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Friday, October 31, 2003 |
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 Serious Belgian Food. Guignol. Rue Voot, 32. Place St-Lambert. 1200 Woluwe-St-Lambert.Fab. Stoemp 9,60 Euros. Carbonade Flamande 12,40. Get stuffed.
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Sunday, October 26, 2003 |
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 Alright. Off to Brussels. See you next weekend.
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 Bang. And here's a Man from U.N.C.L.E. replica gun, firing blanks. Limited edition of 20. Go and get one before they're sold out.
1:50:42 PM Cult | |
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 You talking to your SHOE??? Spy's gadgets at the Spy-Fi archives. U.N.C.L.E. pen communicators, U.N.C.L.E. handguns, Mrs. Peel's leather pants, Steed's bowler hat and much more.
1:33:18 PM Cult | |
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Saturday, October 25, 2003 |
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 Fox on the Run. Seems we have a fox in the garden. He usually appears between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, making a lot of noise and leaving a steaming heap of shit right in the middle of our garden. The cat's frightened. Even worse, our next door neighbours have decided to ignite some proper fireworks tonight. Is it Guy Fawkes Night already? Bastards. I've got work to do. And concentrate. I'll just give up and go to bed.
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 Toyland. Oh, I'm in Wonderland again. Make sure to have a look at The Old Car Manual Project, it's fantastic. Vintage car brochures and manuals - this is a brilliant website.What is "the old car manual project"?
The idea is to scan manuals for old, vintage or antique American vehicles and their components and make them available on the web, for free.
1:48:45 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 From my sketchbooks. Birdpeople at a bus stop.
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 Flash. And plain weird.
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 Orion. The model. Michael Fey now produces his models not only in virtual 3D space, but also made out of cardboard and plastic. Check out his Raumpatrouille and Rhodan related models (linked out of the frame). And of course the 3D blueprints of Rhodan spaceships. And his Orion movie is here
9:53:48 AM Orion Pics | |
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Friday, October 24, 2003 |
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 Hang 'em high. A Coathanger Museum. The thing on the left is a Koop Imex 770. Beautiful. Wish I had one of those. More tomorrow. God willing.
9:48:25 PM Cult | |
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 Brussels Photos. Alright, I'm back for the weekend. And because I've been bullied into taking some pictures of Brussels, I've set up a website accordingly titled Wonderful. Enjoy. Especially Frau W. :-)
9:33:37 PM Blogs | |
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Saturday, October 18, 2003 |
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 Travelling. Groan - working tomorrow morning for my client, the Internet Service Provider; meeting up with Dave, my copywriter, at 2:30 at Waterloo Station, discussing things and having a fight, then off again to Brussels. On the Eurostar. See you next weekend.
9:48:47 PM Blogs | |
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 How Filthy. Minimal Porn. Watch out, it's all in shockwave. Or flash. Or whatever that stuff's called.
9:33:11 PM Cult | |
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 This is annoying. I've only blogged three entries so far, and had at least 15-17 Radio-Upstream errors. Can't upstream because "Can't write stream because TCP/IP error code -3259 - Connection timed out."
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Can't upstream because "Can't read stream because TCP/IP error code -3259 - Connection timed out." And so on. UserLand Gods, can you please fix your server?
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 Ex Libris. Lots of them. The Bookplates Exhibit at Stanford University Libraries.
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Friday, October 17, 2003 |
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 I'm back. Only for the weekend. More tomorrow.
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Sunday, October 12, 2003 |
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The following are not painting, but photographs of real paper-made objects. If you want to make them by yourself, copy the figures of the unfolded surfaces. Don't forget to add margins to paste up.
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 Silver. Big, big website about the Mercedes-Benz 300SL: technology, galleries, history, scale models.
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Saturday, October 11, 2003 |
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 One for the bots:sylhsoqvcv@cprcraxkswrhqtdcb.br, qjdn@suiajabudihddqu.com, dst@auepxhkopiaiy.org, hxhzxaye@ozgpcdkrpfq.de, zbaw@roepwy.ru, ecrokqasmv@kjdbhljsjccug.net, ijvuyoy@yltnhuhqotzaymsarx.es, isgc@fmwmradymqeyz.biz, fbsels@bzwcigh.nl, btml@wbnriqabdgm.com, tugmbbn@tbvnkenwuned.ch, dlepl@edchypkpmhgcdew.br, ixukrlmck@drmujhzffczxdzmmr.fr, jatowteucy@ncowicskyhhljj.ch, zkf@gicwoqx.de, mkz@gqoxhsrtghhaarcs.jp, brw@sylfnfueqvew.pl, pvj@sbiwimyn.pl, ydkuiniuj@kemq.ca, wlvuhydxlp@hjtxttrengsweoydk.edu Also go here, dear bots.
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 Dreamtoons. This one comes via Frau W. Brilliant:Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw. A new strip is uploaded every week on he first minute of Saturday in San Francisco; 3 AM Friday in New York; 6 AM Saturday in Paris, France; and 3 PM Saturday in Sydney, Australia.
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 Magazines. Nomagazine, a magazine for photography and illustration comes in Flash, takes a long time to load but is worth every second of downloadtime. And here's Dodge 2, the lost and found issue. Both links via Coudal Partners.
8:30:48 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Friday, October 10, 2003 |
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 This is War. FirstWorldWar.Com. With propaganda posters, vintage audio, video and footage. It sucks - and nevertheless is a great website to browse. Unfortunately. Because without a WWI, there wouldn't be a website dedicated to this crap.
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 Thank You! This goes to Gary Santoro, who was so kind sending me a package filled with lots of wonderful stuff across the big pond. Gary, thanks.
8:44:27 AM Blogs | |
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Thursday, October 9, 2003 |
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 Scripts. Nothing but movie scripts. Hundreds of them. Shooting scripts, Final drafts, 2nd drafts, production drafts. Brilliant. Now that's something for Colleen.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2003 |
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"head2"This is just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. A guide about "How to write Weblogs the proper way". I always wanted to know that. Really. About time something like this gets published. Good grief.NetGuideWeb .. Magazine Issue 79 - Feature Article Bloggers have lost jobs, friends, and even spouses over things they revealed in their journals. Bloggers have to make the conscious decision from the start that what they write today may come back to haunt them tomorrow, and be OK with that choice. That's the warning from one of the best veteran bloggers. They share their tips and experiences. Found at linkfilter, and it makes me angry. Now there you'll find some blogs definitely not worthwhile reading.
10:52:46 PM Blogs | |
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 This is so stoopid. To the majority of Californians out there: Hey guys, don't you know what may happen if you import an artist from Austria as a politician?To the rest of the World: Why do we bother voting anyway? Let's just employ Hollywood as a World Government. Gene Hackman could be World President, Bill Shatner would make a good Space Foreign Minister and so on. Let's go for that and anything will be easier and better. If there are any terrorist attacks, one governator or the other will just sort it out. Brill; now that's a great concept, isn't it?
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 Still there. With the old hard drive. An eMac is a bugger to disassemble, so we've postponed everything to the next week, which means I'm back again with my hard drive making nasty clicking sounds and slowing everything down. Even copy and paste. Or writing emails. Terrible. Check out this page and then this one. And imagine the fun I had this afternoon. All you Mac specialists out there: Will it help if I just reformat the old drive? Will the 'bad blocks' go away? Should I try that first? Majo? Anyone?
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 Oh my. My hard drive is acting up and will be replaced later today. I'll spend the morning backing up and then the rest of the day reinstalling the system. So don't expect any more updates today. And if you don't hear from me at all, then it's because I haven't been able to get Radio up and running again. Sigh ...
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 Bellrock. After coming across David Taylor's excellent Bellrock website, I became so fascinated by the lighthouse that I made a 3D rendering of it. Enjoy.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2003 |
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 Good Night. Last one for tonight: General Lydia van Dyke and Commander Cliff Allister McLane having fun down at the Starlight Casino.
8:44:27 PM Orion Pics | |
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 Create your own tabloid. If you can't get enough gossip or don't like what you read in the rags then Quickbrew is for you. With Quickbrew's Dirt Magazine, you can choose from a menu of "dirt" to dish up your own personalized rendition of BenLo-like article. Pulled from Steve Hall's adrants.
3:57:45 PM Art & Advertising | |
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 The Boxer. A few pages about Max Schmeling: in German, again in German, and here's one in English.
3:43:33 PM Cult | |
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 The Cartoonist and the mysterious Case of the Missing Cigarettes, or: The healthiest cigarettes in the World. It happened on the way to the station. I had some urgent business in London to attend to and went to the nearest tube station. A bit further up the road is a newsagent, and as I was in the desperate need of some cigarettes, I made the quick decision to buy some. A pack of cigarettes is now £4.70 here in the UK, so it was not an easy decision to be made.I got a pack and luckily opened them just outside the shop. I opened up the cellophane, removed the alu-paper and ---
No cigarettes inside. Just some crumpled up tissue paper. Nothing else. My eyes were popping out of my head, my hands trembling. I was in cold sweat, staring at a box filled with tissue paper.
Back into the shop I went: "Dear shopkeeper, this must be the most expensive box of tissues I've ever bought. Now do you have a similar box with actually cigarettes inside?"
The shopkeeper couldn't believe it either. He took another pack out of the shelf behind him, unwrapped the cellophane, opened the pack, removed the alu-paper and withdrew some more tissue paper from the inside.
Same here.
Well, the third pack finally contained some actual cigarettes. I was relieved. And wondered all the way down to London where this particular shopkeeper might get his cigarettes from.
And as Rocky said: It's healthy. The first cigarettes you can blow your nose with!
3:15:29 PM London | |
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Monday, October 6, 2003 |
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"head2"Gone. Whatever happened to The Reverse Cowgirl? I must have missed something in the blogsphere. She's just gone.
8:58:25 PM Blogs | |
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 Burn Baby, Burn. Found yet another Toaster Museum. No big deal, alright. But it's there, and that's important. Navigation's a mess, btw. But who cares these days, we're all living in a typographic chaos anyway.
7:49:39 PM Cult | |
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Tube commuters today faced a new threat of strike action in an escalating row over pay.
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 Game On. 755 Java and Flash-based games are at ArcadePod.
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Sunday, October 5, 2003 |
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 Fantascienza Sexy. A series of articles about the heroine in SF movies and comics. Although in Italian language, the galleries are international - meet up with Barbarella, Jodelle, Pravda and many more. Just click on 'galleria' at the top left of each of the 4 articles and a new World will open up...
11:21:53 AM Literature | |
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Saturday, October 4, 2003 |
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Some illustrations are spare abstract designs, like a modern art mobile or a circuit board. Other illustrations are as lavish and intense as a thousand yards of bright paisley fabric. Sometimes the illustrators seemed to show off how easy they could make it all look; and sometimes they seemed to lose themselves in the busy task of making something perfect but human. My suggestion to you is simply flip thru these pictures, pause on ones that you like, and remember that they each took a few hours to draw so that they could end up so clear and fascinating.
11:54:42 PM | |
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 Computers. I always wanted one of those. A Commodore PET 2001. Because you could play 'Lunar Lander' on this machine. I never got it, it was too expensive; my first computer was a Dragon 32, years later (Wow! A Centronics parallel-printer port! Well, printers were actually unaffordable in the 80s.). I had to key in the code to get Lunar Lander running. In BASIC. And then save it to a Compact Cassette. Those were the times. Here's the Old Computers Museum.
4:50:32 PM Cult | |
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 Painting with Light. Jörn Rynio used to be my favourite still photographer when I worked in advertising in Hamburg. And he still is.
10:19:34 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Friday, October 3, 2003 |
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 How Bizarre. And how interesting. The web's driving me nuts. All that wonderful and useless stuff out there - here's the Top 100 of Compact Cassettes. Mind you, I still have a few of those. Found while browsing through the Belgian Linkdump site (going through this is sad, isn't it?).
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This is a bibliography of visionary, occult, new age, fringe science, strange and even crackpot works published between 1945 and 1988. Added to the mix are some other works which may relate to them, or at least give a sense of the spirit of the times. The main emphasis is upon works produced between 1960 and 1980, as the subtitle suggests.
11:43:50 AM Literature | |
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Thursday, October 2, 2003 |
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 Swordsmanship. Historical Fencing Manuals from the times of the Vikings to the 19th Century. Fantastic.
5:15:56 PM Literature | |
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In 1975 the worlds first totally enclosed theme park opened in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook Illinois. Old Chicago was something completely new, an amusement park under a huge roof with a mall around it so you could ride the coasters and rides all year round no matter what the weather was outside.
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 The Eye of Paris. Brassai.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2003 |
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And some more: wppfdhmd@bkqqegtrcq.nl, crnxvv@rteuokrbgkdnvl.it, tom@rutmdpflwhfujlrm.nl, kjlw@vxhcaq.us, kdrvoitjj@rfntcwdwidquhjhfesqp.st, najseefdz@lgicpfgsbnttlr.de, hxqc@pacqz.st, zeml@mnevlmbjybyp.de, xmf@zciiwnva.org, fvcs@zkysfjifitec.org, zmmyxsga@ftkdwkjbwqqwbedccqha.com, tzrusw@cpwcnkeimagk.us, bczaksmy@isxgccpofcnav.de, cztprxzlt@berffbrvwaaign.es, hctbxohao@dognmgxbow.ch, syz@kjybvhubew.it, ynkmgdsxyx@syojuqnpio.com, zqzm@trimcnvkeiojj.ch, ykosd@rcvgoesooga.br, fpftsfn@mrnexpjvk.com
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 There's no Escape from Brussels. May I point my readers to all the fabulous links about Jacques Brel, compiled by Robert? Of course I may.
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 Enough. Alright. I've blogged enough of all of this optical stuff. Here's one last link: Optical Toys. Again ... ! It's fun though. And a couple of links to Muybridge and other things in the bottom right corner. Enjoy.
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 Oh my. I think I've just come across the largest archive ofa) Russian Magazine Titles, and b) Soviet, Cuban, Czech and Polish posters. Unbelievable. Unfortunately the posters are not 'clickable' - the 'big' directory is password protected. Anyway, this collection is amazing. Both sites seem to be down at the moment, which is rather sad.
12:23:34 PM Cult | |
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Virtual Raumpatrouille. Thanks to 
Homes. De Stijl. Bauhaus. Guys, this is Pop. 70 Houses, built in 1932 in Vienna, all mod cons. 
Hats Off. Amazing. More on ventriloquists and their dummies. Go to 
X-Rated. More bad taste here and again it's Pop. 
Just Glass. But art. 
This is Pop. A few samples from the 
Rustboy. Get the 
Observe and Learn. 
Tikiland. Funny. As soon as I've posted the 
The History of Graphic Design. Nice little 
Hungry. I'm in the desperate need of a 
Good Grief. This is mind-boggling. Mad. Check out 
Solid. How bizarre. 
Country Road. A funny 
Sharp. 
Freud und Leid. The painter Lucian Freud. 
Chaos and Order. 
Creepy. 
Raumpatrouille meets Art. Art meets Raumpatrouille. This gallery of 
Paris by Night. Ah, he's a good one. A really good one. 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Italian 
Weird. Just weird. And great. And even pornographic. But still art. The photographs of 
Oh no, not again... 
Bang, Stink and Simmer. 
Technology. 
Dry Bones. 
Grimm. Good grief. I didn't know about this. I really didn't know. Amazing. Tsk. Anyway, here it is - online, live and doesn't work in Safari (use 
Sold Out. Unbelievable. A 
Elsewhere. 
Autumn Art. 
Old Chicago. Wonderful 
The Madcap Laughs. Photography by 
Accent on Images. 
Peep Show. 
