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How I Killed Jamie McKelvie

Coloured by Matt Wilson.  From SECRET AVENGERS #16, out next week.  Preview here.

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

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

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

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Gage / Clemenceau

"…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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Interlude

Electronic Encounters – Music inspired by Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Electronic Encounters

Sometimes I wonder why I don't get invited to speak at mo...

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

The Thug Court

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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Stamen Design the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC App

I was looking at this on the iPad the other day and thinking, hmmm, they got clever people to do this. And so they did. I'm also delighted to see Stamen occasionally working on maps that actually work as maps.

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Or not!Work to be done!Katelan Foisy painted me!I am ...

Or not!

Work to be done!

Katelan Foisy painted me!

I am listening to this!

River Ghosts by Moonwood

See you Monday!  Maybe!