The Cartoonist

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Yawn. BBC SPORT | Schumi claims European pole 9:49:17 PM     |

POW! The best Bat site around? Probably (ViewMaster!). Found this gem at linkfilter. 9:13:54 PM     |

Excellent. Martin Archer's website, Daze of our Lives. Absolutely fantastic. 9:01:45 PM     |

Books on Demand. I was wondering if some of my countless readers might have any experience with a Books On Demand service? I'm thinking about republishing my graphic novel, Antarktis Expedition 1931/32 - Das Tagebuch des Peter Ludwig Fall (Antarctic Expedition 1931/32 - the diary of Peter Ludwig Fall; a few sample pages here), but this time extended with an English translation, preliminary sketches and the materials I've used - old newspaper clippings etc. Please leave your comments below... what are the hidden costs, for example? How about distribution? What do I have to pay before they start printing? I've checked out a few BOD sites, but they're all somehow confusing. By the way: the original book as published by Greno is still available second hand at ZVAB; just do a search for 'zeigermann'. 12:59:25 PM     |

48 Posters. The Swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. Via paperholic. 9:03:54 AM     |

ArtLex. The art dictionary. Fab. Via Kunstspaziergänge. Welcome to ArtLex. You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references. 7:12:58 AM     |

Daily Bizarre. Guardian Unlimited - Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder The boy - who is now 15 and can be referred to only as John for legal reasons - persuaded his friend, known as Mark, now 17, to stab him to death in order to pass a fictitious initiation test for the British secret services in a meticulously planned attack one Sunday evening last summer. 6:38:52 AM     |

Friday, May 28, 2004

A Portrait of the Artist. Rembrandt's self portraits. Fab. Via Plep. 3:38:10 PM     |

Really Fast. Speed Racer, the official website. 3:28:09 PM     |

Pit Stop. A movie. Via IT&W. 10:08:36 AM     |

The Naked Truth. And it's all about Area 51. From 1994 to 1996 Glenn Campbell, living in a trailer in Rachel, Nevada, published his newsletter The Groom Lake Desert Rat. That was at a time when UFOs were really hip and Area 51 was even hipper. Interesting. Related: Area 51 hackers dig up trouble - The Register. 9:28:21 AM     |

The Grandson again. Irish Times Article - Emergency law to prevent copyright threat to Joyce show The Government is bringing emergency legislation before the Seanad today to ensure that a major exhibition of James Joyce's work is not blocked by a copyright dispute. 9:11:34 AM     |

Thursday, May 27, 2004

This is Cult. And definitely an entry for The Old Fart MP3 Competition. Roy Black. A website by Jürgen Koppelin, MdB (Mitglied des Bundestages); those politicians surely know how to spend their time. Fantastic. And here is Roy Black with Du bist nicht allein [MP3, 3.4MB]. Because I couldn't find this particular song anywhere on the web, I'm hosting it on my own server. Which means, it'll disappear Sunday Morning (Velvets Cover by Cactus Blanket; the original is God knows where) at the latest. Oi! That's a double entry! SWR, please jot down 2 points for The Cartoonist! And I guess you are getting a fiver for Back in the USSR? Bugger: all in the absence of IT&W. Well, while the cat's away, the mice will play. Ok, this is gruselig; but not necessarily uncool. As a matter of fact, it's quite fab. 6:14:15 PM     |

Kaliman. El Hombre Increible. No idea what it's about, but it's great. Via Eye of the Goof. 3:39:26 PM     |

Understanding the Brits. I've blogged this before. And here it is again, because it's just too good. George Mikes: How to be an Alien. Fab. In fact, it deserves a double-fab at least. And I guess Majo will like it anyway - if he ever returns from Legoland. When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I'd been here an hour I realised that I did not understand one word. In the first week I picked up a tolerable working knowledge of the language and the next seven years convinced me gradually but thoroughly that I would never know it really well, let alone perfectly. This is sad. My only consolation being that nobody speaks English perfectly. Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and yet another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard before, and nobody else either. 1:47:23 PM     |

This is Fantastic. I just happened to notice the Memex 1.1 Radio Weblog - it's from Cambridge (UK)! Brilliant. Fantastic. Fab. Great articles, lots of nice photography, and having lived in Cambridge myself for about 6 years, I can only agree: Summer always catches Cambridge unawares. One day it's wet, overcast and cold. Then, when you least expect it, you find yourself living in one of the most achingly beautiful towns in the world. 1:11:34 PM     |

It's Sketchbook Time again. Phew ... those 'faces' must be at least 6 years old. Sorry about this - I was just looking through some old stuff of mine. 12:54:21 PM     |

The OS X Security Issue. John Gruber explains the unexplained and how to prevent the unpreventable. Great article. Via Universal Rule. 7:30:11 AM     |

EVAs. The Swiss artist Max Grüter renders Extra Vehicular Activities. In short, Astronauts. And fab they are. Whole lotta thanks to Reimund for the tip! 7:14:53 AM     |

Musical Type. Typographic Illustration. With music. Great. 7:05:26 AM     |

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

The Old Fart MP3 Competition. The God of Hellfire, Arthur Brown. Via Gravity Lens. And here's Fire (Sample). 7:29:31 AM     |

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Groovy. Iron Butterfly posters. Via Ye Olde Phart. 9:25:55 PM     |

One Hell of Energy. Ernest O. Lawrence and the Cyclotron. Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958) helped elevate American physics to world leadership. His invention of the cyclotron, an accelerator of subatomic particles, won him the Nobel Prize in 1939. His entrepreneurial development of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley ushered in the era of [base "]Big Science.[per thou] 9:13:54 PM     |

Monday, May 24, 2004

This is a proper Art Exhibition. The Duckomenta. Thanks to Clemens. 10:04:32 PM     |

Those Staircases... The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman. 9:57:33 PM     |

More Toys. I've updated the Dinky/Corgi gallery. 9:53:00 PM     |

Rocketry. Peter Thorpe, a painter of rockets (among other stuff). 9:46:14 PM     |

The nasty Realist. Helnwein. 9:39:29 PM     |

A Bit of Time Travel. Because I'm quite busy tomorrow, here are tomorrow's entries today! Wish I could do that with the lottery. 9:34:42 PM     |

Heavens Above. Yet another nice exhibition. An exhibition contrasting the 19th century art and science of Etienne Trouvelot with contemporary photographic images from NASA. 7:47:58 AM     |

Krautpunk. Articles from 70s Sounds Magazine and more (all in German, I'm afraid). 7:35:22 AM     |

Sunday, May 23, 2004

OS X Software of the Month. Hotel Magritte. A Screensaver. Via IT&W. 6:26:52 PM     |

Desktops. By Jhonen Vasquez. Fab. 6:18:42 PM     |

Bang. Firing off an old flintlock pistol in super slow motion [Quicktime, 2.4MB]. 7:53:27 AM     |

Proper Advertising. Before and After Trade Cards. 7:44:31 AM     |