Warren Ellis's Blog, page 260

On Comics: Recursive Culture And The Speed Of Fiction

More vague early-morning rambles from me:

…part of comics' gift is in the pace of reaction. They sit between music and books in terms of the speed in which contemporaneous works can be brought to market or otherwise disseminated. As Paul Gravett and Peter Stanley said, more than twenty years ago, about the new photocopier technology and the emergence of an enabled and mobile small press: comics are fast fiction…

Received Goods 19apr10

I write about things I like, here, in the hopes that you like them too and that they become more widely known. It's about the attention economy and doing what's right, rather than getting hold of boxes of swag.

I've written here before about the wonderful group Natural Snow Buildings. I believe I also mentioned how pissed off I was that time conspired against me and I didn't get to see them (on the same bill as Grouper and Fennesz) recently. I don't know them or anything. I most recently...

T-Shirts Of The Week: Massive Mid-April Post-US-Tax Blowout

I am going to forego the usual spiel this week. Ariana's computer's still out for the count, and she's actually laying on the floor twitching after having paid her tax, over there in America.

So this week we're going to have a post-tax blowout.

For one week only, every T-Shirt Of The Week is back. All of them. At the IEU Store.

Spread the word.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Small Victories Continue

Sarah Sharp:

WEBCOMICS WEEK For April 2010 On Whitechapel

I ought to be making this a monthly capture. So I'm going to start here. Webcomics Week on Whitechapel for April.

You do a webcomic? Tell me about it at the link. Not more than one or two images, please, or else the thread takes forever to load. Don't forget to put your bloody link in (people do).

Relax. There are only 8000 members of Whitechapel reading, plus god knows how many drop-ins who aren't registered members. Let's get a sense of who's around and who's doing what. Create me a big...

Links for 2010-04-18

Archigram Archival Project
"The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and their heirs, who retain copyright of all images."
(tags:architecture design fuck+yeah )

The Days Of Cathcart Zen

I'm suddenly tempted to write more of these. From some years ago, I bring you five from the vaults:

* The Memoirs Of Cathcart Zen

* The Many Wives Of Cathcart Zen

* The Politics Of Cathcart Zen

* The Rock Of Cathcart Zen

* The Dinner Of Cathcart Zen

Black Box Recorder: "Do You Believe In God?"

wait what new Black Box Recorder

BLACK BOX RECORDER: FINAL STATEMENT
On Thursday 6th May 2010, Black Box Recorder go to the country for the last time. For one day only you can download their final two recordings.

A. 'Keep It In The Family
A. 'Do You Believe In God?'

Available from Itunes and all digital outlets.

You can listen to them in full at the link. End of an era, sort of. Spotted by Gillen.

CAPTURED GHOSTS Announced

God help me. I see the link's now flying around on Twitter, so, from a report on Bleeding Cool:

…the panel ended with a teaser trailer for the team's next project, produced along with documentary film maker Kevin Thurman. The clip showed a dark image of a bearded man smoking and drinking Red Bull, speaking about life and purpose and writing, ending with the words:

Warren Ellis

Captured Ghosts

2011

Links for 2010-04-17

Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels
"With the mass of digital "stuff" growing around us every day and simple tools for self-organization evolving beyond individuals into communities of suggestions, is the curatorial prerogative itself becoming a social object? This paper examines the act of association, the art of framing and the participatory nature of robots in creating artifacts and story-telling in projects like Flickr...