Warren Ellis's Blog, page 288

Set Day

Just got back to the hotel. Long day. Very interesting and fun day.

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T Dot

Down in Toronto. From the air, the city looks a bit like Oslo today: from the air, in winter, Oslo is a vast manic sketch done in faded black Indian ink on clean white paper. On the ground, there seems to be a lot of construction. My hotel room view, in fact, is of construction: yellow gating, plastic-wrapped columns, treated wooden boards gathering snow. A Korean couple in parkas peering up at the great black and white crane that seems to be turning around a lot without actually doing a...

Links for 2010-02-10

Robot to take starring roles in S.Korea plays
A South Korean-developed robot that played to acclaim in "Robot Princess and the Seven Dwarfs" is set for more leading theatre roles this year, a scientist said Wednesday.
(tags:none)Simon Reynolds / Hardly Baked
"boredom now — it's a super-saturated, overloaded boredom i think."
(tags:culture )Pocket Utopias
There were two striking elements to this part of the story for me: first, that cities and urban life were thought to cause or exacerbate...

Hysterical Comics

The essential connective tissue between a Sixties Stan Lee Everyone! Shouts! Like! This! comic and a 2010 Geoff Johns wall-to-wall evisceration corpseoramavision comic is hysteria. Yelling, shrieking, squirting hysteria. The latter has turned out to be the natural evolution of the former.

On The Bloody Train Again

London scheming stage 2. Cabman gleefully informed me of six inches' snow promised tomorrow. When I fly to Toronto.

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London Scheming Day 1

My day was actually similar to:

G'night.

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Links for 2010-02-08

Keynote: Bruce Sterling (us) on Atemporality | transmediale
"If progress is to go beyond the banal indulgences that give rise to a never-ending array of car shell designs then we need to analyse our present time with regard to its aesthetics and its media. The second conference session is being introduced with Bruce Sterling's Keynote on Atemporality."
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London Is Grim

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T-Shirt Of The Week/Valentine's: LOVE (RED)

Bit different, this week. I'm off on the road first thing Monday morning, beginning an intensive ten days of travel and meetings. So, a few changes, just for this offering:

1) We (Ariana and I, in our joint comedy guise as the International Electrophonic Unit) are offering this shirt for two weeks, rather than the usual one. Because, see above.

2) This shirt is returning by popular request, but in a different form. It was in fact Shirt #001, in a simple black-on-white.

3) And the request was...

Links for 2010-02-06

The Mistress and the Muse: The Films of Norman Mailer – Movies – New York Times
"Mr. Mailer is almost always testing a hypothesis that the most hyperbolic presentation of the self will also be the most authentic. " "…Mr. Mailer describes what he is doing… as pursuing 'an attack on the nature of reality'…"
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