambots: ihodwndy@htmysyuhnddilcyssgbx.ru, sfy@lvqegazgsi.de, anifwoosy@raqhr.nl, gjcqdtjpq@uryu.us, ojk@zmzetq.br, dzzkkat@otnjgfa.es, kprnq@ktkq.dk, cmojz@dhxsibafswqef.ca, ncmyrwpzbf@jyctlrbmlraa.net, ldlzwia@alxlzhrrcih.tv, lcxe@ydsryvfj.org, cmh@hkpfo.nl, gjb@emdyfdtml.tv, nyrspegksv@nreoyez.mil, nhremrtsk@fohnraaivsc.biz, cvhh@krup.org, bmg@vnivuicjptbsjlvmi.tv, ccfopf@osmscjtwgzzz.eu, jghltxckl@zsnpqyb.nl, elxfvbyf@ugtxjxftkifinvqazpra.eu.
Feed me, feed me ...
10:40:39 PM Cult, London | |
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 How to draw. PolyKarbon shows you the how-to. Great. Found at Whykay's, yet another interesting blog.
10:30:07 PM Cult | |
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 Aha. Antville seems to be kaputt again.
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 Absolutely Fabulous. This is the best thing about Saddam Hussein, George W. and us Tony I've seen so far. Brilliant! A Channel 4 production - Real Player needed.Between Iraq and a Hard Place. "The comedy trio Bremner Bird and Fortune bring their viewpoint on the Iraqi crisis in their own unique way.
We're about to invade Iraq. Again. We invaded in 1917? and 1941? and 1991. This time though, we're dealing with Saddam Hussein.
But then, we've been dealing with Saddam for years. Why now? The Americans see the chance to bring traditional Western values to the Middle East (aka the guys with the diapers on their heads): democracy (from the people who brought you George W Bush); freedom (from the people who brought you Guantanamo Bay) and economic prosperity (from the people who bought you Enron)." Via Industrial Technology and Witchcraft.
11:29:14 AM Cult | |
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Monday, January 27, 2003 |
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 Just in case, part 2. Linkfilter is being great tonight. A wealth of information. Here's a link to all the naughty stuff your parents were afraid to tell you about. "This isn't biology, it's bad renaissance art. It's not important to know how girl parts work. Just be aware that they're beautiful. Like a flower. "
11:24:25 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 Mhmmm ... ! I had some of their lemon-flavoured toffees on New Year's Eve (the whole box in fact) and the next morning I felt sick. Which is a good sign, it means their toffees must be really good, or otherwise you wouldn't be sick the next day. Farrah's Original Harrogate Toffee - unfortunately I was to stupid to find any ordering information on the website. It seems you have to buy them directly at their shop in Harrogate, Yorkshire. North Yorkshire that is."John Farrah - Harrogate Toffee was established in 1840. John's mother, an assistant in a local bakery was taught the recipe by her employer; Mr. Swan.
The all important method was handed to John, who saw the potential and started commercial distinctive blue and silver tins. The lemon flavour was designed to combat the putrid taste of Harrogate's sulphur water."
10:55:13 PM Cult, London | |
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 3 Hours. It usually takes me about 35 - 40mins to get into the centre of London. This morning it took me 3 hours...buses on replacement service and traffic twice as bad as it usually is. Dear Underground Gods, please fix the Central Line! Fast!
6:42:54 PM London | |
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Sunday, January 26, 2003 |
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"tube"More about the Tube crash. BBC NEWS | England | Motor fault blamed for Tube crash. "The type of Tube train involved in Saturday's derailment has been prone to mechanical problems, London Underground (LU) has admitted.
It said a faulty motor may have caused the accident and investigators were also checking whether the 800 passengers on the train could have breathed in asbestos."
2:13:05 PM London | |
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 Tiny little books. An exhibition of 4000 Years of Miniature Books at the Indiana University. Fabulous. "Miniature books, most of which are less than three inches tall and some of which are smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries. Popular because they were easily carried or concealed, these historic books range from tiny "Thumb Bibles" to illustrated nursery rhymes. The earliest piece of block printing to which an accurate date can be ascribed--a Japanese wooden block print from about 770 AD--is a miniature scroll and part of the Lilly Library's collections. Via Kellerkind.
11:48:39 AM Literature | |
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 Underground Paris. Take a tour. "Far below the city streets of Paris, in the quiet, damp darkness, seven million Parisians lie motionless. Their skeletons, long since dis-interred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage." "link"
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Saturday, January 25, 2003 |
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 Terragen, Part 2. Alright, I've tried it. It's a beta and it's free. But how can I control the camera? How assign materials to the landscape? It's a bit clumsy, I must say. Bryce and Vue are just ... better.
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I've got to try this. Terragen: Breathtaking terrain-generator. Terragen is a terrain-generator. By moving around sliders and sketching out terrain features, you can create breathtaking stills and animations of fantastical landscapes. The OS X version is in open beta, and there's a working version for Win32. Terragen. Via "boing"
7:20:30 PM Cult | |
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Sounds good to me! Raymond Chandler's Lord Of The Rings. String together clips from great film noire classics, a few 50s horror movies, add a nifty soundtrack and MST3K dialogue and the result is a hIlarious 18.5MB .mov featuring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo, Peter Lorre as Gollum and Godzilla as the Balrog. Worth the download if you're a movie buff. [linkfilter.net]
7:11:19 PM Cult | |
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 Python. First, there's PythonOnline, the official website which comes even with a Spam Club.Then there's PythoNET, unofficial, but with scripts, videos, pictures, sounds, games...decide yourselves.
12:23:47 PM Cult, London | |
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 Gilliam. Dreams is a Fanzine about the crazy English (he's actually American, but then he's too crazy to be a proper American) director, with a message board, filmography, interviews and links.The Terry Gilliam Files deliver Eye-opening conversations with the visionary director, as well as behind-the-scenes stories documenting the production of some of the most imaginative films of the '80s and '90s. There you go.
12:07:47 PM Cult | |
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Friday, January 24, 2003 |
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Allohol. Interesting. Gin Tonic as a Malaria remedy? Why not. BBC - History of Gin."1870 - Gin's position in Britain moves up as it grows drier and more refined. "Indian tonic water" is invented to disguise the unpleasant taste of the quinine necessary to fight malaria in the tropics. It combines will with gin and the gin and tonic is born. Martini birth #2: A gold miner pays for a bottle of whiskey in the town of Martinez with a nugget so big he demands an extra drink. The bartender dubs it a 'Martinez'."
5:48:20 PM Cult, London | |
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 IRAS is the 'Internet Review Arno Schmidt', a publication of the 'British-American Arno Schmidt Society (BAASS)'. Apparently they like abbreviations. Anyway, it's a very loooong website with interesting articles - mostly in German, unfortunately.
10:14:07 AM Literature | |
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 Bored? Everybody seems to have been bored by my Groovy collection of links. No comments, just silence. But what if I tell you that page 16 of The Groovy Times has image galleries of the Top Twelve Grooviest Chicks of the Sixties? Mhmmm? Nico is there, Penelope Tree, Anita Pallenberg, Twiggy...!
12:07:18 AM Cult | |
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Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
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 Dragons. I thought that might fit nicely with the stupid bird below, so here's a website about Dragons, in a choice of English and German.
2:43:53 PM Cult | |
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 Bigbird. Four-winged dinos from China. "Recently discovered fossils of feathered dinosaurs with four wings are raising new questions about the origins of flight."
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003 |
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Sorry - I just can't stop. Ruhrgebietssprache:
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Geld; "keine Asche inne Tasche, keine Butter für dat Futter" - Ausspruch kurz vor Monatsende und Lohntag; "Asche machen" - Geld verdienen ("Seit ich an den vermatschten Abend in die Hohensieberg den ganzen Schotter verplästert haben tu, muss ich widder Asche machen.")Ok, I'll stop now.
9:28:42 PM Cult | |
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Hardcore-Linguistics. Ruhrgebietssprache.de translates Ruhrgebiets-German into proper German. This is obviously not for my English readers, but surely Robert and Schockwellenreiter will appreciate this particular link. Example:
Variation 2: Die geschlossene Eröffnung: Sprecher 1: Wat gibt! Sprecher 2: Nix gibt! Sprecher 1: Scheiß Tach auch! Analyse: Sprecher 1 signalisiert, dass er ein vertieftes Gespräch nicht um jeden Preis angehen möchte. Sprecher 2 unterstützt diesen Wunsch, woraufhin Sprecher 1 das Gespräch schließt, ohne dass es vertieft wird. Grammar:
Es gibt nur zwei Fälle: den Wer-Fall und den Wen-Fall. Den in der Hochsprache gebräuchlichen Wessen-Fall, der Besitz oder direkten Bezug zu einer Sache oder Person anzeigt, und den Wem-Fall, der die Richtung einer Handlung angibt, kann die Ruhrgebietssprache durch den Wen-Fall problemlos ersetzen, ohne dass es zu Verständigungsschwierigkeiten kommt. Das ist der Hut meines Vaters. --- Der Hut da is mein Vadder seinen.
Gib mir sofort mein Geld. --- Gib mich sofort meine Kohle.
6:46:16 PM Cult | |
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 I am a Poser and I don't care. I've just received the brand new Poser 5 Handbook in the post and I'm only mentioning this because one of my 3D-illustrations is featured in the book. Plus a nice little text about me, courtesy of Shamms Mortier, the author of the book. Now everybody go and buy it. Quick - before it's sold out!
11:25:25 AM Literature | |
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 Groovy, part 3. The Groovy Times is a huge big website with 12 pages of psychedelic posters, a history of Swinging London, photos, more photos, even more photos and 'Learning to talk like Keith Richards - a Hipster's Lexicography'. Fab.
9:57:04 AM Cult, London | |
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 Groovy, part 2. The psychedelic 60s is an exhibition at the University of Virginia. Fab, if I may say so.
9:44:32 AM Cult | |
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 Groovy. Original 1960s and 1970s Psychedelic Rock Posters and Handbills at PeaceRock. Those colours...!
9:28:22 AM Cult | |
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Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
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As promised. A new RatSwine cartoon. This time drawn completely with a Gillot #170. Thanks, Hans!
4:59:59 PM The RatSwine | |
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"head2"I think I'll move to Cape Town. Interesting blog.
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"tube"Not again... There's already chaos on the tube. Yesterday I tried to get to Kensington Olympia, only to find out that there was no District Line service at Notting Hill Gate. I had to get a cab instead. Grrr... Firefighters in 24-hour walkout. Latest fire service strike under way. [Guardian Unlimited]
3:47:18 PM London | |
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"bird"Comments are down again!
3:16:23 PM Blogs | |
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 Danger for the crew. Thank God there's a Telenosis expert on board!
2:51:38 PM Orion Pics | |
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Monday, January 20, 2003 |
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Hilarious. Best thing about Bush I've seen so far. "bib"
6:16:25 PM Cult | |
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 Style. Ideas. Well, DUPA (12.2.1945 - 8.11.2000) had both. A fantastic drawing style (Man, am I jealous...) and lots of ideas (and I'm even more jealous...). So here are a few links pointing to the great man and his creation Cubitus, the crazy white dog. Comiclopedia first, because it's the only English site I could find. Next a French site with a nice little drawing of Cubitus. In Germany, there is the YPS Fanpage with an article about Dupa, and the fantastic Cubitus-Fanpage, which is the best website about Dupa and the dog I could find. Honestly.
5:56:39 PM Cult | |
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 Logo Time. Every designer knows the problem: You're doing - let's say a flyer for a client, and it says something stupid like 'Sponsored by Abbey National' in the copy. Your client insists to use the Abbey logo, but of course he hasn't got it. So you have to contact Abbey National and try to get hold of their logo, if possible in a format your software can read.
Problem solved. At The Logotheque you can download hundreds of corporate logos for free, all in Illustrator format. Did I already mention that I find this fantastic? "link"
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Agreed. Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree? [Scripting News]
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Sunday, January 19, 2003 |
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Promise. Another Ratswine cartoon this week. Hans from Stockholm was so kind to send me some really fab nibs, which is another reason to draw one right now - and because of that, my drawing style is bound to change. Oh, the Gillott #170 is great....and in the UK, have a look at | |
There's more. At 
Searle. Interesting page about the 
Computer History at the 
Nice Ads. Hundreds of 
Just in case. You never know. 
Etchings. 
Under the Sea. It's the 