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Link thievery 2

January 7, 2005

Every now and again I see an ad, or series of ads, that are just wonderful. The Observer Music Magazine's From Abba to Zappa campaign was one such series, with fantastically stylistic depictions of famous bands. It's only now I learn that these were the work of one Craig Robinson, whose blog is just, whew, […]

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Link thievery 1

January 7, 2005

Michael Paulus has drawn a most amazingly beautiful set of skeletons for cartoon characters. Really wonderful. (Via A Gentleman's Commonplace.)

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Late to the Flickr party

October 20, 2004

I signed up for a Flickr account ages ago – before I'd even moved CnV from Blog-City to Blogware so it must have been early March – but although I've been signed up for months, it's taken me until now to start uploading photos. The impetus was wanting to post photos from last weekend's drinks […]

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This way, magnificent Valhalla lies

February 24, 2004

If you can just slip behind a molecule… There it is. Just as Douglas Adams described it. St Pancras. The huge locomotive shed, fronted by The Midland Grand Hotel, empty now for years, sadly deserted and abandoned. The first time I ever went to St Pancras I thought it was spelt St Pancreas and couldn't […]

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