The Cartoonist

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

When you want to sleep, don't count sheep. Count Basil. 10:43:23 PM   Basil Says | |

Spam Dildo. The things I find in my mailbox ... sigh. Good to know it's dishwasher safe. Unfortunately I haven't got one. A dishwasher, I mean. Hold on! Recommended by doctors??? What kind of doctors? 5:59:16 PM   This & That | |

Great (2). The Strenco Toy Company. Many thanks to Peter for the link. 8:05:09 AM   This & That | |

Great. A Raumpatrouille Frappr Group. Picture by moi. 7:55:14 AM   Blogs, Orion Pics | |

Monday, November 28, 2005

This Must be a Joke. From Ken Livingstone's new propaganda pamphlet 'London Loop, the new magazine for Tube and Bus users'. 10:13:19 PM   London | |

Literature, found in a Box. Good old Mr Robeson. BTW, more cover art by George Gross (is that his real name?) can be found at Vintage Paperbacks. 4:13:02 PM   Literature | |

At Last. Nowhere Man, finally out on DVD. The best Prisoner 'Remake' ever. 9:37:05 AM   Cult | |

Sunday, November 27, 2005

This Photograph is not a Photograph. The 3D-art of Christopher Schantz. 12:12:10 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Virtual Worlds. Eric Wenger's fantastic ArtMatic Voyager. Thanks to Reimund for pointing this out. 8:00:46 AM   This & That | |

Friday, November 25, 2005

The Advertisement. Believe it or not, but this ad was for a toothpaste. 6:48:53 PM   Old Ads | |

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Leck mich. Oh, what a wonderful video. 9:07:37 PM   This & That | |

Garlic can also be useful for other purposes. 8:29:56 PM   Basil Says | |

Ah. The uncensored microfilms of Project Blue Book. When Project Blue Book was closed down in January 1970, the original files were transferred to Maxwell AFB where they were made available on request for public viewing until 1975. In 1975 these documents were microfilmed by the Air Force for internal use and then transferred to the National Archives for public release. Before microfilming these documents for public release, however, the Air Force blacked out witness names and other personal information in accord with its policy of protecting the privacy of witnesses despite the fact that the files had been available for copying and inspection for years without these deletions. In 1998 a set of the original unredacted Air Force microfilm was discovered at the National Archives. In addition to witness names and information, it has been confirmed that these rolls contain some pages that are not on the NARA rolls. 8:20:28 PM   This & That | |

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Some More Really Bad Covers. At Coverscans. 6:40:27 PM   Literature | |

The World's Worst Book Cover. Can be found on Harry Harrison's official website. 6:06:29 PM   Literature | |

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Just think of the money. 10:39:44 PM   Basil Says | |

Do Not Disturb. Incredibly busy at the moment. See you later. 10:38:54 PM   This & That | |

Monday, November 21, 2005

Paintings by XXX. Where XXX stands for Wolf, or rather Wolfgang Sangmeister. He and a few other artists are exhibiting their work from 3rd of December onwards at the Hamburg gallery Feinkunst Krüger. 2:15:15 PM   Paintings by Wolf | |

More Arguments. What is going on? Is this a conspiracy of silly applications? The rise of the machines? A robot revolution? Many thanks to Frank for the screenshot. 7:47:25 AM   This & That | |

Faking It. A DIY guide to making your own UFO photos without the aid of Photoshop. 7:21:08 AM   This & That | |

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Ah. Life doesn't seem to be easy for the Adobe Acrobat application. Now is this a sign of artificial intelligence or rather stupidity? 2:35:07 PM   This & That | |

Lots of Noise. And a very strange guitar solo. The Velvet Underground live with I can't stand it [MP3], found at this fabulous place on the web. With thanks to paperholic. 7:34:00 AM   MP3 | |

Friday, November 18, 2005

Picture, found in a Box. The Cap San Diego photo shoot, part 2. Photo by Felix Lammers; The Cartoonist, unknown Model, Georg Roll. 7:52:42 PM   Found in a Box | |

From my Sketchbooks. The old Pentel Colour Brush. 2:28:39 PM   My Sketchbooks | |

Sometimes I Wonder. Is this ever going to be live? Or this? And no, I doubt there's a connection between the two. 2:11:29 PM   This & That | |

Literature, found in a Box. I still find this incredibly funny. A large and therefore legible version can be found here; sorry, it's all in German. Robert Gernhardt, Was gibt's denn da zu lachen? Haffmans Verlag AG Zürich, 1. — 6. Tausend, Herbst 1988. 2:06:06 PM   Literature | |

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Paintings by Wolf. Peace. By the way, Wolf has aked me to mention his real name here, and I'm happy to oblige: the name is Sangmeister, Wolfgang Sangmeister. So don't call him Schmitz, Müller or Lehmann. Please. 5:49:48 PM   Paintings by Wolf | |

Basil Says. I want to be George. 3:46:38 PM   Basil Says | |

A Story. After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapesth, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in colour as it leaves the banks, and across it may be seen in large straggling letters the word Sumpfe, meaning marshes. Algernon Blackwood, The Willows. 8:57:56 AM   Literature | |

If Anyone's Interested. I'm also posting at Feinripp now. Many thanks to Supatyp. 8:51:11 AM   Blogs | |

Yet another Spaceship Model. A cardboard model kit of a spaceship (Entdecker-Typ II - Saturn-Klasse) from the Perry Rhodan series. 8:21:03 AM   Cult | |

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

The Advertisement. Ah - an iCorder. Here's a larger version in case you actually want to read the copy. 7:50:09 AM   Old Ads | |

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Breaking News. No more elections in the UK. Via Rachel. 8:34:08 PM   London | |

When walking into town, watch out for pedestrians. 7:23:32 PM   Basil Says | |

Orion VIII - The Toy. Made by the German company Arnold in 1966. And if you've got about 450 Euros to spend for silly things like that, you may want to try your luck here. Oh, I want one of those. 6:41:14 PM   Orion Pics | |

Monday, November 14, 2005

I think I could find work as a scarecrow. 6:31:35 PM   Basil Says | |

Proper Art. Fab: a new weblog devoted to old Soviet and modern Russian animation. Via Hans Bacher. 6:00:57 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Autograph, found in a Box. Good old Ray. 2:58:45 PM   Cult | |

Disturbing. The art of Nicholas Roerich. Something about the scene reminded me of the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich, and of the still stranger and more disturbing descriptions of the evilly fabled plateau of Leng which occur in the dreaded Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred. 6:22:42 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Sunday, November 13, 2005

If you rub some grease onto your rib cage, you won't freeze when it's cold outside. You could also try WD-40 - it does the same trick. 5:40:20 PM   Basil Says | |

Paintings by Wolf. I have no idea what this is all about, but I like it. 9:30:42 AM   Paintings by Wolf | |

Saturday, November 12, 2005

The Brass-Band. Nice Cybermen gallery at the BBC. And a photo of a new Cyberman. 9:55:04 PM   Cult | |

Mars Attacks The Cartoonist. Lots of fun at Netdisaster. Many thanks to Frank for the link. 4:21:44 PM   This & That | |

Friday, November 11, 2005

Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight. The book about Butlin's holiday camps in the late 1960s and early 1970s. And the fantastic photographs by Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägele, and David Noble at the Stephen Daiter Gallery. Enjoyable. Butlin's Holiday Camps were conceived by Billy Butlin during a wet holiday week on Barry Island while locked out of his unwelcoming boarding house. He dreamt of a holiday centre for the great mass of working-class families, where they could have a good time irrespective of the British weather. And here: Butlins Memories, with loads of old materials - maps, photos, ads. 11:13:17 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Thursday, November 10, 2005

The Advertisement. 5:33:26 PM   Old Ads | |

C'était un Rendezvous. Now this is really fast. Via Coudal. On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive him at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris [...] Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. 7:51:53 AM   This & That | |

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Meet Helmut Krone. Right here. And get the book. 9:25:40 PM   Art & Advertising | |

English Cuisine. Annie Mole, Konstantin, Arno, Horst and myself met last night at Porters Restaurant in Covent Garden, where we had some actually quite nice English food and several beers. Here's a little Flickr set. 7:42:15 AM   London | |

Tuesday, November 8, 2005

Des Chapeaux. A weblog about hats. 6:30:59 AM   Blogs | |

Monday, November 7, 2005

Gallery. The art of Christoph Rehbein. 7:23:59 AM   Art & Advertising | |

Images. Hieronymus Bosch, Bilder [PDF, 10.6MB]. Francisco de Goya, Caprichos [PDF, 10.0MB]. Francisco de Goya, Desastres de la Guerra [PDF, 10.6MB]. Found while browsing the Arno-Schmidt-Referenzbibliothek. 7:05:27 AM   Literature | |

Saturday, November 5, 2005

Are We Not Men? The creative department of Foote Cone & Belding, Hamburg, in the late eighties. Did we ever do any serious work there? BTW, the chap in the middle is Wolf. 7:17:24 PM   Art & Advertising | |

Friday, November 4, 2005

A great Ad from GGK. Nowadays not quite politically correct: a little kid flogging booze, but this was 1966 — hey, peace, man. Anyway, this is excellent copywriting and the idea for the ad itself is quite funny — the Söhnlein company gives away a free bottle of its sparkling wine to families with 6 daughters, but without a son (Söhnlein). I just love it; advertising was still fun in 1966. 6:04:16 PM   Liebe GGK, Old Ads | |

Velvets. Lazy as I am, I'll just copy and paste Jim's entry here: Do you people have a curfew or anything like that? Does it matter what time you go home tonight? Do you have school tomorrow?... 'Cause we could do either one long set or we could do two sets, you know, which ever makes it easier for you.... One long one?... Okay, then this is going to go on for a while. So we should get used to each other. Obsessional on The Velvet Underground, album by album. Via Irregular Orbit. 7:00:21 AM   Cult | |

Thursday, November 3, 2005

This is reassuring. At least I'm not made in Hongkong. 9:50:47 PM   Basil Says | |

Deep Space. The Hubble Heritage Image Gallery. Via autofab. 7:05:37 AM   This & That | |

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Take That. Yet another incredible caricature by Wolf: Robbie Williams. 7:43:42 PM   Paintings by Wolf | |

Walk like an Egyptian. The Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research. Their download section comes with a Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus, remarkable and bizarre notes about Egypt by early travellers, coptic fonts, and of course the truly unique recording of the original silver trumpet from the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, who lived in the 14th century B.C. 7:22:21 AM   This & That | |

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

The Origins of Basil. So, Darwin was not right after all. You can actually buy skeletons in specialised skeleton shops; you don't even have to dig them up. See the full catalogue page here. What? I was bought in a shop??? 5:16:45 PM   Basil Says | |

The Advertisement. Ahhh ... 1966 ... 12:58:11 PM   Old Ads | |

Art, found in a Box. A Chris Scheuer original. I wonder what he's doing these days. 7:12:17 AM   Comics, out of a box | |