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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.
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 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 |
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 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.
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Friday, March 7, 2003 |
 Ancient Sites. Ah ... the Stone Circle of Avebury (right next to the Red Lion Pub, BTW). Silbury Hill. Stonehenge. Magickal, as Phil would put it. Archeology, as Kellerkind would put it. Great Pics, as I would put it. Check out The Modern Antiquarian."Since launching in March 2000ce, the site has grown to be a massive resource for news, information, images, folklore & weblinks on the ancient sites across the UK & Ireland, thanks to the remarkable efforts of all those who contribute."
11:52:39 PM |
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 SHRGRMFFGLBX! No date for return of Central Line [This is London: London News]Now this is great:
But London Underground did announce that one of the trains modified since the incident had successfully travelled the length of the line and back again in a strictly-supervised run. Wow. Progress. This is getting ridiculous. Am I living in East-Zbrwenzca or in London? Is this England, a European country or a Third World village? Am I living on Earth or on Zeta Reticuli? Well, I guess The Greys would have sorted that out in no time ...
11:20:34 PM |
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 MOMI. They're back; at least on the web. Fantastic. The Museum of the Moving Image opened in London in 1988 and was located at Southbank, right next to the Royal Albert Hall. Unfortunately they closed down in August 1999, but:This unofficial website revives the spirit of just one section of the museum, the Undercroft, featuring The Precursors of Cinema and Early Film. Very, very, very recommendable website. "link"
11:12:15 PM |
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 The Nightmare. Just back from that hellish trip Eurostar - Jubilee Line - Silverlink - Replacement Bus, standing in front of my house (dark, so nobody's in) and letting the key glide smartly into the lock - - nothing happens. Shock. Horror. I can't get in. Somebody - and I can imagine who - must have locked the door from the inside by pressing that black button and then shut the door from the outside.But thanks to my neighbour. He nursed me with tea and the Yellow Pages, and it took the Emergency Locksmith only two hours to get here. Mind you, my neighbour has to get up at 5 in the morning, he works at a market. We were not amused. Oh, and it was only a hundred quid to get the bloody door open. Am I fuming? Nah, not me. I'm merely biting into my keyboard. Of course I'm fuming.
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Sunday, March 2, 2003 |
"tube"Bye. Going back to Brussels tomorrow morning to produce some more new Eurotrash. See you next weekend.
10:19:34 PM |
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 Lupo? Shall we confuse the spambots a bit? Why not. Here we go: bobio@vcqowvl.com, uyslbnz@cxskzlaavvakjfd.pl, mrjyyhnyf@pomdrryh.biz, jcmztd@srkrg.dk, ojfhqgg@jjxxahfjnjmhkgfiwcij.com, aaiubk@cyfsowqvby.br, pmin@ysinsp.com, knmxn@yituxojdgvgmxrx.com, zocia@szflntfyfpvzrcb.ru, iypr@vcgvcvgh.com, jwzjfluys@btpjrkfucngotw.edu, nsn@vnfwgwma.tv, tnnfjxyz@ewlqboeswp.com, edoznnw@opceavftruawxolt.ru, ggwzb@klqcssttncfbdaycayhi.de, rrd@aenjuqdcgzuv.ch, jnm@ciuebpztpgodflgbjp.edu, xkqtvguq@ryxzq.ca, qhce@cmgnagdpg.st, hoygyuurq@lsnmek.eu
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How interesting. I found this article - it's actually a series of 3 articles - through Quarsan's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. BTW, is there a way of getting rid of a Prime Minister? Is there something like 'impeachment' here in the UK? Of nuclear weapons capability, Ritter says: "When I left Iraq in 1998... the infrastructure and facilities had been 100% eliminated. There's no doubt about that. All of their instruments and facilities had been destroyed. The weapons design facility had been destroyed. The production equipment had been hunted down and destroyed. And we had in place means to monitor - both from vehicles and from the air - the gamma rays that accompany attempts to enrich uranium or plutonium. We never found anything." One might think that this would be vital information for interviewers like Paxman now when Blair, Straw and co are declaring war regrettably essential to enforce Iraqi disarmament. Instead, these central facts have been simply ignored by our media - as far as the public is concerned Iraq did not cooperate between 1991 and 1998. In a recent Panorama documentary, for example, Jane Corbin said merely of the 1991-98 Unscom inspectors, "their mission ended before they completed their task". This is a good example of how institutionalised media corruption means that power is freed to manipulate the public to suit whatever cynical ends it chooses. This is the secret of elite control in an ostensibly 'democratic' society - the media are central to the task. Blair is referring to people like Ritter when he says "they came back to the United Nations and said we can't carry out the work as inspectors". This is what Ritter actually says: "If this were argued in a court of law, the weight of evidence would go the other way. Iraq has in fact demonstrated over and over a willingness to cooperate with weapons inspectors."
12:22:56 PM |
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 And so it goes. Check out Back to Iraq.Turkey says no to U.S. deployment ? Is this the start of real democracy in Turkey?
In the span of a few minutes this morning, the Turkish parliament approved the deployment of 62,000 U.S. troops, 255 warplanes and 65 helicopters in a squeaker vote (264 to 250 with 19 abstentions) only to have the vote nullified a few moments later by speaker of parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc because a majority of legislators present had not voted in favor. He then shut down the parliament until Tuesday.
2:57:12 AM |
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 Old Ads. As an Art Director I've actually worked for Colgate-Palmolive, desperately trying to make their soaps more shiny and their toothpaste more white.Here are some very old Colgate Ads. And there's even more old stuff at DRM'S Enterprises: Advertising Media, Political Articles, Pinups ... And guess what - I found it all via another obscure weblog - Serner's Random Items,which is just great. Fab. Sifry, carry on with your wonderful and silly research. The World surely needs this and is just waiting for your 'scientific research'. Have fun.
2:07:26 AM |
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German. A very text-heavy website about 
Things. I know: this actually belongs to 
They always come back. Good grief. 
Email: 
Aw Dear! (Queen's English please) This is gross. 
Creative. Found 
More scary dolls. This is a link to an exhibition I received from a comment to the entry about the 
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 
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 
Classic. The largest set of 
Good News. Our Bloggermeeting in Brussels was a successful one! 
Currencies. I know, I've blogged this 
HeHeHe ... The odd case of 
Chroma's Fault. Before I depart for another week's work in Brussels (Eurostar tomorrow morning, leaving Waterloo @ 10:27), here's another Raumpatrouille picture. Nice.
Creepy. This must be the most scary doll I've ever seen. 
Hic. When I don't draw stupid cartoons or maintain a stupid and obscure weblog, then I'm usually - no, not drunk, but - booked by an ad agency to work for them as an art director. Now here's the art director's dream: Every single 
Radio, radio. Fab website about 
TVOD. I know, this is a song by a chap who called himself The Normal, back in the good old days when everybody who dressed in black and wore safety pins was a good guy, but this is a really nice collection of 
The black stuff. The