Warren Ellis's Blog, page 132
May 3, 2011
Ellen Rogers
One day soon there will be a book of Ellen...
One day soon there will be a book of Ellen's work with a foreword written by me. When it appears, I will of course post here.
Nordic Interstitial Thresholds: 7
Bob Cluness, Our Man In Iceland, strikes again:
…a heady mix of exclusively Icelandic music. Some tracks may be well known, others have been lost to the mists of time, only to find their way onto this tiny glacier. But what you will hear is a slightly different take on Iceland's music scene and the treasures held within…
You can listen here, or click through for more information.
Andskotinn Einmana Jökull Tónlist… by Nordic Interstitial Thresholds on Mixcloud
I am a bit bleary today, and so I thought this link from ...
I am a bit bleary today, and so I thought this link from UbuWeb couldn't possibly be what it said it was.
TV ads for chocolate, Alka-Seltzer and wine… by Salvador Dali.
No, really. Click through.
Bookmarks for 2011-05-02
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Found Objects: The Haunted Pod Village of San-zhi
(tags:architecture hauntology cities )
Paper Bits
I was showing off some of my designs at a recent Makerbot user group meeting, and I wished I had tags for them with QR codes and some other relevant data. This bookmarklet will generate such tags.
(tags:web qr papernet )
May 2, 2011
FREAKANGELS Is Done
No Death Bar today. For one thing, it's a bank holiday here, which I've decided gives me a Death Bar Holiday. For another, I've been working for the last four or five days straight on the final seven episodes of FREAKANGELS. And I have just filed them with Avatar. 42 pages of comics, completing an 864-page graphic novel across six printed volumes. I am done with FREAKANGELS.
Episode 134 goes live Friday, I believe, meaning that (bar skip weeks if something affects Paul's schedule) FREAKANGELS will be completely serialised ten weeks later. I'll save my proper post-mortem, if I have one, for after that. Certainly I should write something to thank the amazing Paul Duffield, who's coped with the roughest "debut" job imaginable with style and grace and incredible growth. One presumes he'll be able to write his own ticket afterwards. If he's still alive. (There's some shots in episodes 138 – 141 that I will have to apologise to him for later.)
But I am done. I am exhausted. The only thing I've written that's been longer is, I think, TRANSMETROPOLITAN. When you get to the ending of something that long, the last thing you're thinking about is whether or not people will like it, or whether they'll hate that it's ending. You're just trying to get down the ending that you thought of at the start, and making sure everything fits, and killing a last few darlings to smooth out the joins, and doing your best to ensure the thing holds together the way it should. And I'm done with that, after four and a bit days down in the mines with it.
Time for The Cigarette Of Victory, I think.
The Rusty Technoporn Of Nuclear Russia
Two lovely photo-essays at English Russia today.
The Base Of Human Exterminators shows a missile complex that's been turned into a museum.
The fuel filler's suit. The rocket fuel is one of the strongest poisons: a drop of it on the skin entails the death.
The Place That Stalkers Would Love To Visit illustrates a half-built and abandoned Missile Division command post.
The sphere was designed to enable survival during a nuclear war. A hollow metal ball was built inside a large mine. Then a huge 4-story module block was suspended on huge shock absorbers inside of it. It contained control and communications equipment, life support systems and rest rooms.
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Annie Wu's Shop
Annie Wu is basically the genius that the rest of the world hasn't discovered yet. She's just gotten a webstore up. It might only be for a month. It's stuffed with prints, posters, cards, tshirts and original art. I would lay odds that this is the last time you'll see any of her stuff this cheap. And, honestly, it's worth clicking through just to ogle that linework.
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