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November 22, 2012
NIGHT MUSIC: From Sea To Sierra
A long, undulating piece of ambient expanse from Mark Ward. Like water pouring through metal coils.
November 21, 2012
NIGHT MUSIC: Prayer Calls
The first track takes about three minutes to get going. If you like drone and ambient, stick with it. Long tones coloured by field recordings. It’s a darkly beautiful reset note for my brain before bed. G’night,
MICROMELANCOLIE & SINDRE BJERGA ‘Prayer Calls’ by Aurora Borealis Recordings
While America Hammers A Turkey Into Its Face
Yesterday was a write-off, work-wise. New Book DEATH BAR:
In which I wrote the line “Did you have silver polyester over my head at some point?”
Yeah., I know. It gets better, I swear. I hope.
So America is now switching off in order to devour an almost unimaginably wide swarm of birds, or vegetarian leaf-eating substitutes thereof. I, however, am English. God was an Englishman, you know. Until we shot, cooked and ate him. But I am going to take the opportunity to turn things off here (aside from the Closedown post) until Monday, and work while all the offices are closed. Have a good weekend, folks. It is now sunset on warren ellis dot com.
Bookmarks for 2012-11-20
"In a 1963 paper, Dyson speculated on how an advanced civilization might use a binary star system made up of two white dwarfs. Send a spacecraft into the system for a close pass around one of the stars and, depending on the mass and orbital velocity of the stars, it is thrown out of the binary system at velocities as high as 3000 kilometers per second. But Dyson took the idea even further. His paper, which appeared as a chapter in a book called Interstellar Communication (New York: Benjamin Press, 1963), described not just white dwarfs but the creation of a binary neutron star system as an engineered launch platform…"
(tags:space )
The Internet Through a Postmodern Lens » Cyborgology
"The postmodern world is obscene since everything is made visible, broadcast, and so forth. The Internet is obscene because it is characterized by endless information and communication as well as never-ending social commentary…"
(tags:comms social net philosophy )
Open the Future: #War
"What's the hashtag for terror? For propaganda? I've been talking about the role of social media as a possible enabler of political violence for years. In my June 2009 talk at Mobile Monday in Amsterdam, I argued that Twitter and similar media had the potential to serve a role similar to the radio stations used to drive the 1990s Rwandan genocide. I went into more detail on the idea in this article at Fast Company a short while later…"
(tags:war future peopleIknow comms social )
The Joy of Dredd | Mulholland Books
Duane Swierczynski's JUDGE DREDD comic for IDW in America
(tags:comics )
The Parlour Trick, With Meredith Yayanos: A Spooky Joy
Meredith Yayanos is one of my oldest friends. You may know her from arts journalism, from performing as a musician with Amanda Palmer or Jim Sclavunos’ The Vanity Set, or from co-founding COILHOUSE magazine. Now, with multi-instrumentalist Dan Cantrell, she has formed The Parlour Trick in order to release the album A BLESSED UNREST. And you can pre-order it, with various levels of additionally beauty, via Kickstarter. It actually got funded within hours of going live. But, please, click through. If you like even some of the music you’ve heard here over the years, then I suspect you’ll enjoy this. It’s an amazing record.
November 20, 2012
AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS
This is… um. How to describe? There’s definitely a strummed ukelele in this drone-heavy, swirling, dark lo-fi acid folk with a Sun Ra-y vibe (to me). It’s weird, and fun, and good for working in the middle of the night. G’night.
Old Fool Child +plus ANTOLOGiCUS (2007-2011) by AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS
FAQ 20nov12: TRANSMETROPOLITAN In Other Media
baffledjailbirdisin asked: Hi Warren, I was wondering if you know of or are talking about some alternative adaptation projects for Transmetropolitan? I understand that seeing it on the big screen is at present too big a budget to even consider, but do you have any thoughts on how you might like to see it adapted otherwise? If so, how good are the chances of this happening?
We don’t take TRANSMET out, but very occasionally persons in the film and tv industries request conversations with us about it. And I mean very occasionally, because it’s an obscure work. We haven’t, since the days of Patrick Stewart optioning it, met with anyone we’d consider the best fit for the material. TRANSMET is not a thing we sell options on for the hell of it. There are other works of mine that I’m happy to see other people adapt, just to see what happens. TRANSMET is not one of them. It’ll go to the people who will keep it intact, or it won’t go out at all, and either result is entirely acceptable to Darick and I. I don’t feel that any book has to be “legitimised” by film or tv for it to have been a successful work. And, at this point, the book is between ten and fifteen years old, depending on how you measure it, and enquiries as to the rights are growing ever fewer. So, you know, don’t hold your breath or anything.
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