Gold Leaf Information
Topic: Art
Zinnober Gold Leaf Information -- "Zinnober.biz is a sister site to sinopia.com dedicated to making the use of gold easy for anyone to understand. Gold leaf has been used for thousands of years to adorn many different types of surfaces, yet very few people are actually aware of how gold surfaces are created and of the materials involved. Many people believe that a gold paint is used; in fact, thin sheets of gold are adhered to the surface." Find out How Gold Leaf is made (via OP Group)

FeedMap and GeoURL - My Location
Topic: Blogging
FeedMap -- Find out where I blog from or see other bloggers in my area on My Blogmap powered by feedmap.net. Check out the blogs around Niblog.

¶GeoURL is back. Here is a list of Sites near Niblog.

Technorati tags: geourl : feedmap : blogmap

Northern Soul - BBC Radio Player
Topic: Music
Northern Soul -- I found this great radio show at the BBC Radio Homepage. "Northern Soul, Broadcast on Radio Stoke, Mary Fox plays classic Motown and Northern soul tunes from the past thirty years." Click here to listen (you will need RealPlayer)

»Read more at Mary Fox's Northern & Motown Experience
»Check out northernsoul.co.uk the UK's number one Northern Soul web site

Technorati tags: soul : motown : northern

Pogus Caesar - OOM Gallery
Topic: Photography
Pogus Caesar -- OOM Gallery proudly presents a life time's work, showcasing Caesar's photography, photomontage and film collections. (link via Carl Lowell's comment)

"Pogus Caesar is best known for 35mm black and white photography and unique and compelling photo montages, created using traditional methods of cutting, burning and breaking images, using his photographs, resin, sand, dirt, pieces of cloth and other household materials."

"I like simplicity and prefer using fixed focus Nikon or Canon cameras, I just photograph the world around me, things I find interesting".

Phoenician Alphabet - Mother of Modern Writing
Topic: Education
Phoenician Alphabet, Mother of Modern Writing -- "Although the Phoenicians used cuneiform (Mesopotamian writing) in what we call Ugaritic, they also produced a script of their own. The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet. It was the Phoenicians' most remarkable and distinctive contribution to civilization." All about the Phoenician alphabet and anything Phoenician at phoenicia.org

Hall's Stationers and Engravers
Topic: Design
I like the ads in The Kansas City Journal-Post. A Digital Version of the Diamond Jubilee Section of December 29th, 1929.
(via The Cartoonist and One Man Safari)

StorTroopers - make yourself!
Topic: Blogging
StorTroopers are back - and updated. There's the original classic set, plus the gothTroopers and a new wardrobe for fashionistaTroopers. They've added a Creative Commons license, which means that you can add stuff to your trooper yourself. (via linkfilter)

My kids love this site. They made the storTrooper, and they say he looks like me.

Chinese Watermelon Art
Topic: Art
Chinese Watermelon Carvings -- Art? Sculpture? Food? (via Jane Parillo in Cyberscribes)

Junior Delgado 1958 - 2005
Topic: Music
Sad news of the passing of Junior Delgado in his sleep last night. Long time London resident produced some of the heaviest, dread reggae music ever... (via linkfilter)

LINKS:
¶Junior Delgado Passes On - Jamaica Observer 13.Apr.2005
¶Junior Delgado's Incredible Music Studio
¶Biography at allmusic.com

Technorati tag: reggae

Punk United - The world's largest punk CD cover site!
Topic: Music
Punk United has over fifteen thousand full-size scans of CD covers. Also, news, reviews, interviews and community stuff. (via linkfilter)

1000 pens I don't want!
Topic: Pens, Pencils
No, I am not bidding on the 1000 pens at the Swedish auction site Tradera.com, but I like the image. Auction ends 19.Apr.2005. Opening bid 900 SEK (approx. US $125) [I have no business relation with the seller.]

Tex Avery Tribute
Topic: Animation
TexAvery.com is a tribute to the genius of cartoonist Tex Avery. He is the creator of such characters as The Wolf, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel. His cartoon style of slapstick gags and hilarious situations are still being imitated today, over forty years after they were created. (via Cartoon Brew)

A blog for the rich
Topic: Pens, Pencils
Luxist is a blog about luxury products. They are covering expensive writing instruments on this site, for example this new desk pen from Michel Perchin. The pen is one of a new series. It’s sterling silver and is guilloched and enameled in deep blue. There are only ten of this pen available (in rollerball only) and it costs $6,000.

LINKS:
»Writing Instruments Blog at luxist.com
»Michel Perchin Home Page
»Michel Perchin desk pen
»Michel Perchin post by Deidre Woollard 28.Feb.2005 at luxist.com

Det Hemliga Vapnet - L'Affaire Tournesol
Topic: Comics
Det Hemliga Vapnet - Tintin Book Number 18 - the new Swedish translation by Björn Wahlberg is available in the stores now. More about Tintin on my TINTIN PAGE

»Köp Det Hemliga Vapnet från Bokus Bokhandel (Swedish bookstore)
»Search eBay auctions for Tintin Books and Collectibles

Font Fetish
Topic: Typography
FoNt fetiSh - P 11 has created a flash interactive website targeted specifically towards designers who love typography. (via adland)

Brause Calligraphy - Kalligraphie - Calligraphie
Topic: Nibs
Brause was founded in 1850 in Iserlohn, Germany, and initially specialised in manufacturing needles. It rapidly developed into a modern company, namely through a steam engine acquired in 1866. The Brause-GmbH web site has been up for a while (in German). Now they have launched a calligraphy site in English, French and German at www.brause-kalligraphie.com.

»My page about Brause Nibs (in Swedish)

New York City Liquor Store Signs
Topic: Signs
Forgotten Signs "Still, in an era with cheap vinyl awnings dominating most New York City storefronts, the meticulous, well-crafted liquor store signs stand out like a sore thumb. So... here are just a few... some of these have disappeared since I shot them!"

»More vintage NYC signs at forgotten-ny.com (Link via Pittsburgh Signs Project)

Antique Quill Nibs for Ink Pens
Topic: Quills
Antique Quill Nibs for Ink Pens for sale on eBay. "A small box approx 1 1/2"Sq x 3/4" of Mordan & Cos Patent Portable Pens, Patentees of the ever sharp pointed pencils London, containing approx 13 what look like quill nibs." Auction ends 4.Apr.2005. View eBay item #6521413964. (I have no business relation with the seller.)

»Search eBay for nibs

UPDATE: Winning bid was GBP 226.00 (Approx. US $425)

Ninja Lettering
Topic: Comics
Ninja-Lettering -- comic book lettering by Payton Gauldin.
(found in the Digital Webbing Forums : Lettering Showcase)

UPDATE: The site's official URL is going to be www.ninjalettering.com very soon.

Czech Master Butchers - Official Logo of Kostelecke uzeniny, a.s.
Topic: Logos
Kostelecke uzeniny -- "The registered trademark of the joint stock company Kostelecke uzeniny guarantees the high quality of the products. It is based on the experience and tradition started by master butchers already in 1917."

"The production of Kostelecke uzeniny includes meat products - made of pork, beef and poultry meat and complete range of meat products. Last but not least also the original, dry-cured aged salamis with white cultivated mold, the production of which is unrivalled in the Czech Republic. (Found via the comments at fark.com)