The Cartoonist

Saturday, December 27, 2003

Raumpatrouille. Into the future. Who needs Beagle2 when Old Europe is still in charge of the Fast Spacecruiser Orion 8? 8:34:51 PM     |

Film. Thanks to my dearly loved Uncle Clemens I'm in the posession of a complete set of editions of the German Film magazine, volumes ranging from 1965 to 1969. I'm thinking about setting up a website with a few covers and some chosen articles - especially the Warhol and Godard interviews - is anybody interested? The drawback is, of course, that it's all in German. Any suggestions? And no, I'm certainly not going to translate it! Oh, is there still a copyright on a magazine that doesn't exist anymore? 8:05:38 PM     |

Time After Time. Andy Warhol's Time Capsules at the MMK Frankfurt, until Feb. 29. Via gesternwarnichtheute. 10:22:26 AM     |

Words. The Foolish Dictionary. An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use. 9:52:15 AM     |

19th Nervous Breakdown. The artist Jeffrey Jones always had a history of depressions, now his illness has caught up with him. He suffered a nervous breakdown and lives currently in a community home for the mentally ill, unable to paint. 105 pages of his dark and broody paintings are still available on the web. 9:45:03 AM     |

Friday, December 26, 2003

How Brilliant. Lots of panoramas at Peter Murphy's Panoramic VR Weblog. 7:44:50 PM     |

Flaming Creatures. A Piero Heliczer Website. 1:05:21 PM     |

Quickmas. Somebody else is enjoying Christmas too. 1:00:52 PM     |

Zoe is definitely enjoying Christmas. Definitely. 10:44:11 AM     |

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Now this fits with the 'Festive Season'. Nico and the Velvets, I'll be your mirror [MP3 - 3rd from top]. Photo from The Velvet Underground and Nico. Mhmm - there's Lou on the left. But is he playing his Gretsch Country Gentleman or is this some different kind of guitar? How strange. I still want a Fender Jaguar though. 3:55:43 PM     |

The Cartoonist Recommends: Al Franken, Liars. Fabulous book, a Christmas present from my son. Better than Moore. Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has studied the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of "slander", "bias" and even "treason". He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this "fair and balanced report", he bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. 3:37:05 PM     |

The Scotland Diary. Armin Grewe has completed his Scotland Winter 2003 Travelogue and some of the pictures he took are breathtaking. If I'm getting enough freelance work next year, I'll definitely drive up there for a week or two. 3:12:59 PM     |

Lost Art. Help Mike Kaluta find his missing art. After you've done that, have a look at the art he hasn't mislaid yet. It's fab - Metropolis, The Shadow... 8:45:39 AM     |

Tooned Up. Classic TV characters like Jeannie, the Bundys and more as tooned up maquettes at Electric Tiki. Via Eye of the Goof. 8:33:04 AM     |

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

A Happy Christmas to All of You! 9:18:37 AM     |

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Crimestoppers. The Dick Tracy Museum. Great. 2:57:27 PM     |

We are Citizens of the Sky. Patrícia, thank you so much for this link - it's wonderful. A beautiful collection of images documenting the early history of aeronautics. Fantastic. 2:42:22 PM     |

Knowledge is Power. The Handbook for the Dental Technician. Nice. 10:39:14 AM     |

Arf, Arf! A new Robo-Dog. Runs on Windows though, so it's likely to crash... 10:31:46 AM     |

Monday, December 22, 2003

World Domination. Wanna become a proper villain? A terrorist? Or a second Dr Evil? Get all your stock at villainsupply.com. Fantastic online store for everything evil; good for some last minute Christmas presents. I've already ordered the LUNAR MASS DRIVER: Terrorize the Earth with our recently completed Lunar Mass Driver. Accelerate hunks of moon rock up to 10,000 metric tons in size up to 3700 mph, smashing any Earth city you choose to aim it at. Also good for destroying space stations, altering the Earth's weather, and yes, building a Socialist satellite paradise in space. Price: US450,000,000,000 I think I'll try it out on Gelsenkirchen, just after Christmas. Or they'll have to pay me a meeellion dollars for not trying it out. 3:35:51 PM     |

From my Sketchbooks. Good grief - this is now almost 6 years old. Time flies, I guess. 2:46:34 PM     |

White Christmas? Bah, humbug. Here's a gallery of digital snowflakes. 2:31:42 PM     |

A New Layout. Michelle has a new layout. Well, her weblog has. And she found a link to some fabulous old layouts. 9:14:39 AM     |

Piccadilly. This is one one of my favourite walks too - from Green Park to Chinatown. Thanks to Route 79. 8:52:46 AM     |

Sunday, December 21, 2003

Grrr. It started on Friday night. Spams, coming from one address, every 15 minutes the same message twice. On Saturday a second one joined in with a similar spam. Every 15 minutes. And now a third one. This amounts to about 300-400 spams on a daily basis, plus the usual spam I'm getting anyway. I couldn't care less, I just filter the crap and have it deleted automatically. But there are quite a few more people in the recipients list, all with pipex.dial addresses, who might not be so clever. Especially when you're away over the holidays and upon return find your mailbox has exploded. Guess there's another worm making the rounds. Brrr. 9:17:34 PM     |

Risks and Calamities. 56 Dutch posters on safety and health at work. Brilliant. 9:09:12 PM     |

Dick. A gallery of the most phallic buildings in the World. 10:33:38 AM     |