Warren Ellis's Blog, page 126

Emanating The Retinue Of The Deity

Somehow I seem to have failed to blog this in the past.  PHURPA, part three of the Trowo Phurnag Ceremony, which I believe is being released on vinyl by Editions Mego this summer. (Bloody vinyl.  Why not do a release on wax fucking cylinder while you're at it.)

Anyway.  These people are Russian drone ritualists, and the perfect soundtrack for my Saturday, if not yours.  If you like this, I am delighted to inform you that they have a ton of stuff up on Bandcamp for free listening and download-purchase. Like proper members of the 21st century.

I actually own a phurpa.  I wonder where I put it?

Curse You And Your So-Called "Week-end"

bin Laden Porn Stash: Apparently This Is Somehow My Fault Too

Charlie Stross just said:

This is either black propaganda of the most brilliant sort, or evidence that truth is weirder than Warren Ellis graphic novel.

STORMHOUSE

Effective little trailer, I thought.

In 2002, the military captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity.  In 2011… the consequences.

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NERVOUS96

A short science fiction film directed by Bill Domonkos with original music by Jill Tracy and Paul Mercer.  More about it.

NERVOUS96 from Bill Domonkos on Vimeo.

New IRON SKY Trailer

The long-gestating and ever more maniacal "Nazis On The Moon" film IRON SKY releases a new trailer.  If you like this, click through and give them a vote of confidence?

FREAKANGELS 0135

Because it's Friday, because it's just past noon here in God's own country, because this is what we do:

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A Scattering Of Random Crap

Today we received William Gibson's foreword for SVK.  So today is a good day.  If you're reading this, Bill: thanks again.  I owe you, again.

Apparently there's a new trailer for that docu about me.  I'm not looking at it.  Molly's seen it, and says it's me talking about "Another Cold Morning" from TRANSMET.

Whedon keeps emailing me about swearing.  Swearing as a subject matter.  Which is a bit like some terribly well-brought-up and sophisticated eccentric relative sitting next to you and talking about anal sex. With squid.

Photographer Natalie Dybisz has a thing on her Flickr profile saying "don't reproduce my pics anywhere," so I'm just going to point you at this wonderful photo taken at nearby Dungeness.

On the other hand, here's my friend Cassandra Melena's special effects final – she's studying with Tom fucking Savini –

 

Also I just watched MACHETE last night and seriously how did that not win all the Oscars?  Also that Lindsay Lohan was in it.  I haven't thought about her since 2007, when I wrote this.

In other Media Travesty news, I learned this morning that LIE TO ME has been cancelled.  Which means I'll never get to see the episode where Tim Roth is on the moon, slapping aliens around while yelling YOU'RE A BLOODY LIAR at them.  I am sad.

The SVK Torches Are Here

And this is how they arrived at the BERG offices.

BERG also had to go through some weird security checks to be able to use the UV ink that SVK is surprinted with.

SVK is an experimental publication with a limited print run, being sold mail order only.  More information, and access to the mailing list, is at getSVK.com.

And here we have Emma Vieceli, Anna Petterson and Matt Jones from BERG playing with the SVK test article:

(photo by Anne Holiday)

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Chip Zdarsky Needs Help

And not the kind of help he usually needs.  Please click through to find out how to help him decide which of these images to run in a national fucking newspaper, god help Canada…