Thursday, September 25, 2003

Silver Screen. Brilliant. A website with nothing else but screenshots of movie titles. Just great. Via Mark's exclamation mark. Mark, where's your blog gone? What good is it? Whatever use you put it to. Browse and admire title and logo designs, check out movies that have completely different titles in different release prints (see Battle of Britain or The Premature Burial for good examples), check out the differences [...] 8:29:41 PM     |

SMS. Shit Must Stop. An online exhibit. Fantastic. Big thank you goes to Andrew. Lew Syken, the project's chief designer, remembers the SMS studios as a place where "it was impossible to anticipate what would happen next. On a given day, you never knew who would show up." It might be Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, Alain Jacquet, representing French Pop, Marcel Duchamp, or Richard Artschwager. Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, veterans of Surrealism and Dada, contributed to SMS. There were many others, some as renowned as Christo, Claes Oldenburg, and John Cage, others known only as the authors of works included in one of SMS's six portfolios. Like an astronomer's time-lapse photograph, SMS caught many bright and familiar stars. It also registered the presence of the most elusive comets. 6:33:12 PM     |

Blockbuster. A biased history of UK Glam Rock. Groovy. 1:27:53 PM     |

More Expo. I just came across a website featuring Brussels Expo 58 beermats only. Mhm. 8:55:26 AM     |

I never met a kid I liked. The W. C. Fields Fan Club. And here are some famous quotes. 8:36:42 AM     |

1958. The Exhibition is a wonderful website about the World Expo 1958 in Brussels with a wealth of materials. Pretty amazing. 8:26:31 AM     |

Oh, bugger off. Who cares about chatrooms anyway? Ridiculous. Close them, shut them down, open them up, shut them down again, let's Microsoft stop producing software, because you can always download some paedophile porn from somewhere and you can always get in touch with little girls and boys via AIM, SMS and whatnot. Mercedes should stop producing cars because they can cause accidents. I should stop writing and drawing because people might be offended. The Earth should stop rotating because people are dying on this planet. Actually, why don't we just shut down the Internet? Now that might be a good idea. All crime and porn will just vanish. No more paedophiles, no more terror attacks, no more drugs, no more cartoonists. Brilliant. Chatroom closures 'irresponsible'. Microsoft's move to shut down its UK chatrooms in effort to protect children from paedophiles criticised by rivals as 'reckless' and 'irresponsible'. [Guardian Unlimited] Now that was a good rant. See you tomorrow. 12:28:43 AM     |