Warren Ellis's Blog, page 259
April 20, 2010
notebook 20apr10
(from the final Alexander McQueen collection)
Links for 2010-04-19
"The elite, however, were dining on the less fortunate, and probably to a significant extent. Estimates surpass thirty thousand sacrifices a year towards the end, and even more during the dedications of temples. Not all of these were eaten, obviously, but when they were, what were they eating people with?"
(tags:history )1. Time. History Under Atemporality | varnelis.net
"Notwithstanding the claim that network culture is ahistorical, in this chapter I...
Whitechapel 20apr10
* WEBCOMICS WEEK (April 19-25 2010)
* T-shirts Of The Week: Mid-April Post-US-Tax Resurrection Blowout
* SHUDDERTOWN; March 2010 from Image/Shadowline (announcing a free online issue, among other things)
* Comics on Sale This Week (apr 21)
DO ANYTHING: On Release 21 April 2010
On release in North America from tomorrow, and in Britain from whenever the Icelandic Sky Shit breaks up – DO ANYTHING: Jack Kirby Ripped My Flesh, a short book about comics and things.
You can still read the whole thing online in its original serial form, too.
I'm quite fond of this little book. Here's the cover: design by Ariana Osborne, art by Jacen Burrows, published by Avatar Press. USD $5.99 or nearest local equivalent.
"…a grand tour through comics & culture as seen through a burgled...
CAPTURED GHOSTS: Trailer
Oh god. The trailer made it to YouTube, and people are taunting me with it. Let's get this over with. I have, at best, a face for radio. Unfortunately, I don't have a voice for radio. This is horrifying and I don't want to look.
The trailer for CAPTURED GHOSTS, a forthcoming documentary about my work.
Station Ident: Smile Benignly
Professor Sir Peter Cook cracks me up. Southend boys, mate. You can't trust us an inch. Photo by Matt Jones, whose birthday it is today.
Good morning, scumbubbles. This is warren ellis dot com, broadcasting from Southend-on-Sea in Essex. My name's Warren Ellis, and I write comics and books and things. And now I'm going to the pub. Selah.
April 19, 2010
Links for 2010-04-18
"…we must develop a vocabulary that includes what Karl Fast calls "medium-independent conceptual constructs." In other words, we need better ways of talking about information interaction across channels."
(tags:design theory )russell davies: pretending apps
"Because I don't think Dan's gone far enough. I think he's suggesting that we can learn from Movie OSs to make things more usable and easy to grasp. I think we should do it to make them more fun."
(tags:design
Tuning
Since Monday is rarely a good workday — it tends to get broken up by admin and emails and bits and pieces, so I don't get the space for a good long train of thought — I'm spending a couple of hours tuning my RSS feed capture.
My RSS reading comes in three flavours. I have a desktop app, Feed Demon, that brings things to me in close to realtime. Feed Demon got subsumed into Google Reader, so, when I don't want realtime, I can bring that up in a browser. And I have an app called Reeder for...
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