Warren Ellis's Blog, page 222

The Land Of Giants

From Designboom:

american firmchoi + shine architectsrecently received the 2010 boston society of architects
award for unbuilt architecture for their project 'the land of giants', which they originally
designed for the icelandic high voltage electrical pylon competition back in 2008.

making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed pylon design, the architects
created a series of towers that are powerful, solemn and variable. these iconic pylon-figures
will become monuments in the...

flickrgeist 13aug10

1. Grow Lights, 2. Cirque Acirca exhibit model, 3. Lillian Page – 1928, 4. 33. (ON-SET) Chaos Theatre, 5. toothless, 6. Waterloo East

Some Scripts

Someone was asking again what comics scripts look like. I guess I can't expect all students to use Google. There is in fact a comic book script archive. And, here on this site, I can show you:

DESOLATION JONES #7 (yes, the series will come back some day)

FELL #1 (yes, the serial will be back, we're working on it but life gets in the way)

and MINISTRY OF SPACE #1.

I can show you these because I own them. I've had several people say "I don't like this non-superhero shit, show me a PLANETARY...

Incident Far From South Street: John Lurie's Tragic Acoustemology

"…in any case, at the very end of the New Yorker piece, Lurie says the following:

"There's a spot on Astor Place, near where the cube is, between Broadway and Lafayette — a saxophone sounds incredible there at about six

His appreciation of Manhattan is a very specific one. He comes from an era when life only happened below 14th Street, and that remains very much his mindset. His understanding of this aural space, of those...

Get the new look for Autumn now

http://jimjupp.blogspot.com/2010/08/get-new-look-for-autumn-now.html

Available from the  Ghost Box shop  now.

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FREAKANGELS Pause

Paul's been briefly hospitalised, and is now on enforced medical leave. FREAKANGELS will return on the 27th.

Cyberoptix Tie Lab

Cyberoptix.com and Cyberoptix at Etsy. "Ties that don't suck."

TV show EUREKA's writing staff lose their shit. I always...

TV show EUREKA's writing staff lose their shit. I always said writer's rooms were bad for mental health.

And Then This Happened

I think I probably first heard of the WGA from Harlan Ellison's GLASS TEAT books, back in the late 80s. And now, as they say, I are one. Behold, the most expensive card in my wallet.

CROOKED LITTLE VEIN Out In France

From Au Diable Vauvert. With a title change, as often happens. Not a bad cover, though:

(amazon.fr)