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Saturday, August 2, 2003 |
 Lots of shouting. A Trekkie expatriate in Berlin offers her impressions of Orion.This is definitely not Rodenberry's view of the future, with Federation nobility of character keeping shipboard relationships and plotlines conflict-free (unless somebody happens to be taken over by an alien). On the Orion, they yell at each other all the time. It reminded me of my first years here in Berlin when I had to get used to the idea that American friendliness was superficial and hypocritical while German directness was refreshingly honest. And here's more.
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 Rumour. The A. Paul Weber Museum. Welcome to the A. Paul Weber-Haus! The museum exhibits lithographs, drawings and oil paintings by A. Paul Weber (1893-1980). The collection was established in 1973 by the Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg in a 17th century building, and the artist himself took part in the planning of the museum layout and the organization of the artwork.
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Friday, August 1, 2003 |
 Enough! This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm back to Paderborn, where the Council of Bishops got together to decide about the fate of the person known as The Cartoonist. HarHarHar.Forget it. Streets of London? Forget 'em. Over and out. London by Night? Forget it. HeHeHe. Here's Berlin by Night (not), as performed by PVC. A special for Schockwellenreiter. I am sure that both Knut Schaller and the record company will forgive me - the tune will be dead and removed by probably Sunday Morning. I promise. Be quick. Oh: Are PVC still around? Now that'd be great.
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 Night. It's getting dark in London. Evening. Night. Oh: London by night. Check out the photographs of the Streets of London at Night by Peter Lutz. Please do. The Bishop Information Minister will be back soon. I'm scared.Takes some time waiting for the ink to dry...I can't get him into the scanner, the guy's just too wet!
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 Lost streets of London. Lost. Lost. Just lost. The Lost London Street Index.THE LOST LONDON STREET INDEX AN INDEX OF LONDON STREET NAME CHANGES AND THOSE THAT ARE NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE OR SHOWN ON MAPS Broken keyboard?
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 Snow. The streets of London in 1859.A historical map with sites of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow, the prominent epidemiologist and anesthesiologist. Mhm. I also wanted to post a link here to a somewhat more modern London map, but changed my mind after having read this entry. The streetmap company apparently has no idea of how the internet works... .../disclaimer.htm makes for interesting reading. Particularly, "Otherwise the reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission and distribution of any part of the Streetmap site is not permitted." Arguably, that actually makes it impossible to legally browse their site. So here's another old map of the streets of London instead: Greenwoods Map of London 1827.
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 Intrigue on the Streets of London. Trails is an exhibit dealing with spies, espionage and counter espionage in London.Just an ordinary bus stop on Waterloo Bridge? Not quite - this was the very spot where Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was stabbed in the leg by an assassin armed with a poison-tipped umbrella - Markov died four days later in hospital.
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Thursday, July 31, 2003 |
 And now for some decent photography. Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective.From the 1940s through the 1970s, Philippe Halsman's sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the big picture magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life . His work also appeared in advertisements and publicity for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford. Photographers, amateur as well as professional, admired Halsman's stunning images. The fellow on the left is Bob Hope, btw.
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 Socialist Design. From the German Propaganda Archive: the 30th anniversary of the GDR, celebrated in posters.Anniversaries were big events in the GDR. These posters come from material prepared for the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. The points they make are a good summary of the the GDR's general propaganda line: a youthful, peace-loving, hard-working state that was strongly supported by its citizens. Found at netbib.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
 Scheuer. The homepage of the Austrian artist Chris Scheuer.And his Morgana comic strip is online here.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
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Monday, July 28, 2003 |
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Sunday, July 27, 2003 |
 Fantastic. A Bravo-Starschnitt archive. It works like this: Bravo is a youth orientated magazine. In 1959 they introduced the so-called 'Starschnitt', a clever money making scheme devised by the publisher. Every week you found a spread or a single page with a lifesize body part of 'your' star in the magazine. After hundreds of weeks, your star was complete; you could then assemble the parts and pin Michael Landon, The Sweet or T. Rex on your wall. I believe they're still doing it today...Found at Kellerkind, who's just back from holiday.
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Notgeld. An archive of 
The Wicker Man. A 
Modern Living. A series of very bizarre 
Getting tough. 
How to draw. Although I'm not quite sure how this fits in with the 'Streets of London' theme, I thought it worthwhile posting. Here's 
Whitechapel. Streets of London frequented by 
Cards. 
Is this you? 
London Photos. Photographer Dan Heller has some 
The Streets of London. This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm disguised as a proper English Gentleman, because today is official 'Streets of London' day! The silly song, together with the stupid lyrics, 
While we're at it - here's 
More GDR Propaganda ist at the 
Kubrick. 
Illuminating the Renaissance. Yet another fabulous exhibition: 
Moving Here is a fascinating exhibition about 
Nibs. 
I'm busy! Stop ringing me. I'll switch the phone OFF. No blogging today, I urgently need to get some cartoons done. Now.
Frankenstein. Good old Victor. There's so much stuff about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein on the web, I don't know where to begin. Ok, the full text 
Toast. Amazing, the things some people collect. Here's a 
RAF. 
Sanity for Sale.