The Cartoonist

Saturday, December 21, 2002

Very funny. Singing horses. Flash alert, but hey... Schockwellenreiter ahoi! 4:42:20 PM     |

And here is a website about the 'Germanic Goddess': Nico. The picture on the left seems to have been photographed on a cemetery. Now that fits perfectly. 1:58:20 PM     |

Nico was like the atom bomb. Carey Tennis recalls a Velvet Underground concert in 1967. (MP3 + Real Media) Salon.com Audio | I was rearranged by the Velvet Underground in 1967 1:50:36 PM     |

The works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft are online at the H. P. Lovecraft Library in html and pdf format, while the H. P. Lovecraft Archive provides information about his life, his writings and basically everything about the author. 1:33:33 PM     |

Good reference page. Encyclopedia of the Self and Self-Knowledge: "Encyclopedia of the Self and Self-Knowledge" 1:18:55 PM     |

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Friday, December 20, 2002

Yes, but is it art? Of course it's not art, just something out of my sketchbooks! Oh, me poor torn soul... :-) 6:31:17 PM     |

Woohoo! Pubs to open 36 hours [This is London: London News] 6:16:13 PM     |

Do I have to walk now? Terror warning to Tube users [This is London: London News] 6:13:58 PM     |

Found this wonderful, amazing, fantastic, brilliant, great, unbelievable, incredible, beautiful site about Jules Verne: Andreas Fehrmann's Collection Jules Verne. The books. The movies. Themes. Links. Only drawback is, the site is entirely in German - but offers translation help via altavista World. Sigh... Quite a few of the old wood engraved illustrations can be found at Science Fiction Studies, XXV:2 (July1998):241-70. And what a weird name for a website is that?! 3:58:56 PM     |

Borgward. The homepage of lloyd-motors - lots of links, pictures and of course old ads and brochures. Choice of English, French and German. 12:34:22 PM     |

Step out in front. Here is the Isetta source: Everywhere you want to go with this goofy little car. Again, lots of old advertising materials. 12:16:42 PM     |

Small cars. At The Heinkel Club Germany you'll find everything about the 'Kabinenroller' as well as their old motor bikes along with technical datasheets and advertising materials. "The purpose of this club is the maintenance, reconstruction and care of the Heinkel Vehicles." 12:06:59 PM     |

Booooh! Great website about Haunted Places in the UK: "Find out about the places the ghosts haunt and why they haunt them. Read their tales of sadness, passion and hate." 11:53:52 AM     |

Thursday, December 19, 2002

More Science Fiction. Thunderbirds are go! This is a very, very, very extensive website dedicated to Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds. F.A.B.! 5:23:47 PM     |

Kugelraumer. Michael Fey has developed a 3D modelling/rendering technique to show us the intestines of spaceships of the famous German Perry Rhodan series. One can only wonder why they haven't been published within the series yet - so far I have seen nothing that comes even close to these amazing '3D-Blueprints'. Also on his site: A 'new' Orion and, of course, screenshots of the 'Eighth Episode', titled 'The Seeds of Evil'. Fantastic work. I'm jealous. 5:15:16 PM     |

Here in London quite a lot of companies are already switching to InDesign. See you later, Quark. OS 9: Alive Or Dead? : The bottom line is that it will cost Quark in the long run. (MacOPINION via MyAppleMenu) 9:09:46 AM     |

Indeed. Stuart Jeffries on traffic jams. If not, then you haven't driven in a British city. Can our blood pressure take it, asks Stuart Jeffries. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:03:44 AM     |

And because koewi.log has a wonderful entry about Tintin's cars, here's a link to a huge big Tintin website. The pages are in English and partly in French; a navigation bar is located at the bottom. 8:49:25 AM     |

An interesting email from Robert with an interesting link: GermanEnglish Words. "Welcome to GermanEnglishWords.com. This is a dictionary of some German words used in the English language (Germanisms), each with a literal or German meaning, English definition and sometimes actual sample sentence(s) from literature and the Internet." Found at Bananajoe's. 8:33:33 AM     |

Wednesday, December 18, 2002

At last a competitor to Suitcase? Font Reserve v3.1.1 : Applelinks.com via [MyAppleMenu] 2:42:13 PM     |

Trust me, I'm an art director. Puttnam lashes out at advertising industry. Guardian Unlimited Dec 18 2002 5:27AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 2:32:47 PM     |

Yeah, but that's the way they work. Ken Hirsch: "I really dislike the fact that all blogs are in reverse chronological order." [Scripting News] 2:27:51 PM     |

'The World's Largest Website on Carl Barks' says this website about itself. I'm not sure about that, but there's certainly a wealth of material. Available in Danish and English. 2:25:56 PM     |

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

And this is a website about industrial design from the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany as we say here in England. Fantastic website. Not quite Rams, but some of the products look very Gyro Gearloose inspired, like the hairdryer on the left. 8:14:52 PM     |

Rams. The Braun Industrial Design Collection lists quite a few of Dieter Rams' original Designs - click on the links at the left to view the pictures in pop-up windows. An interview with Dieter Rams can be found on this website, with video clips and some more pictures. "I can´t stand any ´isms´- nationalism, functionalism. There is no functionalism, just functions." - Dieter Rams I wish some web designers and programmers would memorise that and act accordingly... 7:47:39 PM     |

Rip-off Britain, Part 958: Fury at rail fare rises [This is London: London News] 10:00:06 AM     |

Talking about David Bailey - here's a loooong interview with the man himself, a gallery with really great photography and video clips: David Bailey : http://www.pdn-pix.com/legends/bailey/intro.shtml "Bailey, almost as well-known for who he's slept with as for who he's photographed, has lived a life most of us only read about in the tabloids. He cohabited with British '60s model sensation Jean Shrimpton, married sultry French actress Catherine Deneuve, and became best friends with Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger." 9:40:49 AM     |

Wow - it's the famous Box by David Bailey with portraits of Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, Twiggy, The Kray twins ... I wish I had one of those. Bailey photos auctioned [This is London: London News] "A box of photographs by fashion photographer David Bailey has been put up for sale." 8:51:33 AM     |

Finally found something about Belgium, Ikea and Belgian bureaucracy. (article is in German) Das Prinzip Couchgarnitur: Warum ein Belgier acht Jahre lang um ein Sofa klagte - Panorama - SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Und das in Belgien, wo man weiß: Schnell geht es nicht." 8:32:03 AM     |

Monday, December 16, 2002

One for tonight: Nice feature about Jackson Pollock, drinker and abstract expressionist painter. 9:15:32 PM     |

It's about time, isn't it? I've been waiting for that to come out for ages! BBC NEWS | Wales | Dictionary complete after 81 years: "What's got more than seven million words, 3000 pages and has taken 81 years to complete - it's quite a question and the answer is the definitive Welsh dictionary." 7:56:04 PM     |

I've been messing about with a little utility called BootCD over the weekend. It's fantastic. After about half an hour I had a fully bootable OS X CD, all together with some disk utilities - in case something goes wrong with my Mac. And it's free. "BootCD is a Cocoa app that creates a disk image that can be used to burn a Mac OS X boot CD with a working Finder and Dock on it. This utility is unfinished and still has some flaws, but works. The current version works much better than previous versions, and includes the ability to run Drive10 and other utilities, although Norton does not yet work from the CD." 1:41:51 PM     |

Radio Update: Radio UserLand : Radio 8.0.9b2 app for MacOS X available: "Radio 8.0.9b2 app for MacOS X available" "schock" 12:20:14 PM     |

More victorian. More robots. This is a website about robots of the victorian era - featuring Boilerplate, The Electric Man and others. 10:42:06 AM     |

You'll never know when you might need it. On-line Medical Dictionary "link" 10:07:33 AM     |

Robots! Have a look at robotnut's website. In his galleries are hundreds of old toy robots in all their glory. There's even a link to an Englishman who builds full size Dalek replicas, even if Daleks aren't robots. But that would be nitpicking... 9:55:52 AM     |

Sunday, December 15, 2002

Interesting. And also complicated: 6/2/02: How to create a directory in Radio's Outliner. [Scripting News] 11:44:54 PM     |

My weblog has been reviewed at the weblogreview and received a rating of 3.5. No idea if this is good or what. Probably just average. 5:05:52 PM     |

This is very funny: http://www.dubyadubyadubya.com/ (flash alert) 5:01:16 PM     |

Check out the City of Shadows - A Gothic Tour of Victorian London. Lots of pictures, text-excerpts and links. "To artists the fog is London's best friend. Not the black fog, but the other. For there are two distinct London fogs-the fog that chokes and blinds, and the fog that shrouds. The fog that enters into every corner of the house and coats all the metal work with a dark slime, and sets us coughing and rubbing our eyes-for that there is nothing to say. It brings with it too much dirt, too much unhealthiness, for any kind of welcome to be possible. "Hell is a city much like London," I quoted to myself in one of the worst of such fogs, as I groped by the railings of the Park in the Bayswater Road." 1:10:58 PM     |

Wow. 80's Flashback: JC Penny's 1980 Catalog (featuring George W. Bush?). I know this site's already been blogged elsewhere, but I saw it for the first time this week and it blew my mind. Kim at excitementmachine.org scanned the entire freaking 1980 JC Penney's catalog, and posted the images online here. One of them (left) features a male model who bears an uncanny resemblance to the current President of the United States. Via [Boing Boing Blog] 11:22:09 AM     |

This is just unbelievable. I mean, how difficult can it be just to carbonize an application? Quark Inc. Puts Monkey Wrench Into Mac OS X Migration Plans : One of the best characteristics of the new Apple is the ability to change direction quickly when market conditions dictate. (Mac Night Owl via MyAppleMenu) 11:19:52 AM     |