Friday, April 23, 2004

Impossible to Navigate. The website of Dutch Comic Book Artist Joost Swarte. 5:55:35 PM     |

Black Letters. Fonts, all Gothic. Lots of them. By Dieter Steffmann. Via Coudal. 5:43:27 PM     |

Storm. Don Lawrence. Storm. Trigan. He was such a good artist. More about him here. 5:30:53 PM     |

3D. Synagogues in Germany. A Virtual Reconstruction. Very interesting website. Via paperholic. Since 1995 synagogues that were destroyed by the Nazis in 1938 have been reconstructed on the computer in the Department CAD in Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The project stems from a student initiative in 1994, a year in which hostility towards foreigners and anti-Semitic commentaries noticeably increased. It was also the year of the arson attack on the synagogue in Lübeck. 2:02:07 PM     |

Moving Pictures. The Origins of American Animation. Fab. The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921. The films include clay, puppet, and cut-out animation, as well as pen drawings. They point to a connection between newspaper comic strips and early animated films, as represented by Keeping Up With the Joneses, Krazy Kat, and The Katzenjammer Kids. As well as showing the development of animation, these films also reveal the social attitudes of early twentieth-century America. 7:51:48 AM     |