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January 18, 2010
Station Ident: COILHOUSE Broadcasting
This is warren ellis dot com. Today sees the editors of COILHOUSE begin a weeklong residency at my message board, which gives me an excuse to reproduce this exquisite illustration of the three of them by Kurt Komoda. Good morning, sinners. No, this isn't your radio set on the blink again.
January 17, 2010
Links for 2010-01-16
"Call it pork in a petri dish – a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon."
(tags:food sci future transmet? )Recession Special: NASA cuts space shuttle price
"…As for the space shuttle main engines, those are now free. NASA advertised them for $400,000 to $800,000 each in December 2008, but no one...
Henry Disapproves Of Your Heathen Lifestyle
Henry, son of writer/scholar Jess Nevins, is not impressed by your pagan ways:
(Ariana comments: "I knew offering toddler t-shirts was a good idea.")
Coming And Crying
Coming & Crying: real stories about sex from the other side of the bed. A Kickstarter-powered book project by Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O'Connell:
Meaghan and Melissa (or, "we") met because of the internet and writing, and writing about sex (and blogging about writing about sex). Almost since then, we've been talking about how we need to do a book like this: a collection of stories (and photographs) from the messy, awkward, hilarious, painful, and ultimately true side of sex.
As part of...
January 16, 2010
Links for 2010-01-16
Site containing scans of 60s/early 70s British comics serials: The Steel Claw, Robot Archie, The Trigan Empire etc. Lovely idea.
(tags:comics )
The Third & The Seventh on Vimeo
"A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects
are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal…"
(tags:architecture video )
The Rust Of Broadcasting
A friend of mine who works in the post-industrial design space told me once of a meeting he was called to with a terrestrial network television broadcaster. He does lots of interesting work with lots of interesting people, in a range of digital and postdigital fields. But he was really kind of antsy about this meeting. He said to me: "Television? Broadcasting? That's, like aerials and shit. Pylons and towers. Huge fucking chunks of rusting metal." The strong implication was that he...
This Is Still Warren Ellis Dot Com, Yes
Just a leetle bit busy. Broadcasting is on low power for the weekend.
You can send me tips, information, interesting stuff you're doing or dirty pictures at my public dump email address, warrenellis [at:] gmail dot com. I check it once every day or two.
Have a new photo by Ellen Rogers:
January 15, 2010
Links for 2010-01-15
"An incredible, and incredibly rare, selection of WIlliam Burroughs? audio experiments, recorded on a variety of tape decks in London, Paris, New York and Tangiers, at various dates from the mid-50s to the late 1970s. This disc was compiled from hundreds of hours of such tapes by Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle, whose label released this."
(tags:spokenword sound )InfraNet Lab » Blog Archive » Islands of Waste 1
"The island has...
Yes, It Goes Quiet Sometimes
Mired in a few deadline-intensive things right now, so, yes, it's gone a bit quiet here.
RED has commenced shooting, and apparently all is well. Hoping to get out to the set next month, if I can chisel out the time — the start of the year is always work-heavy, and I'm slammed for the next several weeks, poking my head out of my sett sometime in March to sniff the air.
On a completely different tack, I haven't seen anyone else say this yet, and so Simon Reynolds is QFT:
(The Streets/Mike...
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