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Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
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From the 1940s through the 1970s, Philippe Halsman's sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the big picture magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life . His work also appeared in advertisements and publicity for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford. Photographers, amateur as well as professional, admired Halsman's stunning images. The fellow on the left is Bob Hope, btw.
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Anniversaries were big events in the GDR. These posters come from material prepared for the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. The points they make are a good summary of the the GDR's general propaganda line: a youthful, peace-loving, hard-working state that was strongly supported by its citizens. Found at netbib.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
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 Scheuer. The homepage of the Austrian artist Chris Scheuer.And his Morgana comic strip is online here.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
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 I'm busy! Stop ringing me. I'll switch the phone OFF. No blogging today, I urgently need to get some cartoons done. Now.
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Monday, July 28, 2003 |
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 RAF. Schockwellenreiter just mentioned the planned 'Rote Armee Fraktion' exhibition and the trouble it has caused already (why are politicians stupid?) so I thought I'll dive a bit deeper and found a huge website: rafinfo.de. History, biographies, downloads and more. Looking through the site, it even seems to be quite objective. German text. Obviously.
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Sunday, July 27, 2003 |
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 Fantastic. A Bravo-Starschnitt archive. It works like this: Bravo is a youth orientated magazine. In 1959 they introduced the so-called 'Starschnitt', a clever money making scheme devised by the publisher. Every week you found a spread or a single page with a lifesize body part of 'your' star in the magazine. After hundreds of weeks, your star was complete; you could then assemble the parts and pin Michael Landon, The Sweet or T. Rex on your wall. I believe they're still doing it today...Found at Kellerkind, who's just back from holiday.
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Saturday, July 26, 2003 |
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 Dead End. Batman versus - well, everything nasty. I know, it has been blogged to death, but this is the best (Film-) Batman ever. And the best Joker, played by Walter Koenig's (Chekov - Star Trek: The Original Series) son Andrew Koenig. You now have the option of a 48MB download or a full screen 160MB download. Guess it's your choice. And no spoilers here.Movie directed by Sandy Collora, featuring Clark Bartram as The Batman. Picture taken from the OSG Forum
8:41:52 PM Cult | |
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 Bovine Freedom. Cows with Guns is the most hilarious Shockwave animation I've seen for a long time. Found this gem somewhere in the usual linkfilter chaos.
6:39:51 PM Cult | |
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 Vienna Design. Charlotte Schlifelner creates 'filmfakes' and 'screendesign' for Austrian TV productions ("Kommissar Rex"). Fascinating stuff. Oh - she's a big time Raumpatrouille fan too!
5:31:13 PM Cult | |
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Delhaize: A supermarket invented by the devil to torture his subjects. Offers every shopping frustration imaginable, from lack of baskets to severe aisle congestion. Home to the most spectacularly slow checkout queues in the universe. Horrid horrid place. July: The wettest month of the year in Belgium - a fact only really appreciated by anyone who has tried to block book a fixed hour on an outdoor tennis court for the whole summer season. Post Office: A building that is almost always closed. On the off chance that it is actually open, post office customers can expect the usual queueing problems and a severely incremental and erratic pricing system for overseas mail. This seems to be based on the mysterious Belgian "standard" envelope, an object carefully designed to ensure that any card purchased in a Belgian card shop will automatically fail to qualify as regular mail.
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Friday, July 25, 2003 |
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 The Interview. Interesting interview with award-winning film designer Rolf Zehetbauer about Raumpatrouille. Sorry, German text...
7:25:21 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Now that looks interesting: A new weblog tool in the makes. Serious competitor to Radio? Check out TypePad. Thanks, Wurch!
3:15:51 PM Blogs | |
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Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
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 The Insekt Limited. Hell. I hate it. Not webdesign itself, but the friggin' coding. It's hell. Anyway, my own company, The Insekt Limited is now online. Please let me know about any oddities going on there. I can't cope anymore. And now get me some jobs. :-)
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 Coconino County. This is an absolutely wonderful website about George Herriman's classic comic strip Krazy Kat. Fantastic.
2:20:22 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Nice little Popeye website with 'Olive's own page' and a special about J. Wellington Wimpy. Brilliant.Some selected Popeye strips are here.
2:07:25 PM Cult, Literature | |
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 More London. Found a nice little London page with things like the origins of London place names, Cockney rhyming slang and a complete listing of the Kings and Queens of England. Enjoy.
8:35:22 AM London | |
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
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 The streets of London. Wow. The guys down at The British Library must have been really busy. They've put about 670 of 1200 historical London maps of The Crace Collection online, zoomable and searchable. This is fantastic. Found at the Map Room.This is the essential guide to the development of the capital from the 16th to the 19th centuries, brought together by the Victorian designer, Frederick Crace.
6:00:21 PM London | |
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 Ahhh ... London Underground. Sometimes I just love it. Listen to the funny announcements of a tube driver who was clearly either on drugs, or delirously happy, or both (MP3). Courtesy of Fox Travel and via Going Underground.
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BRIAR PRESS is an educational and practical resource for the letterpress printer, the bibliophile, the enthusiast, and the curious.
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 Automata. A gallery of early 'robots'. Interesting.
9:09:38 AM Cult | |
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Welcome to the Flying Machines web site. Before the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful heavier-than-air controlled flight on December 17, 1903, hundreds of women and men attempted to fly, in airships, gliders and aeroplanes, and many did go aloft in gas and hot-air balloons. This site documents a number of those pre-Wright attempts at heavier-than-air flight, as well as significant events and thoughts which contributed to the ultimate success of powered, heavier-than-air human flight.
9:02:00 AM Cult | |
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
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 Art on cows. A simple and strange concept: get a cow and paint some art on it. Exhibit the results throughout Brussels. Great fun. This gallery includes photos of 22 of them. Photos by Quarsan.
8:03:44 PM Cult | |
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 Yesterday's Telly. Nice. A gallery of old television sets, together with downloadable circuit diagrams and test screens. Text in German.
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 Matt Jefferies is dead. TrekWeb has confirmed that Matt Jefferies , original STAR TREK art director and the man behind the concept for the design of the original Starship Enterprise, passed away yesterday at age 82. Jefferies had been suffering from cancer for some time, but no official announcement has yet been made.
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Monday, July 21, 2003 |
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 The Smart Patrol. New old clips at The Bunker: Devo, Dead Kennedys with "Holiday in Cambodia', Comsat Angels, John Foxx and many more. Sad: Please note due to lack of web space / server limit they are only clips! (Approx 1 minute To 2 minutes maximum).Hopefully the clips will be changed every other month or so. If anyone out there ... ... can supply similiar clips of more esoteric groups (1970's Kraut Rock, Early C93, NWW, Death In June, This Heat, Early 4AD - Mass, Rema Rema & more!) via Mpeg, Divx, Video or Dvd please let me know , Thanks. (Not me of course - mail the guys at The Bunker.)
11:14:53 PM Cult | |
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 Bang. Crash. Blob. Gargle. Hiss. Cough. Sink. The Titanic.
10:22:38 PM Cult | |
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 So you're still on dial-up then? Or what? This is ridiculous. Who are those 'biggest firms'? Railtrack? NatWest? Then I'm not surprised. Idiots. E-mail abuses cost UK firms millions. Time wasters [The Register]This overuse, along with poorly written mails, can cost some companies up to £10,000 per person, per annum, senior staff at some of Britain's biggest firms told Emphasis. One FTSE 100 firm reported annual e-mail costs of £39 million.
8:23:47 PM London | |
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 The blood is not on his hands, it's at his feet. Just my quick comment on the current state of British politics.
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 Superstar. Big, big website about Andy Warhol's Superstars. They're all there: Viva, Edie, Ondine, Gerard, Nico, UltraViolet, Holly ...
8:45:21 AM Cult | |
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 Arf! An exhibition of photographs in which dogs behave like people... and people are transformed into dogs: Photography as a Fine ARF!
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Sunday, July 20, 2003 |
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 It must be summer. What happens in summer? Lots of new Nessie sightings of course. Always in summer. So here's a website about the famous monster, and here's another.
10:07:09 AM Cult | |
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"head2"Oi mate, you looking at my bird! A dictionary of London Slang. Fantastic.The English language contains a rich array of slang words and phrases. This can be particularly seen when examining the day to day language of the average Londoner. A great many London slang terms derive from the Cockney tradition and fall into the bracket of 'Rhyming Slang'. Other terms have been introduced by the influx of other cultures into the capital. The resulting mishmash has created what academics sometimes call 'Estuary English' (after the area of the Thames Estuary), although this term is used more to describe the accent used in the area.
9:49:17 AM London | |
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President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
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Saturday, July 19, 2003 |
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 Raumpatrouille. At last. A webpage about Raumpatrouille with at least a little bit of English text. And lots of pictures. Have fun.Mhm. The thing on the left of the screen looks a bit like the Quicktime icon?
5:50:06 PM Orion Pics | |
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 Lorem ipsum. Big archive of greek text, or Blindtext, as it is known in Germany. We advertising agents use it to simulate bodycopy in ads, because copywriters are usually lazy and the layout looks better anyway - nobody bothers to read the copy.They come in different flavours, German, English and even some Flemish copy is to be found there. Part 1, Part 2. Found at Usability Inside. Download the copy directly to your Quark or InDesign folder and win the next pitch!
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Finlay's work was an immediate hit with the readers and the writers. Readers wrote in praising the illustrations. H.P. Lovecraft wrote him fan letters and even composed a poem about his art. Finlay was a fan of the genre as well as one of the most talented artists to enter the field. These combined to provide his work with a power and grace unknown in the pulps. The stippling, fine hatching and pebble board were all used in conjunction to give his images a texture and depth beyond anything ever seen in the field...
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Friday, July 18, 2003 |
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 Nevermore. Poe's The Raven, illustrated by Gustave Doré. Sorry - I honestly can't remember in which weblog or whatever I found the link. Could have been linkfilter.
11:09:59 PM Literature | |
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone has offered a £100,000 reward for anyone who can invent an air conditioning system for the Tube.
10:25:51 PM London | |
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 Yes, I'm back. And a thankyou goes to Dave Winer (Arno Schmidt's great nephew btw), who was so kind to mention me in his Scripting News. And now my sitemeter is broken; the '5' seems to be stuck and the '3' pulverised. Anyone out there who has a spare '3' for sale?
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Sunday, July 13, 2003 |
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 Into the Future! I'm off to Atomium City in Euroland. Not quite sure if I'll be back next weekend, so just keep reading the old stuff.
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 Nice and sleazy. Even more old paperback cover art is here. Enjoy.
4:23:35 PM Cult | |
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 Felt Suit. Found some nice websites about the German artist Joseph Beuys. Lots of his works are at art meets art; information about Beuys and his weird art is at The Walker Art Center. And the suit is here. More Fluxus!
3:54:43 PM Cult | |
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 Dark Art. Really really weird art is at kilfish 3.0. Takes a while to load, is all in Flash, but worth it. Via iconomy.
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Saturday, July 12, 2003 |
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Test. Radio again ... Sorry about that.
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 Just listening. Peter Thomas (the best composer after Beethoven) has thrown a new CD on the market. We can consider ourselves happy to be listening to 'Raumpatrouille - The Complete Music". The CD comes with a really great booklet packed with photos from the series and 10 'unreleased Extra Tracks'. Well, now I know why those tracks were previously unreleased - they're only for hardcore fans. But the booklet is great.This was your Cartoonist's CD recommendation for the week. Be happy. Update: Best bit is 'Enter the Crew'. That one's great. Really! Oh - you know where to buy CDs, don't you? At your nearest Record Shop. *NOT* at Amazon. Just my view of things - I like small dedicated shops.
5:04:15 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 Dry Bones. Call me morbid, but I like it:The Sedlec Ossuary (a.k.a. Kostnice) is a small Christian chapel decorated with human bones. It's located in Sedlec, which is a suburb in the outskirts of the Czech town Kutna Hora. Found at Kosmonautentraum.
9:20:45 AM Cult | |
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 The Art of the Makonde. The Makonde people live on the border of Mozambique and Tanzania; and the sculptures they create are truly bizarre. And fantastic.Have a look at Makonde-Art; at Makonde Carvings and visit the Makonde Museum.
8:49:24 AM Cult | |
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 Quite English. Clifton, or Percy Pickwick as he is called in Germany, is a retired Secret Service agent. He lives in a detached house in Puddington, a cozy little village just outside of London, has a maid who does the cooking for him, has lots of cats and drives an old MG. And from time to time he gets dragged back into crime-solving.Everything about the famous comic book character is here. Text in Dutch and English.
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Friday, July 11, 2003 |
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Sunday, July 6, 2003 |
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 Belgium. I'm off to Brussels, next updates probably in about a week.Our second iChat try was at least partly successful - see the entry at IT&W. See ya!
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"This move will put him in direct conflict with Tony Blair, who dramatically upped the stakes last night by demanding a full retraction of the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, saying the charge against him was the gravest he had ever faced as Prime Minister."
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 Hey-Ho, let's go. Dammit, it didn't work. Another try tomorrow. That's today, Sunday, just after the Grand Prix. iChat. 
Die Zeiten ändern sich und so stimmt ein Satz nicht mehr: »Der Schockwellenreiter chattet nie!« In einer beispiellosen zweieinhalbstündigen Sitzung haben der Cartoonist, die "hochgeschätzten Bloggerkollegen" und der Schockwellenreiter in zweifacher Ausfertigung (und wir wurden auch noch kurz von WWK besucht) versucht, das neue iChatAV zu einer Audiokonferenz zu überreden. Es ist uns leider nicht gelungen. Wenn also jemand Tips oder Pointer hat... Morgen um 16:00 Uhr wollen wir es noch einmal probieren...
Aber Spaß hat's gemacht... [Der Schockwellenreiter We've just tried to get an Audio-iChat done. It didn't work. Any ideas out there? Is it the NAT? Techies, come on! But it was fun! Lots of fun actually.
1:15:07 AM Blogs, Cult | |
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Saturday, July 5, 2003 |
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 Dear Friends, this is The Insekt speaking on behalf of The Cartoonist. He's very busy designing a website for his company, The Insekt Limited, where he wants to show off all of his Graphic Design stuff. Most probably there won't be any more updates on this weblog today or tomorrow. Only if you're very lucky.And it gets even better: From Monday on The Cartoonist will disappear to Brussels, where he's got some work to do. Proper advertising work. Next updates in a week's time.
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And now for some decent photography. 
While we're at it - here's 
More GDR Propaganda ist at the 
Socialist Design. From the 
Kubrick. 
Illuminating the Renaissance. Yet another fabulous exhibition: 
Moving Here is a fascinating exhibition about 
Nibs. 
Frankenstein. Good old Victor. There's so much stuff about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein on the web, I don't know where to begin. Ok, the full text 
Toast. Amazing, the things some people collect. Here's a 
Sanity for Sale. 
Computerwelt. The Guardian's Alexis Petridis is in Düsseldorf, 
Hot Metal. A museum of old 
Flying Machines are at 
It's a man's world. 
Fantastic. 
Virtual Dali. A wonderful website about the 
Yeah, right ... 
Black and White. The 
I can't believe this. 
Fantastic. The art of 
Wir sind die Roboter. 
Soap and Fashion. 
Shush! I'm pretty sure 
Amazing. The thingy on the left is a steam engine, invented by good old Heron. This and more at 
It just doesn't stop. More cover art is at 
Good grief! A website with 
The Agfers of Kodack again. Gazillions of wonderful 
This is old. And I'm sure I've blogged this before. If it wasn't me, then it was 
Fun with Photoshop. Check out the 
Kokerei Hansa. 
Science Officer Ed Lu is 
Da vorne steht 'ne Ampel. Small webpage about the German art-combo 
Deserted Farms in Iceland.