Category Archives: arts

every planet has quarries

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 October 02 by Anton

If I ever visit England again, I must look up some of these Doctor Who locations, particularly Aldbourne alias Devil’s End.

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Turkey City Lexicon

Posted on Sunday, 2002 September 29 by Anton

An amusing catalog of literary sins. (Blogged just now by Cory Doctorow.)

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another day, another blogpost

Posted on Thursday, 2002 September 26 by Anton

Learned this week: a pimple can be quite astonishingly painful, if it’s in the ear-canal. Miyazaki’s 千と千尋の神隠し Spirited Away was fun. I wonder how many of the monsters in the background could be recognized (by a trufan) from other works. … Continue reading →

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and it plays

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 September 25 by Anton

Harpsichord made almost entirely of Lego parts. (vectored by Sam Yorko and Clint Chaplin)

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they’re creepy and they’re kooky

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 September 11 by Anton

Was anyone else disappointed by the portrayal of Thing in the Addams Family feature films? In the tv series, I understood Thing to be a person (of unknown nature) who dwelt in a parallel space, intersecting with ordinary space only … Continue reading →

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signs

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 September 10 by Anton

If this were in Mad, it would be called Crop Circles We’d Like To See. “Soap on a Rope” recently marked its thousandth strip. You could do worse than to read it from the beginning.

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hard stars

Posted on Monday, 2002 September 09 by Anton

Vladimir Bulatov has made some awesome stellated polyhedra in wood. When I showed the small stellated dodecahedron to my housemate, she asked, “Did you make that in PoV-Ray?”

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