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March 25, 2010
SQUIDGIRLS: Yet Another Sign Of The Apocalypse
Templesmith is planning to release this in May. That's maybe two months to get him on the medication regime he so desperately needs.
The Pixel Skull Goes Widescreen
Seen the SCOTT PILGRIM trailer?
Seen the Diesel Sweeties PIXEL SKULL t-shirt?
Links for 2010-03-25
"All the "Sounds of Alaska" with few exceptions were recorded by the producer during more than fourteen years of travels and expeditions throughout the Territory. Nine different recorders were used. Some were powered by 125 pound gasoline generators. Others were powered by six volt wet batteries and converters. The equipment was called "portable" only because it could be moved by sheer determination…"
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The Alchemists Of Sound
I've mentioned recently that I love a good BBC music documentary. And bemoaned that they never seem to make it to DVD. Well, last night, I turned up the 2003 docu THE ALCHEMISTS OF SOUND on the You Tubes. Which is, yes, about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. (I'll be over this by the weekend, I swear). Here's the first part, the others are linked in the Related bar on the clickthrough:
March 24, 2010
Night Music: Fantastic Cat
I used to make friends listen to this. I mean, make them. Many of them were not my friends afterwards. I did not care.
Takako Minekawa sat down to make an album without leaving her apartment. About her apartment. Which is kind of reflected in the video. She kind of ran dry after a while. Hence, the cat got a song.
It is both appalling and sublime.
G'night.
Delaware
Still on the Delia Derbyshire kick, gathering bits together. I turned up information on this curiosity the other day. And sure enough, the You Tubes, retailers of all kinds of cultural lumpy bits, had an upload of it. Delia Derbyshire did another version of the DOCTOR WHO theme in 1972. It was rejected, though apparently accidentally appended to some episodes that went out to Australia. This version is named "Delaware," for the Delaware Road studio she worked at.
It's an odd bugger....
IRON MAN: EXTREMIS: The Motion Comic
Announced today by Entertainment Weekly, a "motion comic" adaptation of the IRON MAN: EXTREMIS graphic novel by myself and artist (and IRON MAN movie visual designer) Adi Granov. There's a trailer at the link.
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