The Cartoonist

Saturday, September 27, 2003

Busy. I'm rather busy over the weekend with some advertising, cartoon and 3D work. So no updates before Monday morning. 8:38:06 AM     |

Terra Nova. Stealing Scott's biscuits, tsk. Thomas Keneally's Antartic journey. Books: In 1968, Thomas Keneally brought home an illicit souvenir from Antartica. Haunted by the landscape - and troubled by his conscience - he decides to return his plunder. [Guardian Unlimited] Hey Guardian - there's a 'c' missing in 'Antar[c]tic'! Where are your proofreaders? Thus, glibly self-absolved, I approached an open tin of Huntley & Palmers hard tack biscuit that soldiers from 1914 to 1918 ate in the trenches. I took two-thirds of a biscuit as a souvenir. 8:27:59 AM     |

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Friday, September 26, 2003

Stahl Art. More industrial photography by Harald Finster. 12:16:43 PM     |

The Paper War. The use of leaflets in the propaganda war in Vietnam 1945 to 1975, by Rod Oakland. Brilliant - lots of examples of flyers and leaflets. The scale of American leaflet operations in Vietnam surpassed all that had gone before. Over 50 billion leaflets were churned out by various US propaganda agencies, more than 1,500 for every citizen of North and South Vietnam. There were instances where huge quantities, including whole bundles, were dropped over one small area. They were not wasted as villagers used them as kitchen wipes or repaired holes in walls with them. Inevitably some saw service as toilet paper! 12:06:52 PM     |

Secret Books. Fantastic still-life photography by Sean Kernan. 11:52:11 AM     |

Grey. Photography in a colourful grey. Over at Gary's place. I'll better switch the heating on... 8:01:18 AM     |

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Silver Screen. Brilliant. A website with nothing else but screenshots of movie titles. Just great. Via Mark's exclamation mark. Mark, where's your blog gone? What good is it? Whatever use you put it to. Browse and admire title and logo designs, check out movies that have completely different titles in different release prints (see Battle of Britain or The Premature Burial for good examples), check out the differences [...] 8:29:41 PM     |

SMS. Shit Must Stop. An online exhibit. Fantastic. Big thank you goes to Andrew. Lew Syken, the project's chief designer, remembers the SMS studios as a place where "it was impossible to anticipate what would happen next. On a given day, you never knew who would show up." It might be Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, Alain Jacquet, representing French Pop, Marcel Duchamp, or Richard Artschwager. Meret Oppenheim and Man Ray, veterans of Surrealism and Dada, contributed to SMS. There were many others, some as renowned as Christo, Claes Oldenburg, and John Cage, others known only as the authors of works included in one of SMS's six portfolios. Like an astronomer's time-lapse photograph, SMS caught many bright and familiar stars. It also registered the presence of the most elusive comets. 6:33:12 PM     |

Blockbuster. A biased history of UK Glam Rock. Groovy. 1:27:53 PM     |

More Expo. I just came across a website featuring Brussels Expo 58 beermats only. Mhm. 8:55:26 AM     |

I never met a kid I liked. The W. C. Fields Fan Club. And here are some famous quotes. 8:36:42 AM     |

1958. The Exhibition is a wonderful website about the World Expo 1958 in Brussels with a wealth of materials. Pretty amazing. 8:26:31 AM     |

Oh, bugger off. Who cares about chatrooms anyway? Ridiculous. Close them, shut them down, open them up, shut them down again, let's Microsoft stop producing software, because you can always download some paedophile porn from somewhere and you can always get in touch with little girls and boys via AIM, SMS and whatnot. Mercedes should stop producing cars because they can cause accidents. I should stop writing and drawing because people might be offended. The Earth should stop rotating because people are dying on this planet. Actually, why don't we just shut down the Internet? Now that might be a good idea. All crime and porn will just vanish. No more paedophiles, no more terror attacks, no more drugs, no more cartoonists. Brilliant. Chatroom closures 'irresponsible'. Microsoft's move to shut down its UK chatrooms in effort to protect children from paedophiles criticised by rivals as 'reckless' and 'irresponsible'. [Guardian Unlimited] Now that was a good rant. See you tomorrow. 12:28:43 AM     |

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Hey Mr Robot. Just a quick one from my sketchbooks. After all, this weblog is called 'The Cartoonist', isn't it. 3:18:40 PM     |

Geek Stuff. Tips, tricks, colours and HTML: First, there is Meg's weblog at Mandarin Design with lots of HTML-related tips for your daily blogging (Meg, thanks!). Then we have htmlbasix (which seems to be down at the moment) with HTML generators and tutorials. Next one is an absolutely fascinating colour toy. Julie has gazillions of Newbie Tips for Radio UserLand users. 3800 symbols and icons free for download are at the German Mini-Image-Box, link via Schockwellenreiter. Last but not least comes Dave's HTML Guide. Have fun. Oh: And here's a Java based Texture Generator. 1:22:29 PM     |

How Strange. THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY-LIKE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERIOUS DISEMBODIED HAND THAT SCARED EVERYONE BECAUSE IT WAS SO DAMNED MYSTERIOUSO. 10:22:36 AM     |

Rubber. No, not what you're thinking. I'm talking about the Rubber Stamp Art Gallery. 9:00:19 AM     |

BangBangBang! The Western: An Overview. Spaghetti Westerns. Silent Western. Lots of articles about everything Western. Great. 8:40:33 AM     |

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Quite Right. Dave, what happened to my Bishop Information Minister? Can you believe it -- there are weblogs that turn away traffic based on referrer. This is bad practice. These people seriously need to take a refresher course in what the Web is about and how important links are and stop screwing around with them. I won't read sites that do this, and I certainly won't point to them. You should let the authors of the sites know that you won't either. If they don't want to be linked to, just take the site off the Web. [Scripting News] 5:29:52 PM     |

Been a long time. Here's another Raumpatrouille picture. Orion's Astrogator Atan Shubashi in trouble. The English trailer of the stupid movie is still here (Quicktime 3.7 MB) at the Schwanstein TV website. Oh - the German trailer version is here (4.4MB) in a much better resolution. 4:22:21 PM     |

Oh, Good Grief. The stuff that's out there - unbelievable. Here's a gallery of Zombie Pinups. Enjoy. 1:24:11 PM     |

Brave New World. [2] Design studies of new mobile phone devices. Nice, but I keep asking myself: who needs all of this shit? Who's going to buy it? No wonder the industry is in a crisis. Via linkfilter. 1:04:21 PM     |

Yellow Kid. First part of a series of articles about the history of American newspaper strips at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Thanks Oliver and his fab Stör-Signale! 10:52:35 AM     |

I forgot. Yet another Martian Tripod. This one's made of paper and comes with full instructions. And there's more at Cut & Paste Sci-Fi. 10:42:53 AM     |

Spectrum is Green. Nice little website about Ireland. Bits of German text, lots of photography. 10:31:19 AM     |

Collotype. At the Museum And Workshop of the Druckhaus Dresden. In the printing trade, collotype is considered to be the most noble and most complete reproduction technique. The Munich court photograph Joseph Albert perfected collotype printing around 130 years ago. He also followed up research carried out by Cyprien Tessié, Charles Raphael Maréchal and A. Louis Poitevin. Unlike his predecessors, who used lithographic stone or metal plates, he chose thick glass plates. 10:15:51 AM     |

Monday, September 22, 2003

The Musical Printer. Listen to MP3 samples of an IBM 1403 printer from 1964 generating music. Fab. Thanks to Andy (do you have a website?) in Dubai. Oh: I can just imagine the amount of dead trees it must have cost to get those programmes running. 6:20:16 PM     |

WW II Poster Collection. Michelle's been posting posters. Great link. 6:12:13 PM     |

A repeat. Because nobody took notice when I first posted it (Except Gary of course). And because it's fantastic. [27.06.2003] Aspen. The multimedia magazine in a box. Aspen magazine was published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards - one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. Artists included JG Ballard, Peter Blake, John Cage, Ira Cohen, Philip Glass, David Hockney, John Lennon, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol... And here it is reborn as a web version, with the recordings as MP3 files, the movies as Quicktime movies, a full documentary and lots of other stuff. Enjoy. It's ... FAB. 2:09:54 PM     |

Artistamps. Mail art: a gallery of stamps created by artists. Fascinating. I think I'll start designing some stamps myself. Must be fun. This Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting a variety of Artistamp images from around the world with an emphasis on the very earliest and the most recent creations. As well, the Gallery presents the Artistamp images and Cyberstamps of Jas. 1:18:26 PM     |

London Bridges. On stamps. 12:22:27 PM     |

Petzi, Pelle & Pingo is the title of a Danish comic strip series that has been published all over Europe since the early fifties. I couldn't find even one website about Petzi the little bear anywhere in English language - so here are two German websites: The Petzi Research Website and Petzi, Pelle and Pingo. 10:43:58 AM     |

Miss Belgium 2003.Thanks to Philippe for sending the picture across. 10:28:22 AM     |

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Brave New World. While The Bishop Information Minister was messing about with my weblog, I strolled through Docklands. And this time I took some pictures. 12:25:35 PM     |