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March 2, 2011
Having Someone's Disease In You: Not Always Fun
Much as I'm enjoying writing both things, I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow, where I think I've blocked out enough time to do some work on That Thing That May Replace FREAKANGELS In My Schedule.
And at the weekend I will, with luck, be able to put some notes down for FELL #11, which I intend to file at the end of the month, and hopefully get some time in on another thing, never announced, that's been on the slow boat for 18 months or so.
Hello. I'm Warren Ellis. Remember me? Hahaha. You can email me if you want to show me or tell me stuff, you know: my public email dump is warrenellis@gmail.com, which I check once a day or so.
Lea Hernandez has done a double-page spread for the TRANSMET charity art book and it's amazing. Click through to see. I finally filed my foreword for the thing a couple of days ago.
I note that the book SeqArt research published about PLANETARY got a nice review at AICN.
Xeni Jardin's been dropping some great space history photos on her Flickrstream, mirrored from her instagram account. Look at this fucking retrotechnoporn:
Did I mention that I've read the script and seen a bunch of art pages for the forthcoming "new" CASANOVA sequence by Fraction, Ba & Moon for Marvel Icon and they're all fucking insane? Everyone's going to have to raise their game afterwards. And I'm going to have to find mine.
Finally, Wil Wheaton made me look at this again, and now I hate him again. "I made this for Warren!" he chirped on Twitter in his loveable way. Because those people don't know the real Wil Wheaton. Not like I do. Look.
March 1, 2011
Surveillance, Very Kafka
So I guess somebody saw the new issue of WIRED UK – I didn't know it was out yet – and therefore knows a little more about SVK than they did yesterday. The secret to the Special Viewing Kit is revealed at Bleeding Cool.
Timo Arnall's Light Painting Wifi
I'm late getting to this — I think it went live when I was on the way back from Berlin, and if you've read a few entries down, you know what yesterday was like for me. But I wanted to show this nonetheless, to save it for myself and to illustrate just one facet of what "digital cities" mean.
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
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Woke Up Dead
Well, no. But I did wake up with a rotten cold, again. Allergy attacks depress the immune system and other muck sneaks in when the fence is down. It feels like I should be over it in a few days, but I'm going to have to churn out the most important script pages today in case I take a turn for the worse.
Chicken isn't dead yet.
It's going to be lots of bitty updates and posts this week, I think. Like this one: Michael Avon Oeming did a digital sketch of me. We've never met, so he doesn't know I've been shaving my head for the last couple of years. Don't tell him.
Annoyance of the morning: either Tweetdeck Desktop has stopped supporting the Tumblr API, or Tumblr's cut Tweetdeck out of its API provision. So once again I have a realtime information app that's failed out on me. WHERE IS MY ONE APP TO RULE THEM ALL GODDAMNIT.
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February 28, 2011
This Has Been A Monday
I left for Berlin Friday. On Saturday, a water pipe in the bathroom, upstairs, sprung a leak, which spread downstairs to soak the washing machine and tumbledryer.
I get home Sunday night and put the chickens away. We have three rescued ex-battery hens. Came from the British Hen Welfare Trust, whom I recommend. A gift from me to Niki, who loves them. I notice one of them isn't sleeping with the others as usual, but standing alone on the other side of the coop. I make a note.
And go back to my office. Longtime readers will know that I have a terminal allergy to house dust. My family, however, seems never to remember this. Lots of dusty boxes and books got moved into my office when the leak sprang.
Today is Niki's birthday. It's also the anniversary of my Dad's funeral. I'm having a monster allergy attack, the second really bad one in as many months. This afternoon, the chicken stops eating and drinking, and flops on the ground. By 615, we're at the vet with the damned bird, who tells us it's a respiratory infection, gives her a shot and tells us it's 50/50 whether she'll see the morning. He gives us a mix to give her, telling us to syringe it into her through a straw. You think we can find anyone who'll sell us straws? Juice carton straws are too sharp, and we can't even find a Bic pen to disassemble. So we syringe it right into her beak and hope it goes down the right hole.
Then the chicken shits all over me.
Which at least indicates the antibiotic shot is working.
I'm about done with Monday now.
GETSVK.COM
The informational website for the comics project SVK by myself, Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker and BERG has gone live. GETSVK.COM.
SVK will not be sold like normal comics. The email alert system at the site is there for a reason. Sign up.
February 27, 2011
The TRANSMET Dr Sketchy's is on right now in NYC, and Mel...
The TRANSMET Dr Sketchy's is on right now in NYC, and Melissa just sent this shot over of Jiz Lee as Spider Jerusalem and Ryan Keely as Channon Yarrow:
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