Warren Ellis's Blog, page 315

HAPPY()SAD

I'm not sure how the universe has withstood Rich Stevens (DIESEL SWEETIES) and Ariana Osborne (SHIVERING SANDS, this site, designing various things of mine at Avatar) teaming up to produce a t-shirt, of all things… but this is the result.

Available to order now, ships in 1 - 2 weeks.

Simon Reynolds' NOTES ON THE NOUGHTIES: Beard Rock

Simon Reynolds is one of my favourite writers. It's funny, really: I agree with what he writes maybe half the time, at best, but he says it so fucking well, and in such a way that I always have to think about the subject again.

He's now doing notes on the decade at the Guardian, beginning with a piece on "beard rock." I was, I admit, hoping for a clue as to why I find Will Oldham so inexplicably creepy, but, you know, it's a fun piece anyway:

…beardedness is tantamount to a visual rhetoric...

SHIVERING SANDS: One Week On

So, one week later. Copies of SHIVERING SANDS are now starting to arrive with people — I found this on Kat Foisy's blog this morning:

(If you want to send me a photo of you posing with SHIVERING SANDS? Email it to my dump address at warrenellis [at:] gmail dot com, along with your website address or twitter ID or whatever, and I'll run it and your link here)

A week since launch of the book. We've sold, I believe, a little over four hundred copies. Given that the production of the book...

Scripts

People often ask me what comics scripts look like — or, at least, what my comics scripts look like, as there is no industry standard for comics scriptwriting. I have a few scripts up here on the site, and you're welcome to download them. I write in OpenOffice and save in RTF. Beginning writers may find it instructive to compare the scripts with the published work.

(Please, don't ask to be shown other scripts instead. These are the ones I have available. Okay?)

MINISTRY OF SPACE #1.

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The Mechanics Of POD

Ariana again, on a FAQ: how was the SHIVERING SANDS book built?

SUPERGOD #1 Preview

At Bleeding Cool. The comic's out from this Wednesday.

At Whitechapel This Afternoon

At my shithole today:

* The MATT FRACTION Interrogation 2009 - comics writer Matt Fraction kindly taking questions from the proletariat

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Zero

* Whitechapel Radio Is On

* Warren's Ancient Jukebox - fear

* Warren's Work FAQ (Revised Nov 2009)

* Eliza Gauger's SWEATSHOP

The Lost Army

This, on the other hand, is amazing.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The...

Moving Away From The Digital City

(I'm in a foul mood today.)

All you people with your augmented reality unlocking the digital city outernet designing the sentient city rhetoric and toys? You know what you're making?

Street Clippy.

Now fuck off and make something that'll do useful work on a phone in a village, instead of something that'll get you laid in fucking Hoxton. Make something that has meaning outside a major metropolis.

Oh jesus, I'm sorry, you were working on building the urban digital future playing Foursquare and I...

The Point Of Getting Excited

Matt Jones on his generation of the GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS graphic: the point of it, its brief history, and its new Creative Commons license. All of which just gives me an excuse to post it again: