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January 5, 2010
Notebooknotes: Writing DO ANYTHING
DO ANYTHING was mostly written in a Moleskine reporter's notepad with a propelling pencil. The page reproduced below — cranked up in GIMP to make it visible, if not legible — appears to date from late May 2009. It's written in block caps because I needed to be able to copy-type from it, and as we know from earlier posts, my handwriting is shitty.
Pretty much every page of DO ANYTHING in this notebook looks like this:
If you've read DO ANYTHING, you know a lot of it is pretty densely layered ...
DO ANYTHING: Jack Kirby Ripped My Flesh
The serial version of the first DO ANYTHING book concluded today. It'll be out in print in April, and it'll look something like this:
Links for 2010-01-05
"Mysterious organizations in the Bay Area profess to be advocating for liberal causes. In truth, they appear to be part of a secretive group with a bizarre radical past."
(tags:cult pol )Sikhs strive to keep language alive
"The Sikh scriptures and the Punjabi language of many Sikhs were written in a script known as Gurmukhi. So to be fully initiated into the religion, you must know how to read it."
(tags:cult
Launching The Burj
Curzon from Coming Anarchy took some photos of the opening of the Burj Khalifa, the new top medieval folly in Dubai. The thing about criminal lunatics who live like God's just keeping their chairs warm is that, well, they do know how to put on a show:
More at the link.
Stuck In The Middle
Of a 300-word column on comics for SFX. 300 poxy words. This usually means I'm going to have to scrap it and start again. It's not due to file until the 11th, but I want to get it out of the way today, because I need to be producing some comics pages by the end of the week. Of course, at the end of the week, I'm planning to be in London to consult with a few people on a few things, so…
Provided London hasn't been cut off by snow, of course. Extreme weather warnings are popping up all...
On Whitechapel Today (5jan09)
At my internet cave today:
Both here until end of Friday. Go and meet them.
* REMAKE/REMODEL: Ace Of Space – return of the artists' challenge thread.
* Free Paper Science newspaper from We Are Words + Pictures – oh yes. We do free stuff now.
* Comics on Sale This Week (Jan 6) – For people with a local comics store.
* SHUDDERTOWN; March 2010 from Image/Shadowline
* GHOST PROJEKT: Coming in March from Oni Press
Preview material for two new comics ...
Radio Masts
Clayton "Siege" Cubitt's notebook is probably a lot nicer to wake up to than mine, you know.
Good morning. This is warrenellisdotcom. I write things here.
January 4, 2010
Post-Industrial Broadcast
Broadcast and network culture. (And Atemporality, which, like the term "post-industrial," you're likely to hear a lot about this year.)
In my part of the world, in the 1960s, you'd come home from work — as my mother did, as Niki's mother did — and the first thing you'd do is put the radio on. You've already selected the broadcast channel you want. You've found out the frequency from friends, from a magazine, or just twisted around the dial 'til you hunted it out and left it there. Radio...
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