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Saturday, May 24, 2003 |
 Paper. Just Paper. A History of the Paper Dress. Fantastic. And they're naughty. Mhm. Seems to be a black and white day today? Or grayscale? No colours in my pics?. Tsk. I'll have to do better. But I'm actually having a cold and being drugged with Lemsip, I can't be hold responsible for anything I'm doing right now. Anyway: "Paper dresses were all the rage in the Sixties as the industrialized world increasingly became a throw-away society. Disposable napkins, cutlery, handkerchiefs, lighters and diapers were already in use. Now you could get throw-away paper clothes, paper furniture, paint-it-yourself paper sheets, pillowcases, curtains, bedspreads, guest towels, tablecloths and rugs."
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Friday, May 23, 2003 |
 On the contrary. Here's another Guardian interview with a former Velvet Underground star, but this one seems to have drifted off into an entirely wrong and bizarre direction. Not a perfect day."So why won't you talk about them? "You're not going to leave off that, are you? OK, let's not do it. We're not getting along. OK. You want to ask questions. I told you I can't do it so I can't do it. Thanks a lot. So I'll see you." He's off." Well - they shouldn't send young, inexperienced people to interview the likes of Lou Reed. Your fault, Guardian.
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 Cale in London. Next week. John Cale is promoting his new EP and probably his new Biography written by Tim Mitchell next week at Borders, Oxford Street. If I don't have to work you'll find me there. Just shout: "Oi, Cartoonist!" and I'll answer accordingly.A great interview with John Cale ist at The Guardian. "Of course, of late, there'll be talk of the war, which has exercised - not to say obsessed - Cale. "It has sickened me. I was just incensed. It was a confirmation that there was not going to be any let up on my disappointment with the road the United States is going down. America was a place of great generosity, and I'm a product of that generosity, but now America has turned back on its origins; and you realise the extent of the corruption at the foundations of this country." "The personal issues are perhaps best summed up in two remarks - on Warhol: "Real friends are hard to find in New York, and Andy was one I knew for 20 years." And on Lou Reed, following the funeral of bass player Sterling Morrison, who died of cancer (Cale's car had been caught in traffic and he was worried he would miss Reed's oration. But his erstwhile friend had not even bothered to turn up): "I realised," said Cale, "what a friend I had lost in Sterling Morrison, and what a friend I had not lost in Lou Reed." See you at Oxford Street.
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Thursday, May 22, 2003 |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
 The Atomic Revolution Comic Book. This is the title of a 1957 comic book which is all about the Atom from a 57's standpoint of view."Discussing this comic: Beyond it's novelty value, this is really a (forgive the pun) dynamite piece of art. One is immediately struck by the bold and realistic linework, the page compositions (both full-bleed and off-center, as well as numerous two-page spreads, 'BUILDUP' and 'PROPULSION' are amazing) and check out the use of multiple spot color and classy 50s-era package design. All that and just the creepy idea of an atomic weapons company commissioning a comic book about their horrifying products makes this a damn strange and unusual thing." Via JWalk.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003 |
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Monday, May 19, 2003 |
 Lego Daleks. My Sitemeter told me that someone was doing a Google search for 'Dalek+Lego', which made me curious. So I had a look myself:On this website you will find the several doctors, companions, villains - all made out of Lego. Plus an instruction sheet for building Lego-Daleks. Here's more Lego-Dr Who. Dancing Doctors are here.
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Sunday, May 18, 2003 |
 I couldn't resist. Retro British Television. I really didn't want to blog anything today, but I just stumbled about some serious television history which seems to be rather important. In terms of geek history. Or in geek terms of history. Whatever. Now everything you'll read below in this entry is deliberately and shamelessly pulled from the fabulous route79blog:It's good to know that someone out there is preserving history. In this case his name is Dave Jeffery - and the Flash version of the BBC Clock that you see above was reproduced by Dave as part of a BBC commission - the results of which you can see at the BBC I Love TV page on testcards and idents. Furthermore - you will find a whole host of other Flash animations of TV idents by Dave, plus loads of other material pulled together by a chap called Andrew Wiseman by going to 625.uk.com. If you grew up in the 70's and 80's - this site will certainly bring back memories. My favourites from this great site: Remember the ATV Presentation at the end of every ATV programme? Remember the London Weekend Television river animation? Remember the start of an Open University programme on BBC2? Your Cartoonist again: Those are fantastic links. Now could somebody please recreate some old German TV-animations in Flash?
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 The Lego Mac. Daniele Procida could not bear to see a dead Mac thrown away - so he reconstructed it using Lego bricks pinched from his sons. Rather than bin the Powerbook laptop, he refurbished it using hundreds of colourful pieces, set on mottled artificial green grass.See the full article at BBC online.
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Ari. Nils of 
Memory loss. 
60 old car ads. And some WW2 German ads, which are very strange indeed. All at a website called 
What a playground. Vintage toy ads are at 
Labels. Where else can you find old labels than at 
Back. Disregard the entry below. It was really lots of fun. But what do I see here in my News-Aggregator? Quark? 
Busy. No new entries before Saturday morning, I'm afraid. I'm snowed under with work.
Let's throw in some fashion. 
It's all there. At 
Sorry I'm late. But I was booked today to work for one of Richard Branson's thriving companies. Same tomorrow. Nevertheless I found a couple of things for your enjoyment. Have a nice evening.
The wonderful world of Sir Clive. 
What's the time, please? 
Through Desert and Harem. This is the massive website of the 
Build your own Golem. The website 
Lego Bond. I can't help it, this website is amazing. 
Timeline. Nicely done timeline of the development of the Internet: 
More on Rip-Off Britain. 
Blog Clog. The Guardian about Google and blogs: 
The nightmare journey home. How long does it take to get from Hammersmith to Kingsbury? Shouldn't take longer than half an hour, right? It took 
Lazy Sunday. Not that lazy, in fact I'm busy drawing some cartoons for a book project. And the Wroaaar! Grand Prix is on. Shame that