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February 23, 2011
Quick Bits
Berlin, actually.
I'm speaking at the Cognitive Cities conference on Saturday, along with Ben Hammersley and Adam Greenfield.
And I'm still writing the talk, because I am a technological peon who still writes talks and then reads them, rather than ad libbing in front of Powerpoint slide things that actually took longer to make and assemble than it would have taken to write a talk. I am very behind the times, and therefore expectations for wakefulness during my talk should be lowered. Like a blanket of Ambien floating down over your head.
Am off on Friday, at which point this site will probably devolve into a flurry of quick posts from the road.
Currently waiting on the nod to mention a thing in Ireland next month.
Today I got a lovely and fascinating thing in email from a film company, a look at some pencils for the first "new" issue of CASANOVA which is just mental, and a read of the fantastically beautiful new comic NONPLAYER by Nate Simpson, which you yourself can see a preview of right here at this link. The whole thing is just a fucking stunning piece of illustration.
This is a pretty picture by my friend Liliana B, who's selling her prints on Etsy now.
February 22, 2011
Dwayne McDuffie
I just heard reports that writer & producer Dwayne McDuffie is dead.
We talked – and occasionally argued – for years, at my message board. I had huge respect for both him and his work. Later, he was good enough to hire me to write a JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED cartoon for him. I had a terrific time doing that: turned out he was great to work with, too. if you had to pick out ten people in this poxy business whom you'd stand in front of when the shit started flying, Dwayne would be on most people's lists.
I can't wrap my mind around the notion that he's not here anymore, to be honest.
Bookmarks for 2011-02-22
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February 21, 2011
NIGHT MUSIC: Gareth Hardwick
Incredible lap steel harmonics. Click through to purchase.
Closing Seven Million Tabs
That said, I'm mostly watching the news rather than working on the lists, sketches, notes and design documents that such a project begins with (for me). Everyone has a different process. And, in fact, quite often, every project has a different process.
Hell, I was even watching Al Jazeera on the iPhone (propped up against some bottles of spices) while cooking chili in the kitchen earlier.
Sudden random thought: someone should totally do a web magazine that released as a six-page block on a weekday like FREAKANGELS. Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing? And people could still read it on their fucking iPads (have you noticed how horribly entitled people with iOS devices can be? "Tailor everything to meeeee, i have teh Future Box and you must bow down").
I am also trying to finish writing my talk for Cognitive Cities in Berlin on Saturday, which right now is just sort of a howling, tumbling mess of ideas that have nothing to do with "cognitive cities." I feel like I should apologise in advance for what is, right now, just about twenty-five minutes of incoherent shouting about ghosts and UFOs.
To your left, one of the few photos in existence to depict Molly Crabapple's actual height of three feet one inch. Ganked from her Tumblr.
Details of the next Outer Church night in Brighton, in March.
While that's happening, I will be being shot for that goddamned DVD again in London, and then travelling to Ireland for a thing I don't think I can talk about yet. And then I think I will be going back to bed for an unspecified period but certainly not less than one month.
This is just a triffic photo by Templesmith that's here because it's a triffic photo. You can find us both on Instagram pretty easily.
Note to self: investigate novel shown at left sometime soon. (As found at this thread on my message board.)
Talking of novels, Joe Hill is doing a thing in support of his new book that you might be interested in. US and Canada only for now, UK/Aus/NZ soon, he says.
Aviation tumblr xplanes is on a flying saucer kick right now. Loving seeing those old Avro designs again. Go take a look.
This guy Seamus Bellamy keeps asking me to tell people that his book JOOMLA FOR DUMMIES is out. So I have.
And, finally, there's a preview of the new CROSSED book, PSYCHOPATH, by David Lapham and CRECY artist Raulo Cacares, over at Bleeding Cool. Assume that there will be chopped-off bits of people, sprays of infected blood, vomit, semen, swearing, cannibalism and other things you probably wouldn't want on your dinner plate.
The Man Who Stuck His Head In A Particle Accelerator
The story of the man who stuck his head into an operating particle accelerator. Fascinating.
As he was leaning over the piece of equipment he stuck his head through the part of the accelerator that the proton beam was running through. Supposedly, he saw a flash that was "brighter than a thousand suns" at this point. Interestingly, he did not feel any pain when this happened.
Despite the beam going through his brain, his intellectual capacity remained the same as before…
Yes. I would imagine so.
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Picking Up The Pieces Of Monday
The screenwriters of RED, Jon and Erich Hoeber, have a new comics series launching this week.
It's called THE MISSION, and there's an interview with them about it over here. The solicitation text reads: "Paul, an average working guy, finds his life upended when he's approached by a mysterious figure who tells him he's been chosen for a mission in the battle between good and evil-the mission is murder. Is it real or is Paul losing his mind?" I wish them all the luck in the world.
Steve Aylett just sent me this link: a DODGEM LOGIC event in London, conducted by Alan Moore and featuring Aylett himself, Melinda Gebbie, Kev O'Neill and various others. May 4.
Congrats to Tom Armitage and Matt Brown of BERG on their new gigs, with Hide & Seek Games and Apple's Human Interface Device Prototyping group respectively.
Which reminds me, we'll have a little SVK news thing in the next day or two.
Today I am mostly scripting, dealing with email and drawing up a Big List for a Thing. Most of my stories don't require a list, but this one is demanding a Big List. The Big List has entries for Current 93, Kenneth Grant, Carnacki, Nigel Kneale, TOPY, about a third of the things in Rob Young's ELECTRIC EDEN, Delia Derbyshire, all the usual suspects…
Brandon Graham just moved his excellent blog from LJ to WordPress. Which, if nothing else, will make it easier to gank images off him.
See?
February 20, 2011
Human Death Threats On Behalf Of A Virtual Human
Ellen Rogers just pointed me at her friend Karley Sciortino, and specifically at her recounting the reactions to an article she wrote about virtual Japanese idoru Hatsune Miku:
… I have never received such a violent response to anything I've written in my entire life… The feature, along with the accompanying photoshoot which was conceived and styled by Matthew Josephs, instigated so much rage within the Miku fanbase that there were actually pipe bomb threats to Clash's London office following its release. Angry fans then hacked into the mag's website and made it so the page concerning the feature was inaccessible. Both Matthew and I have received personal death threats. One boy, on a Miku fan forum, threatened to give me a "thorough anal stabbing" with a leek until I died…
The article's included in the post. Decide for yourselves whether or not threatening to kill people on behalf of a piece of art-by-committee is a sign of new crazy or just a recent wrinkle in business-as-usual…
(ref. Gibson's IDORU, of course, and possibly also mine and Colleen's SUPERIDOL.)
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