The Cartoonist

Saturday, September 20, 2003

The Model. Professional model maker Martin Bowers and his Martian Fighting Machine. 5:32:08 PM     |

If only. Harry Harryhausen's concept ideas for a War of the Worlds movie. 5:20:48 PM     |

Red Planet. The Mars Exploration homepage. 5:09:33 PM     |

Shiny. The Martian Walking Engine by sculptor Michael Condron. That thing sits right in the centre of Woking in Surrey. 5:00:10 PM     |

The Covers. A website with 130 'War of the Worlds' book covers. Amazing. Also Interior Illustrations and Other Images. Even more amazing. Via the Museum of Online Museums at Coudal Partners. More later. I've got some shopping to do and something to discuss with the former Bishop Information Minister. 8:34:40 AM     |

The Hoax. Listen to the original "The War of the Worlds" broadcast in RealAudio. And the script is here. 8:23:39 AM     |

Read the Book. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, 1898. Online Edition. This Web edition of The War of the Worlds was prepared in June of 1995 by John Walker. It is based on the Project Gutenberg electronic text (etext) edition, warw11.txt which I obtained from the mirror archive then maintained by L'Association des bibliophiles Universels where you will also find a wide variety of French language public domain texts. More about the author at The H.G. Wells Society. 8:13:25 AM     |

War. This is your former Bishop Information Minister speaking. I'm still here. And I declare this Saturday today officially to War of the Worlds day! 7:58:32 AM     |

Friday, September 19, 2003

Sentimental Journey. Jesus Green, Cambridge, UK. Via the impressive American Invisible, Inc. 10:15:44 PM     |

Repeat/Update. [2.5.2003] The old link with Tony and George having fun is no longer working, so here's a new one. Might be an old one, but enjoy (8.3 MB Quicktime). Gay Bar. Oh, this is so brilliant. A music-videoclip featuring George and Tony. "YOU - I wanna take you to a GAY BAR!! Let's start a nuclear war - at a GAY BAR!!!" I haven't seen anything better for ages. Watch it, please do. It's hilarious. Available in Flash6 or Quicktime. "I've got something to put in you..." Thanks Michael, via Email. 9:39:08 PM     |

A Repeat. [5.5.2003] Well, all of those links still exist - so enjoy. Have a car. Finally- I found all the cars of Spirou and Fantasio. Oh, those toys... My link to the Turbot Traction and all the other toys doesn't seem to work anymore - can anyone confirm? Another French company out of business? Hope not. They had the Zorglumobil, or the Zyklopter, as it's in German. In large scale. Really big. I want one of those. 9:19:32 PM     |

May I? Remind my dear readers of the IT&W shop? My fabulous sticker? If only one of you orders 100 'I have been blogged' coffee mugs or T-shirts per day then I'm sorted. So is Majo. Now c'mon and order some t-shirts...pleeeze... at least a 100. Ok, 50. 20? On a daily basis? 20. At least. But the thing on the left is still available as a free download for all your blogging purposes. 6:01:31 PM     |

Slits. New at The Bunker: Clipped video clips of The Slits with Earthbeat, Talking Heads with Take Me to The River, Teardrop Explodes, Sweet (Wig Wam Bam!) and many more. Enjoy. 4:20:29 PM     |

In High Spirits. The Absinthe Guide with history, pictures and a reproduction of a Pernod Fils Catalogue from 1896. Fab. Inspired by Michelle, who blogged another Absinthe link. Hic. 9:55:30 AM     |

Heads. Décolleté is the Severed Head Gallery. Not as gory as it sounds. Quite interesting actually. 9:03:14 AM     |

The Art of Calculating. Everything about The Abacus: Construction & Anatomy; History; Java-Applets; Photos. And a complete manual is here. In 1946, a contest was held in Tokyo, that pitted an abacus against an electric calculator; the abacus won, of course. 8:36:15 AM     |

Thursday, September 18, 2003

Some Literature for the Evening. The website of the James Fenimore Cooper Society. Over 300 texts, reference documents, articles and papers. Which is a lot. Really. 8:26:20 PM     |

Almost done now. Added more pages to the Corgi Toys catalogue. Enjoy. 8:18:57 PM     |

Grotesque. Interesting article by typographer Mark Simonson about the most horrible typefaces of all, Arial. 12:53:38 PM     |

The Village. How about a virtual Portmeirion tour then? Wonderful. Welcome to Virtual Portmeirion, a site created by admirers of this enchanting place. Portmeirion is a private village in North Wales that was created by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, using a combination of rescued architectural follies and specially designed buildings which provide a fascinating mix of architectural styles. It is open for day visits and daily/weekly stays in either hotel serviced or self-catering accommodations. 9:49:54 AM     |

How very Irish. Seen in an Irish pub. Thanks to Friedhelm Rathjen for the photo. 8:23:54 AM     |

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

The Churchsketcher. Richard Nevins sketches old churches in Sussex. 9:23:59 PM     |

Calling all Cars. Old photographs of Dundee's police force on Scott from Scotland's Retired Cop's Home Page. Long, eh? But a great title for a website. 8:46:26 PM     |

Naughty. Here are some Indecent Images. Indecent Images is a gallery of evocative pre-Raphaelite paintings, with commentary and background by Steven William Rimmer. 2:07:52 PM     |

Gimme Shelter. Fallout Shelter Photographs at The Cold War Civil Defense Museum. Their Art Gallery is quite nice too. 9:50:41 AM     |

More Fantastic Art. At Richard Garrison's Art of the Fantastic. They're all there: cover galleries with works of Frazetta, Wood, Krenkel, Finlay... 9:30:35 AM     |

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

Rhodan. American Perry Rhodan paperback covers. Interesting. Link via things magazine. 8:54:15 PM     |

Non-alignment Pact. Pere Ubu. 8:24:38 PM     |

Woa ... ! A bigtime hip-hip-hooray to Kosmonautentraum! He found the best of all links: themesonline. Music of TV series, commercials, promos, jingles... FAB! 2:39:49 PM     |

Good Grief. And here's the Gasmask Lexicon. Via linkfilter. 12:58:06 PM     |

Robots, rayguns and other weird stuff by Clayton Bailey. Great. 12:41:35 PM     |

Good news. Ragtime, the better alternative to Microsoft Office is now available as a free download. 11:05:17 AM     |

That's Alright Mama. Cash and Dylan. Live. At Ethel the Blog. Picture stolen from Johnny Cash.com. And it's via Schockwellenreiter. 9:03:21 AM     |

The Remaking of a Country. Claudio von Planta is a friend of mine. And a cameraman. And he's currently right in the middle of Iraq, working on a series for the BBC. His homepage with lots of pictures is here. Claudio, come back! 8:39:32 AM     |

Monday, September 15, 2003

Images of the Future. Nice little website with several old SF-related illustrations - especially 'Kids in Space' and 'The Flying Wing' are great. 6:29:42 PM     |

'Bad alibi like dead fish - cannot stand test of time.' Here is The Charlie Chan Family Home, a wonderful website dedicated to Earl Derr Biggers' great detective. Check out the gallery and Charlie Chan's Aphorisms. 12:54:23 PM     |

Well, well, well. What can I say? Here's The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency (1868-1975). Have fun. 11:26:12 AM     |

Decay. Pictures of the Union Brewery in Dortmund at Ligne Claire. 9:09:10 AM     |

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Pushing the Mouse. Ron's Mousepad Museum. This is a non-commercial site. All the mousepads on this site are physically in my possession and I scanned them personally. 10:52:15 AM     |