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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
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 A Matter of Perspective. A few references about everything perspective. Interesting: P.Le Dubreuil, La Perspective pratique , Paris, 1642, translated by E.Chambers, undated, c1730. Dubreuil's La Perspective pratique , was first published anonymously, and then fast became the definitive perspective book for architects, artists and other interested parties. The English translation, rich in plates and concise intruction, was given a new introduction by Mr.Hodgson. According to Lawrence Wright ( Perspective in Perspective , RKP London 1983) the book remianed standard until the publication of Pozzo's Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum in Rome in 1693 with a London edition in 1707.
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Monday, September 29, 2003 |
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 Tetzlaff, Alfred Tetzlaff. A bit of fun for my German speaking readers.Pizza, weiß doch kein Mensch, woraus die besteht. Da wird so ein Stück Kuhfladen ausgerollt, dann kommt ein Klecks Tomatensoße drauf und das ganze kostet dann fünf Mark. Und schmecken tut's wie toter Friseur.
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 Zettels Traum. mooDex is a nice little index card based program for OS X.mooDex is like a box of index cards. It can be used for anything from addresses to recipes. The simplicity of mooDex is what gives it it's elegance.
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Sunday, September 28, 2003 |
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 Because it's Sunday. The Churchmouse Website, where you will find everything about churches and the Lincoln Cathedral in particular. And don't forget to check out the Stained Glass Gallery, because it's great. And because it's Sunday.I write under the name of Churchmouse on subjects you can read about on this website. My main areas of interest are Ecclesiastical Architecture, Stained Glass, Church Monuments and other Funerary Monuments such as Cast Iron Grave Markers. I live in Lincoln, England which is also the city of my birth. Lincoln is the principal City of the beautiful agricultural county of Lincolnshire and has one of the finest Cathedrals there is.
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 How Strange. Horst has already summed it up nicely, so I'll just repeat his entry here:What's going on here? First, it hit northeastern America, then London, and now there was a huge blackout in Denmark and southern Sweden. All this after decades without problems? Coincidence? And now Italy. I am certainly no fan of conspiracy theories, but I must say: this is very strange indeed.
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Saturday, September 27, 2003 |
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"head2"Busy. I'm rather busy over the weekend with some advertising, cartoon and 3D work. So no updates before Monday morning.
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 Terra Nova. Stealing Scott's biscuits, tsk. Thomas Keneally's Antartic journey. Books: In 1968, Thomas Keneally brought home an illicit souvenir from Antartica. Haunted by the landscape - and troubled by his conscience - he decides to return his plunder. [Guardian Unlimited] Hey Guardian - there's a 'c' missing in 'Antar[c]tic'! Where are your proofreaders?Thus, glibly self-absolved, I approached an open tin of Huntley & Palmers hard tack biscuit that soldiers from 1914 to 1918 ate in the trenches. I took two-thirds of a biscuit as a souvenir.
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Friday, September 26, 2003 |
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The scale of American leaflet operations in Vietnam surpassed all that had gone before. Over 50 billion leaflets were churned out by various US propaganda agencies, more than 1,500 for every citizen of North and South Vietnam. There were instances where huge quantities, including whole bundles, were dropped over one small area. They were not wasted as villagers used them as kitchen wipes or repaired holes in walls with them. Inevitably some saw service as toilet paper!
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 Grey. Photography in a colourful grey. Over at Gary's place. I'll better switch the heating on...
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Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
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 Silver Screen. Brilliant. A website with nothing else but screenshots of movie titles. Just great. Via Mark's exclamation mark.Mark, where's your blog gone? What good is it? Whatever use you put it to. Browse and admire title and logo designs, check out movies that have completely different titles in different release prints (see Battle of Britain or The Premature Burial for good examples), check out the differences [...]
8:29:41 PM Cult | |
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 SMS. Shit Must Stop. An online exhibit. Fantastic. Big thank you goes to Andrew.Lew Syken, the project's chief designer, remembers the SMS studios as a place where "it was impossible to anticipate what would happen next. On a given day, you never knew who would show up." It might be Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, Alain Jacquet, representing French Pop, Marcel Duchamp, or Richard Artschwager. Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, veterans of Surrealism and Dada, contributed to SMS. There were many others, some as renowned as Christo, Claes Oldenburg, and John Cage, others known only as the authors of works included in one of SMS's six portfolios. Like an astronomer's time-lapse photograph, SMS caught many bright and familiar stars. It also registered the presence of the most elusive comets.
6:33:12 PM Art & Advertising, Literature | |
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 1958. The Exhibition is a wonderful website about the World Expo 1958 in Brussels with a wealth of materials. Pretty amazing.
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 Oh, bugger off. Who cares about chatrooms anyway? Ridiculous. Close them, shut them down, open them up, shut them down again, let's Microsoft stop producing software, because you can always download some paedophile porn from somewhere and you can always get in touch with little girls and boys via AIM, SMS and whatnot. Mercedes should stop producing cars because they can cause accidents. I should stop writing and drawing because people might be offended. The Earth should stop rotating because people are dying on this planet. Actually, why don't we just shut down the Internet? Now that might be a good idea. All crime and porn will just vanish. No more paedophiles, no more terror attacks, no more drugs, no more cartoonists. Brilliant.Chatroom closures 'irresponsible'. Microsoft's move to shut down its UK chatrooms in effort to protect children from paedophiles criticised by rivals as 'reckless' and 'irresponsible'. [Guardian Unlimited] Now that was a good rant. See you tomorrow.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
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 Hey Mr Robot. Just a quick one from my sketchbooks. After all, this weblog is called 'The Cartoonist', isn't it.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
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Can you believe it -- there are weblogs that turn away traffic based on referrer. This is bad practice. These people seriously need to take a refresher course in what the Web is about and how important links are and stop screwing around with them. I won't read sites that do this, and I certainly won't point to them. You should let the authors of the sites know that you won't either. If they don't want to be linked to, just take the site off the Web. [Scripting News]
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 Oh, Good Grief. The stuff that's out there - unbelievable. Here's a gallery of Zombie Pinups. Enjoy.
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In the printing trade, collotype is considered to be the most noble and most complete reproduction technique. The Munich court photograph Joseph Albert perfected collotype printing around 130 years ago. He also followed up research carried out by Cyprien Tessié, Charles Raphael Maréchal and A. Louis Poitevin. Unlike his predecessors, who used lithographic stone or metal plates, he chose thick glass plates.
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Monday, September 22, 2003 |
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 The Musical Printer. Listen to MP3 samples of an IBM 1403 printer from 1964 generating music. Fab. Thanks to Andy (do you have a website?) in Dubai. Oh: I can just imagine the amount of dead trees it must have cost to get those programmes running.
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 A repeat. Because nobody took notice when I first posted it (Except Gary of course). And because it's fantastic. [27.06.2003]Aspen. The multimedia magazine in a box. Aspen magazine was published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards - one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. Artists included JG Ballard, Peter Blake, John Cage, Ira Cohen, Philip Glass, David Hockney, John Lennon, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol... And here it is reborn as a web version, with the recordings as MP3 files, the movies as Quicktime movies, a full documentary and lots of other stuff. Enjoy. It's ... FAB.
2:09:54 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 Artistamps. Mail art: a gallery of stamps created by artists. Fascinating. I think I'll start designing some stamps myself. Must be fun.This Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting a variety of Artistamp images from around the world with an emphasis on the very earliest and the most recent creations. As well, the Gallery presents the Artistamp images and Cyberstamps of Jas.
1:18:26 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 Petzi, Pelle & Pingo is the title of a Danish comic strip series that has been published all over Europe since the early fifties. I couldn't find even one website about Petzi the little bear anywhere in English language - so here are two German websites:The Petzi Research Website and Petzi, Pelle and Pingo.
10:43:58 AM Cult, Literature | |
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 Miss Belgium 2003.Thanks to Philippe for sending the picture across.
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Sunday, September 21, 2003 |
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Saturday, September 20, 2003 |
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 If only. Harry Harryhausen's concept ideas for a War of the Worlds movie.
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More later. I've got some shopping to do and something to discuss with the former Bishop Information Minister.
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 Read the Book. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, 1898. Online Edition.This Web edition of The War of the Worlds was prepared in June of 1995 by John Walker. It is based on the Project Gutenberg electronic text (etext) edition, warw11.txt which I obtained from the mirror archive then maintained by L'Association des bibliophiles Universels where you will also find a wide variety of French language public domain texts. More about the author at The H.G. Wells Society.
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 War. This is your former Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm still here. And I declare this Saturday today officially to War of the Worlds day!
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Friday, September 19, 2003 |
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The old link with Tony and George having fun is no longer working, so here's a new one. Might be an old one, but enjoy (8.3 MB Quicktime). Gay Bar. Oh, this is so brilliant. A music-videoclip featuring George and Tony. "YOU - I wanna take you to a GAY BAR!! Let's start a nuclear war - at a GAY BAR!!!" I haven't seen anything better for ages. Watch it, please do. It's hilarious. Available in Flash6 or Quicktime. "I've got something to put in you..." Thanks Michael, via Email.
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 A Repeat. [5.5.2003] Well, all of those links still exist - so enjoy.Have a car. Finally- I found all the cars of Spirou and Fantasio. Oh, those toys... My link to the Turbot Traction and all the other toys doesn't seem to work anymore - can anyone confirm? Another French company out of business? Hope not. They had the Zorglumobil, or the Zyklopter, as it's in German. In large scale. Really big. I want one of those.
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 May I? Remind my dear readers of the IT&W shop? My fabulous sticker? If only one of you orders 100 'I have been blogged' coffee mugs or T-shirts per day then I'm sorted. So is Majo. Now c'mon and order some t-shirts...pleeeze... at least a 100. Ok, 50. 20? On a daily basis? 20. At least. But the thing on the left is still available as a free download for all your blogging purposes.
6:01:31 PM Blogs, Cult | |
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 Slits. New at The Bunker: Clipped video clips of The Slits with Earthbeat, Talking Heads with Take Me to The River, Teardrop Explodes, Sweet (Wig Wam Bam!) and many more. Enjoy.
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 Heads. Décolleté is the Severed Head Gallery. Not as gory as it sounds. Quite interesting actually.
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 The Art of Calculating. Everything about The Abacus: Construction & Anatomy; History; Java-Applets; Photos. And a complete manual is here.In 1946, a contest was held in Tokyo, that pitted an abacus against an electric calculator; the abacus won, of course.
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Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
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 The Village. How about a virtual Portmeirion tour then? Wonderful.Welcome to Virtual Portmeirion, a site created by admirers of this enchanting place. Portmeirion is a private village in North Wales that was created by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, using a combination of rescued architectural follies and specially designed buildings which provide a fascinating mix of architectural styles. It is open for day visits and daily/weekly stays in either hotel serviced or self-catering accommodations.
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 How very Irish. Seen in an Irish pub. Thanks to Friedhelm Rathjen for the photo.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2003 |
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 The Churchsketcher. Richard Nevins sketches old churches in Sussex.
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Indecent Images is a gallery of evocative pre-Raphaelite paintings, with commentary and background by Steven William Rimmer.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003 |
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 Woa ... ! A bigtime hip-hip-hooray to Kosmonautentraum! He found the best of all links: themesonline. Music of TV series, commercials, promos, jingles... FAB!
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 Good news. Ragtime, the better alternative to Microsoft Office is now available as a free download.
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 The Remaking of a Country. Claudio von Planta is a friend of mine. And a cameraman. And he's currently right in the middle of Iraq, working on a series for the BBC. His homepage with lots of pictures is here. Claudio, come back!
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Monday, September 15, 2003 |
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At the Loch. 
At the Mountains of Madness. 
Proper Radios. At last. 
Devices of Wonder. Very nice and 
Art & Optics. David Hockney about 
Solo. I know, I've blogged this 
The Wise Fool. The homepage of 
Attack of the Posters. Original World War 1 & 2 posters at 
The Prison. Everything about Alcatraz at 
Stahl Art. More 
The Paper War. 
Secret Books. Fantastic still-life photography by 
Blockbuster. 
More Expo. I just came across a website featuring 
I never met a kid I liked. The 
Geek Stuff. Tips, tricks, colours and HTML:
How Strange. THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY-LIKE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERIOUS 
Rubber. No, not what you're thinking. I'm talking about the 
BangBangBang! The Western: An Overview. Spaghetti Westerns. Silent Western. 
Been a long time. Here's another Raumpatrouille picture. Orion's Astrogator Atan Shubashi in trouble. The English trailer of the stupid movie 
Brave New World. [
Yellow Kid. 
I forgot. Yet another 
Spectrum is Green. Nice little 
Collotype. At the 
WW II Poster Collection. 
London Bridges. 
Brave New World. While 
The Model. Professional model maker 
Red Planet. 
Shiny. 
The Covers. A website with 130 'War of the Worlds' 
The Hoax. Listen to the original "
Sentimental Journey. Jesus Green, 
Repeat/Update. 
In High Spirits. 
Some Literature for the Evening. The website of the 
Almost done now. Added more pages to the 
Grotesque. Interesting 
Calling all Cars. 
Naughty. Here are some 
Gimme Shelter. 
More Fantastic Art. At 
Rhodan. American 
Non-alignment Pact. 
Good Grief. And here's the 
Robots, rayguns and other weird stuff by 
That's Alright Mama. 
Images of the Future. Nice little 
'Bad alibi like dead fish - cannot stand test of time.' Here is