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The Cartoonist
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Saturday, January 31, 2004 |
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The BBC not only serves to inform us, educate us and entertain us; by its very existence it also serves to protect us from a level of commercial saturation that would destroy much of what we currently take for granted. If you've ever watched television anywhere else in the world, you'll know what I'm talking about...
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'It's a design nightmare,' sighs Greg Patt, Graphics Manager for Lewis' Publishing Services contractor, Cortez III. 'It doesn't print well on laser printers because of the gradations on the airfoil, and it can't be used at less than 5/8 inch because the stars disappear and the type becomes illegible.' Mhm. Then why don't you create a separate version only to be used for smaller sizes?
9:52:14 AM Art & Advertising | |
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 Proper Computing. Apple of my eye: "Nothing [...] had prepared me for the Mac. It wasn't an evolutionary advance on its predecessors; it was a macromutational leap into the future. It is that future we are now living in, whether we use a Mac or a virus-compatible PC." [via Macsanomat] [Universal Rule]
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Friday, January 30, 2004 |
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 Curtis & Moore. Let's stay in 60s/70s TV-land for a while - here are The Persuaders.
4:30:14 PM Cult | |
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 Questions are a Burden. I know I've blogged The Prisoner before, but The Unmutual is a fairly new website - and I think one of the best out there, with lots of information about the deteriorating 6o1 fanclub and an extensive list of links. Fab.Oh - the full quote is:
Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.
4:14:01 PM Cult | |
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Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
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The 1898 edition of Charles Nelan's Cartoons of Our War with Spain collected fifty-three political cartoons about the Spanish-American War that he drew for theNew York Herald. Along with the cartoons from Nelan's book, the collection presented here includes twenty additional cartoons by Nelan that were reprinted in contemporary magazines and in Cartoons of the War of 1898 with Spain from Leading Foreign and American Papers (Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898).
11:50:37 AM Art & Advertising | |
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 A Change of Identity. Anneke is now being called Jupp.
9:39:09 AM Blogs | |
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"robot3"Mac Stories. Folklore.org - History of Mac. Folklore.org is a website that offers historical anecdotes: Folklore.org is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling. At present, the site is collecting and displaying stories related to the development of the original Apple Macintosh and the people who created it. There are presently 70 stories related to this topic. [MacRumors]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
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 The Sky Above my House. Today, 17:00 hrs.
5:42:50 PM London | |
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 The Sky Above my House. Yesterday, 13:00 hrs.
5:38:17 PM London | |
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 The Mad Genius. The biography of Klaus Kinski. More on Kinski (in German language) here and here.Months ago I told Herzog that he could go fuck himself, and I hung up on him. So he began Fitzcarraldo without me, using someone from New York, plus Mick Jagger as Fitzcarraldo's best friend. Now Herzog fucking shows up in L.A. and begs me to star in the movie. After some four weeks of shooting with the guy from New York, Herzog, even with his moronic brain, must have realized that the result was all garbage and that he had to start all over again from scratch. For the fourth time this blowhard has proved that without me he´s a nonentity.
11:35:13 AM Cult | |
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"hui"Great Dinner. Had a great night out with Annie Mole. Over a nice dinner we discussed this and actually this as well (which is frightening). And next time Horst will have to join us.
6:41:24 AM Blogs, London | |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
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 Gone with a Bang. As Ligne Claire reports, the Phoenix steelworks in Dortmund-Hörde are no longer. Last Saturday the remaining structures were pulverized by tons of dynamite. Sad, really. More pictures of Phoenix are here.Update: Even more striking pictures at hebig. Hörde Torch is falling down. More on his main website. Lots of thanks to Robert! Well, you just can't beat old Dortmund connections ... Update 2: Check out the comments. Haiko has posted a few more photo links. Thanks! Fronts harden in the decision whether to blow up the Phoenix Mill Torch in Dortmund Hoerde or not. The 98 meters high central chimney with three large-scale torches for low-caloric mill gases on top has been used to flare gases remaining from the basic oxygen steelmaking process that have too low a caloric value to use it elsewhere in the mill. Even though the sometimes several dozens meters high flame finally went out in 2001, the "Hoerder Fackel" continues to spend identity to the south of the city. If it disappears, there will not a single trace be left of the 160 years long history of steelmaking in Dortmund. There can't be a better monument or symbol for this past era. [hebig]
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 Seven. A really nice and somewhat different website about the Lotus Super Seven. Comes with assembly instructions.
1:24:35 PM Cult | |
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While the other nine celebrities shuddered at a lecture on spiders they might encounter in the Australian jungle, Lydon cackled: "Eight legs crawling over me in the night? What a thrill. How many people want to see me suffer?"
8:51:45 AM Cult | |
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Monday, January 26, 2004 |
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Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. Several of the people interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the interview.
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Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
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"head2"20 Years Mac. This comes straight from the American Invisible:Sagan was known to have a bit of an ego. In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Sagan", in honor of the astronomer. Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage, he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "Butthead Astronomer". Sagan sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule. Sagan lost this lawsuit as well.
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 London Photos. Lots of London photos: street scenes, empty stations, storms, signs, bridges ... and most of them also available as Quicktime VR panoramas.
9:41:26 AM Art & Advertising, London | |
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Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
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 This is Punk. The Roxy, London WC2. Nice page with lots of links, reproductions of flyers and audio files. Johnny Moped is simply great.The periodic summer heatwaves we suffer are nothing in comparative terms to that of London in 1976. The heat traditionally drives people into losing it and doing crazy things. That summer of punk now looks inevitable.
3:39:40 PM Cult, London | |
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 Bruce Gilbert. Wire, primavera festival, Barcelona, May 24th 2003. Photo by Jutta Brandt. She's good.More on Wire here, with lots of soundfiles. And here. And a rather strange live version of 1-2-XU (MP3).
2:18:40 PM Cult | |
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Friday, January 23, 2004 |
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 The Great Train Robbery. ... late on Wednesday 7th August 1963 the "Up Special" train left Glasgow en-route for Euston. The train was a TPO (Travelling Post Office) and consisted of a number of carriages where Post Office staff sorted the mail and parcels en-route prior to its arrival in London. The second carriage from the front of the train was a HVP (High Value Package) where registered mail was sorted. Much of this consisted of cash. Usually the value of these items would have been in the region of £300,000 but, because there had been a Bank Holiday Weekend in Scotland the total on the day of the robbery was £2.3 million. (About £30 million today) ...Enter Bruce Reynolds and his gang. Here's the Thames Valley Police, here the version of the British Transport Police; and here is what the Crime Library has to say about the most audacious crime in British history.
4:06:07 PM London | |
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 Swing. Thank God, Robert is back again. And he found the most amazing website of all. Living in Germany during the 20s to 40s. 3rd Reich. But Swing. Check out the shop window displays, they are amazing. Brilliantly done. Just fab.
2:35:10 PM Cult | |
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 Get raus. This must be a fake. Get back, I just can't imagine ... but then, there you go. The Beatles: Geh weg (MP3). Thanks to Majo, this is Fab; SHADO Control affirmative. Interceptors ready. Blast.
12:05:29 AM Cult, London | |
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
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 Ohmygoodnessme! My Sitemeter just told me that someone from apple.com accessed my weblog. Could that have been Steve??? Ah well; most probably not. Of course. Anyway: I hope you found what you were looking for, dear unknown person living and slaving up there at the Infinite Loop.
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 Kaputt. Nasa's Mars rover Spirit has stopped sending useful data to Earth from the Red Planet and mission scientists are unable to send it commands. [BBC NEWS]
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 Counterculture Photography. And this fits perfectly with the link below. Larry Keenan. Thanks to Larry Keenan's masterful photography, we are left with a visually potent view of the Beat Generation and beyond. Keenan's photo-documentation is necessary, for it captures many essential moments -- of Ginsberg, Whalen, Cassady, Corso, McClure, Dylan, and many others.
4:33:05 PM Art & Advertising, Cult | |
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 The Obscure Object of Desire. Just returning home from The White Swan Pub in Fetter Lane, I can't help it but here's a link to the fabulous TV Gallery. Go and have a look, it's worth it. And now I need some sleep. Oh - the food in the White Swan is fabulous.
12:31:29 AM London | |
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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 Police and Thieves. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London, 1674 - 1834. A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
3:25:28 PM London | |
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 Branding. Properly done. Selfridges, Swiss Intl Air Lines, Stella McCartney - at WINKREATIVE (Flash alert). I think I'll go and apply for a job at their London office. Thanks to Axel for the link.
8:45:26 AM Art & Advertising | |
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
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 An Update. While I couldn't get my head round designing a 'proper' website for the film covers yet, I've scanned in two more title pages - film 4/67 and film 4/69. I've also removed some of the articles due to copyright issues. Anyway, have fun.
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Monday, January 19, 2004 |
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 Proper Cynism. Check out Despair, Inc., the World's worst Internet company. Thanks to Rocky.
5:29:53 PM Cult | |
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 |
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Saturday, January 17, 2004 |
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 Monthly Raumpatrouille. Art, architecture and electronics at the GSD Headquarters. While GSD stands for Galaktischer Sicherheitsdienst, meaning Security Service of the Galaxy, I prefer the translation Galactic Security Department, because then the German abbreviation (GSD) fits perfectly.
8:09:55 PM Cult, Orion Pics | |
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 I'm repeating this. Because it's great.Homes. De Stijl. Bauhaus. Guys, this is Pop. 70 Houses, built in 1932 in Vienna, all mod cons. Werkbundsiedlung Wien 1932, beautifully designed by my friend Charlotte. A fantastic website.
7:26:03 PM Art & Advertising | |
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 Sketchbook Time. More crude drawings from my sketchbooks.
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Friday, January 16, 2004 |
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
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 Old and New. Nice idea, nice concept, nice website: Steven Cook's alternity.Alternity began about 5 years ago when I started collecting old photographs and carte de visites of people. I began to wonder why people always looked as if they belonged to their own particular era and whether they'd look out of place in the 21st century wearing contemporary fashions. As an experiment I started to scan the photos and swap bits around digitally. Things got especially interesting when I began scanning from my own negatives and dropping those into the melange. With Alternity I have created my own version of the past, resurrecting these people from their long forgotten existence, giving them their fifteen minutes of fame - posthumously.
2:23:01 PM Art & Advertising | |
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 |
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 Howdy! In the desperate need of a gunfighter? Oh, look no further. Get them all at Cowboyparts, Mike Hartland's Western Web Site.
10:46:27 PM Cult | |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
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Monday, January 12, 2004 |
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 This is Punk. The Dead Boys. Stiv Bators, Johnny Blitz, Cheetah Chrome; they're all here. And also Sonic Reducer (zipped MP3). Fun. Lots of fun. Even more fun. I want that Fender Jaguar... or a Gretsch. Oh, just gimme any odd guitar.
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riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, 
From Behind.
Holidays in the Sun. 
Yes. See 
Meatball. 
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. A website dedicated to 
Letters. 
Political. 
Kurtzman. 
The White Stuff. Cold and wet. More snow pictures over at the 
Interesting. The website of Trek designer 
Holy Wheels! 
There's something Rotten in the Jungle. 
Uncle Tom. Extending the entry below a bit, here's a huge (and I mean huge) 
Voices. 
Dinosaurs and Gremlins. Science Fiction and Fantasy illustrations at the 
New York. The 
Simply Fab. 
Big in Japan. An archive of 
Lick'em. Your Bishop Information Minister on stamps, issued officially by 
3D. Here's 
Suburbia. Photographs of 
Blue Smoke. Thousands of cigarette ads, articles and more at 
Howl. The homepage of Mister 
More about Perspective. 
Lead. Fantastic: a 
Transport for London. 
Abbey Roads. 
No Branding. 
Greek. Dummy. Blind. Yet another one of those 
Street Art. Well, those 
Wild Scotland. 
Carbonite Lego. 
Bliar. 
The Swiss Again. This is a special link for Axel: 
Atelier d'Artista. Photographs of 
Solo. Napoleon Solo at 
Fluxus. A nice 
Punch! 
How Strange. How bizarre. How surreal. 
Ordnance Survey Drawings. Wonderfully drawn maps of 
Performing Arts. Thanks to 
Franquin Again. A wonderful 
The Decline of Fashion Photography. 
Moon Mission. Read the 
Soapy. 
And even more Space Art. Enter the World of 
Some More Art. 
Nice. Just round the corner, at 
Curious Cards for Bewildering Times. At 
Space Art. Nice 
Have a Sunshiney Day. 
Bug-eyed Monsters. 
Bad Taste. Here's