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Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
And now for some decent photography. Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective.From the 1940s through the 1970s, Philippe Halsman's sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the big picture magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life . His work also appeared in advertisements and publicity for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford. Photographers, amateur as well as professional, admired Halsman's stunning images. The fellow on the left is Bob Hope, btw.
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Socialist Design. From the German Propaganda Archive: the 30th anniversary of the GDR, celebrated in posters.Anniversaries were big events in the GDR. These posters come from material prepared for the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. The points they make are a good summary of the the GDR's general propaganda line: a youthful, peace-loving, hard-working state that was strongly supported by its citizens. Found at netbib.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
Scheuer. The homepage of the Austrian artist Chris Scheuer.And his Morgana comic strip is online here.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
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Monday, July 28, 2003 |
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Sunday, July 27, 2003 |
Fantastic. A Bravo-Starschnitt archive. It works like this: Bravo is a youth orientated magazine. In 1959 they introduced the so-called 'Starschnitt', a clever money making scheme devised by the publisher. Every week you found a spread or a single page with a lifesize body part of 'your' star in the magazine. After hundreds of weeks, your star was complete; you could then assemble the parts and pin Michael Landon, The Sweet or T. Rex on your wall. I believe they're still doing it today...Found at Kellerkind, who's just back from holiday.
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Saturday, July 26, 2003 |
Dead End. Batman versus - well, everything nasty. I know, it has been blogged to death, but this is the best (Film-) Batman ever. And the best Joker, played by Walter Koenig's (Chekov - Star Trek: The Original Series) son Andrew Koenig. You now have the option of a 48MB download or a full screen 160MB download. Guess it's your choice. And no spoilers here.Movie directed by Sandy Collora, featuring Clark Bartram as The Batman. Picture taken from the OSG Forum
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Belgian fun. Have a look at An A to Z of Belgium. Found at My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.Delhaize: A supermarket invented by the devil to torture his subjects. Offers every shopping frustration imaginable, from lack of baskets to severe aisle congestion. Home to the most spectacularly slow checkout queues in the universe. Horrid horrid place. July: The wettest month of the year in Belgium - a fact only really appreciated by anyone who has tried to block book a fixed hour on an outdoor tennis court for the whole summer season. Post Office: A building that is almost always closed. On the off chance that it is actually open, post office customers can expect the usual queueing problems and a severely incremental and erratic pricing system for overseas mail. This seems to be based on the mysterious Belgian "standard" envelope, an object carefully designed to ensure that any card purchased in a Belgian card shop will automatically fail to qualify as regular mail.
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Friday, July 25, 2003 |
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Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Nice little Popeye website with 'Olive's own page' and a special about J. Wellington Wimpy. Brilliant.Some selected Popeye strips are here.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
The streets of London. Wow. The guys down at The British Library must have been really busy. They've put about 670 of 1200 historical London maps of The Crace Collection online, zoomable and searchable. This is fantastic. Found at the Map Room.This is the essential guide to the development of the capital from the 16th to the 19th centuries, brought together by the Victorian designer, Frederick Crace.
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Hot Metal. A museum of old letterpresses at Briar Press. And ornaments to download. Nice.BRIAR PRESS is an educational and practical resource for the letterpress printer, the bibliophile, the enthusiast, and the curious.
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Flying Machines are at flyingmachines.org. Welcome to the Flying Machines web site. Before the Wright Brothers achieved the first successful heavier-than-air controlled flight on December 17, 1903, hundreds of women and men attempted to fly, in airships, gliders and aeroplanes, and many did go aloft in gas and hot-air balloons. This site documents a number of those pre-Wright attempts at heavier-than-air flight, as well as significant events and thoughts which contributed to the ultimate success of powered, heavier-than-air human flight.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
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Monday, July 21, 2003 |
The Smart Patrol. New old clips at The Bunker: Devo, Dead Kennedys with "Holiday in Cambodia', Comsat Angels, John Foxx and many more. Sad: Please note due to lack of web space / server limit they are only clips! (Approx 1 minute To 2 minutes maximum).Hopefully the clips will be changed every other month or so. If anyone out there ... ... can supply similiar clips of more esoteric groups (1970's Kraut Rock, Early C93, NWW, Death In June, This Heat, Early 4AD - Mass, Rema Rema & more!) via Mpeg, Divx, Video or Dvd please let me know , Thanks. (Not me of course - mail the guys at The Bunker.)
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So you're still on dial-up then? Or what? This is ridiculous. Who are those 'biggest firms'? Railtrack? NatWest? Then I'm not surprised. Idiots. E-mail abuses cost UK firms millions. Time wasters [The Register]This overuse, along with poorly written mails, can cost some companies up to £10,000 per person, per annum, senior staff at some of Britain's biggest firms told Emphasis. One FTSE 100 firm reported annual e-mail costs of £39 million.
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Sunday, July 20, 2003 |
Oi mate, you looking at my bird! A dictionary of London Slang. Fantastic.The English language contains a rich array of slang words and phrases. This can be particularly seen when examining the day to day language of the average Londoner. A great many London slang terms derive from the Cockney tradition and fall into the bracket of 'Rhyming Slang'. Other terms have been introduced by the influx of other cultures into the capital. The resulting mishmash has created what academics sometimes call 'Estuary English' (after the area of the Thames Estuary), although this term is used more to describe the accent used in the area.
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Saturday, July 19, 2003 |
Raumpatrouille. At last. A webpage about Raumpatrouille with at least a little bit of English text. And lots of pictures. Have fun.Mhm. The thing on the left of the screen looks a bit like the Quicktime icon?
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Lorem ipsum. Big archive of greek text, or Blindtext, as it is known in Germany. We advertising agents use it to simulate bodycopy in ads, because copywriters are usually lazy and the layout looks better anyway - nobody bothers to read the copy.They come in different flavours, German, English and even some Flemish copy is to be found there. Part 1, Part 2. Found at Usability Inside. Download the copy directly to your Quark or InDesign folder and win the next pitch!
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Fantastic. The art of Virgil Finlay. More here. Found at Dublog.Finlay's work was an immediate hit with the readers and the writers. Readers wrote in praising the illustrations. H.P. Lovecraft wrote him fan letters and even composed a poem about his art. Finlay was a fan of the genre as well as one of the most talented artists to enter the field. These combined to provide his work with a power and grace unknown in the pulps. The stippling, fine hatching and pebble board were all used in conjunction to give his images a texture and depth beyond anything ever seen in the field...
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Friday, July 18, 2003 |
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Sunday, July 13, 2003 |
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Saturday, July 12, 2003 |
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Test. Radio again ... Sorry about that.
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Just listening. Peter Thomas (the best composer after Beethoven) has thrown a new CD on the market. We can consider ourselves happy to be listening to 'Raumpatrouille - The Complete Music". The CD comes with a really great booklet packed with photos from the series and 10 'unreleased Extra Tracks'. Well, now I know why those tracks were previously unreleased - they're only for hardcore fans. But the booklet is great.This was your Cartoonist's CD recommendation for the week. Be happy. Update: Best bit is 'Enter the Crew'. That one's great. Really! Oh - you know where to buy CDs, don't you? At your nearest Record Shop. *NOT* at Amazon. Just my view of things - I like small dedicated shops.
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Dry Bones. Call me morbid, but I like it:The Sedlec Ossuary (a.k.a. Kostnice) is a small Christian chapel decorated with human bones. It's located in Sedlec, which is a suburb in the outskirts of the Czech town Kutna Hora. Found at Kosmonautentraum.
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The Art of the Makonde. The Makonde people live on the border of Mozambique and Tanzania; and the sculptures they create are truly bizarre. And fantastic.Have a look at Makonde-Art; at Makonde Carvings and visit the Makonde Museum.
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Quite English. Clifton, or Percy Pickwick as he is called in Germany, is a retired Secret Service agent. He lives in a detached house in Puddington, a cozy little village just outside of London, has a maid who does the cooking for him, has lots of cats and drives an old MG. And from time to time he gets dragged back into crime-solving.Everything about the famous comic book character is here. Text in Dutch and English.
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Friday, July 11, 2003 |
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Sunday, July 6, 2003 |
Belgium. I'm off to Brussels, next updates probably in about a week.Our second iChat try was at least partly successful - see the entry at IT&W. See ya!
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Well, Tony ... ? MI6 chief briefed BBC over Iraq arms fears. · Iran and Syria 'greater danger than Saddam' · Blair stakes reputation on row over weapons dossier [Guardian Unlimited]"This move will put him in direct conflict with Tony Blair, who dramatically upped the stakes last night by demanding a full retraction of the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, saying the charge against him was the gravest he had ever faced as Prime Minister."
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Hey-Ho, let's go. Dammit, it didn't work. Another try tomorrow. That's today, Sunday, just after the Grand Prix. iChat.
Die Zeiten ändern sich und so stimmt ein Satz nicht mehr: »Der Schockwellenreiter chattet nie!« In einer beispiellosen zweieinhalbstündigen Sitzung haben der Cartoonist, die "hochgeschätzten Bloggerkollegen" und der Schockwellenreiter in zweifacher Ausfertigung (und wir wurden auch noch kurz von WWK besucht) versucht, das neue iChatAV zu einer Audiokonferenz zu überreden. Es ist uns leider nicht gelungen. Wenn also jemand Tips oder Pointer hat... Morgen um 16:00 Uhr wollen wir es noch einmal probieren...
Aber Spaß hat's gemacht... [Der Schockwellenreiter We've just tried to get an Audio-iChat done. It didn't work. Any ideas out there? Is it the NAT? Techies, come on! But it was fun! Lots of fun actually.
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Saturday, July 5, 2003 |
Dear Friends, this is The Insekt speaking on behalf of The Cartoonist. He's very busy designing a website for his company, The Insekt Limited, where he wants to show off all of his Graphic Design stuff. Most probably there won't be any more updates on this weblog today or tomorrow. Only if you're very lucky.And it gets even better: From Monday on The Cartoonist will disappear to Brussels, where he's got some work to do. Proper advertising work. Next updates in a week's time.
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Friday, July 4, 2003 |
Drainspotting is a website with pictures of manhole covers, drains, grates and trench covers. I actually find it quite interesting.Mhm - this surely must have been blogged before somewhere? Anyway, just found the link at linkfilter.
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Images of England. Nice website by the photographer Ray Farrar."The aim of this site is to present various images of England as it is seen from the inside. It is intended to be both an online gallery for browsing and a source of royalty-free photo CDs. All the images are available to buy as high resolution files on CD suitable for quality publishing on a royalty-free basis."
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Diary of a War Artist. The diary of Edward Ardizzone at the Imperial War Museum London. Fascinating."Edward Ardizzone was working as an official war artist in North Africa when he heard that the invasion of Europe was imminent "I asked to be present at the landing... so I landed on a Sicilian beach with the Division on D-Day." That was in July 1943. From then on, he kept an illustrated diary ... "
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Thursday, July 3, 2003 |
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Wednesday, July 2, 2003 |
Trading Places. Fantastic online exhibit at The British Library about trading in 1600 and the foundation of the East India Company."Asia used to be known as "The East Indies". Pepper, spices, medicinal drugs, aromatic woods, perfumes and silks were rare commodities in Europe, and therefore valuable. Trading in them could make you a fortune. And for this chance many were willing to risk their lives."
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Tuesday, July 1, 2003 |
A cycling holiday 1953. Fantastic diary of a cycling holiday through France, Switzerland and Germany in 1953. Found at Schockwellenreiter. (Robert, did you design that site? The background reminds me of something...)"In 1953 Roy Jenkin, a 21 year-old student from Exeter, cycled around France, Switzerland and Germany with his schoolfriend Gordon Newbery. They covered 2,286 miles, slept in potting sheds, hay barns, and even a railway marshalling yard, and the whole trip cost them £24 15s. His diary and this website, describes the long-gone Europe of horse carts, cobbles and old fashioned hospitality, a continent which was still recovering from six years of war."
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The Agfers of Kodack. Fabulous website about anonymous female photographers. Again via linkfilter."Kodakgirl.com is dedicated to unrecognized and anonymous women photographers worldwide, past, present and future. We thank them for recording and thereby preserving images of ordinary people and their everyday lives over the past 150 years. Their pictures will be treasured by generations to come. Keep on clicking! "
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