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With a Stolen Red Lipstick Bible on Her Side

I am greatly fond of Natural Snow Buildings, an experimental/postrock unit from France. And last.fm has a bunch of their stuff for free download. Good old last.fm — don't know how it's taken this long to root through their free-mp3 archive. Here's the page you can grab this track from. It has superficial resemblances to, say, the peak work of Godspeed You! Black Emperor: but instead of GY!BE's ascents (or perhaps escalantes, if you're Matt Webb), they produce zones, spaces, still fields. ...

The Plague Widow

If you go to Brian Wood's flickr stream right now, you'll find the first five pages of his new NORTHLANDERS sequence, THE PLAGUE WIDOW.

Tonight On Whitechapel (26oct09)

At my internet bumhole tonight:

* Emma Vieceli's DRAGON HEIR: REBORN - online and for free ^_^ - reminder (because part 3 went up today) and discussion thread

* The London MCM Expo Aftermath Thread

* T-shirt Of The Week #001 - LOVE - discussion thread

* The Weekly Listening Thread (26octo9)

* Halloween Costumes - because Goth Christmas is almost upon us.

* Sarah Sharp's CHANGING STATES - in support of the excellent book, which needs your vote at the Blurb book contest, too

* 8tracks Mixtapes - we ...

Sun Will Set

I just noticed that Zoe Keating's sublime "Sun Will Set" is offered as a free download by last.fm. You can click through to last.fm here and grab one for yourself. I talk to Zoe occasionally on Twitter. She is very nice.

Download audio file (Sun%2BWill%2BSet.mp3)

New Work By Dave Walsh

New photos of his time in Greenland and the Arctic. I'm just going to show you one of the new photos here, prefaced by Dave's note:

Ice sheet sliding towards Helheim Glacier, Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland. to get a sense of scale, that ice-filled Fjord in the background is about 6km wide…

All The Time In The World

Matt Jones:

My talk at DxF2009 in Utrecht last week was an hour's wander around the idea of Time, particularly historical and cultural ideas of time.

My focus was time as a material for interaction design that we should deconstruct and reconstruct in order to create products and services that take advantage of new real-time web technologies.

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T-Shirt Of The Week #001: LOVE

I has a scheme. Or, more properly, Ariana and I has a scheme. On Twitter, I've been joking about turning some of my stupider comments into t-shirts. And then I thought, hold on, there's only one way to make this joke funnier. And that's to actually do it. So Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, this is what we're going to do.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we're going to...

Station Ident: Stand By

I'm awake. Really. Was up til 4am finishing my end of the WOLVERINE Marvel Anime. Am at the pub, throwing the end of Red Bull number three into my head. Things are afoot today. As Benjamin Zephaniah said: brothers and sisters, I have a Scheme.

So give me an hour or so and I'll show you.

Also I have lots of things to show you today. Broadcasting commences after I have hunted down some lunch, out here in the wilds of old Southend…

Nightmare Fuel

NIGHTMARE FUEL: a spoken-word podcast for Hallowe'en by a bunch of fine horror writers, including SD Hintz, Rob Callahan and my old friend MontiLee Stormer.  Perfect for a quiet Sunday night.

Tonight On Whitechapel (25oct09)

Tonight at my internet cave:

* The London MCM Expo Aftermath Thread - Thoughts or comments on the show? Got photos?

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Super Ann - a tougher than usual R/R for any artist who wants to play. JUDGE DREDD artist Paul J Holden has already had a go.

* Comics on Sale this Week (Oct 28)

* Solipsistic Pop - a UK comics anthology - leading up to its big launch at ICA in November.

* Warren's Ancient Jukebox - still trawling through the depths of my memory and YouTube mostly for my...