Saturday, March 8, 2003

Robots. We Are Robots is hilarious. Have a look. Better than South Park. And now - tomorrow, actually - I'll have to do my tax return. And pay some bills. Probably no entries tomorrow...? Possibly. And then at 13:00 hrs back to Brussels. Good Night. 10:54:24 PM     |

German. A very text-heavy website about Die Frau in der Werbung (The Female in Advertising). Very interesting article, but the author tells us nothing really new. Quite amazing how easily you can get a degree in Germany today. But nice pictures of old ads. And thinking about it - the article isn't that bad really. 10:32:54 PM     |

Things. I know: this actually belongs to das kollektiv. But I'm sure kellerkind will forward it perhaps. The Collection of Daily Culture (Sammlung Alltagskultur 1) has some interesting stuff to offer. 8:14:24 PM     |

They always come back. Good grief. Robert found a website, and a rather extensive one, about Boomerangs. This website is HUGE and all in German, I'm afraid to say. Nevertheless, it's brilliant. Build your own? Have a look at the instructions. They come with pictures. Oh - I once was almost decapitated by a boomerang thrown by Andreas Lühmann while in Finnland. Just to let you know. 7:50:49 PM     |

Email: Nose. Funny. And the website behind it isn't bad either. 4:02:53 PM     |

Aw Dear! (Queen's English please) This is gross. Dress up Jesus. Via Reimund. 2:06:12 PM     |

Creative. Found the picture via koewi, who found it at gnurps. Those girls should be employed immediately by an ad agency. 1:33:38 PM     |

More scary dolls. This is a link to an exhibition I received from a comment to the entry about the scary doll. It's by Pit from the Künstlerhaus Dortmund and worth visiting: toysRus - Wilhelm Kreimeyer. Pit, thanks again for the fabulous link! 1:07:50 PM     |

Ghastly old German ads. This is certainly not GGK, in fact it looks like as if it's all been done by Markenwerbung International Hamburg (MWI - 'Machen Wir Ihnen'), before they became FCB. Whatever; this is a really nice gallery of historic German ads ranging from 1952 - 1972. 12:52:37 PM     |

More old advertising. Schweinebauchanzeigen. This is German and I'm not going to translate it. Anyway, at GGK (3 letters standing for Gerstner, Gredinger, Kutter - do a Google search for Gerstner, for example, or look up Michael Schirner), once the best ad agency in the world, we used to call all those small ads in newspapers 'Schweinebauch'. And J. Lilek has done it again: Old newsprint ads, from the 20's to the 60's, all rescued from microfiches. "The newspaper where I work has one copy of every paper it's published. One copy. It's on microfilm, and it's a fragile medium; half of the rolls are badly scratched, and the older ones are brittle. Most people consult them for the stories, but that's only half the joy. The real news of the day, as it pertains to the lives of the people who bought the papers, were the ads. When I'm looking at the microfilm and I see an ad I like, I hit PRINT. These are some of the old curious ads, rescued from the dark coils." 12:32:48 PM     |

Old Stuff. As you might have found out by now, I am not only an art director working (sometimes) in the advertising industry, but also a fan of old ads, when they were done 'by hand', meaning a T-square, a drawing board, some rubber mount, a scalpell and freelance illustrators and photographers. No computers. No Photoshop. No Quark. Honestly. Now go and have a look at EphemeraNow. Lots of old stuff there. 12:05:09 PM     |

US-Politics. Found two more weblogs about the rather sad state our world is in: The incredibly good History News Network, and the chaotic, but interesting Mahablog. 11:32:56 AM     |

Classic. The largest set of Monster Trading Cards of the 60s. Fun. Via Schockwellenreiter, via Uren.Dagen.Nachten. 10:54:10 AM     |