Warren Ellis's Blog, page 129
May 8, 2011
Border Towns
Your farm is completely surrounded by a foreign country because the king lost it in a game of cards. You live in Cooch Behar.
You are eating at a café when you are informed that it must close. If you'll just shift to a table in the other country, service is still available. This café is in Baarle/Hertog.
You work in the mayor's office. Down the hall is a parallel mayor's office with a whole mirror set of city officials to govern the other half of your city. You work in Texarkana.
We believe that a great deal can be learned by investigating the strange edge cases of the world. Border towns are the extreme edge of where geography and politics collide. They throw the abstractions of governance into sharp physical relief. They are a fertile site for investigation into questions of security, freedom, architecture, immigration, trade, smuggling, sovereignty, and identity…
Phantom Circuit 71
New episode includes our friends Moon Wiring Club and the magnificent dark ambient ritualist Peter Andersson.
Phantom Circuit #71 (8th May 2011) by Phantom Circuit on Mixcloud
May 7, 2011
Some Random Saturday Night Notes
* Ariana wants someone to pay me to edit a magazine so I don't spend all day filling her email inbox with pointless ruminations about making a magazine. (I have this sort of proto-Alzheimers where I forget for hours or even days at a time that I can't fund or resource a magazine, and end up daydreaming about the idea for extended periods before going oh shit.)
* Very saddened to hear of what I hope is simply an extended hiatus for DODGEM LOGIC. I admit to finding the first couple of issues pretty unreadable, but I loved that Alan was doing it, and I believe there's a place for it in the world.
* I just filed the script for my third issue of SECRET AVENGERS with Marvel. I believe that's issue 18 in the run? So I'm still ahead. Just about. In fact, a little better than that, because I put out the first five-page section for the artist about ten days ago (three pages of lead-up to a hellish double-page-spread that will probably kill him. I intend to leave six dead artists behind me on this book. McKelvie's already a drooling cabbage after his issue. As anyone who met him at TCAF today can doubtless attest).
* While I was doing that, Molly Crabapple was working on a poster for EFF and The Tor Project, and here's a peek at the piece in progress:
* As ever, if you want to send me tips, links, information, pictures or other interesting things, my public "dump" email address is warrenellis@gmail.com, which gets checked once a day or so.
The Revenant Gospels Vol III
Dead pop stars of the 20th Century run through Ben Chisholm's hauntological chopping-and-screwing machinery.
Bookmarks for 2011-05-06
"..let's take a walk through a small cross section of 20th century leftfield / outsider / industrial music from the early pioneers through to the isolated humans of post 60's liberation leading on to more recent popular outfits inspired by this world such as Stereolab, Liars and Cold Cave. The precursors, the inspiration, the peers and the aftermath. Like any scene, the field of industrial music has many trees with many branches. As a result by no means look at this as a complete list, do not even look at it as a beginners guide, just crawl around and explore some of the mangled marvels created throughout the 20th Century and beyond."
(tags:music writing )
Sailing the Titan seas
"The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond Earth by landing in, and floating on, a large methane-ethane sea on the cloudy, complex moon."
(tags:space )
May 6, 2011
Rafael Grampá
art from his forthcoming book FURRY WATER
Rafael Grampá
art from his forthcoming book FURRY WATER
Yao Xiao
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