The Cartoonist

Saturday, June 14, 2003

Dietmar Schönherr. Cliff McLane. And Raumpatrouille. I've uploaded a very special MP3. Not. Dietmar live. Marc, thank you. "Wir sind die Mannschaft der Orion acht." 10:42:02 PM     |

New. The Fact & Fiction Weblog doesn't exist anymore, it has been discontinued; Phil is now blogging at dailyblossom. Good grief, I've got to change my navigator links on the right again! Grrr ... 5:15:25 PM     |

Well, tripod, I'm getting fed up with this shit in my daily email: Entschuldige bitte! Es tut mir alles sehr leid. Bitte bitte verzeih mir meinen Ausrutscher. Ich habe mir fuer dich was ganz besonderes ausgedacht. Einfach auf den Link: http://www.Treffpunkt2003sunshine.de klicken, schau es dir an und melde dich dann sofort bei mir oder hinterlege eine Nachricht auf der Seite. Bis gleich... And I'm getting gazillions of spam mails like that. And they're all being routed through tripod. So I guess tripod won't mind publishing their spam reporting email addresses here: abuse@tripod.com abuse@tripod.cl Now have fun. Arseholes. 4:47:42 PM     |

Turn up the volume. And listen to this: The idiot son of an asshole. You can sing along with it. Via Kosmonautentraum. Nils, this is great. "Don't hate us because we're Americans ... just hate our government." 2:06:05 PM     |

Lubberland. Absolutely fantastic, gorgeous, tasty, delicious, the best link ever. Trust me, I'm an art director. Anneke has found the secret map of the Schlaraffenland and posted it across to das kollektiv (follow the robot). Fabulous. Mhmm...icecream, candy, cakes... Text in German. Don't worry, just check out the map. 1:46:02 PM     |

Right. I almost forgot I'm living in a monarchy. Queen's Birthday Honours 1 [Independent: UK News] 9:25:59 AM     |

He can't get anything right, can he? Blair under fire over 'botched' reshuffle [Independent: UK News] 9:22:17 AM     |

Friday, June 13, 2003

Last one for tonight. Armin Grewe (yes, that's the same one as below) has been interviewed by Stuart Mudie. Read. Rip. Burn. Mix. Send. The Agfers of Kodack. 8:56:39 PM     |

Avebury revisited. I'm sure Armin will like this. Avebury - a Present from the Past must be the best website about the amazing stone circles. It comes with lots of maps (historical and new), diagrams, photos and Quicktime VR movies. Simply fantastic. Oh, it's Summer, it's warm. If I still had my Caterham 7 (1700 SuperSprint) I would just drive down there... stay in Marlborough at the Ivy House Hotel, meet all the crop circle guys (and those from Berlin!) at the Barge Inn in Alton Barnes, have a pint at the Red Lion and check out Silbury Hill and the White Horses in between. Sigh...it's just not as much fun in a Ford Fiesta...! Grin: All those links should keep you busy for a while. It's still too hot to blog. 8:11:54 PM     |

Gin Lane. A nice little Hogarth Scrapbook. "Recent cataloguing work has turned up a new discovery of engravings and etchings by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The collection appears to have belonged to the Manchester collector John Legh Philips, whose library and collection of prints and paintings was sold after his death in 1814. The collection is contained in a large scrapbook measuring 63 x 47 cm. A total of 190 prints have been pasted onto both sides of fifty leaves on paper which has now become acidic and brittle. The prints themselves have been cut down, but in most cases without affecting the impression of the plates." 7:25:41 PM     |

The Guardian about Spam: Guardian Unlimited | Online | Pornographers hijack home computers "British experts have found the first hard evidence that hundreds of thousands of computers were deliberately infected with viruses by spammers who used the machines to distribute pornography and junk mail." Give it to them: pxheeo@ittffcupfiz.jp, wkbgj@ebyrtmqxhwfpjzy.de, xgo@tawlpiwzphrlnusgynxw.com, odlndxtkd@auxanlblojvtfdzcq.com, wcjj@jrlvpllsiffmlg.ca, bfjl@exlfcapve.tv, wksccdwr@bnzqmeeqqmdafuicahe.biz, egzs@zpnjqnmf.dk, nbti@qgjzmydughfjpq.tv, baqloo@mrymqzsei.ar, lqxad@lxnewae.us, aqttlnt@vrzfzkjagfcofvqstorz.de, mrw@vpagfdt.net, ctlvoydx@ovyauh.br, kwoziodzj@kyfpenqsjdnxmam.br, lneayr@rovxpnewwzjz.it, rvtra@votijxhpxtiiuofs.ca, ilqymi@jwheeczsawh.biz, zdbvztzcvj@ioiovjxngvykwg.us, gjcpyabtl@eaipaasmxgqb.fr 6:44:59 PM     |

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Oh, quick: Tubes all night, please [This is London: London News] "And all because the Underground system in this amazing 24-hour city of ours shuts down just after midnight." 6:53:03 PM     |

Too hot to blog. I'm in the garden. With a beer. A cold one. 6:37:46 PM     |

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Public Lettering. A walk through London in the search of public lettering is a fabulous website - especially since one of my favourite London shops is mentioned, James Smith & Sons, the largest umbrella shop in Europe. And probably the oldest. This is a very well done website, stations include St Pancras Station, Parson's Library, British Museum, ..., all the texts are downloadable as PDFs and the pictures are almost High Resolution. Fab. "This walk (originally prepared for the 1997 ATypI conference) concentrates on larger examples of public lettering and doesn't mention incidentals - stop-cocks, manholes, dates on buildings, builders marks, &c - of which there is much en route. Much of the pleasure of this kind of walk, is finding things yourself. Although also 'public', it entirely ignores advertising hoardings, store signs and most corporate identities as these are usually approached as pieces of graphic design rather than opportunities for specialist, site-specific lettering." 7:33:18 PM     |

James Gillray. Large exhibit at Bucknell University of Gillray's (1756-1815) famous caricatures. Fantastic. "James Gillray was the most renowned and prolific British caricaturist of his age, the grand master of visual satire. Amidst London's world of gossip and cliques, in a social context made more acute by national crises and economic upheaval, caricatures quickly became the most influential and popular form of political commentary. The caricaturist was at once the journalist, the moralist and entertainer of his time. The printshops of St. James's and Bond Street competed with coffee houses and gaming clubs as the centers of scandal, intrigue, and conversation. It was in these printshops that Gillray engraved, etched and printed his works. After and initial period of trying to make his living as an independent engraver, in 1791 he formed a lifelong relationship with the publisher Mrs. Hannah Humphrey, who from that time forward issued all of his work. He earned more than most of his colleagues: two guineas per print instead of one. The prints cost more if they were handcolored than if sold as black and white images. 7:15:41 PM     |

Kiosk Korner. The History of British Public Telephone Boxes: pictures, models, links, everything. 6:28:36 PM     |

The English Gentleman. To qualify as a proper English Gentleman, you will need a Bowler hat. Get them at Bates Hats - 90 years of elegance. Next must-have is an umbrella. Not any umbrella, of course. You will need the sword umbrella. While you're there, check out their canes as well - they come with all sorts of built in gadgets. 6:15:53 PM     |

More Windmills. Ted found a website dealing with windmills exclusively in Holland. Text is in German, but the pictures should be understood even by someone whose first language is Suaheli. 5:55:41 PM     |

Tuesday, June 10, 2003

German Pulp Mags. Comprehensive website with listings of German Science Fiction Pulp magazines published in the 50s and 60s. Sadly no cover scans. 7:38:10 PM     |

Windmill World. Windmills, windmills and more windmills at Windmill World; mainly England, but also World windmills. Funnily enough Holland is missing. Strange. Thanks, Robert! Now who blogs the gent from La Mancha? 6:50:48 PM     |

Hypnotism. And here is one of Patrícia's links: Old Hypnotism ads. Oh, I love that trash... 6:38:25 PM     |

All things retro. Patrícia Gaspar has collected lots of retro links at her Retrolounge website. Advertising, design, architecure, fashion - you name it, it's there. Fabulous. I'm in toyland again. 6:30:32 PM     |

Monday, June 9, 2003

Chorographia Britanniae. Fantastic website with the old England maps from 1742. Looking at those, there is not much difference to today's England - maybe just a few motorways more, that's it. Via das kollektiv. 6:18:59 PM     |

The Garden of Delights. Nice website about good old Hieronymus Bosch 6:06:45 PM     |

Sunday, June 8, 2003

Fun stuff. Here's the Sigmund Freud action figure: He can leap long couches in a single session, run faster than an untamed id and stop a speeding phallic symbol using only his cigar. All while wearing a simple gray suit over a single item of his mother's underwear - the infamous Freudian Slip. He measures 5" tall with poseable head and arms. His eyes appear to follow you. Mind you - they even have a Jesus action figure! Via The Eye Opener 5:53:13 PM     |

More art. The Fantastic in Art and Fiction is a fabulous collection of bizarre and grotesque book illustrations. The image galleries are amazing, wonderful stuff there. Via iconomy; again! 5:44:59 PM     |

The art of Alex Ross. Amazing. Pure art. That guy draws the best Batman ever. Link found at iconomy. 5:35:51 PM     |

Luis. 1960s politicians, drawn by Luis (Luís Seligson). Nice stuff. 5:18:05 PM     |