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Monday, April 30, 2007 |
 When wearing surgeons' gloves, you minimise your chances of getting flu.
10:42:55 PM  Basil Says | |
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 |
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Friday, April 27, 2007 |
Those spammers are getting more and more inventive. This is almost art. Or perhaps it is.
10:02:22 PM This & That | |
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Alexander Spoerl, Der Panne an den Kragen. 100 Hilfen für Autofahrer, mit 41 technischen Zeichnungen von Paul Lang und 24 heiteren Illustrationen von Wolfgang de Haën. R. Piper & Co. Verlag, München 1962. Printed in Germany.This book was of great help when I was still fiddling around with my old Caterham 7. Honestly.    
8:49:22 PM Literature | |
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
The complete works. A few sample pages can be found at Slanted. Another one on my wish list. Many thanks to Axel for the link.Long-awaited first monograph on German graphic designer and educator Otl Aicher (1922-91), a key international figure in post-war design and a pioneer in the field of corporate identity and visual communication systems. Aicher is renowned for creating visual identities for dozens of major corporations, including Braun, BMW, Lufthansa and ERCO; for his design of the complete graphics programme for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games; and as the inventor of the popular typeface Rotis. Aicher influenced a generation of future designers in the 1950s and 60s at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), the school he helped to found in in Ulm, Germany; he also collaborated with British architect Norman Foster and counted numerous corporate CEOs as clients and friends.
7:40:55 PM Art & Advertising, Literature | |
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
 Always wear gloves when attempting to catch a falling star; never try with bare hands.
7:29:23 PM Basil Says | |
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I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which, on one hand, we all are able to relate to, and which on the other hand is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.
7:00:52 PM Art & Advertising | |
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...it is a highly idiosyncratic magnum opus by an Italian architect indulging his sense of fancy to the hilt. It consists of two volumes in a completely invented language (including the numbering system, which is itself rather esoteric), penned entirely by the author, accompanied by thousands of beautifully drawn colour pictures of the most fantastic scenes, machines, beasts, feasts, and so on. It purports to be a vast encyclopedia of a hypothetical land somewhat like the earth, with many creatures resembling people to various degrees, but many creatures of unheard-of bizarreness promenading throughout the countryside. Serafini has sections on physics, chemistry, mineralogy (including many drawings of elaborate gems), geography, botany, zoology, sociology, linguistics, technology, architecture, sports (of all sorts), clothing, and so on. The pictures have their own internal logic, but to our eyes they are filled with utter non sequiturs.
2:47:28 PM Art & Advertising, Literature | |
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 |
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Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
 This was fun. Franz is an old friend of mine and was a founding member and guitarist of Charley's Girls, who later became Mittagspause. In the late 70's he founded the Rondo record label (here's a link to the publications); these days he is busy working on various solo projects, most notably his Schwester Strahl series, a germanized version of the Velvets' Sister Ray. Which I find absolutely fabulous.
You can download the podcast here, or subscribe to my podcasts via iTunes. Since I'm slowly, but steadily running out of webspace, there's no m4a file this time, only the boring mp3. I'll insert the pictures that were supposed to go into the webcast simply here.
Franz Bielmeier, 1977. In the background Peter Hein.
Also, apologies to all my English, American etc. readers — this podcast is entirely in German, because it makes sense and there's nothing more stupid than two Germans talking in English to each other.
Oh, one more thing: Franz was so kind allowing me to upload one of his latest songs. So here's Invoc [MP3, 15MB]; 11 minutes of fantastic noise.And now enjoy.
The usual links:
Franz Bielmeier |
Mittagspause |
Verschwende deine Jugend |
Ratinger Hof
Franz Bielmeier today.
This podcast, The Cartoonist talks to Franz Bielmeier, ©2007 Ralf Zeigermann. All music ©1979-2007 by Mittagspause and Franz Bielmeier.
2:19:19 PM The Cartoonist Talks | |
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Friday, April 20, 2007 |
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
The Slingshot is the Great British Paper for Young Chaps. Its watchwords are Patriotism, Clean Living and Fair Play. With The Slingshot you can relive the golden days of Nation and Empire, when England never lost at Cricket, when a quarter of the world was under the British flag, when Britannia ruled the waves, and when all a Young Chap needed for contentment was a new penknife and a mastery of lighting fires and tying knots. Immerse yourself in the healthy, hearty pages of The Slingshot and you will soon understand why it is that the sun never goes down on the British without asking permission first.
9:22:51 PM This & That | |
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
 Service will resume later this week.
6:33:24 AM This & That | |
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Sunday, April 15, 2007 |
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Saturday, April 14, 2007 |
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Friday, April 13, 2007 |
10:21:41 PM MP3 | |
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
10:31:31 PM Cult | |
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
10:24:52 PM Cult | |
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 Be careful when eating anything at all. There could be worms inside.
7:03:48 PM Basil Says | |
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Monday, April 9, 2007 |
6:18:08 PM MP3 | |
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 Be careful when eating an egg. There could be a chick inside.
8:33:55 AM Basil Says | |
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Friday, April 6, 2007 |
This nice little card is from Arnfried Weiss in Hamburg. Arnfried, many thanks!
9:33:45 AM This & That | |
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Thursday, April 5, 2007 |
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Wednesday, April 4, 2007 |
Kraftwerk, Autobahn, an animation. Almost as good as Yellow Submarine.
9:32:01 AM Cult | |
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Monday, April 2, 2007 |
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Sunday, April 1, 2007 |
A Bat Radio? A Green Hornet Hat? A Stun Gun? Look no further — get all your gear at CY Productions.
10:55:50 PM Cult | |
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Walk on by.
Never mind your business.