miércoles, 22 de julio de 2009

Trauko book and video



Today while reading this article on La Tercera I found out a new chilean comic book is soon to be released. This book is a homeage to the now extinct Trauk0 magazine, that really blew my mind at the end of the eighties. Through this magazine I knew the works of european masters Moebius and Manara, and local stars like Felva, Yoyo, Karto, Lautaro, to name some of them.



Good thing is that through this article I knew that together with the book, there's a documentary about Trauk0 magazine in production. This video is authored by chilean cinema director Rodrigo Araya, who had the chance to interview, camcorder in hand, key people that worked on the magazine. In fact, you can see some teasers here, here and here.
This documentary is soon to be released, check his blog to see more updated info.



Links

http://edelect.latercera.cl/edicionelectronica/pdf/0,5901,,00.pdf?f=20090722&sup=1&pag=43&rel=1
http://rodrigoarayatacussis.blogspot.com/
http://www.onoff.cl/mo-det.php?ida=120&idcat=3

Photo credits

http://www.ergocomics.cl/imagenes/img/200005010344.jpg
http://www.tebeosfera.com/1/Documento/Articulo/Especial/Chile/trauko36.jpg
http://s3.amazonaws.com/lcp/francoyeliz/myfiles/200005010345.jpg

martes, 7 de julio de 2009

Computer World cover

Listening to the Kraftwerk's excellent Computer World album (1981), comes to my mind the mandatory question: what computer is that on the album cover?




A little research unveils that in fact it is not a computer, just a dumb Hazeltine 1500 terminal...



Good thing is that while researching, I found this webpage that details the computers seen on Stereolab videoclips (Miss Modular comes to my mind), something I always wanted to know...

Amongst others, appear the same Hazeltine 1500 terminal seen on the Kraftwerk cover, the Apple ][e, and the Osborne 1.

Photo credits:
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/k/kraftwerk/album-computer-world.jpg
http://www.pci-card.com/hazeltine.jpg

Links:
http://ask.metafilter.com/18539/Computer-World-cover
http://www.haun-online.de/stereolab/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazeltine_Corporation