• U B U W E B – Film & Video: Buckminster Fuller – The World of R. Buckminster Fuller (1974)
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Illustrator Jael Segura. Lots more wondrousness at her website.

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A Kinect-controlled robot arm. In times past, this was called telefactoring – a motion (or motion command) by the human operator at home base being mirrored by the robot in a remote location. Matt Jones of BERG surfaced this video. Oddly enough, only the other week I was recommending to Matt Webb of BERG a sf collection featuring a story about a murderous telefactor. Look at that grabber go.

Kinect Controlled Delta-Robot from Enrique Ramos on Vimeo.

Jamie McKelvie’s illustration for the new Art Brut record.

If you buy the album, you’ll get two more pieces that tie in with this one. Out on May 23rd.

Jamie’s actually working on something of mine right now which is Sekrit and not to be spoken of yet.

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Note to self.  Stop reading about magazines.  It just makes you want to edit a magazine.

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Didn’t get anywhere near my page quota yesterday, so today’s going to be rough.  This means that there won’t be proper blog entries here, just fired-off tumble-posts that doubtless incense anyone reading through RSS.

In the meantime, the best thing on the net today is Mer Yayanos talking about The Dune Activity Books.  Which have to be seen to be believed.  Seriously.  You’ll thank me.

“The Indian Space Research Organization has discovered a massive underground chamber near the moon’s equator, one that would be perfect for housing a moon base.“

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Much as I’m enjoying writing both things, I’m actually looking forward to tomorrow, where I think I’ve blocked out enough time to do some work on That Thing That May Replace FREAKANGELS In My Schedule.

And at the weekend I will, with luck, be able to put some notes down for FELL #11, which I intend to file at the end of the month, and hopefully get some time in on another thing, never announced, that’s been on the slow boat for 18 months or so.

Hello. I’m Warren Ellis. Remember me? Hahaha. You can email me if you want to show me or tell me stuff, you know: my public email dump is warrenellis@gmail.com, which I check once a day or so.

Lea Hernandez has done a double-page spread for the TRANSMET charity art book and it’s amazing. Click through to see. I finally filed my foreword for the thing a couple of days ago.

I note that the book SeqArt research published about PLANETARY got a nice review at AICN.

Xeni Jardin’s been dropping some great space history photos on her Flickrstream, mirrored from her instagram account. Look at this fucking retrotechnoporn:

Did I mention that I’ve read the script and seen a bunch of art pages for the forthcoming “new” CASANOVA sequence by Fraction, Ba & Moon for Marvel Icon and they’re all fucking insane? Everyone’s going to have to raise their game afterwards. And I’m going to have to find mine.

Finally, Wil Wheaton made me look at this again, and now I hate him again. “I made this for Warren!” he chirped on Twitter in his loveable way. Because those people don’t know the real Wil Wheaton. Not like I do. Look.

So I guess somebody saw the new issue of WIRED UK – I didn’t know it was out yet – and therefore knows a little more about SVK than they did yesterday.  The secret to the Special Viewing Kit is revealed at Bleeding Cool.

I’m late getting to this — I think it went live when I was on the way back from Berlin, and if you’ve read a few entries down, you know what yesterday was like for me. But I wanted to show this nonetheless, to save it for myself and to illustrate just one facet of what “digital cities” mean.

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

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Well, no.  But I did wake up with a rotten cold, again.  Allergy attacks depress the immune system and other muck sneaks in when the fence is down.  It feels like I should be over it in a few days, but I’m going to have to churn out the most important script pages today in case I take a turn for the worse.

Chicken isn’t dead yet.

It’s going to be lots of bitty updates and posts this week, I think.  Like this one: Michael Avon Oeming did a digital sketch of me. We’ve never met, so he doesn’t know I’ve been shaving my head for the last couple of years.  Don’t tell him.

Annoyance of the morning: either Tweetdeck Desktop has stopped supporting the Tumblr API, or Tumblr’s cut Tweetdeck out of its API provision.  So once again I have a realtime information app that’s failed out on me.  WHERE IS MY ONE APP TO RULE THEM ALL GODDAMNIT.

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