Doodleblog Simple but subtly addictive image blog by illustrator and doodle-compulsive Simon Palmer. You're never more than two metres from a doodle...

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Male model
2008-06-15 17:48:00
"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset." Tom Hopkins ...

See through you
2008-06-14 15:36:00
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." Jean Baudrillard ...

Head in the clouds
2008-06-12 14:51:00
Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beat with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region stay, Lulled by the singer of an empty day. William Morris, "An Apology," The Earthly Paradise ...

X number of times
2008-06-11 14:43:00
"Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them." Jean de La Fontaine ...

The face of violence
2008-06-09 06:21:00
"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men." Jacob Bronowski, The Face of Violence (1954) ...

Landfill
2008-06-06 09:43:00
"On going through files recently, we discovered that your file was designated as " untreated" , so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any office now and call the attention of the appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly ." Spam fragment (Office of the Paymaster General Federal Republic of Nigeria) ...

Ghosts
2008-06-06 08:33:00
One dog barks at nothing ten thousand others pass it on Japanese aphorism (in W.S. Merwin, Asian Figures, New York, 1975) ...

A certain knack
2008-06-03 06:51:00
"If the author of this little volume is an artist he draws poorly, but he has a certain knack for writing... If he's a writer he's just middling, but to make up for that he has a nice little flair for drawing." Rodolphe Töpffer ...

Hands off our back gardens
2008-06-02 03:22:00
"Developments like this ruin the desirability of the village. Scarborough is trying to attract businesses. We need high-value, low-density housing to attract entrepreneurs and the council should realise that. But in its report the planning department seemed to ignore completely the principle of development in gardens - which we thought was shocking." Jean Greenan, Scalby Village Trust, a former mayor of Scarborough and one-time planning committee chairwoman, quoted in "Hands off our gardens!", The Telegraph, 24/05/2007 ...

Another party
2008-06-01 01:19:00
"Doodling becomes a recognition of self. By looking at what has been drawn freehand, without any specification, I can see my own mentality objectively." Koji Morimoto ...

Fireproof
2008-03-07 23:11:00
"Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." G. K. Chesterton ...

Noli me tangere
2008-03-05 15:24:00
"We will ask them where they came from, towards what historical destination they are moving without being aware of it, what naivety blinds them to the conditions that make them possible, and what metaphysical enclosure encloses their rudimentary positivism. And so in the end it will not matter that the unconscious is not, as we believed and affirmed, the implicit edge of consciousness; it will not matter that a mythology is no longer a world-view, and that a novel is something other than the outer slope of a lived experience; for the reason that establishes all these new 'truths' is under strict supervision: neither itself, nor its past, nor that which makes it possible, nor that which makes it ours escapes the attribution of transcendence. For it is to it now - and we are determined never to abandon this - that will now pose the question of the origin, the first constitution, the teleological horizon, temporal continuity. It is that thought, which is now becoming ours, that we wil ...

Killing music
2008-03-05 14:23:00
"Once again, we're being told that home taping (in the form of ripping and burning) is killing music. But it's not: It simply exists as a nod to the true love and ego involved in sharing music with friends and lovers. Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it." Thurston Moore ...

Face
2008-03-03 20:26:00
"The expression of an isolated face is a whole which is intelligible by itself. We have nothing to add to it by thought, nor have we anyhing to add to that which is of space or time. When a face that we have just seen in the middle of a crowd is detached from its surroundings, put into relief, it is as if e were suddenly face to face with it. Or furthermore if we have seen it before in a large room, we will no longer think of this when we scrutinise the face in close-up. For the expression of a face and the signification of that expression have no relation or connection with space. Faced with an isolated face, we do not perceive space. Our sensation of space is abolished. A dimension of another order is opened up to us." Bela Balazs, Der Film ...

Out from under the shadow of a monster
2008-01-31 12:09:00
"This restored version of the original reveals that it is, in fact, a minor masterpiece by a highly gifted former assistant to Kurosawa and features one of Japan's greatest actors, Takashi Shimura, leader of The Seven Samurai, as a palaeontologist investigating the appearance of a fierce prehistoric beast awakened by an American H-bomb test in the Pacific." Philip French, review of Gojira, in The Observer, 2005 ...
Monster  Shadow 

Correspondence with Shuji Terayama
2008-01-26 10:22:00
"While driven to create art in many genres, Terayama nurtured above all his roles as a trickster and outsider, encouraging disaffected youths to rebel against social convention. His theatrical troupe, Tenjô Sajiki, was a haven for talented pop artists, transvestites, dwarves, circus performers, and gamblers. His directorial style was so idiosyncratic that it was generally believed that his works could not be remounted after his death. However, because the provocative content of his plays continues to resonate for many Japanese today, internationally renowned directors such as Ninagawa Yukio have been prompted to produce new versions both in Japan and abroad." aNobii.com review of Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji And Postwar Japan, by Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei ...

Seasonal affective disorder
2008-01-08 17:56:00
"A cloud of locusts carried in by the wind at five in the evening; a vampire who goes out at night, a werewolf at full moon. It should not be thought that a haecceity consists simply of a decor or backdrop that situates subjects, or of appendages that hold things and people to the ground. It is the entire assemblage in its individuated aggregate that is a haecceity; it is this assemblage that is defined by a longitude and latitude, by speeds and affects, independently of forms and subjects, which belong to another plane. It is the wolf itself, and the horse, and the child, that cease to be subjects to become events, in assemblages that are inseparable from an hour, a season, an atmosphere, an air, a life. The street enters into composition with the horse, just as the dying rat enters into composition with the air, and the beast and the full moon enter into composition with each other." Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ...

Low winter sun
2008-01-06 00:39:00
"For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave: thou wouldst have wearied of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra ...
Winter 

Unexpected sonic boom
2008-01-04 11:58:00
"Let your virtue be too exalted for the familiarity of names: and if you have to speak of it, do not be ashamed to stammer." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra ...
Sonic 

Stabile
2008-01-02 11:59:00
"Large predators continued their visitations until the end of the eighteenth century, by which time human hunters had nearly driven them to extinction. And yet they were not the only species for whom human beings were a food source. Of greater importance, and of more enduring influence, were the "micropredators," the diseases that ate human flesh from within. Contagious diseases and their hosts form complex, nonlinear dynamical systems with several possible states. When the population of hosts is insufficient, or insufficiently packed, making contagion difficult for the microorganism, the dynamical system enters an unstable state called "epidemic," and the population of germs grows explosively until it burns out its human fuel. When, on the contrary, overall population and population density are beyond a critical threshold, so that there is always a fresh supply of flesh for the parasites to infect (typically small children), after a few epidemics the dynamical system stabilizes in ...

When will it snow?
2007-12-09 11:29:00
"To find out how high the risk of snow is for your area over the next five days, enter your town or postcode and click the button alongside. This feature is updated 4 times a day using the very latest data, so check back regularly to stay upto date. Please note that the images are just an illustration of the snow risk and not an indication of how heavy any snow may be." netweather.tv ...
Snow 

Mixed reception
2007-12-09 11:25:00
"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ...
Reception 

Beyond belief
2007-12-08 21:07:00
"First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ...
Belief 

Hitting the streets
2007-12-07 23:41:00
"A highly embroiled quarter, a network of streets that I had avoided for years, was disentangled at a single stroke when one day a person dear to me moved there. It was as if a searchlight set up at this person's window dissected the area with pencils of light." Walter Benjamin, "First Aid," One-Way Street ...
Hitting  Streets 

Feel like fast food (mayonnaise)
2007-12-06 13:33:00
"Aioli (garlic mayonnaise) epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue - it drives away flies." Frederic Mistral ...
Fast Food  Food 

Feel like fast food (brown sauce)
2007-12-06 13:29:00
"A well made sauce will make even an elephant or a grandfather palatable." Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière ...
Fast Food  Food  Sauce 

Feel like fast food (ketchup)
2007-12-06 13:20:00
"Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish." Henry Miller ...
Fast Food  Food 

Feel like fast food (mustard)
2007-12-06 13:18:00
"I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory." Alexander The Great ...
Fast Food  Food 

Dream of warm sunny days
2007-12-06 13:13:00
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance." Yoko Ono ...

Near miss
2007-12-05 00:02:00
"If you have to forecast, forecast often." Edgar R. Fiedler ...