Warren Ellis's Blog, page 211

DARK TOWER To Be Adapted Across Media

This, on the face of it, is pleasingly crazy. Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are to adapt Stephen King's DARK TOWER sequence (which I've never read) for film and tv:

The plan is to start with the feature film, and then create a bridge to the second feature with a season of TV episodes. That means the feature cast – and the big star who'll play Deschain – also has to appear in the TV series before returning to the second film. After that sequel is done, the TV series picks up again, this time...

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Bruce Sterling On The NEXT NATURE Project

Chairman Bruce in full-on Future Machete Guru mode:

Next Nature is an investigative enterprise by a set of mostly Dutch researchers. Next Nature is haunted by Previous Nature, or rather, by the ghostly Gothic absences of a vanished Natural world. Next Nature also bears many premonitions about the seething, favela-like, feverish state of our planet tomorrow. Next Nature offers us few reassurances. It refuses to view Nature as a given, solid, static entity to be discovered, dissected and...

If you're in or around Brighton tonight, go to THE OUTER ...

If you're in or around Brighton tonight, go to THE OUTER CHURCH, held upstairs at The Freebutt, for an indoctrination into the kosmiche, the hauntological, the confusing and the electronic as prepared by Joseph Stannard, writer for THE WIRE magazine and The Quietus. I would be there if I could, and, in fact, in the near future, I might be.

A Splash Of RED

Good morning. If the embed works, this should be a little bit of RED.

Links for 2010-09-06

The brain speaks: Scientists decode words from brain signals
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain.
(tags:neuro blacklight )Canadian authorities to try 3D image of child to slow drivers
An optical illusion is about to be trialed in West Vancouver, Canada, starting September 7, to try to jolt...

This design has always been peculiarly popular.

This design has always been peculiarly popular.

March Hare by Magdalena SolisClick through to buy a down...

March Hare by Magdalena Solis

Click through to buy a download of the whole thing for a miserly 5 euros.

Magazero

Just read about this in an interview somewhere this afternoon. Magazero is an internet shop for independent magazines. Not quite in the same space as Stack.

I love Magazero because they told me something I didn't know — there's a new issue of the excellent "speculative architecture" magazine P.E.A.R. Magazero is slowly expanding its stock, according to the interview I read on the phone at the pub… ah, here it is.

I believe that it is the richness and variety of the magazines that I stock...

Future Islands

I don't know how I've never heard this before, or how I've never heard of them. I mean, don't look too closely, because the band looks like it escaped from a skin-testing lab and the lead guy dances worse than the Jozin z Bazin guy. But the lead guy has a brilliant shouty voice. The music seriously sounds like it was nicked from gorgeously bad postpunk who in turn nicked their act from 1970s electronic library music.

And yet I've listened to it five times in a row.

"Follow You," Future...