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October 8, 2009
WIRED UK: Column 07
While I seem to have suffered from somewhat overmedicated subeditors more than usual, here it is, my most recent WIRED UK column, from the issue that came out in print today:
Listen, I know there's a recession on and that by Christmas we're all going to be living in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and viewing infants as a renewable, organically-farmed food source, but I really need to borrow 8,000 Yankee dollars. Just hear me out.
I want to launch a TubeSat…
October 7, 2009
Bird From The Abyss
Promo video for Bird From The Abyss' forthcoming release "II."
Bird From The Abyss - II from J. M. A. on Vimeo.
Wander
PLANETARY #27 comes out today in North America. So I think it's probably wise for me to stay away from the internet for most of the day. Besides, I want to have put a stake in the episode breakdown of the WOLVERINE anime series by the end of today. So this is going to be just one long meandering blogpost that is mostly about me closing tabs.
Model Magdalene Veen and photographer Angel Ceballos have my ideal answer to any snark about PLANETARY this week:
(I should also note that Angel has her o...
October 6, 2009
I Need You To Help Me Spend Money
Running an Etsy store? Please join my message board and tell me about it in this thread here I'm linking (not here on this site), in order to help me and the seven thousand other board members (and god knows how many thousands of casual readers) buy stuff for Xmas. Ta.
Links for 2009-10-06
"The witch bottle was discovered in a pit beneath a back room on the site of the Turk's Head Inn at Tipping Street car park in Stafford. The vessel is a mid to late 17th-century Bellarmine jug which would have been filled with the likes of nail clippings, hair, bellybutton fluff, pins and iron nails. The period was full of superstition and they were buried near or under buildings to ward off witches or evil...
October 4, 2009
Absenteeism
Strange gig tomorrow: I have to give a talk on posthumanism and the superhero to a Design Interactions class at the Royal College of Art in London. I suspect it may prove to be a condensed DO ANYTHING. And then I believe I have to see some of the boys from the BERG. So tomorrow's going to be all quiet here.
Hell, given that PLANETARY #27 is published mid-week, I'm tempted to keep it all quiet for the week.
People keep asking me for some huge conclusive statement about its completion. For...
October 3, 2009
Links for 2009-10-02
"L?eau du robinet AKA Cristopher Pokora is a Poland-based producer exploring actually the musical fields between jazzy dope beats and exotic collage sample puzzles. The work presented here ? is like a sunday afternoon visit to some open-field spot, where you can breathe some fresh air while collecting some insects ? forget the mirage. Cristopher have is own personal universe growing out is...
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