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March 14, 2011
Paper Science And Travelling Graphoscopes
One catastrophic burst pipe and a partial flood of my house later…!
(All fixed now, sort of, though I would like to go back in time and kill a certain plumber sixteen years ago.)
Stuff!
Lex Machina's Graphoscope Travelling Photo Dispensary is doing a Kickstarter thing, and there's a book in it as well as other lovely pledge prizes from the likes of Lastwear (featured here a few times in the past):
And issue four of PAPER SCIENCE is on pre-order:
It's coming! Paper Science 4 is on the way and you can pre-order your copy now!
Last month we revealed that Luke Pearson, John Allison, Timothy Winchester, Andrew Waugh and Adam Cadwell would all be featured in the 16 page sci-fi special, coming at the end of April.
The line-up is completed by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Joe List and Dan Berry, bringing aliens, geeks and ray-guns to a printer near you. Well, a printer near London anyway.
With a month to go until the newspaper is sent to press it's time to get your pre-orders in, and we've got four options for you;
At which point you go to the link for the informations. You may want to think about the subscription option, as PAUL DUFFIELD will be in a future issue.
Bookmarks for 2011-03-14
"When I started Project 40 yesterday I knew exactly what I wanted to do. In New Orleans they call it "Growing up tipsy." It means you're tapped in."
(tags:magic )
Skeletal Tattooed Editorials – Rick Genest Poses for Vogue Hommes Japan Spring/Summer 2011 (GALLERY)
(tags:ink photography )
4chan Founder: Anonymity is Authenticity
"Anonymity is authenticity," said Poole. "It allows you to share in an unvarnished, unfiltered, raw and real way. We believe in content over creator."
(tags:net )
The Living City | URBAGRAM
"This is a transcript of a talk delivered at Cognitive Cities, a conference on the future of cities held in Berlin on 26th Feb 2011."
(tags:architecture comms net )
It's About Time and Space « THE WEB JOURNAL OF JOHN RAY
"This comic book is an adaptation of Timothy James Dimacali's short story published in Philippine Speculative Fiction III way back in 2007"
(tags:webcomic sf )
Atlantis, Lost City Swamped By Tsunami, May Be Found
"A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain."
(tags:history bullshit? )
Norman Spinrad's QUARANTINE
Masses and masses of stuff to catch up on today, so I'm going to forgo the usual big rambly post until later, as I clear through my inbox.
Norman Spinrad. Yes. His BUG JACK BARRON was a big influence on TRANSMETROPOLITAN. Fantastic writer. His work is big, muscular, aggressively inventive and fiercely intolerant of bullshit. I got this in email from him while I was on the road:
QUARANTINE–an experiment in epublication
Norman Spinrad, who has published over sixty works of short fiction, many of them widely anthologized, in everything from Playboy to New Worlds to Liberation to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, has put his latest, QUARANTINE, directly on sale as an original "mini-ebook" on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for the mini-price of $3.00.
"Too hot for any conventional magazine to handle, not that it surprises me," the author explains, "which makes it an ideal guinea pig for this epub experiment."
QUARANTINE is the novelette-length story of a terrorist attack on New York using a genetically engineered virus that spreads ambiently and gives the entire population of Manhattan Island, tourists and all, uncontrollable diarrhea. Nor is this surrealism or satire, and the biotech is all too plausible.
Certain to gross out, disgust, and/or outrage a mass audience, but perhaps just the sort of thing that arouses pleasure for the very same reason in a certain niche readership.
The question this experiment seeks to answer is how many readers is that? If this can work for something like QUARANTINE, it can work for all sorts of fiction by all sorts if writers, and if it does, the short story could teleport itself from condition terminal into an unexpected golden age.
To learn more go to NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE: http://normanspinradatlarge.blogspot.com/2011/03/quarantine-epub-experiment.html
QUARANTINE at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/QUARANTINE-ebook/dp/B004RHB5VU/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1299861471&sr=1-19
QUARANBTINE at Barnes & Noble: At Barnes & Noble
March 13, 2011
whitechapel 14mar11
At my internet lab today:
* WEBCOMICS WEEK (March 13-20 2011) – you do a webcomic? It's the monthly call to come and tell people about it
* CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: Fantastic Four #1 – return of the art/graphics challenges, all welcome
* Comics on Sale This Week (mar 16)
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Augustus Owsley Stanley III, Acid King, Annealer of the Grateful Dead, & Master Crank, dies with his boots on at 76.Sun Mar 13 19:46:57 via Twittelator
John Perry Barlow
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Bookmarks for 2011-03-12
"Set in the deserted grounds of Paypal founder Elon Musk's Space X jet lab in Hawthorne, California, the film was inspired by the pioneering spirit of the space race, which, according to Rodarte's Kate and Laura Mulleavy, "has defined generations of artists in their desire to use new mediums and question the established rules they were taught to follow." This cinematic collision between rocket science and visual daring is an apt match for Rodarte's spring 2010 collection—a symphony of flesh-colored crochet knits, fluorescent fibres, leather bandages and distressed plaid. Costumed in a series of these exquisite creations, Van Seenus blurrily emerges from a shimmering seascape before running through the starkly alluring spaces of the Space X facility… Van Seenus' hallucinatory journey, punctuated by glimpses of mysterious experiments and sudden rocket blasts, is chillingly soundtracked by LA noise-merchants No Age."
(tags:video fashion design space )
March 12, 2011
Bookmarks for 2011-03-12
blueprints for nuthouse designs: fascinating
(tags:architecture )
BLDGBLOG: The Factors of Futuring
poster, designed by Brian Roettinger, for MADE UP: Design's Fictions
(tags:desgn )
March 11, 2011
Down And Out In Luton
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