On Whitechapel Today (17aug09)

August 17th, 2009 | brainjuice

At my nationalised internet health service today:

* The Weekly Listening Thread (17aug09) – wherein we supposedly talk about what music we’re listening to this week.

* Warren’s Ancient Jukebox – in which I dump fun music stuff I find on YouTube instead of littering this site with it.

* Last time you read ‘Available Light?’ – someone discovers a book I did nine years ago. Cue people saying "wossat? never ‘eard of it guv"

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Aug 09) – needs more pretty and interesting people, fewer unshaven pasty guys in old t-shirts. I do not post there for fear of blinding people

* Comics Shipping This Week (Aug 19)


Station Ident

August 17th, 2009 | brainjuice

Good morning, freakshow. This is warrenellisdotcom, facing another hideous week.

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(Star St.Germain)


Links for 2009-08-14

August 15th, 2009 | brainjuice

  • BLAST (magazine) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    "BLAST was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. It had two editions, the first published on 2 July 1914 and the second a year later. Written primarily by the Anglo-American artist Wyndham Lewis and covered by a notorious pink cover referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus", the magazine has become famous as emblematic of the first modern art movement in England, and is now recognised as one of the seminal texts of 20th-century modernism."
    (tags:print magazine history art )

How The Hell Is Friday Almost Over Already, And How Did It Get To Be Friday Anyway?

August 14th, 2009 | brainjuice

It’s funny. When I’m scripting, it’s rarely a problem to update this site with bits and pieces several times a day. When I need to do the work of thinking, which is a significantly different enterprise to writing… I never seem to get much done here. Thinking requires staring at the wall for hours, clicking through research, fiddling with the playlist, scribbling in notebooks (this year I made a conscious effort to start using paper and pencils again), staring at the wall some more…

And now it’s a hair before midnight, Friday’s over in less than ten minutes, and the day’s been lost to people bugging me, a development project moving to pilot phase, and just sitting here thinking.

So, yeah, that’s why there’s been nothing here today. Oops.


Links for 2009-08-14

August 14th, 2009 | brainjuice

  • Beyond the looking glass…
    "researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Fudan University in Shanghai describe the concept of a "a gateway that can block electromagnetic waves but that allows the passage of other entities" like a "'hidden portal' as mentioned in fictions." "
    (tags:sci tech )

FREAKANGELS 0065

August 14th, 2009 | Work

It’s Friday again.  And guess what?  Kait is still crazy.


Night Music: Fursaxa

August 14th, 2009 | music

A recent discovery.


Links for 2009-08-13

August 13th, 2009 | brainjuice


A Woman You Don’t Meet Every Day

August 13th, 2009 | people I know

All I really know about her is that she’s on Twitter as "kerridarling" and that she now wears these:

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Station Ident: Remember…

August 13th, 2009 | people I know

Laurenn McCubbin?

Course you do. She’s been busy lately. But now she has a big gallery show coming up, and to mark it she’s selling a signed, numbered print for $50 a pop. Which, given her CV, is a stupid low price. Treat yourself.

Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com, making your world a nicer, dirtier place.

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The Man Who Walked Around The World

August 12th, 2009 | researchmaterial

This is an ad for Johnnie Walker whisky. Not a brand I’m especially fond of. But this five-and-a-half-minute film, with actor Robert Carlyle narrating the history of Johnnie Walker, is really very well done. Yes, it’s an ad, coming from the ad industry’s vile notion of "helping companies to tell their stories…" But Johnnie Walker’s been around a long time, and has an actual story to tell. More importantly, this is a story elegantly and charmingly told, by one of my favourite actors.


Links for 2009-08-11

August 12th, 2009 | brainjuice


On Whitechapel Tonight (12aug09)

August 12th, 2009 | brainjuice

I’m still clearing the place out after leaving it fallow for a week, but there’s a few bits and pieces:

* Tell Ellis Of Your New Comics (12aug09)

* The FRANKENSTEIN’S WOMB Talk Thread

* City Gone Feral

* Electric Sheep Comics back online!

* Tumblr

* Jeff Parker & Steve Lieber’s UNDERGROUND


The Deciders Of The Culture

August 12th, 2009 | comics talk

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You’ve got to admit, he’s in good shape. And he’s not afraid of wax, either.

(from Paul Sizer’sChicago Con 2009 photoset)


The Tunnels Of Lebedyan

August 12th, 2009 | researchmaterial

Via English Russia:

Lebedyan town in Lipetsk region is known for the greatest juice producing plant in Eastern Europe, but very few people know that the most unique and weird underground station in the world is located there as well. It was constructed just 2 meters beneath the surface of the earth. The works began in 1984, and 166 people were eager to start as soon as possible, but when they learnt that the money would come only when the construction paid for itself, they all backtracked in a second. So, the whole project was to be implemented by the one who brought it up, Leonid Muliarchik…

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Station Ident: My Brain Aches

August 12th, 2009 | people I know, photography

This is, for better or worse, Warren Ellis Dot Com. Hello.

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(Maddie Greene)


Night Music: Spacemen 3

August 12th, 2009 | music

"Hypnotized". A videotape transfer of the full version. I think I played my 12" copy of this smooth in 1989. G’night.


Links for 2009-08-10

August 11th, 2009 | brainjuice


That Moment Of Deep Uncertainty

August 11th, 2009 | photography

Amanda Palmer:

a russian fan handmade this shirt for me. i’m on the fence about it. but it’s also kind of awesome.

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Station Ident: Oh Yes I Will

August 11th, 2009 | photography

This is warrenellisdotcom. Good afternoon. No time for big entries this week, as I’m in column-writing territory and cannot use up The Mojo, so it’s going to be tumbles and stabs.

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(Thank god for riotclitshave)