Warren Ellis's Blog, page 294

Where I Am And How To Find Me (Jan 2010)

I guess I haven't done this in a while, and people are starting to ask again, so:

For people wanting to send me to their sites, wanting to email stuff or tell me about new music or send me tips or whatever, I've set up a Gmail account that I'll check once every day or two: warrenellis [-at-:] gmail com. This isn't, I stress, my main email account, and it's not for asking me when some comic's coming out (there's a FAQ for that). Always interested in new music, new art, new connections, new...

notebook 26jan10

The inevitable pre-release post about the Apple Tablet, or iSlate or iPad or whatever they end up calling it. I've mostly been holding fire until I see what the damn thing actually is, but a couple of thoughts:

* The CALL OF DUTY iPhone game app — which is free — is a 22MB download. 3G speeds are good here, I had it in no time. Literally, I called it in over the air, noticed it starting to download, and then, bang, it was loaded. A .cbz Comic Book Reader file is usually around 15MB. I...

Sucking Sap From The Internet

These intended viral teasers have been showing up on YouTube since the end of last year, apparently. I just fell over them today. Some people say it's Xtina, some people say it's Goldfrapp. There is a flavour of Floria Sigismondi in places.

Links for 2010-01-26

20 best: Minimal Wave | FACT magazine: music and art
"Most of the Minimal Wave bands recorded in their home studios and created their own album artwork, which naturally paved the way for a D.I.Y. aesthetic to emerge. Generally, the musicians were influenced by avant-garde movements such as futurism and constructivism as well as by the literature of science fiction and existentialism. They had an innovative, unique approach to music-making…"
(tags:music )Spasers set to sum: A new dawn for...

These Riot

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(photo by Adam Greenfield)

Thought For The Night

From Fever Ray:

The Secret History

Photos by Cassandra:

This is one of those Secret weeks. I'm working almost exclusively on projects that are developing, or pre-pitch, or unannounced. Which means, when people ask me what I'm working on, I kind of have to shrug and make that face that makes me look a bit like a stroke victim and go "Muh?"

And there's a lot of it: I have to redraft a one-sheet on one thing and beat out a rough structure on another thing in the next, um, four hours or so. And read over a contract for a weird gig ...

Links for 2010-01-25

stamen design | HQ2 week 2
"One of our clients talked about how, far from the iPhone being a fancy phone for yuppies, it's better to think about it as a primary computer for low-income people. So we're going to have to address this sooner or later…" I'm not sure this is correct, but it's interesting to consider.
(tags:comms computing culture )Guardian editor hits back at paywalls
"The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch's campaign to introduce...

Received Goods 25jan10

An early birthday present from the sainted Cherie Priest and her other half, Aric The Roastmaster of the Fremont Coffee Company. If you live in the continental US, you can buy coffee from them online. I'm here to tell you: DO IT. Aric releases God from the Bean with Fire.

Additionally: Fremont Coffee Company, unsurprisingly to be found in the Fremont area of Seattle, will soon be instituting art shows on their premises. Given the number of art weirdos I know in the area alone, I imagine...

The One Hundred Telepathic Devices, Reconstructed

This appears to be video of (part of) an art installation: a particularly hermetic and surreal piece of design fiction. Described as:

reconstructions of prototypes of inventions used during the creation of "The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES"