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Saturday, January 17, 2004 |
 I'm repeating this. Because it's great.Homes. De Stijl. Bauhaus. Guys, this is Pop. 70 Houses, built in 1932 in Vienna, all mod cons. Werkbundsiedlung Wien 1932, beautifully designed by my friend Charlotte. A fantastic website.
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Friday, January 16, 2004 |
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Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
 Old and New. Nice idea, nice concept, nice website: Steven Cook's alternity.Alternity began about 5 years ago when I started collecting old photographs and carte de visites of people. I began to wonder why people always looked as if they belonged to their own particular era and whether they'd look out of place in the 21st century wearing contemporary fashions. As an experiment I started to scan the photos and swap bits around digitally. Things got especially interesting when I began scanning from my own negatives and dropping those into the melange. With Alternity I have created my own version of the past, resurrecting these people from their long forgotten existence, giving them their fifteen minutes of fame - posthumously.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2004 |
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Monday, January 12, 2004 |
 The Cartoonist Recommends. Iain Sinclair, London Orbital. Fab.One might be forgiven for thinking that the only thing more boring than spending a year walking around the M25 would be reading a large book about walking around the M25. Yet Iain Sinclair's London Orbital is a fascinating and curiously haunting read.
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Sunday, January 11, 2004 |
 The Power of Black and White. Thanks to Rocky for reminding me of the great old lady: Lotte Reiniger. Lotte Reiniger, when mentioned at all, is most often brushed off in a single sentence noting that she apparently made a feature-length silhouette film in 1926,The Adventures of Prince Achmed; but since that was in Germany, and silhouettes aren't cartoons, Disney still invented the feature-length animated film with Snow White. Anyone who has seen Prince Achmed wouldn't be convinced by this reasoning, but, alas, only a tiny fraction of the people who see Snow White ever get to see any Reiniger film at all. Few of her nearly 70 films are readily available--and almost none of them in excellent prints; when Reiniger fled Germany to England in the 1930s, she was not able to bring her original negatives with her, so most modern prints are copies of copies, which have lost much of the fine detail, especially in backgrounds. Lotte Reiniger by William Moritz
Drawn to be Wild: The life of Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger at Wikipedia
The Lotte Reiniger Museum in Tübingen
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Monthly Raumpatrouille. Art, architecture and electronics at the GSD Headquarters. While GSD stands for Galaktischer Sicherheitsdienst, meaning Security Service of the Galaxy, I prefer the translation Galactic Security Department, because then the German abbreviation (GSD) fits perfectly.
Sketchbook Time. More crude drawings from my sketchbooks.
Punch! 
How Strange. How bizarre. How surreal. 
Ordnance Survey Drawings. Wonderfully drawn maps of 
Performing Arts. Thanks to 
Franquin Again. A wonderful 
The Decline of Fashion Photography. 
Moon Mission. Read the 
Soapy. 
Howdy! In the desperate need of a gunfighter? Oh, look no further. Get them all at 
And even more Space Art. Enter the World of 
Some More Art. 
Nice. Just round the corner, at 
Curious Cards for Bewildering Times. At 
Again, I am not surprised. 
Space Art. Nice 
Have a Sunshiney Day. 
Bug-eyed Monsters. 
Bad Taste. Here's 
This is Punk. The Dead Boys. Stiv Bators, Johnny Blitz, Cheetah Chrome; they're all 
The Forgotten Art of GIF. 
Chaos in Germany. Well, not everywhere (apart from the 
Point & Shoot. 
Dinky. A few more Dinky spreads are 
Expensive. Original art at