Warren Ellis's Blog, page 316

The Mechanic Speaks

Ariana Osborne, designer of this place, SHIVERING SANDS, etc., talking about POD and the book, because:

…apparently, there's a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is "worth their time."

And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I've just got to talk about it…

flickrgeist 9nov09

1. Entrance to the Hotel Rivington, 2. prejuice, 3. New Hair, 4. New print: Honeydrip, 5. FA choker, 6. On final approach

Zola Jesus: Store Open

THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus is one of my favourite albums of this year.  But it's kind of hard to find on CD.  (The mp3 download is easy to find, I've even seen it on Amazon, and got mine at eMusic.)  But now there's a store open at zolajesus.com, where you can buy it, her other records, and a t-shirt that I'm going to pick up for Lili.

Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization

Nick Barrucci from Dynamite Comics asked me to do him the favour of posting this. This seems like an entirely worthy charity, well deserving of your investigation:

Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. announced today that world renowned painter Alex Ross has donated an original piece of classic Catwoman art to Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. (S.W.R.O.). The piece was created exclusively for Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization to raise money to help rescue animals. The piece will...

T-shirt Of The Week 003: FUCKABLE ZOMBIE

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website...

Dogs Are Destroying The Planet And Killing Us All

I told you. I told you all. The Dog is the Enemy of the Human. But you wouldn't believe me. Now look.

…dogs have a greater eco-footprint than gas-guzzling SUVs.

See? SEE?

Links for 2009-11-05

Oldest American artefact unearthed : Nature News
"The tool shows that people were living in North America well before the widespread Clovis culture of 12,900 to 12,400 years ago"
(tags:history )Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums | World news | The Guardian
""If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4×4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one...

The Haunting Of Kristamas Klousch

The self-portrait photographer/"caricature artist" Kristamas Klousch finally has a website up for her wonderful, ghostly and irreal work.

WIRED UK: Column 08

In which I make a case for Paul Morley as national treasure, champion of music journalism and the oldest digital pioneer in newspapers. And also I make a pitch for a TV job. And a statue:

I think we can all agree that I should have been given The South Bank Show after Melvyn Bragg retired from it. If nothing else, it is way past time that the serious arts media gave coverage to those elements of the Japanese film industry that produce such inventive, beautifully designed and thematically...

Strangers And Gypsies

There's something powerfully weird about this beautiful photoset by Marta Lamovsek, not least in this image, where the model really does look like an alien landed in eastern Europe.