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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

659 Pages Wild West. Tag Gallagher has not only updated and re-written his monumental book John Ford: The man and his films, he's also made it available as a free download [Rapidshare link, 19 MB]. All I can say is: download. And read. It's fab. Via The Crime in your Coffee / via Kino Slang.

Tag estimates it is roughly 40% new material, large and small changes, and all the frame enlargements are new. The latter detail is saying quite a lot considering Gallagher is an artist with still frames and their placement.

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8:09:28 AM   Cult, Literature | |   
  

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Graveyard. The UK graves index, a photographic tour of some of England's graveyards, cemeteries and other places of burial. Fabulous; in particular the photos of ancient and derelict graveyards.

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2:15:48 PM   This & That | |   
  

Monday, October 29, 2007

One for Basil. A gingerbread man.

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1:25:42 PM   This & That | |   
  

Anneliese Kretschmer. Portraits der 20er-60er Jahre. At Galerie Priska Pasquer.

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12:17:06 PM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Zoom in on Jesus. Da Vinci's last supper at 16 billion pixels.

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7:30:18 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Saturday, October 27, 2007

The Advertisement. Schnellschußgrafiker. Lichtpausfähig. Nicht toxisch. The person who did the typesetting must have been on either magic mushrooms or he/she simply inhaled way too much of those well-known magic marker fumes. The art director simply deserves to be shot. Oh, and the copywriter... From my flickr set.

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4:42:04 PM   Old Ads | |   
  

Fantastic. A model of Scrooge McDuck's money bin. Via linkfilter.

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9:01:48 AM   This & That | |   
  

For the discerning Viewer. Waste a few hours and watch some good movies, like Atom Age Vampire, Vengeance Valley or the extraordinary The Incredible Petrified World. At b movies.

Here you'll find hundreds of movies that have been lost in the wasteland of forgotten cinema. No sign-up or log-in needed, just hours and hours of B.

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8:48:48 AM   Cult | |   
  

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Ferropolis. The iron town. Located near Dessau in Germany, it's part theme park, part museum, and has lots of huge industrial machinery. And I mean huge. Via Pruned / via things.

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The Big Wheel. Photo by Christiane Eisler.

12:36:35 PM   This & That | |   
  

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Pedestrian Crossings. A history.

The day-to-day grumblings of the people who had to use them and the people who had to design them are amusing enough on their own, but the biggest joke is that, for whatever reason, the Men from the Ministry just couldn't come to terms with the idea that it could all be as simple as red, amber and green traffic lights.

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4:44:27 PM   London | |   
  

Modest Countryside Housing. Two great books:

The manor houses of England; illustrated by Sydney R. Jones (1910)
Modern homes, selected examples of dwelling houses, described and illustrated by T. Raffles Davison (1909)

The illustrations are amazing.

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8:52:30 AM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |   
  

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Basil Says. A picture named basil.jpgWhenever driving by car, always avoid accidents.
5:51:46 PM   Basil Says | |   
  

A Scientific Paper. Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies. Many thanks to Armin Mohren for the link.

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5:50:30 PM   This & That | |   
  

Rhodan Obsessive. Original covers. Amended covers. New covers. Different layouts. Interior illustrations. Posters. Double page spreads. Comics. Paperbacks. Perry Rhodan — Besonderheiten für Sammler, Fans, Liebhaber. I actually quite enjoy this website.

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8:20:05 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Monday, October 22, 2007

Dortmund in the Sixties. A collection of postcards.

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12:42:11 PM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

FilmKunstGrafik. An exhibition.

Die Verleihunternehmen "Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner" (seit 1953) und "Atlas Film" (seit 1960) setzen sich zum Ziel, die junge Bundesrepublik mit anspruchsvollen Filmen zu versorgen. Werke von Ulrich Schamoni oder François Truffaut werden erstaufgeführt, Klassiker wie Goldrausch, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari oder Zwölf Uhr mittags erneut in die Kinos gebracht.
Revolutionär sind die Werbekampagnen der ambitionierten Verleiher: Zu jedem Film entsteht ein grafisches Gesamtkonzept, das Filmplakat, Begleitheft, Vorspann und Trailer einschließt. Die Grafiker-Elite dieser Zeit übernimmt die Gestaltung, darunter Karl Oskar Blase, Heinz Edelmann, Fritz und Dorothea Fischer- Nosbisch, Hans Hillmann, Jan Lenica, Isolde Monson-Baumgart und Gunter Rambow. Ihnen wird vollkommene künstlerische Freiheit gewährt, ein Novum in der deutschen Filmwerbung. Die moderne Grafik wird bald zum Markenzeichen der Verleihfirmen und findet internationale Anerkennung.

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Hans Hillmann/FilmKunstGrafik

12:09:10 PM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Learning English. The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster, c.1800.

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11:50:57 AM   Literature | |   
  

Friday, October 19, 2007

Do Not. A picture named holdon.gifOrder this. Because it's horrible. I still might have a few of those in the loft somewhere, and I'll check tomorrow and burn them. Blogging continues, sort of. You can order everything else from there though.
6:33:45 PM   My Sketchbooks | |   
  

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Extremely Busy. A picture named fast.gifNo more blogging before the weekend. Listen to my Wire podcast instead.
7:06:59 PM   MP3, This & That | |   
  

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Basil Says. A picture named basil.jpgWhen you happen to be at the South Pole, always wear warm clothing.
9:15:13 PM   Basil Says | |   
  

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

German Movie Posters. East and West, from 1949 up to 1998.

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8:04:10 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A Cartoonist Exclusive. Wire: Read & Burn 03. An Interview with Colin Newman. The Cartoonist Talks.jpgAll of a sudden, Wire is back; its next release is called Read & Burn 03 and it will be available to the public from 12th November onwards via posteverything.com or from your favourite record shop 'round the corner.

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Photo: Fergus Kelly

Read & Burn 03: a new record by Wire. Those 4 songs are amazing. Totally different from the Send material, the songs develop more towards some kind of "Art-Pop-Rock", and this is Wire at its best. It's Pop, and it's not. Expect drones. Expect fuzzy guitars. Don't expect Send. Hey, it's Wire.

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I had the opportunity to talk to Colin Newman, the frontman of Wire, about the new release, about Wire and about the future of Wire. And for the first time ever you can listen right here to excerpts of the new material before the actual release on November 12; enjoy the music.

You can download the podcast here [25mins, 19MB]. Alternatively, if the link still works (iTunes can be incredibly funny at times), here's the direct link to iTunes.

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Photo: Marius Hansen

From Wire's press release:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Read & Burn 03 — the latest in Wire's series of 'research and development' vehicles — will be delivered to an unsuspecting world's door on November 12, 2007.

With a running time of over 25 minutes, Read & Burn 03 is a substantial chunk of audio and offers significant signposting in the third reactivation of Wire as a recording entity.

Having spent the four-and-a-half years since the May 2003 release of Send, their last full length studio album, consolidating and reappraising their back catalogue (by means of CD and DVD releases and re-releases of their '70s material) and for the most part remaining out of the public eye, Wire have nonetheless not been creatively idle. Although drawing on a resource pool of material developed over the entire post-Send period, Read & Burn 03 benefits substantially from a concentrated creative effort and newly defined aesthetic sense developed since mid-2006. Wire, ever multi-layered, ever redefined, is evolving yet again. No greater indication of the seismic shift in Wire's intentions can be given than the very fact that the first track on the band's first utterance for almost five years is nearly 10 minutes long!

Wire: Read & Burn 03 - Pinkflag pf16
23 Years Too Late (09:46)
Our Time (04:33)
No Warning Given (05:25)
Desert Diving (05:30)

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Photo: Annette Green

Apart from that, there's not much left to say. Just listen to my podcast with Colin Newman.

Links:
Posteverything - order Read & Burn right there
The Wire Website
The Wire Mailing List
Wire @ Wikipedia
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9:12:07 PM   Cult, MP3, The Cartoonist Talks | |   
  

The Unexplained Explained. Trek History — Behind the Scenes Restoration. Absolutely amazing. Via Eye of the Goof/Mike Lynch.

The goal for this web page is to create a repository of restored images showing the production aspects of the original Star Trek series. This would include out takes, deleted scenes, close-ups of props, effects scenes and publicity photos.

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11:37:10 AM   Cult | |   
  

Friday, October 12, 2007

How to build an Eiffel Tower. Great entry at the píndoles weblog with construction plans and lots of photos. I am amazed.

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8:15:37 AM   Art & Advertising, Blogs | |   
  

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Retro-Futurismus. Marc has found a fabulous website.

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4:08:13 PM   Art & Advertising, Cult | |   
  

The Advertisement. 

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11:31:31 AM   Old Ads | |   
  

Ah. Michael Fey has revamped his website. Fabulous new Perry Rhodan work and more, just brilliant.

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10:26:59 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Glassworks. 

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6:25:15 PM   London | |   
  

I'm a Designer, get me out of here. Well, almost. Here's a speech with some interesting thoughts by Ben Terrett.

In the FTSE 100 38% of CEO's have an accounting background, 23% sales 18% general management (whatever that means) 0% have design backgrounds.
I want people with design backgrounds to be CEO's and CFO's and CMO's and town planners and air traffic controllers and European Commissioners.

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8:04:07 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Basil Says. A picture named basil.jpgWhen you happen to fall into a swamp, simply stay calm.
4:45:58 PM   Basil Says | |   
  

A, B, C. Old children's books. Many thanks to Peter Zillig for the link.

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8:27:56 AM   Literature | |   
  

Monday, October 8, 2007

Tsk. I really didn't know he's got a website.

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1:17:56 PM   Cult | |   
  

Craig Murray. A picture named face1.jpgIs back online. More on Bloggerheads.

And here we go again...
10:15:53 AM   London | |   
  

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Photography and other zeugs. Jan Rocho's fab new weblog: Konsum.

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6:41:28 PM   Art & Advertising, Blogs | |   
  

In Case Anyone's Interested. A picture named head.gifBecause Konstantin is off to Scotland for the next 2, 3, or maybe 47 weeks, I'm now in charge of his weblog and have just published my first entry over there. Enjoy.
6:10:34 PM   Blogs, London | |   
  

Friday, October 5, 2007

In Between. Grad eben auf BRα eine Tagesschau vom 5.10.1977 geschaut. Mit darunter ein Bericht des damaligen Star-Journalisten Ernst-Dieter Lueg. Dabei fiel mir ein, daß Herbert Wehner den immer respektlos als "Herr Lüg" angeredet hat. Damals.

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11:08:05 PM   This & That | |   
  

Basil Says. A picture named basil_wear.jpgBeing a skeleton means I don't have any hair growing out of my ears.
2:25:53 PM   Basil Says | |   
  

More Kohlenpott. Industriephotographie. Via Hebig.

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12:33:53 PM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Rest in Peace. Good old Hörde.

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8:57:54 AM   Blogs | |   
  

Grandfather's Girls. A photo book. Via PCL.

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8:17:57 AM   This & That | |   
  

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

My Boyfriend is a Twat. The book's out now, and here is a BBC Five Live podcast with Zoe and Andy (towards the end). And thanks for the plug!

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12:40:30 PM   Blogs, Literature | |   
  

The Cartoonist Recommends. Michael Palin and Terry Jones in Ripping Yarns. On YouTube.

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12:10:46 PM   Cult | |   
  

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Raumpatrouille 1966. Sometimes Web 2.0 can be really great. This little video was done very quickly with the help of Animoto. The Rock'n Roll version of the title track is by Spy vs Spy.


6:17:23 PM   Cult, Orion Pics | |   
  

The Advertisement. 

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11:12:34 AM   Old Ads | |   
  

Cities and Towns. A few photos from the enormous Charles W. Cushman Collection [Cities and Towns]. Via things.

Charles Weever Cushman, amateur photographer and Indiana University alumnus, bequeathed approximately 14,500 Kodachrome color slides to his alma mater. The photographs in this collection bridge a thirty-two year span from 1938 to 1969, during which time he extensively documented the United States as well as other countries.

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10:25:03 AM   Art & Advertising | |   
  

Monday, October 1, 2007

Basil Says. A picture named basil.jpgWhat would Walter Sickert say?
4:59:59 PM   Basil Says | |   
  

High Tide in Richmond. 

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11:18:41 AM   London | |   
  

German Efficiency. Zeno.org (The largest online library in German-speaking areas) has launched and it seems to be fantastic. Encyclopaedias, literature, art - it's all there. Mind you, the server seems to be a little bit slow at times.

Zeno.org ist die größte Online-Bibliothek im deutschen Sprachraum. Ihr Inhalt reicht über viele Wissensbereiche. Zeno.org präsentiert eine viele Epochen und Kulturen umspannende Sammlung literarischer Texte und eine Fülle von hochberühmten Lexika, Handbüchern und Nachschlagewerken.

Zeno.org ist eine Bildersammlung mit mehr als 40.000 Gemälden, Zeichnungen und Grafiken.

Zeno.org ist eine Suchmaschine. Intelligente Suchmuster wie Schreibweisentoleranz, Arbeit mit Platzhaltern usw. und ein durchdachtes System von Kategorien sorgen für einen schnellen Weg zur gewünschten Information.

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8:30:44 AM   Literature | |   
  

Shackleton. There's a new London Sketch over at London Leben.

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7:46:19 AM   My Sketchbooks | |   
  



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