The Cartoonist

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Advertisement. With many thanks to Jan. 9:10:29 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Amazing. The Salisbury Project. Via things. 6:13:32 PM   This & That | |

Getting Better and Better. Curiously Incongruous. 6:05:20 PM   London | |

Low Clouds. Armin's busy working on his Scotland travelogue. 9:14:35 AM   This & That | |

Monday, August 29, 2005

Kamine. The Neat [MP3. 3.7MB]. With the fabulous Ted on keyboards. And here is the live version. Which is much better. 9:36:00 PM   Cult | |

The best Strings in the Whole Wide World. Now all I need is a guitar - a Fender Telecaster comes to mind, although a Fender Jaguar might be much better. But all I can play is three chords. Which should be enough for some Rock'n Roll. 7:36:00 PM   This & That | |

A Painting. Max Ferguson, paintings of a vanishing New York. 1:30:26 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Serious Literature. Flying saucers in popular culture. Via PCL. 1:18:02 PM   Cult | |

How Nice. A Bank Holiday today here in the UK. Time for some recommendations: Hossein Hajiagha's weird website/weblog; blanketfort (of course!); buy Albert, or at least read Slim's weblog; also, Famous for 15 megapixels. And watch the robot (via boingboing). 11:38:33 AM   Blogs | |

Basilcam. Watch Basil doing nothing. This image will refresh every 15 seconds. 8:51:21 AM   This & That | |

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Literature, found in a Box. Good to know. And I thought we are all doomed. This book proves me wrong. Alle Rechte, insbesondere das der Übersetzung, vorbehalten / Copyright 1931 by Kochler & Amelang, G.m.b.H., Leipzig / Printed in Germany / Druck der Offizin Haag=Drugulin AG. in Leipzig Now who on Earth is/was John Elliot Emerson? Just an excentric Englishman who decided to publish his book in Germany? For my English or other international readers - the title translates into something like 'The World's Mysteries Solved!' (or Riddles; or: the riddles of the world, the world's a puzzle,' The mysteries of ... ). Whatever. 11:17:31 PM   Literature | |

When there are clouds above your head, it may or may not rain. 7:49:31 PM   Basil Says | |

Cheesy Actors. Call me Shatterhand. Lex Barker. In German. In English. The next ones in the series could be either Bill Shatner ('Being nominated and winning once was a thrill. But the second nomination is even more thrilling.') or David Hasselhoff ('In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.'), but I doubt I'll carry on with this. 5:08:50 PM   Cult | |

A Badge, found in a Box. 2:11:25 PM   This & That | |

Packaging Design. You just can't beat a Futura Extrabold Condensed. 2:03:05 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Haute Couture Today. Hoodies. 12:22:55 PM   My Sketchbooks | |

Saturday, August 27, 2005

G, F & C. Sister Ray. Some pleasures of a musical text. 9:17:41 PM   This & That | |

Oh. Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr Quentin Crisp. You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad. 2:39:10 PM   London | |

Friday, August 26, 2005

Keep watching the skies. 8:17:33 PM   Basil Says | |

More Cartoonists. Christopher Wheeler's database of cartoonists. Fab: Click on any cartoonist to see some of his or her volumes of cartoons and related ephemera. Almost all books shown are currently in my collection. Via the great paperholic. An autograph and a drawing by Sempé - now how cool is that? I think this is megacool. 6:21:05 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Nibs, found in a Box. Just testing. Gillot 170. They're fab. 4:26:16 PM   This & That | |

Cat in a Suitcase. Serious Cat Content: an illustration by Harald Siepermann, done for a kitekat brochure I art directed while working for Scholz & Friends. Still hanging on my wall; unfortunately it's not signed. 2:22:41 PM   Art & Advertising | |

A Warning, found in a Box. 12:09:39 PM   This & That | |

Of Costermongers and Wet Fish Sellers. Henry Mayhew, London Labour and The London Poor, Vol 1. Picture taken from this very fine website. 11:41:20 AM   London | |

Fantastic. The Ackerman Pump Pen was in the post on Monday and it's great, although it took me almost a whole day getting used to it, and my fingers are still stained with ink. But once it works, it works; it's a great product. I went for the dip nib version; the fountain nib is probably much easier to use. 10:38:33 AM   Designer's Tools | |

Thursday, August 25, 2005

When travelling aboard a submarine, always take some extra oxygen supply with you. 4:34:59 PM   Basil Says | |

The Casual Passer-by. I don't know either, but apparently it's art. 3:45:02 PM   Art & Advertising, London | |

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

The Wonders of Nature [2]. 19:57, Chigwell, Essex, UK. 8:19:29 PM   London | |

Sweet Jane. A video. 1:52:29 PM   Cult | |

The Wonders of Nature. Foxes, creating havoc in my garden [Quicktime movie, 8.9MB]. 10:44:51 AM   This & That | |

A Stamp, found in a Box. 8:53:10 AM   This & That | |

The Advertisement. 8:41:36 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Day and night, night and day. Where's the difference? 9:00:33 PM   Basil Says | |

In Between. Some more slogans, claims, and straplines. Ohne Krawatte ist der Mann nur die Hälfte wert. Basil's going to enjoy this. 5:33:12 PM   Art & Advertising | |

The Place Wot I Live In. The London Borough of Redbridge. 1:13:56 PM   London | |

This Was Bound to Happen. Basil, having a go at The Cartoonist. Many thanks to Mr Bali Hai for this gem. 12:12:54 PM   This & That | |

Sinter Genie. An incredible photo (click to enlarge) by Haiko Hebig. 12:01:26 PM   Art & Advertising | |

The Wicker Man. And Scotland. And Quickos. Ringverse's photo gallery. Many thanks to Monsieur Quickos for the link. 11:54:43 AM   This & That | |

Literature, found in a Box. ABC der Werbeslogans, 1961 by Verlag Funk KG., Kirchheim/Neckar. Fits well within the Advertising Spoken entry over at museum museorum. 8:31:23 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Monday, August 22, 2005

There are moments when I really miss my brain. 9:18:48 PM   Basil Says | |

English Summer. Animation stolen from BBC Weather. 8:13:46 PM   London | |

Oh Dear. A Yoko Ono exhibition, somewhere in Passau, Germany. 8:02:01 PM   Art & Advertising | |

All in One. Harrie Verstappen's Looniverse. Movies, strips, books - and Saul Bass. 2:28:21 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Basil Says. I actually quite like Sundays. They're so peaceful. 2:51:37 PM   Basil Says | |

Barfly. I hope Matt is making good progress with his Tiki-Bar, because I'm keen on trying some of those cocktails and more. 11:11:08 AM   This & That | |

The Designer's Tools. A bone. Speaking of which, here comes The Bonefolder, a new free e-magazine about book arts, hand bookbinding, book history and lots more. Via niblog. 9:01:18 AM   Designer's Tools | |

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Saturdays are useless. I hate them all. 7:16:39 PM   Basil Says | |

Sweet. Furniture design, again by the fabulous duo Leblon-Delienne. 7:15:30 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Blogs and Such. All about nothing, a blog by the German artist Karl Leiter. Fab. 7:05:10 PM   Blogs | |

Friday, August 19, 2005

Stupid Fridays. Fridays are sooo 20th Century. 5:58:40 PM   Basil Says | |

Liebe GGK. Söhnlein ad from 1969. With many, many thanks to Stefan Scheer. 4:04:56 PM   Liebe GGK | |

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Oh, those Thursdays. Did I tell you that I never really liked Thursdays? 6:29:48 PM   Basil Says | |

Learn How to Draw. With Äugel. What a bizarre book. I wish Peter had published more pages, it seems to be fab. Museum Museorum, thanks! 6:27:40 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Shrouded in Mystery. What's going on here or there? 6:00:46 PM   This & That | |

Michel Vaillant. A fab sculpture by Studio Leblon Delienne. 5:14:30 PM   Cult | |

Le Monde de Franquin. Fantastic gallery of André Franquin's quirky inventions. I'd love to have the big Zorglumobile. And here's another gallery: Expo Franquin. 5:01:55 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

And those Wednesdays. Wednesdays are mostly terrible. 7:14:33 PM   Basil Says | |

How Droll. Japanese dolls on the western toyshelf. Ads, books, postcards, pictures - the whole lot. Fab. 7:11:11 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Busch. At Jochen Schöpflin's Wilhem Busch Seiten. 6:21:01 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Phew. Transferring a 200MB file onto an iDisk can be a very exhausting experience. 6:11:12 PM   This & That | |

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tuesdays are even worse than Mondays. 7:37:59 PM   Basil Says | |

Monday, August 15, 2005

I hate Mondays. My bones are always dry on Mondays. 7:52:54 PM   Basil Says | |

Urzeitkrebse. Das neue Yps. Mit Gimmick. 6:21:25 PM   Literature | |

Ukraine (2005). The photography of Donald Weber. 5:02:58 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Weiss nicht. Frag was anderes [MP3, 3.2 MB] 4:47:13 PM   MP3 | |

Sunday. I still find it irritating when the girl behind the till of my local SPAR supermarket calls me 'Love' or 'Darling'. 2:18:47 PM   London | |

The Advertisement. Scanned by request of a certain regular reader of this weblog. 9:45:44 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Never, ever write a blog entry about Heinrich Lübke. You're in for trouble. 9:17:59 PM   Basil Says | |

And this is even Funnier. Heinrich Lübke. Sauerland ist überall. Thanks to a comment by Armin over at IT&W. 4:21:25 PM   Cult | |

The Colors. The hairstyles. The clothing. The airplane book. Via PCL. 1:49:14 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Still in Use. Ernst Klett Verlag 1967, erste Auflage. 8:31:44 AM   Literature | |

Friday, August 12, 2005

Those modern telephone handsets can be very confusing. 11:50:19 PM   Basil Says | |

Technorati, bah, Humbug. What's the point? It just doesn't work. I think I'll remove all those stupid technorati macros from my website anyway. 11:44:47 PM   Blogs | |

The Advertisement. 9:54:04 PM   Art & Advertising | |

A Great Writer. George Parker's (of Adscam) portfolio. Great ads. Just great. And check out the 'Classics' section, there's some nice Hasselblad stuff there. Jan, are you listening? :-) 9:31:18 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Yours in Suspense - Part 2. Hint number 2: the colour is yellow. 3:43:01 PM   Cult | |

Via Snailmail. Stuff something into an envelope, send it off to Wieden & Kennedy London and you can win 3 months' work at W+K. Mind you, I have a rather nice idea of what to put in that envelope, but I doubt we'll come to terms regarding my salary. 12:26:10 PM   Art & Advertising, London | |

Glasgow Views. 37 photographs: View Of Glasgow And The Clyde (including views of the exhibition). Published by John Crawford, Glasgow, ca. 1911. 12:14:30 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Moved. Russell Schwager's fantastic Enigma Machine has moved to this location. Russell, thanks! 11:56:45 AM   This & That | |

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Yours in Suspense - Part 1. The shape of things to come. 10:08:48 PM   Blogs | |

Basil Says. Whatever you do, make sure you're wearing goggles. It's always safer. 6:53:27 PM   Basil Says | |

Roper [54]. 4:34:27 PM   Short Stories | |

Tidied Up. Nice. Wonder what twoblog is going to say to this. In clockwise direction, starting at 12 o'clock: Two Zettelkästchen with a plastic dinosaur glued to the top one. A desk lamp from Ikea. An eMac. An Arumbaya fetish in full size. An obsolete Zip drive. An external 80GB hard drive from VST. A Microsoft mouse on top of a Thunderbirds mousemat, showing Lady Penelope. An Apple keyboard. A Samsung mobile phone. A Filofax. An Epson scanner, with unpaid bills and a German Reader's Digest from 1956 on top. A Panasonic telephone. Update: twoblog has posted a new desk picture. Makes me jealous. 12:56:07 PM   This & That | |

Literature, found in a Box. Definitely not politically correct these days. 11:54:48 AM   Comics, out of a box | |

Heroes of German Television. Lou van Burg. 11:44:02 AM   This & That | |

This is Life. An animation. Via autofab. 7:42:43 AM   This & That | |

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Photo, found in a Box. The Cartoonist, modelling aboard the Cap San Diego. Photo by Felix Lammers. 10:42:48 PM   Found in a Box | |

Cat Content. At Katzenbild. By my mate Wolfgang. Order his posters and make him rich. 10:22:33 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

The Advertisement. Oh my goodness me - the 'ß', a lowercase letter, within capitals, this is awful and just wrong, wrong, wrong. I hope both the art director and copywriter were punished severely for this. But they probably weren't. My thanks go out to Jan, who was so kind mailing the ad. 11:20:59 PM   Art & Advertising | |

If you want to register an Internet Domain, be quick. 10:43:24 PM   Basil Says | |

Paintings by Wolf. Here are some bikes for you. And visit Wolf's website. 9:32:56 AM   Paintings by Wolf | |

The Problems of a Lord. Two interesting articles about Lord Saatchi's involvement, or actually non-involvement in the ad campaign for the tory party. Photo from BBC. 8:02:18