Saturday, October 4, 2003

Technology. Industrial Art Gallery by Sean M. Burke. Again via pennydreadful, via Shitfit. Some illustrations are spare abstract designs, like a modern art mobile or a circuit board. Other illustrations are as lavish and intense as a thousand yards of bright paisley fabric. Sometimes the illustrators seemed to show off how easy they could make it all look; and sometimes they seemed to lose themselves in the busy task of making something perfect but human. My suggestion to you is simply flip thru these pictures, pause on ones that you like, and remember that they each took a few hours to draw so that they could end up so clear and fascinating. 11:54:42 PM     |

Computers. I always wanted one of those. A Commodore PET 2001. Because you could play 'Lunar Lander' on this machine. I never got it, it was too expensive; my first computer was a Dragon 32, years later (Wow! A Centronics parallel-printer port! Well, printers were actually unaffordable in the 80s.). I had to key in the code to get Lunar Lander running. In BASIC. And then save it to a Compact Cassette. Those were the times. Here's the Old Computers Museum. 4:50:32 PM     |

Painting with Light. Jörn Rynio used to be my favourite still photographer when I worked in advertising in Hamburg. And he still is. 10:19:34 AM     |

Dry Bones. The Book of Skulls by William Max Miller. 10:10:55 AM     |

Grimm. Good grief. I didn't know about this. I really didn't know. Amazing. Tsk. Anyway, here it is - online, live and doesn't work in Safari (use Mozilla, Firebird or Camino instead): Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. Thanks to ASML and thanks for all of those links at Kaff auch Mare Crisium. Guys, this is great. Carry on. Please. 12:52:14 AM     |