The Cartoonist

Saturday, August 30, 2003

NYC. New York on old postcards. Nice. 1:41:36 PM     |

I'm busy... 12:52:36 PM     |

Serious Literature. I'm sure I've blogged this before. And if not, then someone else has. Anyway. Here's 19th-century German Stories. And there are a lot of them. Enjoy. 10:50:03 AM     |

I confess. I'm a nerd too. An anorak. Cleaning out stuffed drawers and bookshelves here at home, I came across some old Corgi and Dinky Toys cataloges, for which I've paid a considerable amount of money about 12 years ago. Mhm - why not put them online? At least some sample pages? There you go. See my nerd collection here: Corgi, from 1969. Dinky from 1967? And another Dinky brochure from 1972?. Cheers. Have fun. And no, I won't throw them away. And they certainly are not for sale! I'll just stuff'em back into the drawers and bookshelves. And now c'mon - see The Avengers Gift Set, the Thrush Buster, the UFO Interceptor and even - argh - Daktari! The Lotus Gift Set was nice. What a nerd I am. 1:29:11 AM     |

Friday, August 29, 2003

Because Ted's throwing a party. And even Anneke is there. From left: the discerned woman on the left is unknown. The guy on the moped is Mary Lou Monroe from Charley's Girls. Then, there's your Cartoonist. And then Ted. And here's Flattermann by The Neat (Cartoonist: Rhythm guitar; Ted: Keyboards). Ted, have fun. Me, I'll just stay in London and hope certain people will keep their mouths shut. :-) 10:14:18 PM     |

In 1977. London's burning. Yeah right, mate. I just got back from friggin' Docklands. Nothing's burning there. Still - they were better than the Stones. Better than Cliff Richard (Hi Zoe!). Better than anyone actually. Here are the Clash Photo Rockers - one great big Clash photo gallery. Fan - tastic. Enjoy. 7:02:18 PM     |

Oh. More about our time traveller can be found at Inert Ramblings. And guess what: I found it through Radio's new fabulous TrackBack function! And now let's feed the bots and give The Cartoonist some rest: sextl@orhslnryzpdjymnkuc.de, meegn@ccakxhatxwvmxrcxsmuy.ca, dzqotc@kgsmf.fr, nurr@fatvrs.de, sdebkc@bantdioyoadqyjehzed.it, ihmuq@tdydtrus.de, lixupz@cdtrdbnent.st, hxwnqwwsj@xdrjh.com, tdybzlgkme@ijgnn.fr, suewil@nnznfgy.nl, yjkjqtkvg@yrvjuubhnyrles.com, nnqk@wrsrtomvanmks.ca, duikpdmy@pjvqxrzporkb.de, xeobve@tharncicov.dk, davmgr@lcxf.ar, bceixopzif@ifzjzqok.ru, swxhets@buscuwazliyeucflda.com, tcffcyrkyt@qcsikz.br, rewnn@hlpksfkgimmhly.org, wiiha@voiyxatsnuwfzwkqbg.ar 5:59:45 PM     |

Oh Bugger. Did I really write I'm too lazy looking for new stuff? Just came across the Pulp Fiction Postcards website; via the fantastic exclamation mark. Great. Both of those sites. They are. Really. Trust me, I'm an art director. 5:48:55 PM     |

A repeat. Blogged this before, but I'm too lazy looking for new stuff, so check out all the cards of the old Raumpatrouille-Quartett from 1966 - the link is still relevant. They are complete and in 200dpi RGB colour, which is almost HiRes. 5:28:28 PM     |

This is art. Even more old Citroen brochures and photos. Fab. 5:06:16 PM     |

Docklands. Since I had nothing else to do this morning, I boarded the Docklands Light Railway at Stratford, went off at Canary Wharf and had a little stroll around Docklands. In typical London weather of course: grey, rainy and rather cold for this time of the year. Anyway, it was quite nice and interesting, although the admission fee of £5 to get into the Docklands museum seemed a bit steep. Talking about money: you can get a small 160sqm apartment there for only 2 million pounds, which is a bargain really. 3:34:30 PM     |

I wonder if they'll send him to the village? Alastair Campbell quits. Alastair Campbell resigns as the government's director of communications and strategy, it is announced by Downing Street. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 3:07:31 PM     |

More about yesterday's power cut is at Going Underground. Do not (I repeat) do not, ask any Londoner about their journey home this evening. 10:18:31 AM     |

Ain't you. The Ballad of Kleenex. Article about the Swiss band with MP3s. Nice. 9:48:06 AM     |

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Soldier, soldier. We all don't get younger, do we? Here's Spizz. Athletico. Energi. At least he's still a member of a local London soccer club. Where's Captain Kirk...? 11:21:07 PM     |

I must say. I'm getting lots of spam mails every day. And I usually report them straight to spamcop or their service providers. But the one I just received now is amazing. It's a piece of art. Here we go: Hello, I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z, n), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send a separate email to me at: webmaster@custompaintshop.net Thank You Brian Appel Fantastic, isn't it? 9:29:48 PM     |

Distracted. Sorry, I got distracted. Check out the Raumpatrouille Forum [German]. Especially the 'Frechheit' entry. Your cartoonist is running into trouble there. Ted, you will love this. See pages 7, 8, 9 and 10. Fantastic. And please post some useless information in there. It's all about the picture on the left. 8:07:15 PM     |

Blast. If you're on a Mac and all of a sudden can't access Schockwellenreiter anymore, then you have to tweak your MTU (whatever that is). Checkout this website and download rmac, which is free. Compared to ipNetTuner and anyway - it works. 4:17:15 PM     |

More Tony. Instead of going to war and spending millions of Pounds, Tony should have a look at the prices for passports here in the UK, which are outrageous. Via comments section at Keys Corner. 1:17:49 PM     |

More lies. Of course. Mr Prime Minister, nobody believes a word you're saying anymore. Please resign. Da soona da betta. Oh, and by the way - where are those 'weapons of mass destruction' Iraq could launch upon us 'within 45 minutes'? Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Blair takes the stand Giving evidence to the Hutton inquiry the prime minister also said the dossier was "not making the case for war" and denied that Alastair Campbell had been involved in anything more than assisting with its "presentation". 12:58:11 PM     |

Nico again. Phillipe Carly has a nice gallery of Nico live photos online. To all the dirty old farts out there: Those pictures are from 1981, not from 1966! Anyway, check out Phillipe's homepage - you will find thousands of 'new wave' live concert pictures there. The obviously drunken John Cale alone is worth the visit. And while we're at it: Please check out my friend Jutta's homepage. Live concert photos and portraits more on the weird side: LaMonte Young, Gerard Malanga, Faust, Moe Tucker... 12:05:40 PM     |

Books. Now that looks interesting. Finally a proper books database for OSX? Well, it connects to Amazon, you can download book covers etc etc. Sounds promising. Books is a native Cocoa application for MacOS X users that stores, sorts, and searches a "virtual card catalog" for a personal library. Books makes it simple to enter new books, edit the information of older books, and sort the books by attributes such as title and author. Books also includes built-in searching for quick book information retrieval and XML support for importing and exporting collection information. 11:46:49 AM     |

Ska! Great - a complete discography of the 2-Tone record label, complete with sleeves and articles. Via linkfilter. 8:58:34 AM     |

Wednesday, August 27, 2003

Chindogu. Chindogus are highly useful japanese inventions Gyro Gearloose would be proud of. Like the 'hayfever hat' on the left. (Flash site) 9:39:33 PM     |

Somewhere there's a feather. The Nico mp3 can be found at efimera org. 4:42:25 PM     |

Kaff. Another exclusive one for my German readers, I'm afraid. But it's fantastic. Gisbert Damaschke and Gregor Strick are planning an online handbook about Arno Schmidt's novel Kaff auch Mare Crisium. The first few parts are already online and the website itself is very well designed. Wonderful. Fantastic. Great. Fab. Picture stolen from Arno Schmidt Stiftung. Das Projekt mare-crisium.de versteht sich als digitales Handbuch zu diesem Text, das als offenes und prinzipiell unabgeschlossenes work in progress im Internet publiziert wird. Es soll Materialien, Informationen und Kommentare bereitstellen, die das Verständnis des komplexen Textes und die Auseinandersetzung mit ihm fördern. 2:11:45 PM     |

The Unexplained Explained. Heidi Hollis offers Alien Advice, which looks like this: PAMELA WRITES: I saw a reptilian type person (male I think) I felt him staring at me from behind I looked behind and could not see this thing then I looked in my rear view mirror and saw him however he was transparent. He sliced his finger across his neck and felt this as a warning. Was this real or was I just seeing things in the mirror? Am I supposed to do anything after this? Sincerely yours Pamela HEIDI: Hi Pamela, Well, I do know these beings like to creep up on people and scare them. They do this because they feed off from the fear we give them when we see them or just have plain fear in general...as strange as that may sound. But one thing to note about these beings too, is they often are not spotted, just felt. That feeling alone can suffice them to feed on, but when you were able to actually see it even transparently...I don't think they much appreciated that [...] Picture taken from - well, from The Unexplained Explained. Sigh. 11:36:53 AM     |

Autopsy. Alien autopsies around the world are here. 9:43:24 AM     |

Majestic-12. Everything about the secret and sinister organisation is at The Majestic Documents. 9:03:10 AM     |

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Oh. Look, a brolly. Wonder where that might be coming from. 7:05:10 PM     |

Impressive. Ralf H. claims to be in the posession of one of 'Germany's biggest comic book collections'. Obviously I can't verify that, but his collection is very impressive indeed. I'm linking to the sitemap here, because his frames are driving me mad. 6:36:20 PM     |

More TrackBack testing. Ok, I'm now linking to David's Trackback test he did for Julie. And then I'm going to nick a brolly at Frau W's weblog. 5:05:53 PM     |

Alfred Leobold. I believe the following literary links are more for my German readers unfortunately - but it's fun anyway. Here's the history of the famous Sechsämtertropfen. And the special Alfred Leobold homepage is here; and something really weird is here [huge big smiley inserted]. Ha. 12:32:27 PM     |

Looks like Hamburg. Black & white photography by Thomas Müller. Great shots. 12:10:40 PM     |

They're really good at things like that. Busiest rail line shut [This is London: London News] 11:37:30 AM     |

Ok. The great TrackBack Experiment is on. Something should now somehow trackbackwards and forwards. The Value of Weblog Trackbacks. Reminds me of the Pete Townshend song, "So Sad About Us." Trackback is about the surfers, the visitors, the READERS, not the author. If they go to your site they can look at the trackbacks and find a new blog to read. If they go to my site, for instance, they may see that The Cartoonist has posted something from Mediaburn. They may then go to his site and find out that The Insekt Limited is precisely what they need! ;o) It gives everybody's weblog some exposure... to the wandering and random readers. - G.S. So sad ... Radio's TrackBack is not working at all. No trackbacks ... sniff. I'll give it another week. And then I'm probably going to find out that I will have to modify certain ports on my Firewall, which is HELL - I'm using a NOKIA IP55 router. Oh Bugger - I hate this Internet stuff. And I still don't understand: who needs TrackBack anyway, when we have technorati? Or am I missing something? I must be, I'm just a Cartoonist. Heh. So please - enlighten me. [The Cartoonist] [The Mediaburn Radio Weblog] 11:34:54 AM     |

Flower, stolen from kebo 11. 10:29:16 AM     |

Old and new. Everything about Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. 10:02:51 AM     |

So sad ... Radio's TrackBack is not working at all. No trackbacks ... sniff. I'll give it another week. And then I'm probably going to find out that I will have to modify certain ports on my Firewall, which is HELL - I'm using a NOKIA IP55 router. Oh Bugger - I hate this Internet stuff. And I still don't understand: who needs TrackBack anyway, when we have technorati? Or am I missing something? I must be, I'm just a Cartoonist. Heh. So please - enlighten me. 12:02:23 AM     |

Monday, August 25, 2003

That thing on the moon. Yes, I spent most of the afternoon finishing yet another one of my 3D-renderings and you can find it on my 3D-Gallery website. It's done in Vue d'Esprit, because I wanted to try out the little Bryce2Vue converter. Guess what: it works perfectly! It doesn't convert the materials, but camera positions and objects are still where they used to be. Another good piece of software for MacOSX, since Corel doesn't seem to care [bigtime swearing inserted here] updating Bryce. Idiots. Actually I find Vue less buggy than Bryce in OSX and - getting used to it - much easier to operate. And the materials and textures controls are much, much better. The rendering is faster. Display is faster. Vue still has a few bugs, but is much better than the aforementioned piece of 2001neverupdatedstinkyprogrammethankstocorelbuggers! So I'm waiting for the next Vue Update. Phew. I'm feeling much better now. Thanks. Now are there any SF book publishers out there who need a cover artist? I'm ready ... ! 10:30:54 PM     |

Gotcha! (Again!) Another one bites the dust: Thank you for contacting the Lycos Network Abuse Department. The account you have brought to the attention of the Lycos Network Abuse Department was found to be in violation of our Terms and Conditions. As a result, it has been removed from our servers. Thank you for reporting it to us. There's a new bunch of German Spammers out there who send you mails with subject lines like 'New screensavers on the SAT1 homepage' (SAT1 is a German TV channel) or 'Your postbox at Datanetcom'. If you're stupid enough to click on the link in the message body, you download a dialer. Bastards! 6:04:32 PM     |

Li'l Folks. Here is The Official Peanuts Website with a strip library, history, wallpaper downloads and much more. And you may also enjoy the Schulz Museum and Research Center. Nice stuff. 5:35:43 PM     |

The Avengers again. This time on Radio. Another thing I didn't know. Very nice website. 12:44:38 PM     |

Margarethe. I believe Margarethe Hubauer must have been representing illustrators even before I was born. She will probably still work as an illustrators' agent when I'm long gone. She does it now since I can remember. Anyway - wonderful artists' portfolios on her site (watch out: heavy use of Flash!). That's where I found Brad Holland. 10:35:49 AM     |

Strange. And good. The art of Brad Holland. Great. 9:30:26 AM     |

Wonder Woman. A collection of ancient comic book covers from the golden age of comics. Found at linkfilter. 9:24:20 AM     |

Sunday, August 24, 2003

Lürzer's Archive is still the best and largest online archive of international creative advertising. Find gazillions of famous, not so famous and wild and modern ad campaigns in there. 3:45:29 PM     |

Ironclad Ships. And now for some really weird ship designs. Here's the homepage of the CSS Merrimac (which is actually the CSS Virginia), and then we have the USS Monitor at The Mariner's Museum. Those ships look better than even the Nautilus, which can be found here: photos, blueprints, paintings, links. Amazing. 12:13:42 PM     |

Books and Art. Here's a gallery and database of Modern Library Dust Jackets and their Designers/Illustrators. Really nice stuff. Go and have a look. This section displays images sorted by known dust jacket designers for titles printed in the years 1928 through 1970. It includes pictorial, design, and non-boilerplate text styles found on flexie's and hardbacks, plus illustrated acetates and box images. Via speckled paint + via neurastenia. 8:15:23 AM     |