Utterly magnificent editorial graphic from the Radio Times of days gone by, as surfaced in a wonderful post about the RT’s classic years by Mike Dempsey.

Ken Reid’s FACEACHE.

#SCRUNGE

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Cover image from a forthcoming graphic novel called KETSUEKI by Richmond Clements and Inko, from Markosia.  I know nothing about it, just happened across the pretty picture.

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Aeroecology: the study of flying and floating organisms in the air they inhabit.

“This could be one of the largest biological repositories in existence…”

When scientists piece together a time series of backscatter images, they see patterns in the air on a spatial and temporal scale never before possible. Armed with the ability to visualize flying creatures, researchers are starting to look for larger ecological patterns in the air…

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(Clayton “Siege” Cubitt)

Courtesy of the Peckham Outerspace Initiative. Thank you!

Cover for the limited edition signed hardback version of FREAKANGELS Vol 6, which I think is due in November.

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The chilling INDUSTRY, WHAT INDUSTRY? by the Psychological Strategy Board.

Found on the website for WEIRD TALES magazine today, a statement by editor Ann VanderMeer:

I am very sad to have to tell you that my editorship at Weird Tales, which has included one Hugo Award win and three Hugo Award nominations, is about to come to an end. The publisher, John Betancourt of Wildside Press, is selling the magazine to Marvin Kaye. Kaye is buying the magazine because he wants to edit it himself. He will not be retaining the staff from my tenure. I wish him the best with the different direction he wants to pursue, including his first, Cthulhu-themed issue.

WEIRD TALES had been absolutely resurgent over the last few years.  There had been stops and hurdles, but it was a progressive magazine with fine work, some beautiful design and an impressive list of contributors.

Kaye is a prolific anthologist, clearly very retro in his tastes, and, I believe, still the editor of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine.

I am sad to see the current iteration go.  I suspect that the new iteration, if it sees print, will not be to my tastes.  Starting off with a Cthulhu-themed issue is not exactly future-facing.  Still, I wish him luck, just as I wish all the luck in the world to Ann and her staff in their next adventures.

Psychogeophysics:

Psychogeography can be defined as an examination of the total effects of geography and place on the individual.

Psychogeophysics expands this artistic research to embrace geophysics, defined as the quantitative observation of the earth’s physical properties, and its interaction with local signal ecologies.

Psychogeophysics proposes a series of interdisciplinary public experiments and workshops excavating the spectral city and examining the precise effects of geophysical/spectral ecologies on the individual through pseudo-scientific measurement and mapping, algorithmic walking and the construction of (experimental) situations.

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Her book BLACK AND WHITE is still available here. She tumbls here.

I used to post her photos regularly here. She doesn’t take a lot of photos these days — or, at least, not in the volume she used to. I haven’t seen her in the flesh in a few years. We are still friends. We don’t talk for a few weeks at a time, sometimes. But when we do talk, it’s like we talk every day.

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Matt Fraction. Gabriel Ba. September 7. Print and digital.

Probably the best science fiction series in the world right now.

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“…clothing becomes an active participant in a new type of environment that combines the spatial and optical aspects of architectural design with the temporary, ephemeral and fluidly beautiful forms found only in the worlds of high fashion…”

During July, August and September of this year, Gage / Clemenceau Architects is collaborating on the design and production of a temporary installation with Nicola Formichetti, Fashion Director for Lady Gaga, Creative Director for Mugler as well as fashion stylist to Uniqlo, MAC and V Magazine. This collaboration is intended to produce an installation that experimentally fuses ideas from both fashion and architecture into a new type of physical environment, accessible to the general public, for a two week period coinciding with Fashion Week in New York City, in September 2011.

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Sometimes I wonder why I don’t get invited to speak at more conferences, and then I remember that at the last one I spoke at I called the audience "fucking monsters" haha oh dear

Somewhere between Mexico’s Santa Muerte and Jesus Malverde, I guess: interesting story, that in its latter parts sketches out some scary self-induced-delusion stuff, people desperate to wear fiction as a shield because nothing else works:

As Venezuela’s urban crime rate soars, devotion to a very particular group of saints known as the “Santos Malandros”, or “Corte Malandra”, is becoming widespread. These “holy thugs” wearing dark sunglasses, baseball caps and guns tucked in their belts might have been petty criminals during their lifetime, but are now considered modern-day Robin Hoods.

(photo: Ronald Rivas Casallas)

The dozen or so members of the “thug court” have two things in common: they were all small-time crooks who died in the 1960s and 70s, and came to be respected because – legend has it – they never robbed in their neighbourhoods and always shared their pillage with the people in need around them. Even though their devotees have been often stigmatised as thieves and prostitutes, the reality is that more and more ordinary Venezuelans have turned to these peculiar saints to ask for protection…

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it begins

(image by Adam Greenfield)

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