The Cartoonist

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

The Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder. Paintings by Heidi Taillefer. 8:20:03 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Here Comes Everybody. Finnegans Wake by hand: calligraphic illustrations by Robert Amos. 8:13:38 AM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Monday, August 30, 2004

Plop. Corkscrew postcards at the Virtual Corkscrew Museum. A great link via the great Michelle. 3:48:52 PM    | |

Game on. I'm playing Brain Hotel. 11:56:50 AM    | |

In Orbit. Space station concepts. 99 slides, hundreds of illustrations. Fab. 8:56:31 AM    | |

Rust never sleeps. Classic car paintings. Thanks to Axel. 8:46:20 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Advertising. Oh, this is brilliant: RareAds.com. Over 20,000 available. Lots of thanks to Jesse. 8:40:47 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, August 29, 2004

Short Story of the week [13]. 11:40:24 AM   Short Stories | |

Housekeeping. Updating the 1979 Deutschland pages. Have fun. 12:16:25 AM   Cult | |

Saturday, August 28, 2004

For the Mad Scientist. A chronology of the Philips Electronic Experiment Kits. Check out the library with PDF downloads of all the instruction manuals; this is amazing. Here's even more about the Philips Electronic Engineer; another fantastic website. And some chemistry is here (German text - but very funny). 2:39:43 PM   Cult | |

Bizarre. Lola and Stanley go to London. 8:38:08 AM    | |

Friday, August 27, 2004

Silent Action. Antique Motion Picture Studio Cameras. Fab. A thank you goes to Axel for the link. 8:25:41 AM    | |

Little Joe. A Project Mercury chronology with lots of rare photos. And Building the Revell 1/48th Scale Mercury Capsule. 8:20:15 AM    | |

Encounters. UFO art by Jim Nichols. 8:08:54 AM    | |

Thursday, August 26, 2004

I found a digital Camera in the Woods. As Horst says, some sort of Blair Digicam Project. Catspiders and robots included. Even better are the 42 pages of rather naive comments. Via Hebig, via Coudal and probably a thousand others. 7:53:24 PM    | |

The Trouble with Classicists. Very strange drawings and paintings, inspired by Velvet Underground songs. 7:36:54 PM    | |

Sleeping by Day. New art at Ray Caesar's website. He's getting better and better. 7:12:45 AM   Art & Advertising | |

This ain't Ogilvy. A collection of advertising jokes. Q. How many account executives does it take to change a light bulb? A. How many would you like? 6:34:24 AM   Art & Advertising | |

When in Rome. The Roman Empire. 6:29:31 AM    | |

Electricity comes from other Planets. A van de Graaff Generator photo and video gallery. 6:21:27 AM    | |

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Flat Out. America's Age of Steam. 7:33:47 PM    | |

Memorable Images. Oh my goodness me ... the home of uncool Britannia. No political correctness there. But lots of nice pictures. 8:10:12 AM    | |

Wearing Hats. Some Hat Facts for you. 7:40:29 AM    | |

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Art & The 60s. An exhibition at the Tate Britain. 6:30:18 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Wow. Gif-animation art at destroyevil. Amazing. Thanks to Axel for the link. 8:34:40 AM   Art & Advertising | |

The Forgotten Prisoner of Castel Mare. Lots of old Aurora model kits at Those Great Moments Spent With Glue, Paints and Plastic! When I was little, my favourite was always the forgotten prisoner. There seemed to be a really sad story behind it. 8:03:38 AM   Cult | |

Electric Trucks. Ransomes Forklift History comes with lots of photos of Steam Rollers, Electric Motorcycles, a Wobblum Car and of course Forklifts. 7:54:18 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Comics. Ahem. The unofficial archive of Broadway Comics. 7:46:35 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Monday, August 23, 2004

Selling the Moon. The Heinlein Book Cover Museum. A big one. 7:23:58 AM   Literature | |

The Stars our Destination. Dave Stevick's Weird Telescopes Page. 7:17:21 AM    | |

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Short Story of the week [12]. 9:07:28 AM   Short Stories | |

Saturday, August 21, 2004

Die kleine Kneipe. More Ratinger Hof pictures at the Ratinger Hof Website. 12:49:02 PM   Cult | |

Piss Factory. Patti sings [MP3, 4.3MB]. Via Schockwellenreiter. Photo found, amongst other things, in my loft. 12:16:09 PM   Cult, MP3 | |

Urban Typology. Polar Inertia, a journal of nomadic and popular culture. 11:49:44 AM    | |

Friday, August 20, 2004

Hosting. If anyone in the UK is in the need of hosting, I truly can recommend them. Fast, efficient, and a fab Control Panel. And this is not advertising.; they're simply great and I'm a happy customer. And they actually reply to your Emails. Immediately. 10:36:23 PM    | |

It's a GasGasGas. Unusual Petrol stations around the world. And many more at Lost Places. This is Fab, this is brilliant, this is great. 10:04:38 PM   Cult | |

The Dying Earth. A Jack Vance Archive. With a cover gallery. 5:11:16 PM   Literature | |

This must be the best animated GIF ever. Via paperholic. 10:08:16 AM    | |

Chick Rockers. A new theme at Linkfilter. 9:46:00 AM    | |

Thursday, August 19, 2004

Ei leck mich in die Täsch. I found them. The old negatives. With titles like: Wayne County/Coroners/Johnny Moped/ Hamburg - no date Hamburg, The Damned, 19.10. 1977 Ratinger Hof, 20.5.1978 Okie-Dokie, Neuss, 31.12.79 - 1.1.1980 - Fehlfarben, Male Neat, Practice (no date) Neat (no date) Lou Reed live Münster, 2.4.1977 Lou Reed, May 1979 Düsseldorf ... and so on. If my scanner's up to it (most of the images are on Ilford HP5 (pushed) and are very grainy and dense) expect an update soon. If not, I'll have to get them scanned somewhere else. Be patient. Picture shows the late Martin Pfeiffer, lead singer of The Neat. Update: Bugger this. I've ordered a new scanner. 8:16:32 PM   Cult | |

Just a Repeat. But sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Fictitious Book Covers. The gallery of U.N.C.L.E. paperback covers inspired me somehow. Because I had nothing else going on, I pinched the design and created a series of fake MI5 information booklets. All from 1965, I swear! And get the T-Shirt here. 3:22:38 PM   Cult | |

London Today. There's a bloody Taifun going on outside. 12:07:21 PM   London | |

Art & Design. The Blacklist No.2. Thanks to Gary for pointing this out. 9:56:44 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Trondheim. Horst has set up a very nice Lapinot website: The formidable adventures of Lapinot. Well done! 9:25:02 AM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

DIY Projects [2]. Build your own Stormtrooper. 9:14:51 AM    | |

DIY Projects [1]. Build your own Speedex sportscar. 9:07:49 AM    | |

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Colony 3. A Community for Fans of Patrick McGoohan. The intro page is fab. And the rest isn't bad either. 4:56:46 PM   Cult | |

Musicians. All about the pocket calculator. Via linkfilter. 10:09:43 AM   Cult | |

Celebrities. The Definitive Diana Rigg Website. 9:53:22 AM   Cult | |

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

NEW! NOW EVEN BETTER! At The Shop: my RatSwine collection. Buy now, before they're all gone. UPDATE!! For all my customers in the USA: get the RatSwine here! Be quick, it's a very limited edition .... ! In fact it isn't. Just buy it anyway. UPDATE!! SALE!!!! Price reduction! Buy now, before it's too late! More products in the European Shop! Get them now!! Yell!! Wow ... now that's what I call advertising ... ! 2:57:11 PM   The RatSwine | |

Deadline. The Avengers Press and PR Archive. Fantastic. Now how on earth could I have missed that? Strange. Browse through forty-three years of world spanning Avengers press pieces and promotional material! 1:18:49 PM   Cult | |

Cartooning during the Wars. World War I, World War II. 12:58:54 PM   Art & Advertising | |

It's 007 again. A fairly new Bond site on the web: James Bond Multimedia. Fab, as everything Bond. 12:42:21 PM   Cult | |

The Final Frontier [3]. Leonard Nimoy and The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (Quicktime). 7:54:57 AM   Cult | |

The Final Frontier [2]. Celestia, a 3D Space Simulator. Fab. Available for almost all operating systems. Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. 7:48:33 AM    | |

The Final Frontier [1]. Mapping the Universe. 7:41:08 AM    | |

Monday, August 16, 2004

Yet Another Photoshop Contest. Modern products in a vintage light. Thanks to Jan! 8:17:29 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Gentlemen, start your engines. Slot car racing. 8:08:09 AM    | |

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Straight Lines. Create a Tartan at the Vivienne Westwood exhibition site. 4:05:47 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Made to be Played Loud. Remember my Rock'n Roll Animal entry? Well, Dick Wagner himself was so kind to leave a comment there. So go to Wagnermusic and buy his records. Now. That's an order. 3:53:39 PM   MP3 | |

Short Story of the week [11]. 8:23:55 AM   Short Stories | |

Saturday, August 14, 2004

1979 Deutschland. This is a special for NSA and MacGeek. The bad news first: I couldn't find the binder with the negatives anywhere. But - and this is the good news - I found a few old prints and set up a quick'n dirty gallery. I didn't do any retouching on those prints, just a bit of moving the levels in Photoshop. And if I'll ever find those damn negatives, then there's more to come. Enjoy. Now where on Earth is that binder ... ? Update: The Ratinger Hof Homepage (1, 2). 1:09:00 PM   Cult | |

Friday, August 13, 2004

Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. Orion 7 starting from Underwater Basis 104. Listen to the wonderful Piccicato in Heaven [MP3, 1MB] now. And google the composer, Peter Thomas. It's worth it. 11:55:02 PM   Orion Pics | |

Shelley & Devoto. Here's Permafrost [MP3, 5.1MB]. Then, shot by both sides. And Buzzcocks. And more Magazine audio can be found here. 9:26:47 PM   Cult, MP3 | |

And another Cheerful Link for the Weekend. Pat & Stanley - remember the silly hippo and the stupid dog? Well, here's more. Wonder what Haldur Gislufsson might think about this ... he probably doesn't like hippos anyway. 8:59:56 PM   Cult | |

A Cheerful Link for the Weekend. Fritz Haarmann, the butcher of Hannover. He sold the meat of his victims at his butcher's shop. Now that's what I call business-minded. Have fun. Christian Gorny, the author and artist of the first part of the Haarmann comic book series (sorry: that was all I could find), seems to be somewhere else now ... 6:05:28 PM    | |

Busy. I'm extremely busy today. More tomorrow. 8:45:31 AM    | |

Thursday, August 12, 2004

The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Two little movies, they're both hilarious. And they come via Master Jörg (again!!) and Sir Majo. [1, 2] 7:28:54 PM   Cult, MP3 | |

Blow Up Batman. MP3 [1,9 MB]. Via Schockwellenreiter again. Sigh. Image stolen from this rather bizarre website. 6:47:40 PM   Cult, MP3 | |

German Brands. Fantastic: Das erste virtuelle Markenmuseum. Via Schockwellenreiter. 8:58:53 AM   Art & Advertising | |

The Vampire Hunter. Some John Sinclair audio for my German readers. 8:35:11 AM   Cult, MP3 | |

Awright. Cut down on the fuckin' gobbin'. The Clash. Live. From 1976 to 1985. And not only that - also the 101'ers, Havana 3am, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Topper Headon .... just click and download all those wonderful MP3s. And burn, before it's gone. Many, many - in fact, a thousand gazillion thanks - go to MacGeek for this particular link. And he's right; it really doesn't fit within the OFMP3. Because The Clash were the good ones; and always proper music. Steve might be interested in listening to this. 12:01:31 AM   Cult, London, MP3 | |

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Mobile OS X. Free OS X (and other) themes for your Sony Ericsson mobile phone. Fab. Via Tom, via Schockwellenreiter. 11:00:23 AM    | |

The Old Fart MP3 Competition. There's a nice round up at IT&W and the ideal accompaniment is Pete's Picture Palace, where I pinched the UFO photo. 10:09:55 AM   MP3 | |

Anarchy in the UK. Very funny: check out the spacehijackers. A group of anarchitects creating chaos in London. I love it. 8:09:59 AM   London | |

Build your own Cinderella Castle. Page 42 collects all the games and models that were included in the German Mickey Mouse Magazine. Fab, absolutely fab. Have you ever build your own Cinderella castle? Or a complete western fort? Readers of the German weekly "Micky Maus" might reminisce about such things when asked this question. Unfortunately often none of the done handicrafts survived until today. So all left are childhood memories of cutting out, folding and gluing. Until now...! 7:49:01 AM    | |

Magical Mayhem. The one and only Catweazle. 7:31:21 AM   Cult | |

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Mhm. Because it's all in Russian, I really don't know what this is about, but it's great. Via xq. 4:53:15 PM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Game On. A visual history of computer games. 11:15:13 AM   Cult | |

Snap. Vintage Camera Manuals as downloadable zip files. 7:38:48 AM    | |

The Hamburg Punx. Oldpunks - Home of the Elderly documents nicely the punks years in Hamburg, Germany. Also very nice is Punk-o-matic, the Punk Rock Generator [Flash, 3.5MB]. Create your own song in seconds. 7:29:12 AM   Cult | |

Monday, August 9, 2004

Tight. The fab new Pop Culture Links weblog by Sebastian points us to Tight Skirts of the Past. Fantastic. 12:16:56 PM   Cult | |

Yet another proper Car. The Prisoner's Lotus Super 7 modelled in Lego. Be seeing you. 8:29:49 AM   Cult | |

Some proper Cars at last. Donald Duck's 313. Scrooge McDuck's cars. Mickey Mouse's cars. And many more. Definitely a must-see for every serious fan of automobiles. 8:21:09 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Cans. A visual history. 8:07:09 AM    | |

Sunday, August 8, 2004

Short Story of the week [10]. 7:41:47 AM   Short Stories | |

Saturday, August 7, 2004

Extraterrestrial of the Month. A Maahk. 9:28:32 AM   Extraterrestrials. | |

Ah. He's back. At least on his Official Site - they're now offering some more bits than just the old lousy images of a Batmobile. And see the new Batmobile cruising the streets of Chicago [mov, 6.5MB]. Awful noise it makes; I wouldn't want to have him as a neighbour. 12:28:51 AM   Cult | |

Friday, August 6, 2004

Now that fits. 1000 Arten ein Bier zu öffnen. Thanks to Jim, and where's my Concorde? Alternatively we could meet at the Blue Posts Pub off Carnaby Street, just opposite BartleBogle Hegarty ... ? Anyway, I'm off now having a well deserved beer. Expect an extraterrestrial lifeform here at this venue tomorrow; I'm still working on it.