August 30th, 2011 | photography
This Week
August 30th, 2011 | photography
This week is heavy lifting on the novel. It’s been a hell of a month, and progress has been slower than it should have been due to various Real Life nightmares that required my attention. Therefore, there will be very little actual writing of new material on the site this week.
However, I’d like to keep the site warm. So, every hour or so, I will post something before I go downstairs for my cigarette. Probably a photo, or music, or a piece of art.
If you have things you’d like to send me to keep the flow of stuff going, my “public” email address is warrenellis@gmail.com, and it gets checked once a day or so. I will also accept photographic pledges of allegiance.
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The View From Up Here
August 27th, 2011 | photography
The daily Reuters news galleries – all these images are from Reuters photographers and all rights reside with them and Reuters – are always an unsettling window on the world. Here’s a selection from today’s spreads, without attribution or explanation.
flickrgeist 16aug11
August 16th, 2011 | photography
A snapshot of my network:
1. @miranda_july That cat was mega-creepy and hilarious. #ihaveseenthefuture, 2. Ape, Man, Machine, 3. 14:31, 4. A secret location in Japan that will be featured in @milesobrien @NewsHour story I worked with him on, from Japan. Bet you can’t identify…, 5. Shard on shard, 6. St Dunstan-in-the-East, London, For The Colourblind/Drugged I
Station Ident
August 16th, 2011 | photography
Writing a book, me. Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com.
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A Map Of The Central 50 Light Years Of The Milky Way
August 15th, 2011 | photography
A false-color composite image of the central 50 light-years of the Milky Way as seen for the first time in the entirely of the far infrared. Many of the previously-known structures in the region are labeled; the location of the black hole is labeled "SagA*," and the inner donut as "CND." Colder material is shown in red; warmer (but still relatively cold) in blue. Credit: NASA; ESA and M. Etxaluze
Station Ident
August 15th, 2011 | photography
This is warren ellis dot com.
Today I hit the halfway point on GUN MACHINE.
Broadcasting resumes.
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July 5th, 2011 | photography
For posterity: the BERG crew watching the SVK sales counter.
(…watching the SVK sales counter… through electronic devices. Because they are BERG.)
SVK Is On Sale
July 5th, 2011 | photography
SVK is now on sale at http://www.getsvk.com .
(Am sending this from iPad – if that link doesn’t work, the one in this page’s top bar will.)
SVK is a 40-page comic book available via mail order only.
SVK is an experimental publication, conceived of and produced by the design and invention group BERG.
They came to me with the idea and asked me to help them make it work. I drafted in my old friend Matt Brooker, better known to a legion of comics readers as the artist D’Israeli, to illustrate it and help me solve it.
SVK comes packaged with a UV torch. Because a lot of it is printed in invisible UV ink, and therefore elements of the book can only be seen by shining the torch on the pages.
Why is it only mail order? Because BERG wanted to solve their own supply chain. They want to make more things and sell them themselves. SVK is a test article for that process. They’re publishing it: they decide how to distribute it.
Why is it expensive? It’s a short print run, printed in UV ink that they had to pass security tests in order to get their hands on, enclosed with a UV torch with custom printing, and wrapped in custom packaging. This isn’t a standard comic.
SVK comes with a foreword by William Gibson, and articles by futures expert Jamais Cascio and comics historian Paul Gravett.
SVK was the hardest thing I’ve written in years. I think it’s also the best thing I’ve written in a few years. And, without offense to my other collaborators, I’ve known and worked with Matt for twenty years, and that means that not only does stuff appear on the page exactly as I imagined it would, but that it’ll also be better than I imagined it.
At some point, once the book’s circulated a bit, I’ll talk about the horrible technical difficulties Matt solved without breaking step. Suffice it to say that this book very probably would not have happened at all if Matt Brooker had not been onboard.
And, finally, I need to thank the whole BERG team, who have worked like demons on SVK. The book itself is only the iceberg tip of the machine they’ve had to build to make this work.
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It Lives
July 5th, 2011 | photography
Just arrived here. Just got up, full post in a bit.
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Katie West Summer Print Sale
July 1st, 2011 | people I know, photography
Details are here.A wide selection of Katie’s photography available as quality prints for a limited time. |