Warren Ellis's Blog, page 61
May 20, 2012
Bookmarks for 2012-05-20
@justinpickard: Finnish report on wild cards, black swans and extreme events: http://t.co/Hoqk7hWT (via @changeist) #foresight #futures http://twitter.com/justinpickard/stat...
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May 18, 2012
CLOSEDOWN: Polar Excess
Cabbibo’s “Polar Excess,” off the ICEPUNK 2 compilation. I’m at Kapow Comics Convention in London tomorrow, speaking onstage in the afternoon before running back home to work. Have a good weekend.
Bookmarks for 2012-05-18
@FP_Magazine: The best photos of the week http://t.co/mqyqF2Yu http://twitter.com/FP_Magazine/status...
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BBC News – Briton ‘with foetuses’ arrested in Thailand
@BBCBreaking: British citizen arrested in Bangkok for possessing human foetuses, Thai police confirm http://t.co/20Zl0OwY http://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status...
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FAQ: Me, IRON MAN 3 and IRON MAN: EXTREMIS
Okay, I’m getting asked this a lot, still. IRON MAN 3 is being broadly reported as using elements from the IRON MAN: EXTREMIS book I did with Adi Granov (years before the first IRON MAN film came out — they used Adi as a visual designer on the film!). I know Drew Pearce, the co-writer on the film, and he confirmed it a while ago. (I didn’t ask him for details, and he didn’t press any.) So I ran through this on Twitter the other week, and I may as well just copy it over:
FAQ: yes, IRON MAN 3 is apparently using elements of my IRON MAN: EXTREMIS comics serial. No, I don’t get money or credit.1/2
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) May 9, 2012
That’s how work-for-hire works: Marvel owns the work. I knew it when I signed the vouchers & made the decision, & I can live with it. 2/2
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) May 9, 2012
Also I am shameless.
Also, RED 2, based on work I *do* own (with artist @cullyhamner !) will be in cinemas next year! And my new novel will be out next January.
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) May 9, 2012
(Also also: this is one reason why I’ve spent the majority of my career in comics doing more creator-owned work than work-for-hire.)
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) May 9, 2012
REMINDER: London, Kapow, Saturday
I’m speaking at the Kapow Comics Convention in London at 315pm. No signing, as I have to leave for home to go back to work soon after. It’s just an onstage Q&A thing with the audience.
May 17, 2012
Bookmarks for 2012-05-17
"As a term, “The New Aesthetic” may be short-lived. Surprising many, James Bridle shut down the New Aesthetic Tumblr ten days ago, exactly one year after it was launched. But if the “New Aesthetic” movement is already dead, this is surely only the beginning of digital technologies impacting the way fashion creatives think, see and design. Indeed, the generation of students just starting to arrive in fashion schools have only ever known a world that’s mediated by digital technology and learnt to process visual culture through a ceaseless digital stream of appropriated and juxtaposed images."
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3:AM Magazine » Against All Ends: Hauntology, Aesthetics, Ontology.
"The out of jointness is not the opposition of the present to either the part or the future of indeed a mere disordering of these temporal modes. Derrida specifically warns against this: “A spectral moment, a moment that no longer belongs to time, if one understands by this word the linking of modalized presents (past present, actual present: ‘now,’ future present) … Furtive and untimely, the apparition of the specter does not belong to that time” (10). As a result, hauntology in its Derridean formulation counters the criticism put forward by James Bridle, that “it deals with the problem of the future by going back to the past” (11) and that it needs to be opposed by the radically new. This reiteration of the standard modal temporalities of past, present and future is both symptomatic of the problems of an aesthetic interpretation of hauntology and at the same time, the very problem that Derrida is confronting with his concept of hauntology."
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Guarding Route Jeep – By Suchitra Vijayan | Foreign Policy
@FP_Magazine: Haunting photographs of Afghanistan's desolate borderland (and the people who guard it) http://t.co/0TZmbscV http://twitter.com/FP_Magazine/status...
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Google’s Augmented-Reality Headset Won’t Offer Full-Vision Data Overlays | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
"Unfortunately, the lack of full data overlays also makes the headset less exciting. The type of display Google is now describing has been on the market for years"
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Image: The shake, rattle and roar of the J-2X engine
"The J-2X engine is the first new liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen rocket engine developed in 40 years that will be rated to carry humans into space. "
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Google Chrome heading to iPhone, analysts predict
"The same is true of mobile devices, and White said Macquarie believes Google currently pays 50 percent to 60 percent of revenue made from searches on the mobile version of Safari. That could be a lot of money Google has to share with its rival, and if Apple were to ever dump Google for Bing, that would be a lot of lost money. Therefore, White said Google will make the preemptive step to move users from Safari to Chrome and keep more of that search revenue. "
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Marine Corps pursues ‘kamikaze’ drone
"The Switchblade, produced by California-based AeroVironment, can be guided into a target and explode on impact, almost like a hand grenade"
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The most profitable asteroid is…
"Most Profitable: 253 Mathilde, a 52.8 km-diameter C-type (carbonaceous) asteroid that has an estimated value of over $100 trillion and estimated profit of $9.53 trillion (USD) "
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Will Self: Writer’s Blog
@LRB: Will Self updates his blog http://t.co/no5buLY2 http://twitter.com/LRB/status/2030957...
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The Wire: Adventures In Sound And Music: Article
@markopilkington: RT @thewiremagazine: Test Centre (Iain Sinclair Stone Tape Shuffle) are starting a weekly radio show on @ResonanceFM: http://t.co/KdSal82r http://twitter.com/markopilkington/st...
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Jenna Wortham: What I Read – Entertainment – The Atlantic Wire
Quote Of The Day
In other words, the opposite of "complex" is not "simple," the opposite of "complex" is "isolated."
– Jamais Cascio
It Still Matters
22 years after publication, this still lives in my office.
Today’s List
* Listen to some of the 55 podcasts backed up in the computer
* Rewrite rough notes on Possible TV Thing 1
* Rewrite rough notes on Other Media Thing 2
* Seriously reconsider ever doing a podcast interview again after realising halfway through the Disinfo interview that I was basically making no sense at all
* Do another section of copyediting on GUN MACHINE
* Finish structure notes on Novel 3
* Put more ideas into the GUN MACHINE PR notebook
* Pretend I have cleared my email inbox
* Set reminders to get out of bed on Saturday because I have to go to London to do 45 minutes onstage at Kapow Comics Convention
* Write MACHINE VISION 006
* Re-read and annotate friend’s radio play outline
* Find something disgusting to email GRAVEL director Tim Miller in revenge for the horrible shit he’s been emailing me first thing in the bloody morning
* Try to remember the five other things I’m pretty sure I’ve forgotten
* Try to be in bed by 3am
* Crawl under desk, cry
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