Krtek Molletje

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Zdeněk Miler

Zdeněk Miler is de bedenker en maker van de tekenfilms van "Molletje" (krtek). Ik heb vier delen aangeschaft van deze serie op DVD voor mijn zoontje. De verhaaltjes zijn stilistisch een wonder van technisch vernuft en originaliteit. Het zijn mooie compacte verhalen met veel fantasie waarin objecten net als in het werk van bijvoorbeeld Saul Steinberg een rol kunnen spelen in meerdere realiteiten (bijvoorbeeld in een twee dimensionale en een 3 dimensionale). Er staat iets meer informatie over Zdeněk Miler en zijn werk hier: http://www.tsjechie.net/board/f31/krtek-s-schepper-zdenek-miler-3475.html Later meer, en ook wat plaatjes!

Take a look at this movieclip. Looks really nice. I have never seen a Charles Burns Image move before. Look chilling. http://www.primalinea.com/pdn/images/peursteaser.htm I got the link for this teaser from the weblog of fantagraphics (the comics publisher) They also have some images that make your mouth either water or your jaw drop open: This is original art by Gilbert Hernandez. Just a stack ful of brilliant original art. Wow. I can't believe this one. One of those beautiful pages from the book Palestine by Joe Sacco, painstakingly rendered, is thrown in a box. According to the writer of the blog by Joe Sacco himself. Send me a line Joe, if there's more art you want to get rid off!!!

very good piece of writing about the counterculture movement

The Stone Age - Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll by Louis Menand http://www.totse.com/en/ego/can_you_dance_to_it/stoneage.html

good poster

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Basic_instinct_2.jpg

gallery of horrors

Nice site with a gallery of crime & horror covers. http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics/pages/crime-horror/adv-weird_worlds3.htm

cool blog

http://www.nicksherman.com/

nice IT tech site

http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/

wisdom

Hunter has the right idea

Hunter has the right idea. I want a sticker like that on my Renault Laguna.

I want to do this...

This looks so awesome. Like the only place in the world you'd want to be.

From the same site I posted about yesterday. Photographer's name is Jeff Divine. Photo is from 1974. This is Hawaii.

another one

libraries

this appears the publisher of some of my favourite photobooks:

A collection of photo's from Patrick Tourneboeuf:

cool guitars

The site that also contained Hunter's photo's contains some great picture books

Fishing with Guns

Another Hunter Thompson note. This blog is becoming a HST shrine.

Anyway I found some beautiful Hunter Thompson photo's here

I found them through a cool weblog. While I was looking for some more info on a new Hunter Thompson photobook which only costs 300 dollars..I have to make up my mind if that's worth feeding the small addiction I am building here.

on uncle neil's sound

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/sound.htm

Uncle Neil's battered black beauty

elliot smith documentary

elliot smth gear

I was listening to the new Elliot Smith album, which is brilliant and stunning. Just stole this of a a site. Guitar fetishists info. This is the guitar to buy: ELLIOTT SMITH

When it comes to musical equipment, prolific songwriter Elliott Smith doesn't need a lot of bells and whistles; he prefers to keep things fairly simple. His main acoustic guitar is a Yamaha, the model number of which escapes him. "It's a real standard-looking guitar," he says. (it is actually a YAMAHA FG-180)

"It's big and loud and made out of light wood. I don't use a pick when I play most of the time, and I chew my fingernails, so it's a good guitar for me because it's really loud." He recently expanded his collection with a Norman 12-string (La Si Do, 4240 Sere St., St. Laurent, PQ H4T 1A6, Canada; [514] 343-5560; sales@lasido.com).

Smith uses John Pearse medium-gauge, phosphor-bronze strings. "They seem to last longer," he explains. "I get mediums because I tune all the strings down a step. That happened by accident a couple of years ago. I didn't have my own guitar for quite awhile, and I'd play my girlfriend's guitar. I don't have perfect pitch and I didn't realize that it was way lower, so the E string was actually a D, the A string was a G, and so on. So, nowadays I just tune that way, and when I play older songs that were written in normal tuning, I put a capo on."

As far as amplification is concerned, Smith sees no need for pricey, complex equipment. "I go direct," he says. "I have one of those pickups that fits in the soundhole, a Lawrence. It was real cheap, like 40 bucks. It's the only one of those I've seen that has a metal cover instead of wood or plastic. I like it a lot better than a bridge pickup. It doesn't sound glassy or slick." (Editor's note: the Lawrence acoustic pickup is no longer available.)

(actually I have a photo of Elliot Smith playing a rare earth Fishman acoustic Guitar Pick up)

--Roger Len Smith

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