(Matt Jones) (BERG)

RxRy:

AAIEI – RxRy – VAEIOUWLS LP (2010) from Rx Ry on Vimeo.

Piece done by Jamie McKelvie and Becky Cloonan for their signing with Kieron Gillen at Gosh Comics in London on 5 June. They’re going to give it away to people. This is why Jamie McKelvie and Becky Cloonan are very poor and I travel in an atomic mobility scooter paid for entirely by sales of coffee mugs with the word "fucking" on.

Good morning. This is warren ellis dot com.

ITG Productions:

• Display Copy Mix
  "Glasgow-based director, animator and sound designer Konx-om-Pax aka Tom Scholefield (designer/director for Hudson Mohawke and Jamie Lidell amongst others) has put together this exclusive mix for The Wire"
  (tags:music )
• ABC Puts 5 Projects In Active Development
  "The list includes Charlie?s Angeles, from Sony TV, with new writers Al Gough and Miles Millar, another Sony drama, Javier Grillo-Marxuach?s Department Zero…" best of luck, Javi
  (tags:tv )
• Sandbagged by the near future
  "This futurology gig is hard ? I swear I'm going back to tentacle monsters and starships after I finish this book!"
  (tags:writing )
• AP IMPACT: Deadly, ultra-pure heroin arrives in US
  "Mexican drug smugglers are increasingly peddling a form of ultra-potent heroin that sells for as little as $10 a bag and is so pure it can kill unsuspecting users instantly, sometimes before they even remove the syringe from their veins."
  (tags:drugs crime )

Found out a few hours ago that I’m going to be in London for two business meetings tomorrow. Shooting in and out, but it still means that the bulk of tomorrow’s doing will be done on the mobile devices (I operate a Blackberry Curve for email and an iPhone 3GS for everything else. Because there’s nothing more annoying than the phone ringing when you’re trying to write an email on the same device.)

Which reminds me. In comments, someone asked me to list the apps I use for mobile work, particularly posting to warrenellis.com, "without it sounding like a shill." To which I would observe, you asked me, you knobend.

First off: I strongly advise you get a Posterous account, and plug in the details required to make it post to your blog (very easy). This will leave you with an email address that will post everything you send to it. If you find something you like better than Posterous, great.

* WordPress: the app is better for moderating comments and editing previous posts on the go than it is for actual posting, the process for which is frankly absurd.

* Audioboo: for posting audio to the site. Dead easy.

* Reeder: for reading your RSS aggregator on the go. Hooks into your del.icio.us account. If you have the WordPress plug-in, you can get your blog to post your del.icio.us links on an automagic basis. I tested a bunch of RSS apps, and so far Reeder has been far and away the best of them.

* Flickr app: lets you email photos from your contacts’ photostream. So, if you’ve got an email-to-blog system like Posterous, you can email photos off the Flickr app and straight to your blog.

(Oh, and if you’re on Tumblr and using an iPhone? The Tumblr app is very good. Also free.)

It’s a pretty simple set of tools. But moblogging, as we used to call it, isn’t supposed to be hard. It should always have been easy. Frankly, if I didn’t have a million posts here, I’d think a lot about moving my act to a Tumblr, just because the Tumblr people get it — this shit is supposed to be easy. There’s that bit on the first page of Charlie’s ACCELERANDO:

He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he’s arrived.

It’s supposed to be that easy. And as much as I hate being inculcated into the The Cult Of Steve, it was just never that easy with a Nokia.

Opens May 27, closes June 2, be sharp:

In his first solo exhibition, following the release of his monograph, artist Alex CF offers the public a unique opportunity to see his bizarre specimens in person – objects that have so far only been witnessed by private collectors, such as Maxime Chattam (author) or Reece Shearsmith (actor, League of Gentlemen) who wrote the foreword for his book, and will be lending pieces from his own collection for the show.

Alex has spent the last five years crafting wondrous relics of an alternate past – a rich tapestry of 19th century cryptozoological artifacts and creatures that challenge our understanding of the natural world: The mummified remains of a vampire child, the taxidermied corpse of a 7-foot-tall adult werewolf, the trappings of scientists and archaeologists pertaining to the study of these species in the form of antique research cases, amongst many other fascinating objects.

So I had a bunch of stuff change on my schedule, and it turns out I can get out of the house for half a day after all.  So I’m going to turn up at Comic Village at MCM Expo around 1pm on Saturday and sign stuff for an hour or so. Chances are good that I will show up without the benefit of having eaten anything first, so it will not be a long signing.  I mean, I’ll do what I can, but you don’t want me passing out or throwing up on you.  Chances are also good that I’ll be at that pub opposite the Excel — I think it’s the Fox? — at some point later.

• Twitter?s Most Influential Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

  (tags:web )

• Flickr group
  "I was recently told about a fantastic new hauntology Flickr group. Loads of cool educational/public service graphics and print ephemera. Check it out, it's super cool."
  (tags:hauntology )
• RADIOPHONIC MONTH: Paradise found
  "I like John Milton, I like radio drama and I like the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, so I'm quite fond of the Radio 4 version of 'Paradise Lost' with music and effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop."
  (tags:music )
• Innocent AGM Cam ? The Science Bit
  It?s Saturday morning, and I?m remotely watching a policeman walk along Goldhawk Road taken by a man wearing a climbing helmet with an iPhone sellotaped to the front. More specifically, I?m at Innocent?s AGM, loitering around to make sure that the headcam we built stays working. And it seems to be so far.
  (tags:sousveillance )