beautifully animated short film. Course and sweet. Charlie Harper meets tatsuro kiuchi, or something like that!
Thanks José!
Thanks José!
12/18/2008
12/07/2008
Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub
I saw this image in an episode of Roel van broekhoven en Geert Maks's "In Europ (an episode about horrific revenge on the german's).
I googled the picture and would like to keep it on loan on this blog so that I can look at it everytime I am here. This is such a loaded image when you know it's context. This photographer Lee Miller taking a bath in the bath of the führer. Her boots neatly in front of the bath. There are two exposures which seem to have been taken seconds after eachother.
There is the dramatic historical context. The fact that a liberal american woman reporter is sitting in the bath of a fascist leader. The venus-like statue on the table which whose movement is mirrored by Lee Miller. The small portrait of Hitler, who aparantly was so narcistic that even when he was taking a bath he needed an idealized image rather than a mirror.
This photo is endlessly fascinating....
I googled the picture and would like to keep it on loan on this blog so that I can look at it everytime I am here. This is such a loaded image when you know it's context. This photographer Lee Miller taking a bath in the bath of the führer. Her boots neatly in front of the bath. There are two exposures which seem to have been taken seconds after eachother.
There is the dramatic historical context. The fact that a liberal american woman reporter is sitting in the bath of a fascist leader. The venus-like statue on the table which whose movement is mirrored by Lee Miller. The small portrait of Hitler, who aparantly was so narcistic that even when he was taking a bath he needed an idealized image rather than a mirror.
This photo is endlessly fascinating....
12/05/2008
resource links
resource links stolen from the site mentioned in the last post. Yummy
- library of congress
- british library
- library france
- library holland
- library spain
- library portugal
- european library
- library australia
- collections canada
- digital poland
- nypl digital
- botanicus digital
- rare book room
- britmuseum prints
- smithsonian galaxy
- casglu'r tlysau
- rumsey collection
- digital scriptorium
- cesg manuscripts
- swiss manuscripts
- pecia mss blog
- digital book index
- online exhibitions
- primary sources
- worldcat search
- library directory
- digital librarian
- intute resources
- herder institute
- warburg institute
- lexilogos links
- digiwiki links
- archivalia blog
- museum blogs
- book arts web
- visual arts
- arts journal
- artcyclopedia
- penmanship
- woodblock
- coconino
- alchemy website
- health history links
- history network
- new advent
cooper
Cooper is debunking the myths about webdesign. Very good article. I know he's talking about me and my fellow imagemakers/designers. Yet he's so right.... and we're so wrong in thinking that the web is just another medium..
this food for thought.
this food for thought.
12/04/2008
11/18/2008
11/16/2008
1500 SCI-FI covers. Urania sixties
1500 Covers of Urania, an Italian Sci Fi series ... incredible artwork and some really crazy images; monsters, semi nude women, it's all there.
Illustrator is Karel Thole. Yes a dutchman who moved to Milano in 1958. Graphic Designer, Cartoonist, Illustrator, dopehead?
I came across it googling for the illustrator of a sixties edition of Don Camillo which I found lying on a desk at my wife's parents.
Illustrator is Karel Thole. Yes a dutchman who moved to Milano in 1958. Graphic Designer, Cartoonist, Illustrator, dopehead?
I came across it googling for the illustrator of a sixties edition of Don Camillo which I found lying on a desk at my wife's parents.
11/14/2008
11/13/2008
GrainEdit
GrainEdit is a nice bloglike site with interviews with the best illustrators. They also have and even more interesting site on flickr where they keep and store the goodies. Hot Damn! Vault after vault is opened. Where does one find the time tom cherish all these delicacies?
tips and tricks for designers
This website, called Before and After contains a lot of tool tips, practical guidelines on essential design elements
9/25/2008
Bram Schouw commercial for Sensoor
Tonight I saw a good commercial (in dutch) on AT5 from director Bram Schouw for Sensoor. check it out.
9/09/2008
8/25/2008
Paul Sahre's dog's stick collection
I also found this on Paul Sahre's site. A collection of sticks from his dog which they started in 1994 .
Paul Sahre bookcover designs
I found out about this very good book-designer called Paul Sahre from New York. He designs mostly book covers but also makes pretty illustrations. He's amazing with both typography and imagery. All his covers are distinctie, very funny, original and they fit the content beautifully.
Paul, if you read this, I hope you don't me showing the ten people who read this blog your artwork. If you do, please let me know.
Paul, if you read this, I hope you don't me showing the ten people who read this blog your artwork. If you do, please let me know.
6/18/2008
6/17/2008
delillo II
This review of Delillo's Americana. One of my favorite novels is so well written, it's almost as good as the book.:
The time, the age, the epoch, the season, the culrue, and the genius at full bloom at the outset, March 13, 2007
It has already been written.
This is it. Vonnegut
in his fiction wrote that all you
need to know how to live is in the Brother's
Karamazov, but it's not enough anymore. If you live
in America, this is the supplement. In the negative sense.
One almost should enjoy this novel one sentence at a time.
Each one is genius. I also like the way Delillo micromanages words,
and sentences. The page is extremely claustrophobic, but it is an extremely cozy nook. The vividness with which this novel comes alive is perhaps its triumph. Delillo has described the journey of David Bell so well, that one can live in it vicariously, and doesn't have to make it themselves. I do not want to make that cross country sojourn anymore to writhe the experience out of Americana, get some vital juice out of being an American. He describes the currents and undercurrents very well.
The heart of the book is, I believe, on page 130.
...Something else was left over for the rest of us, or some of the rest of us, and it was the dream of the good life, innocent enough, simple enough on the surface, beginning for me as soon as I could read and continuing through the era of the early astronauts, the red carpet welcome on the aircraft carrier as the band played on. It encompassed all those things that people are said to want, materials and objects and the shadows they cast, and yet the dream had its complexities, its edges of illusion and self-deception, an implication of serio-comic death. To achieve an existence totally symbolic is less simple than mining the buried metals of other countries or sending the pilots of your squadron to hang their bombs over some illiterate village." [...]
I think this is what Americans are striving to ultimately do, (speaking of the general culture) and this is of course, as Delillo points out in the novel is not only destructive but impossible.
He also talks truth about the role of statistics in the national consciousness. Everyone, will, or should find a foible of Americana that they can appropriate as knowledge, something to call their own form now `till death.
One can get distracted, but the entire message for me is this: There is nothing in the American culture worth having. On the fringes, or in the mainstream. Pick your poison. A book dedicated to this is monumental. This really is, I think, the great American Novel, which is as fertile today as it was in 1971.
The time, the age, the epoch, the season, the culrue, and the genius at full bloom at the outset, 
This review is from: Americana (Paperback)
No need to write the great American Novel.
It has already been written.
This is it. Vonnegut
in his fiction wrote that all you
need to know how to live is in the Brother's
Karamazov, but it's not enough anymore. If you live
in America, this is the supplement. In the negative sense.
One almost should enjoy this novel one sentence at a time.
Each one is genius. I also like the way Delillo micromanages words,
and sentences. The page is extremely claustrophobic, but it is an extremely cozy nook. The vividness with which this novel comes alive is perhaps its triumph. Delillo has described the journey of David Bell so well, that one can live in it vicariously, and doesn't have to make it themselves. I do not want to make that cross country sojourn anymore to writhe the experience out of Americana, get some vital juice out of being an American. He describes the currents and undercurrents very well.
The heart of the book is, I believe, on page 130.
...Something else was left over for the rest of us, or some of the rest of us, and it was the dream of the good life, innocent enough, simple enough on the surface, beginning for me as soon as I could read and continuing through the era of the early astronauts, the red carpet welcome on the aircraft carrier as the band played on. It encompassed all those things that people are said to want, materials and objects and the shadows they cast, and yet the dream had its complexities, its edges of illusion and self-deception, an implication of serio-comic death. To achieve an existence totally symbolic is less simple than mining the buried metals of other countries or sending the pilots of your squadron to hang their bombs over some illiterate village." [...]
I think this is what Americans are striving to ultimately do, (speaking of the general culture) and this is of course, as Delillo points out in the novel is not only destructive but impossible.
He also talks truth about the role of statistics in the national consciousness. Everyone, will, or should find a foible of Americana that they can appropriate as knowledge, something to call their own form now `till death.
One can get distracted, but the entire message for me is this: There is nothing in the American culture worth having. On the fringes, or in the mainstream. Pick your poison. A book dedicated to this is monumental. This really is, I think, the great American Novel, which is as fertile today as it was in 1971.
delillo
came across this blurb on amazon.
"For Mark Osteen, the most bracing and unsettling feature of DeLillo's
work is that, although his fiction may satirize cultural forms, it
never does so from a privileged position outside the culture. His work
brilliantly mimics the argots of the very phenomena it dissects:
violent thrillers and conspiracy theories, pop music, advertising,
science fiction, film, and television. As a result, DeLillo has been
read both as a denouncer and as a defender of contemporary culture; in
fact, Osteen argues, neither description is adequate. DeLillo's
dialogue with modern institutions, such as chemical companies, the CIA,
and the media, respects their power and ingenuity while criticizing
their dangerous consequences. Even as DeLillo borrows from their
discourses, he maintains a tenaciously opposing stance toward the
sources of collective power."
I think this is remarkably well put. And it explains an attitude/dialogue which I try to hold high.
"For Mark Osteen, the most bracing and unsettling feature of DeLillo's
work is that, although his fiction may satirize cultural forms, it
never does so from a privileged position outside the culture. His work
brilliantly mimics the argots of the very phenomena it dissects:
violent thrillers and conspiracy theories, pop music, advertising,
science fiction, film, and television. As a result, DeLillo has been
read both as a denouncer and as a defender of contemporary culture; in
fact, Osteen argues, neither description is adequate. DeLillo's
dialogue with modern institutions, such as chemical companies, the CIA,
and the media, respects their power and ingenuity while criticizing
their dangerous consequences. Even as DeLillo borrows from their
discourses, he maintains a tenaciously opposing stance toward the
sources of collective power."
I think this is remarkably well put. And it explains an attitude/dialogue which I try to hold high.
6/16/2008
coolness
no other word for it: cool. every link a journey in itself. Great great site. It contains so much stuff I am really interested in I don't know where to start.
Everyone Forever. Twinned by equally cool Advanced Beauty and Universal Everything
Everyone Forever. Twinned by equally cool Advanced Beauty and Universal Everything
more about book covers
This weblog is all about book covers. Good stuff for book- and illustration lovers (oui, moi)
It also has a post about a bookdesign by Seth (I'm a big fan). I saw this book in the store this afternoon and it's very pretty.
Here's a funny comic of a talk given by seth and Chris Ware. thanks to strippedcomics.
It also has a post about a bookdesign by Seth (I'm a big fan). I saw this book in the store this afternoon and it's very pretty.
Here's a funny comic of a talk given by seth and Chris Ware. thanks to strippedcomics.
alice tait
When browsing in the bookstore I came across a beautiful cover illustration. I (barely) remembered the last name"tait" and when I came home I googled it. Her name is Alice Tait and boy what a gems I found on her website.
By the way I bought a wonderful book: the collected stories of Joan Didion: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. And that's the truth.
By the way I bought a wonderful book: the collected stories of Joan Didion: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. And that's the truth.
6/06/2008
5/14/2008
fabulous poster designs
The Mountain Goats Noise Pop Concert Poster by Nate Duval
Explosions in the Sky Concert Poster by Nate Duval
Damn, I missed out on the Explosions in the Sky concert last monday in the Paradiso. Such a shame
the Decemberists by Jason munn of the Small Stakes
The Arcade Fire London Concert Poster (#1) by Burlesque Design
by Burlesque Design
Rage Against the Machine Poster by Ken Taylor (a shame about the typography, such a dragging cliché those soviet letterings). The man can draw and design though
Snow Patrol, Hot Hot Heat Concert Poster by Daniel Danger
Decemberists by Jeff Kleinsmith
Hot Chocolate Art Print by Dan McCarthy. this guy is real find for me. I love his work. He;s obviously fascinated by contours and lines.
By the way, I took most of the images from posters and toys, where I got myself three posters! Can't wait!
why wasn't I told? film leaders
Submarinechannel: Supposedly this is one of the 100 websites you must have seen (before you die?), I mean this part of the site: All the great leaders, opening sequences and so on of movies. Subtitle: Forget the film, watch the titles.
A delight it is indeed.
A delight it is indeed.
Great Motion Graphics Design
This is a great intro for "300" by Garson Yu of yU+co (interview here).
Found this on Motiongrapher, a pretty and elaborate and very informative site about, you guessed it, motion graphics.
There I also found a clip of a commercial by 180 Amsterdam for HTC, the Iphone rip-off. Very nice.
Found this on Motiongrapher, a pretty and elaborate and very informative site about, you guessed it, motion graphics.
There I also found a clip of a commercial by 180 Amsterdam for HTC, the Iphone rip-off. Very nice.
5/05/2008
cool furniture
This piece of furniture designed by Giuseppe Canevese features the artwork of graphic artist Guido Crepax (1933-2003), who was influential in the development of European comic art in the second half of the 20th century. His most famous storyline, featuring the character “Valentina“, was created in 1965.
(quote from here and here)
Creator of Erotic comic art, graphically brilliant.
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