February 9th, 2012 | microlog
When I am England football manager, there will be no more talk of 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 formations. There will only be THE DEATH ARROW FORMATION.
February 9th, 2012 | microlog
When I am England football manager, there will be no more talk of 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 formations. There will only be THE DEATH ARROW FORMATION.
February 9th, 2012 | brainjuice
February 8th, 2012 | researchmaterial
There is something faintly disturbing about this device.
To help alleviate physical weight on troops, DARPA is developing a highly mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3), to integrate with a squad of Marines or Soldiers.
February 8th, 2012 | brainjuice
February 7th, 2012 | people I know
My old mate Garth Ennis is Kickstartering a children’s book, to be illustrated by Rob Steen:
ERF is the story of four friends at the dawn of time; Figwillop, KWAAAH!, the Booper, and Erf himself, and their adventures in the primordial world of long ago. The four take their first nervous steps out of the ocean and onto the shore, and are soon exploring the exciting new lands beyond. But danger lurks in the prehistoric jungle, and soon our heroes come face to face with the mighty and terrifying Colossux . . . An evolutionary tale of love and loyalty for children aged four and up.

February 7th, 2012 | spektrmodule
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SPEKTRMODULE 06 The Chamber 50 minutes and 59 seconds |
Direct mp3 link. Press Play on the player then find the menu button in the bottom left for other functions. iTunes link.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com
1. logotone
2. “Initiation – Invocation” – Paul Horn (album: “Inside the Great Pyramid”)
3. Hello.
4. “Sacred Works Of Liberation” - Lama Gyurme (album: Rain Of Blessings: Vajra Chants)
5. “Celiesi, Brãliti (Mid-Summers Eve Latvian Pagan Celebration)” - Skandinieki (album: Global Celebration: Dancing With the Gods (Religious Celebrations) )
6 “(Summoning)” - Mount Eerie (album: White Stag)
7. Me again. I record all these on my phone, because I like the lo-fi, conversational sound.
8. “The Invocation” – The Flowers Of Hell (album: Come Hell Or High Water)
9. “hot saints” - Baloo (album: Avid Equestrian)
10. “4” - Reedbeds (album: G’morning gomorrah)
11. Me again.
12. “Interlude” - Julia Holter (album: Tragedy)
13. “New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)” - Deaf Center (album: Owl Splinters)
14. “Russian Waterfall” - Sarin Smoke (album: Smokescreen)
15. “Theme Number Eight” - Pye Corner Audio (album: Black Mill Tapes Vol.3)
16. “Swamp Magic” – Timber Timbre (album: Creep On Creepin On)
17. Me again.
18. “Parting Chant” – The Haxan Cloak (album: The Haxan Cloak)
19. “Want You” - Afrirampo (album: Kore Ga Mayaku Da)
20. logotone
PREVIOUSLY: 1 – Fire Axes In Space | 2 – The Lane | 3 – Comfort And Joy | 4 – Long Count | 5 – Underfoot
February 7th, 2012 | brainjuice
February 6th, 2012 | daybook
| Ellen Rogers took my photo in London over the weekend, at a location that included the scene to the left. I’ll probably talk more about it when I get the shots back – Mulholland Books needed new head shots for the book catalogue and back cover, and Ellen, with amazing kindness, offered to do them for free, and arranged for them to be done at this really interesting place called Curious Science. And then she told about something I didn’t know about, called The Leaf Room (scroll about 3/4 of the way down this page for details). Anyway. Really good day, and I wanted to thank her again, in public. |
February 6th, 2012 | brainjuice
February 5th, 2012 | researchmaterial
A new short film by Timo Arnall, tying into a piece by his BERG comrade Mr Jones of Wales:
How do robots see the world? How do they extract meaning from our streets, cities, media and from us? This is an experiment in found machine-vision footage, exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye.
It’s like watching a child learn. Imagine it as, perhaps, the infant days of a young machine intelligence. This is what it could look like. This is how it might see.
(I’m not big on Singularitarianism and the future of strong artificial intelligence. But this does make you think, and wonder.)

February 3rd, 2012 | people I know
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The writer is an old friend of mine, and this is her first collection.
There’s an extensive preview of the book at the link, too. I wrote a quick blurb for the book, as close to the nature of the content as I could get in one line:
As fine a collection of short fictions as you’ll see today. |
February 1st, 2012 | Work
Recorded at a cafe in Hackney for London Fields Radio a few weeks back, me and Laurie basically jabbering away for several hour while the estimable Joe Stannard tries to get a word in edgeways:

January 30th, 2012 | comics talk

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Go on. Tell me you’re not just the least bit amused by that.
Brian Churilla’s THE SECRET HISTORY OF D.B. COOPER plays like Mike Mignola at his most hard-boiled adapting every goofy film about dreams that you ever sat through. If you love Mignola’s HELLBOY, you’ll find a lot to like in Churilla’s comically grim, energetically cartooned tale of an oneiric sniper scowling his way through Lovecraftian mindscapes. |
Also, Occult Mutilated Teddy Bear. Money in the bank.
There’s a fuller preview of the first issue at this link here. I think COOPER will develop into an entertaining genre mashup in the mode of THE SIXTH GUN.
It comes from Oni Press (who sent me PDFs of the first three issues, so I know whereof I mumble), and launches on March 14. You can contact your local comics store and give them the Diamond order code JAN12 1215.
January 30th, 2012 | brainjuice
January 30th, 2012 | people I know
A new game produced by Big Robot, the dev project run by writer Jim Rossignol, whose name should be familiar to regulars. AVSEQ works like this: connect atoms, play music. Look:

January 29th, 2012 | brainjuice
January 29th, 2012 | music
Regular reader will recognise the latter three names as being well-beloved in this parish. These three pieces, amusingly tagged on Soundcloud as “satanic psychedelia,” are as magnificently strange and beautiful as you would expect.

January 28th, 2012 | brainjuice
January 27th, 2012 | Work
At VICE’s Motherboard blog, I’m interviewed by Abraham Riesman about space travel and the somewhat confused recent claims of Speaker Gingrich.
Well, let’s start with the “51st State” bit that’s being bandied about. Speaker Gingrich knows as well as the next political mammal that the Outer Space Treaty forbids any one nation from claiming sovereignty over the moon. So, not so much with the 51st State crap…

January 27th, 2012 | about warren ellis/contact
I write books and comics and articles and other things. I live in south-east England. My next novel, GUN MACHINE, is due autumn 2012 from Mulholland Books. The film RED 2, sequel to RED, based on the graphic novel I wrote, is due autumn 2013. I have author pages at Amazon and Amazon UK. My most recent original work was SVK, produced in partnership with the design & invention unit BERG.
Public email address: warrenellis@gmail.com (gets checked once a day or so)
@warrenellis on Twitter. Facebook Page. Username warrenellis on Instagram and This Is My Jam.
If you need to contact me about writing for print or web, please contact my agent Lydia Wills using the link in the righthand menu bar.
If you need to contact me about anything involving film, tv, games or other things that move and make noises, please contact my agent Angela Cheng Caplan using the link in the righthand menu bar.
Sometimes I speak at conferences, or do other kinds of talks and appearances. I’ve previously been a columnist for WIRED UK and Reuters.
I occasionally podcast.
