Solo Tales of Professor Swift

Post #5929 by Warren Ellis on May 9th, 2008 in photography



Solo Tales of Professor Swift

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FREAKANGELS: An Interlude

Post #5928 by Warren Ellis on May 9th, 2008 in Work

We’ve reached the halfway point of the first volume, so we’re taking a week to catch our breath. But there’s still something new to read there.

THUNDERBOLTS #120 Preview

Post #5927 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in Work

At Comics Bulletin.

Iron Sky: First Footage

Post #5926 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in researchmaterial

Teaser for the IRON SKY project that I mentioned here last year:

(thanks, Bill)

Clarkesworld Magazine - May 2008

Post #5925 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in researchmaterial

Issue 20, featuring the excellent "A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica" by Catherynne M. Valente and an interview with my old friend John Picacio:

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Don’t Look

Post #5924 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in photography, researchmaterial

This is just the presage to a frankly brain-burning day on ModBlog. Can you identify the mystery meat?

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It’s worse than you think. Don’t look.

You should look at this one, because it’s kind of romantic, really. In an indescribable WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THAT kind of way.

Cup Of Brown Joy

Post #5923 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in music

This has been doing the rounds, so I apologise if you’ve seen it. But you need to see it. Credits at the end of the video.

Omodaka

Post #5922 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in music, researchmaterial

kyoteizinc (video mix) / omodaka (far east recording)
dir.: hiroshi kizu (P.I.C.S.)
dancer: masako yasumoto

OMODAKA is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory.

(via Mez, thanks)

The New Narrative

Post #5921 by Warren Ellis on May 8th, 2008 in comics talk, people I know

The New Narrative? Comics in Literature, Film and Art — a conference over May 10 and 11 at the University of Toronto.

Features Steven Shaviro’s presentation “’You Will Never Own a Jetpack’: Warren Ellis’ Science Fiction Comics” (on the Saturday, 3A, 1:30pm):

This paper looks at the science fiction comics of Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan, Global Frequency, and the currently ongoing series Doktor Sleepless. These comics are about the social effects of new technologies. They bring us a wavering and uncertain vision of a highly technologized future, and ponder the possibilities of change in a world pervaded by a sense that the future itself has largely been played out.

Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism (1997), and Connected, Or, What It Means To Live in the Network Society (2003).

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links for 2008-05-07

Post #5920 by Warren Ellis on May 7th, 2008 in photography

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Post #5919 by Warren Ellis on May 6th, 2008 in brainjuice

I would buy records from a notional record label that released no records at all but produced beautiful sleeves, posters and stickers from bands and performers who didn’t actually exist. I would, as people once said, buy the shit out of that.

I would have bought an awful lot more from ZTT Records in the 80s if there’d been no records in the sleeves.

Oslo

Post #5918 by Warren Ellis on May 6th, 2008 in about warren ellis/contact/events

I’m off on the road again this month.

On 23 May, I’ll be speaking at the Norwegian Film Institute. (Also appearing during this seminar are the major European comics figure Igort and the brilliant Killoffer.)

I will also be appearing at the Oslo Comics Expo (fuck-all details on website at present) on Saturday 24 May at 17:00, doing an onstage Q&A. No plans for a signing.

In real terms, this means that I arrive in Oslo airport tired and confused at 11 o’clock at night, attempt to get to central Oslo on my own without getting mugged or raped, locate my hotel, confirm that it’s not a crackhouse or a knocking-shop for backpackers, fail to sleep because I’ve timeshifted an hour, pass out around dawn, wake up five minutes later, jabber incoherently for two hours to a room full of filmmakers who don’t actually speak my language anyway, spend the next 24 hours staggering around town using the only two words of Norwegian I can remember ("thankyou" and "beer"), throw up over a small group of people at Comics Expo who were only standing there because they were looking for Killoffer, and then get myself conveyed back to the airport by ambulance on Sunday.

WIN.

See you there?

Message Of The Day

Post #5917 by Warren Ellis on May 6th, 2008 in brainjuice

Received from a 24-year-old man in Florida:

why should i read new universal if it has nothing to do with wolverine….is there a wolverine in new unviersal, have the howletts become prominant in this universe? I would read new universal if it had wolverine. I honestly do like what you do.

On Growing Your Own Twitter

Post #5916 by Warren Ellis on May 5th, 2008 in researchmaterial

I’ve been thinking about this a bit lately: growing your own Twitter clone that gives a private circle of people access to both the crowd and the single user via desktop and mobile device. Other people are just looking at the possibility of growing clone services that aren’t reliant on Twitter’s groaning infrastructure. A surprisingly useful post on Techcrunch lays the problem and the possibilities out:

The key weakness in Twitter (and therefore opportunity for a new decentralized approach) is the fact that so much Twitter activity occurs off Twitter.com. Users are getting very used to using desktop clients (Twitterific, Alert Thingy, Twhirl, etc.), IM, SMS, and other interfaces to talk to Twitter. Those third party applications can be tuned to lock in to the new decentralized Twitter-like service instead or in addition to Twitter itself.

There also look to be possibly useful bits in the comments section.

links for 2008-05-05

Post #5915 by Warren Ellis on May 5th, 2008 in photography

IRON MAN: This One Was Mine

Post #5914 by Warren Ellis on May 4th, 2008 in Work

Produced with Adi Granov, who, on the basis of this work, was hired as visual consultant to the IRON MAN film that opened this week. I’m told you’ll see a few elements of IRON MAN: EXTREMIS in the film.

links for 2008-05-04

Post #5913 by Warren Ellis on May 4th, 2008 in photography

Saturday Night Open Mic

Post #5912 by Warren Ellis on May 3rd, 2008 in brainjuice, music

It’s Saturday night, and we are open at Whitechapel for venting, incoherent shrieking,
Proclamations and furious masturbation while speaking in tongues and firing yams
out of your bum. And if you don’t have any of that, tell me your name, show me
your face, and tell me what you want.

Received Goods 3 May 2008

Post #5911 by Warren Ellis on May 3rd, 2008 in brainjuice, music

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A good morning. Thanks to History Of Guns and Line Out Records for the new History Of Guns, ACEDIA, and to Thermidor for his 1929 (I should scan the stuff inside the box next week).

RAPE SEAL

Post #5910 by Warren Ellis on May 2nd, 2008 in people I know, researchmaterial

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An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin.

The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known….Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear…

That’s it. Boris Johnson is tipped to become Mayor of London and now seals are raping penguins. I’m opening a bottle of whisky and a tub of paracetemol.

FREAKANGELS 0012

Post #5909 by Warren Ellis on May 2nd, 2008 in Work

Episode 12 is up for your free viewing pleasure.

And you don’t have to wait for the reminders from me. You can grab yourself the Freakangels RSS Window for your own site:

Post #5908 by Warren Ellis on May 2nd, 2008 in people I know

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links for 2008-05-02

Post #5907 by Warren Ellis on May 2nd, 2008 in photography

What Is A Reed Sodger, Anyway?

Post #5906 by Warren Ellis on May 1st, 2008 in researchmaterial

sodger (Nth N’d) - the scarlet ladybird: "Reed, reed sodger, flay away / and
make the morn a sunny day"

R.[Richard] Oliver Heslop’s ’Northumberland Words’ (2 vols, English Dialect Society, 1893-4)

The song "Reed Sodger" is made of fragments of songs and folk rhymes from Tyneside and Northumberland - about throwing Ladybird into the air "Reed, reed sodger sodger fly away / And make the morn a sunny day", a May carol sung in streets of Newcastle…

John Barleycorn Reborn track listing booklet

Your Post-Privacy Moment For Today

Post #5905 by Warren Ellis on May 1st, 2008 in researchmaterial

There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.

The tax authority’s website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars were making.

The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country’s privacy watchdog. The information was put on the site with no warning for nearly 24 hours.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Italy posts income details on web

links for 2008-05-01

Post #5904 by Warren Ellis on May 1st, 2008 in photography

  • “I do a weekly podcast called “Most People Are DJs” from a belief that the banality of radio has turned us all into DJs. DJ is also a metaphor for choosing to live the way you want to.”
    (tags: podcast)

::currently listening

Post #5903 by Warren Ellis on April 30th, 2008 in music

Sacred Bones Records’ MySpace page, being well impressed by NICE FACE’s howling lo-fi electro-voodoo stomp “Things In My Head.” (Which, I should note, is 2.42.)

Eclectic Method

Post #5902 by Warren Ellis on April 30th, 2008 in music, researchmaterial

http://www.eclecticmethod.net. Video mixtapes, video remixes, live video DJ shows and other peculiar experiments that involve beats, images and science.

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Missing Dog In Hollywood

Post #5901 by Warren Ellis on April 30th, 2008 in people I know

Yeah, I know. But here’s the thing. My friend Zoetica Ebb and her boyfriend were in a bad car accident a little over a week ago, and Zo’s tiny, weird dog Moo was in the car with them. In the post-crash chaos, Moo, unharmed, freaked out and legged it. And hasn’t been seen since. Zo’s been putting up fliers all over town for a week, but the local cleaning teams have been taking them down again. On top of that, some sick fucks have been sending her on wild goose chases.

If you’re in the area, go here for details, and here to grab the PDF of the flier. There’s a reward for a safely returned weird-looking little dogthing.

I’d appreciate any help you can give. Because the dog has probably hooked up with other dogs and we could be mere weeks away from some kind of dog insurrection.

links for 2008-04-30

Post #5900 by Warren Ellis on April 30th, 2008 in photography

Ectoplasmosis - Friday May, 09 2008 06:36 AM PDT

John Darnielle had teamed up with Aesop Rock before on the track “Coffee” with fantastic results. This time Rock is remixing a Mountain Goats tune off their new album Heretic Pride with accompanying video by Sketch Theatre artist Nate Frizzell. One can only hope that very soon these two decide to do an entire album together.

Lovecraft in Brooklyn (AesopRemix) [YouTube] : Stereogum

The Reverse Cowgirl - Friday May, 09 2008 03:52 AM PDT


I've posted a new story on Letters from Working Girls. It's called "I Am Just An Ordinary Woman With The Knack Of Making People Love And Trust Me," and it's one of my favorites because it articulates a great deal about what, I think, men are really paying for when they pay for sex. Thank you to the Journalist Call Girl for sending it to me.
I know my thoughts have been all over the place, but it's hard to write about these things without being outraged and a little mixed up. I also realize that I've said very little about me. Well, there's very little to tell. At first I needed the money, then I wanted the money. After the thoughts of the money dried up in my head, I turned myself to analysing my clients. In them I found a rich burial ground of feelings. They felt neglected, used, put upon and some other things that make me wish I went to school for psychiatry instead of journalism.

Matt Fraction - Friday May, 09 2008 12:19 AM PDT

This Saturday, I'm signing at Black Cat Comics in Salt Lake City, Utah-- come out and say hi, Utahians, from 11 to 3.

Black Cat Comics
2265 Highland Dr
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
(801) 461-4228

Ectoplasmosis - Thursday May, 08 2008 09:00 PM PDT

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Jean Snow - Thursday May, 08 2008 08:35 PM PDT

Video directed by Hiroshi Kizu, featuring dancer Masako Yasumoto. From Warren Ellis’ blog: OMODAKA is the name of the project developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory. time savedtime saved

Jean Snow - Thursday May, 08 2008 08:27 PM PDT

My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Takumi’s Mini Chimney AM humidifier, Elecom’s EGG MOUSE, and Tokujin Yoshioka’s Heaven chair. time savedtime saved

Ectoplasmosis - Thursday May, 08 2008 02:15 PM PDT

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Oh sure, you can take Xenu into your heart, but can you put him on your toy shelf? Sadly, still no, as this is the only custom Xenu toy that Jin Saotome has done. However, our sources deep within the convoluted Scientology network tell us that once you reach Level 17 you’re awarded a Xenu figurine of your very own.

Jin Saotome’s Super-Cool Custom Superheroes [Wired : Jin Saotome]

Ectoplasmosis - Thursday May, 08 2008 11:50 AM PDT

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Drew Pocza illustrates that even beings from beyond time and space have to strap on the corporate noose to pay the bills.


Calling Cthulhu
[Artist’s Site]

Wil Wheaton - Thursday May, 08 2008 11:45 AM PDT

Wil Wheaton's Geek Tour 2008 rolls into Seattle this weekend for the Emerald City ComiCon! From my original announcement: I am so excited to announce that I'll be going to Seattle next month for the Emerald City ComiCon! This is...

Ectoplasmosis - Thursday May, 08 2008 11:37 AM PDT

In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.

Two sentences was all it took to get me more interested in a film than I’ve been in years. Hopefully this — in concert with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow — is the beginning of a new golden age in the pulp scifi of yesteryear being brought to the theater.

Iron Sky [Synabetic]

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