Warren Ellis's Blog, page 355

Scope

Matt Webb, mysterious Rotwangian wizard-engineer of Schulze & Webb, on design and what it means to be a 21st Century design unit, among other things. Pay attention. These are the people who get to have a say in how you get to live in the Western World.

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Night Music: Moon Wiring Club

Go here, my little badgers of delight, and click on the bit that says MP3 JUKEBOX. And be enthralled by the spectral and uchronic sounds of the Moon Wiring Club, whom I have described before as "like a gang of mad people were put in charge of a time machine." It is very definitely night music. Especially if, like me, you spent your childhood staying up late on Friday nights to watch old horror films.

G'night.

On Whitechapel Tonight (3jul09)

On my internet knocking-shop tonight:

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Jul 2009) - always good for a laugh. Currently featuring less close-up photographs of stubbly and confused-looking young men than usual.

* I'd Like To Politely Ask For Help With My Webcomic - help this person out?

* The July 2009 Book Club

…actually, it occurs to me that I really have to find time to sweep the place out again…

Rewind

So. BBC TV's ROBIN HOOD gets cancelled. ITV's PRIMEVAL and DEMONS get cancelled. ITV also declares that it will not run drama series, aside of course from soaps, before 9pm.

BBC's response? A teenage-themed prequel to the thirty-year-old ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES comedy workhorse, and, for the fourth time, the loathesome and archaic children's book JUST WILLIAM will be adapted for television.

Why not put up a sign outside Broadcasting House saying YES TAKE THE LICENSE FEE AWAY FROM US WE'RE NOT GO

Instrumentation

I discovered today that, through the very good technology house Expansys, an unlocked iPhone 3GS costs pretty much a thousand pounds per unit.

Which is a bit strong for something that only learned how to do MMS five minutes ago. But.

A thousand pounds per unit actually forces you to recontextualise the iPhone a bit. That's not a mainstream consumer street device anymore. That's a digital instrument. That is something very different from a mobile phone. That's something you don't dare carry aroun

Beats Antique

Featuring my friend the thereminist and violinist Meredith Yayanos, a piece from the CONTRAPTION EP by Beats Antique: Oriental Uno, "a reconstructed experiment of a traditional eastern European brass tune."

Station Ident: Up Late

Better late than never, this is warrenellisdotcom. Good afternoon.

(Emma Rios)

FREAKANGELS Interlude 04

In which I take a break and Paul explains how an episode of FREAKANGELS is illustrated.

Probably The Only Thing Worth Doing At San Diego

Full details here.

A Few Comics-Related Notes

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Garen Ewing's retro ligne claire-style webcomic series THE RAINBOW ORCHID is going to print. Read much of it here.

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Rich Barrett is 16pp into a creepy online graphic novel called NATHAN SORRY that looks like it's going to turn into something fun.

3.

ELLERBISMS has been on a roll lately.

4.

My favourite comics-related blog is probably still Brandon Graham's because it's so beautifully random.