Warren Ellis's Blog, page 334
September 16, 2009
Olympians
Fuck Buttons' "Olympians" - like Kraftwerk firing pink noise at the inside of Vangelis' skull as he composes "Chariots Of Fire." In Goa.
September 15, 2009
Links for 2009-09-14
"Faber Films" typography
(tags:design )moonbell
Playing the moon like a record.
(tags:music )Bananas for sex cult leader on the run - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"Papua New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult that promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex."
(tags:crime sex cult )5.0 ? The Resurrection
Zoetica Ebb reconfigures her website as a sort of personal magazine.
(tags:peopleiknow web )FACT magazine: Third Quarter...
Old Notes, Aug/Sep 2008
"For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time." - Brian Eno
"Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined...
Nearness
Remember that Honda commercial where all the components of the car are placed into a Mouse Trap-like contraption and all the bits hit, roll to, knock and swipe each other into motion?
Jack Schulze for BERG and Timo Arnall illustrate how it works with the invisible pulses of RFID. Without touching. Just proximity in a wireless world. Nearness.
DO ANYTHING 016
John Lennon's Superman head, mounted on the alien metal superchassis of Jack Kirby's Superman body, has John Lennon's hair and Yoko Ono's eyes, Yoko's mouth and John's beard, a fusion of John and Yoko, Joko, YoJo, a SuperWoMan suitable for DC Comics in the Age Of Aquarius…
September 14, 2009
20 August 1998
Is when I cracked that bit of PLANETARY.
Links for 2009-09-14
"Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated." I should find out who funded this…
(tags:eco energy pol sci )Giant Stone-age Axes Found In African Lake Basin
"A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and...
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