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Monday, January 31, 2005 |
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The Lady. The Moe Tucker Band, Augsburg 1993. The tall one is Sterling Morrison (No, not the big one - that's John Slugget!). And there's a Tardis in the background. Photo by Jutta Brandt. We were booked in this tiny little hotel in Augsburg. In the morning, Sterling entered the breakfast room, all dressed in black, sunglasses, obviously suffering from a hangover. He sat down at a table, opposite a woman, a tourist. She looked at the tall, big man from America, stared at the black clothes. Sterling just stared back from behind his sunglasses. The lady, distressed, dropped her breakfast roll and left the room. Sterling looked around and ordered a full breakfast. Augsburg is in Bavaria after all. Last Night I said Goodbye to my Friend [MP3, 5MB]
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 Damn. I really didn't know this. And now it's sold out. This is even better than the Velvets reunion back in '93.Here's Van der Graaf Generator with Firebrand.
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Sunday, January 30, 2005 |
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Liebe GGK [2]. Shortly after winning a considerable amount of IBM business, the advertising agency GGK Düsseldorf threw a party. This is the book about the party: Deutschland Symphonie. And what a party it was.Das ist das Buch zum Fest, das am 28.5.1983 in der
Klosterstrasse war, wo die Zimmermänner spielten,
Jürgen Engler und Peter Hein, Hip, Andreas Judas Dorau,
bis 4 Uhr nachts, als die Polizei, der ein paar
Punker etwas Bier über die Mütze schütteten, meinte,
jetzt sei es genug.
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Amazing. The things you find when moving stuff around.
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Saturday, January 29, 2005 |
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 The Cameraman. Claudio von Planta does TV stuff. Serious TV stuff. Really serious TV stuff. He's in Sierra Leone, in West India and now in Kirkuk. He's a friend of mine; and I hope, he will come back. Without any injuries and whatnot. Apart from that, I think he's just mad.
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Friday, January 28, 2005 |
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Little Art Director. I believe this picture dates back to 1987. And I still haven't grown up.
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 Ok, I'm Back. Did you miss me? I hope so. Here are some hand coloured London Tube Stations for you. Via things. And now I got to carry on moving stuff around.
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Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
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 In Between. Sorting boxes and moving stuff. As you can see, I quite didn't get round moving my Mac yet. Still trying, but can't be bothered right now. This one comes via the wonderful Geisha Asobi: Kamikaze! Those video clips are incredible. Scroll down, click on the blue bits and watch.Oh - looks as if the original title is something like: KAMIKAZETOKUBETSUKOUGEKITAI.
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 Incredibly Busy. I'm moving furniture from one room into another. Which means, I'm getting a bigger studio. Which also means, I'll have to move my Mac & router as well, together with several hundreds of books and files and everything. Don't expect any updates for the next 3 years today.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
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 Big Cinema. This is hilarious (and yes, it's a coffee machine). Via IT&W.
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 Arf, Arf. Oh, this is fantastic, beautiful, great and insane. And another book I'll have to order:Modern Arf. The unholy marriage of art and comics, by Craig Yoe. And while you're there, quickly sprint over to Yoe Studio, because Craig also does other nice things when he's not writing books. ...Modern Arf encompasses a rich treasure trove of images spanning 1836 to the present. This iconoclastic tome showcases the gamut of artists, from celebrated innovators to forgotten geniuses. Featured are surrealist master Salvador Dali, comics king Jack Kirby, absurd originator Milt Gross, au courant cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, legendary maverick R.Crumb, brilliant unknown Hy Mayer, and many more.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
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 The World of Advertising Saved. Stock photo company Corbis has been granted the rights to license Marvel's digital content for editorial and commercial use on a global basis. Here's a preview. Via adrants.
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 Sigh. Again I didn't manage to get into the finals for the 2005 Bloggies (btw, they've exceeded their bandwidth limit bigtime). Guess this weblog is just too weird for the average blog reader.
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 Non-lethal Combatives.The different methods of defending oneself with a walking-stick or umbrella when attacked under unequal conditions, Part 1, Part 2. Via Schockwellenreiter, via Heimchen.
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Monday, January 24, 2005 |
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What we've never seen indeed, was the big day itself. Lots of historic stuff has been preserved - images, texts, even sounds, and the saga has been told on and on. However only very few people have actually seen how Steve Jobs pulls the first Mac out of this bag, how the Mac introduces itself to the public, Steves biggest grin ever, and how he is obviously overwhelmed by this moment in the Cupertino Flint Center. IT&W's server seems to be down at the moment? Aha - Mirror at MacNews, 20MB download.
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Sunday, January 23, 2005 |
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Saturday, January 22, 2005 |
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
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 Better. Than BBE. Well, almost. There's a new version out now, and I think it's great: Taco HTML Edit, Version 1.7.0. Fab. Fab; fab, fab.Primary New Features: Display Line Numbers, Spell Checking, Action Menu in Projects. Mac Os X? Download. Now.
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 Even more UFO Conspiracies. Visit Stanton Friedman, Nuclear Physicist & Lecturer. He'll tell you all about the sinister Majestic-12 Organisation. And some more weird things happening.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 |
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 Moon Hoaxes and Faces on Mars. Fabulous: Philip Plait's Bad Astronomy website.
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 The RRRGroup. A new weblog dealing with the offbeat and bizarre in the world. That's mostly UFOs then, I guess.
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Monday, January 17, 2005 |
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Sunday, January 16, 2005 |
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 Raumpatrouille Picture of the Month. Silvan Rott (left) explains the benefits of the Overkill weapons technology to a sceptical looking Commander Cliff Allister McLane (Episode 4, Deserteure).
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Saturday, January 15, 2005 |
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 Gucky is Dead. The message came through Usenet and Mailing-Lists. If this is not a rather tasteless joke, then it looks as if Clark Darlton (Walter Ernsting), German Science Fiction Author and Co-Founder of the famous Perry Rhodan book series, has passed away this morning at a hospital in Salzburg. Update: Seems to be true, certain SF-related Usenet Groups are boiling over with this story.
9:21:03 PM Art & Advertising, Cult, Literature | |
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 This is Titan. Looks to me as if they've merely coloured in a monochrome picture. I'm a bit disappointed really.
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Good OS X Software. So far I've been writing my entries here with Radio's native editor/outliner. But now I'm using Taco HTML Edit. It's free and it's fab.Related: Reimund pointed me to this website.
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 Clayguy. This is great: cartoon sculptures of TV, movie and pulp related characters.
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Friday, January 14, 2005 |
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 Make the Dirt Fly. The construction of the Panama Canal.
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 |
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 Those Stupid Rich People. Don't worry, Harry: with your funny ginger hair you wouldn't have lasted long in the Third Reich. (BBC)
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 |
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
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 iWant. Two of those. No, make that three. Or four.
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 Ohio Barns. Amazing. The things people do ... here are hundreds of images of barns in the state of Ohio. Via linkfilter.
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Monday, January 10, 2005 |
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Liebe GGK [1]. Amazing. I've received a tremendous feedback after publishing a rather old GGK Memo; thank you everyone. Now here's another one. And there are more to follow; one for every month. Many thanks to Jürgen, who compiled the booklet with all the Liebe GGk memos in the first place and who I can't trace anymore; many thanks to GGK, to Paul Gredinger and to Michael Schirner. And to all the others. It was a great time; in fact it was the best of all times.A new Category Liebe GGK can be found here, and the RSS feed is here. Sorry it's all in German, but it could be worse - GGK was always a Swiss network. You don't want to read any Schwyzerdütsch or Brookenduetsch here, do you? Have some fun instead. 
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 Before I'm running out of Steam. The X-Lab. Troubleshooting Mac Os X. Fab. BTW: in case Stuffit doesn't work anymore on your machine (since yesterday), simply switch off 'Allow Version Checking' in the prefs. Apparently they're having trouble wih their 'Version Checking Website'; whatever that is.
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 Bigger and Bigger. I'm pretty sure. The Markenmuseum is on it's way of becoming the best brand and advertising museum on the web. And they now offer Quicktime videos of commercials along with the products featured. Fab.
4:49:25 PM Art & Advertising | |
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 Stylo. The skinny might veer off the road that circles DC.
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 Hommage to an Unknown Artist. Wonderful. Lots of thanks to Jaime.Stefan Mart was the narrator and illustrator of the picture book Tales of the Nations, published in Hamburg in 1933 by the "Cigarettenbilderdienst Hamburg-Bahrenfeld" ("Cigarette Picture Service"). It won the hearts of innumerable children and grown-ups in the course of the six years that it was in print. This was due above all to the 150 colour illustrations: they were small in size, but strong in expression, each a microcosm packed with action, each a feast for the eyes like a beautifully set jewel; everything was finely-drawn and clear, indeed with the exaggerated clarity of the caricature; they all radiated the shining, flaming colourfulness of modern painting.
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Sunday, January 9, 2005 |
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The Pram. Reason enough for getting another baby. 
Tutorials. How to 
Burp. Download 
Ah. Looks as if my mate Wolfgang has 
Beautiful. The photography on 
More Linkage. A few more weblogs and sites that came to my attention:
Crime Time. All German 
Clever Advertising. 
The Switchboard. Welcome to the history of the 
Pop. 
That's How it's Done. 
Lethal Combatives. The 
Jungle Larry. 
1984 - The Lost Tape. 
Now Even Better. 
Fix & Foxi. First, there's the gallery of 
The Class of '64. Kathy Mildner's 
Sick on the Carpet. 
If you're in Trouble, Dial 999. Still kickin': 
Fiji. 
Bubbly. A hundred years of 
Here They Are. Remember the now (in)famous 
Black & White. The 
Right On. Stan 'The Man' Lee 
Spectrum is Green. Gerry Anderson's 
Boots. Amazing, the 
Tape Findings. 
An Extravagant Crowd. Carl van Vechten's 
Out of this World. The digital space art of 
Hairy. 
Bronze. All sorts of Doc Savage related imagery on 
Touching History. 
Fantastic and Bizarre. 
Blood & Glitter. 
Impressive. 
Raw Power. The Clash, London's Burning. 
Der Bär, der Bär, der macht was her. 
Ugly. 
The Circus is Coming. A gallery of 
A Manual. For all those sad people who still don't have a manual for their 
London Underground. An 
Rhodan and such. 
Wernher von Braun. 
Chairs. 
More Art. 
You Gotta Jump, You Gotta Jive. Great: 
Again. Where do bloggers meet when they meet in London? 