The Cartoonist

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Busy. See you later. 7:07:58 AM   This & That | |

Monday, May 30, 2005

Tears in my Eyes. The best weblog entry ever. Definitely. I love you all. 11:34:06 PM   Blogs | |

Trust me, I'm a skeleton. 4:46:30 PM   Basil Says | |

Housekeeping on a Bank Holiday. The Roper will return next week with his 51st adventure / I'm no longer updating the archives of this weblog - it's too much work and besides, you can always navigate via the calendar on the top right or simply use Google Search if you are looking for a certain entry, or anything at all / Check the dirty.ru Russian weblog - I wish I could read it, it must be fab. I was never really good at deciphering Cyrillic, in fact, my Russian is a bit rusty. / The same goes for the Polish makowski & pepe. Fab weblogs. 4:08:13 PM   Blogs, Literature | |

When I was in Chicago. A Magnum .44 bullet casing. I found it in February 1994 in the carpark of ad agency Hamilton Carver & Lee. So this is Chicago, I thought. 1:57:05 PM    | |

Light and Shadow. Konstantin Binder's Tibet photos; here's the Fort. 1:12:48 PM   Blogs | |

Heavy Machinery. Haiko Hebig's photos of the Heinrich Robert Colliery in Hamm, Germany. 1:08:19 PM   Blogs | |

Ahhh. Bank holiday today here in the UK. How boring is that? 10:07:38 AM    | |

Sunday, May 29, 2005

The Designer's Tools [9]. Honestly. I designed quite a few books for Cambridge University Press on this little machine. 3:45:02 PM   Designer's Tools | |

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Whatever language you speak, always fake your accent. 9:56:10 PM   Basil Says | |

The Designer's Tools [8]. Pencils and erasers. You can't have enough of those. 9:45:53 PM   Designer's Tools | |

The Designer's Tools [7]. A battered typometer. For some unknown reason you can't get them here in the UK. Guess I've got to order new ones from Germany? Mine's covered in scalpel marks. 1:48:53 PM   Designer's Tools | |

London. In my opinion, the best book about London is David Piper's The Companion Guide to London. My (German) edition is a bit dated, as it's from 1981, but still a fascinating read - and actually much better written than the new, and by other authors revised editions. More about Sir David here. 1:16:29 PM   Literature, London | |

Friday, May 27, 2005

Breathing in too much methane gas is not good for you. 11:41:16 PM   Basil Says | |

Wow. Quicktime animation [1.8MB] of a dust devil on Mars, photographed by NASA's Spirit rover. 11:37:34 PM    | |

The Illustrators. A history of American Illustration is a series on DVD in 14 parts and it looks very promising indeed. Check out the free samples. Via The Crime In Your Coffee. 9:00:40 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Colons and Semicolons. The website of the Swiss National Library. Via Paperholic. 6:49:24 AM    | |

Hardware. Neil Fraser's computerised Etch-a-sketch. 6:39:33 AM    | |

Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sometimes sausages may explode and leave a really big mess behind. 8:40:58 PM   Basil Says | |

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

This is always Fun. Meccano magazines from 1916 to 1981 as full scans. 6:44:43 PM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Bargfeld, April 2003. A photoset on flickr. 3:36:49 PM   Literature | |

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Different flowers always come in different colours. 10:08:23 PM   Basil Says | |

The Designer's Tools. [6] The Swann Morton Scalpel 3L, fitted with a No. 11 blade. The small ones are actually much better, but you look very cool, macho, and impressive when cutting typesetting/meat/things/photos with one of those. For some weird reason I really love scalpels. 9:48:01 PM   Designer's Tools | |

More 3D Art. The Hobbit Guy. Fab. Thanks to Reimund. 9:06:27 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Nikita. More 3D art: Digital Babies, Kozaburo's Poser works. Somehow it's great, and somehow it still looks artificial. 6:58:46 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Michael Roger. Fantastic 3D-art. Amazing. 7:59:39 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Monday, May 23, 2005

When cloning dinosaurs, don't wear white socks. 8:43:20 PM   Basil Says | |

Thank You: Bibi, BoingBoing, Cyberoog, I quote myself, IT&W, paperholic, Schockwellenreiter, Stone Cold Pimpin', and everybody else who was so kind linking to Roper. 6:51:06 PM    | |

Sunday, May 22, 2005

The collected adventures of The Roper are now available as a virtual book, free of charge from lulu.com. Have fun. 4:36:03 PM   Literature, Short Stories | |

Saturday, May 21, 2005

A Storyboard, found in a Box. Yours truly as a model. Or shall I say dressman? Anyway, I was still working for GGK at the time. 11:01:38 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Literature, found in a Box. The keepers of the law (Blocksatz ist echt kacke, wenn ich mir das mal so ganz reduziert anschaue). 12:40:35 PM   Comics, out of a box, Orion Pics | |

Friday, May 20, 2005

Eis am Stiel. New at the Markenmuseum: Langnese ice cream. With a TV commercial from 1964. Fab. 11:43:46 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Kaff. Materialien zu »Kaff auch Mare Crisium« aus dem Nachlass Arno Schmidts. Part of the excellent Mare Crisium website. Im Nachlass von Arno Schmidt finden [sich] einige wenige Prospekte, Flugblätter und ähnliche Materialien, die in »Kaff auch Mare Crisium« erwähnt werden. An dieser Stelle sollen im Laufe der Zeit diese Materialien erstmals publiziert werden. 11:23:30 PM   Literature | |

From Russia with Love. Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden. 9:57:53 PM    | |

Because. It's getting better and better. That's why. 1:08:20 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Tin Toys. Old catalogues, ads and exhibitions at the Blechspielzeug Museum. 12:30:00 AM    | |

Art and Architecture. This must be the most fantastic picture archive ever. Via ASml. Willkommen beim Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur des Bildarchivs Foto Marburg! Der "Bildindex" enthält zur Zeit 1,7 Millionen Abbildungen/Welcome to the picture index of art and architecture at the Picture Archive Photo Marburg! At present the 'Picture Index' contains 1.7 million images. Fab, double Fab, triple Fab. 12:13:36 AM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Basil Says. Never get a ride home late at night on the Central Line when I'm the driver. 11:02:41 PM   Basil Says | |

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

We are experiencing technical difficulties, known as work. Back soon. 11:03:32 PM    | |

Monday, May 16, 2005

Busy today. See you in the evening. Or tomorrow. 7:21:10 AM    | |

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Short Story of the week [49]. 2:31:21 PM   Short Stories | |

Friday, May 13, 2005

Basil Says. Always watch your back. 7:30:38 PM   Basil Says | |

Pure Art. Arno Schmidts Arbeitsexemplar von Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Einmalige Edition von tausendeins numerierten Exemplaren. Fünffarben Lithos und Druck: Mengis und Sticher, Luzern. 6:42:58 PM   Literature | |

About Time. Radio 9 is being developed. 6:31:05 PM    | |

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Who? Doctorin' the Tardis [MP3, 7MB], with thanks to Accordion Guy and KLF (is this KLF?). And here's another version, which I've blogged before [MP3, 3.3MB]. How Sweet. How Gary. And how inconvenient. 11:10:48 PM    | |

Interesting. Colin Newman travels Eurostar? Time for a commercial [MP3, 980kb] break then. I hope he'll forgive me. Yes, and I'll remove it in a week's time from the server. 8:57:24 PM   London | |

Editions. What a great book [PDF, 28MB] 7:58:14 PM   Literature | |

Always make a backup. 5:23:38 PM   Basil Says | |

By the Way. The fellow below is now 30 years old. Perhaps I should flog him on eBay? 5:12:00 PM    | |

And Still Going Strong. Exportweltmeister. Trinkhallen in Dortmund. 3:16:37 PM    | |

Dear Painter. Paint for me. The catalogue comes with one of my Ratinger Hof pictures on page 12. 2:12:40 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Frau Schmidt. I've just updated my 1979 Deutschland pages with a few pictures of Patti Smith, live 1978 in Dortmund. Have fun. The land of possibilities [MP3, 6.5MB]. 1:24:53 PM    | |

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Basil Says. After waxing your legs, have a stiff drink. 8:39:38 PM   Basil Says | |

Now Even Better. Remember Hallogallo? Here's the homepage of Michael Rother. 4:50:51 PM    | |

The Designer's Tools [5]. It's just overpriced lighter fuel actually. But convenient from time to time, sort of. Perhaps I should try drinking the stuff? 3:07:30 PM   Designer's Tools | |

I'm Busy. 10:53:42 AM    | |

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Always mind the gap. 10:14:49 PM   Basil Says | |

Soon. But when? I'm waiting. Also here. 10:06:42 PM   Cult | |

More Blogs. Verging on Pertinence; McBoozo; Retrografix; again, Makowski and Pepe. And of course the brand new (ähem!) German Mac-Essentials. 9:16:24 PM   Blogs | |

For us Anoraks. The Aldershot and District Dennis Lancets. This page is dedicated to the extensive fleet of Dennis Lancets operated by Aldershot & District Traction Company Ltd. in Surrey, Hampshire and West Sussex both before and after the second world war. Lancets are basically busses. And as much as I adore those old thingies, I actually prefer those. Or this one. Or that. 7:00:13 PM   Orion Pics | |

This must be Fun. Visit Dracula's Castle. 6:30:11 PM    | |

Just a few Remarks. Regarding this, this, this, and that: Du bist Deutschland. Deutschland, bist du? Land, du bist Deutsch. Deutsch, bist du Land? Land, bist du Deutsch. Und damit ist der Käs' für mich gegessen. 6:04:04 PM    | |

Monday, May 9, 2005

Make your post office happy. Write more letters. 8:55:56 PM   Basil Says | |

Trade Cards. Caricatures of famous people. 6:47:08 PM    | |

Gakk. The Belgian artist Randall. 6:40:22 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, May 8, 2005

Who Music. Over at Accordion Guy - KLF and, erm, 'Serge Gainsbourg' with Dr. Qui. Many thanks to Majo. 4:46:01 PM    | |

Short Story of the week [48]. 11:59:43 AM   Short Stories | |

Saturday, May 7, 2005

Polish your shoes three times a day and they'll stay nice and shiny. 10:25:01 PM   Basil Says | |

The Designer's Tools. [4] Stolen from GGK. And still in use. 10:23:04 PM   Designer's Tools | |

The Designer's Tools. [3] Nah. I can do better in Photoshop. 10:16:58 PM   Designer's Tools | |

The Designer's Tools. [2] And I'm still using it today. Much faster than the calculator below. In fact, much faster than any computer. 10:08:02 PM   Designer's Tools | |

The Designer's Tools. [1] 10:02:31 PM   Designer's Tools | |

Writings. Update: the spam poetry of Kristin Thomas. Much better than mine. 8:51:40 PM    | |

Who? Look here. Or go to Geocomtex. 8:35:55 PM    | |

Photo, found in a Box [12]. The Prof. on the left doesn't seem to be amused. The picture is from the early fifties. 1:40:58 PM   Found in a Box | |

My Neighbour's got a new Car. 11:38:30 AM    | |

Liebe GGK [5]. 11:11:59 AM   Liebe GGK | |

The Invisible Light. The Journal Of The Radiology History and Heritage Charitable Trust. 9:25:04 AM    | |

Meanwhile, at the Practice. Acromegaly and Gigantism: a historical portrait of a disease. 9:18:03 AM    | |

Friday, May 6, 2005

At night, the bats of Transilvania may fly in circles and never come back home. 10:42:33 PM   Basil Says | |

See Below. Mail Art. Amazing. Should be the best 'Mail-Art' website ever. It's fab. 10:38:46 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult, Literature, London | |

See Above and Below. The typefaces/fonts of Keith Bates. And they're great. 10:36:43 PM   Art & Advertising | |

See Above. The Dalek typeface. Dalek is a full font based on the lettering used in the Dalek Book of 1964 and in the Daleks strip in TV21 comic, spin-offs from the UK science fiction TV show, Doctor Who. 10:36:11 PM   Art & Advertising, London | |

Thursday, May 5, 2005

This Weblog is Closing Down. Gotcha. Of course it's not. I'm just incredibly busy with silly advertising work. I'll be back on Saturday, happily blogging away. See you then. 8:01:35 PM    | |

Valves and Dials. A big collection of German radios. Via linkfilter. The technology and actual construction of these radios is extremely advanced and intricate. I have a background in both mechanic and electronic engineering and work with product development - many of my ideas have come from my experiences with the radios. 8:13:35 AM    | |

Wednesday, May 4, 2005

On a cold evening, do the ostrich. 8:05:24 PM   Basil Says | |

Peppermint Art. Wonderful packaging design: Hint Mint. Their latest designs were done by Shag. Fantastic. 4:56:46 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Remade in London. Get a nice, creatively recycled Tube Cushion for your home. Via a comment at Going Underground. 7:57:24 AM   London | |

This is not a Test. This is rock'n roll. Thanks to Peter Zillig for the link. 7:05:03 AM    | |

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

I'm Way too Busy These Days. Just no time for any serious blogging today. 5:01:21 PM    | |

Monday, May 2, 2005

Be afraid of the dark. 8:02:46 PM   Basil Says | |

Schön. 7:51:06 PM   Literature | |

Der Mann, der alles kann. Percy Stuart. And here's the title song. Many thanks to Friedhelm. And also: all you Bonanza, Daktari and Waltons lovers, check out the German TV-Nostalgie website. It's fab. 3:07:04 PM    | |