Warren Ellis's Blog, page 87

AMERICAN MASTODON

what in the name of god just happened to my eyes and my brain my poor poor brain

someone just @warrenellis 'd this to me on the twitters and i clicked the link and now i can taste time itself

The Art Of Kilian Eng

A Swedish artist that someone pointed me at a few weeks ago.  He has a tumblr, and his work is sold here: you can see more of his stuff at both places.

Station Ident

(Paul Di Filippo)

Who I Am And Where I Am (Dec 2011)

I write books and comics and articles and other things.  I live in south-east England.

Next novel, GUN MACHINE, due autumn 2012 from Mulholland Books

The film RED 2, sequel to RED, based on the graphic novel I wrote, due autumn 2013

Public email address: warrenellis@gmail.com (gets checked once a day or so)

@warrenellis on Twitter

Facebook Page

If you need to contact me about writing for print or web, please contact my agent Lydia Wills using the link in the righthand menu bar.

If you need to contact me about anything involving film, tv, games or other things that move and make noises, please contact my agent Angela Cheng Caplan using the link in the righthand menu bar.

Sometimes I speak at conferences, or do other kinds of talks and appearances.  But not often, because I tend to swear at people and they don't like it.

I occasionally podcast.

(Basic end-of-year version of the above.  need to change things a little next year.)

Bookmarks for 2011-12-09

IdN graphics – Coverjunkie.com
IdN graphics, from coverjunkie.com http://www.coverjunkie.com
(tags:ifttt googlereader coverjunkie.com )

Aunia Kahn

Strange and gorgeous paintings:

 

…a self taught figurative artist who began creating art as a therapeutic response to a difficult upbringing.

Bookmarks for 2011-12-08

Magazine and Editorial Graphic Design Inspiration – MagSpreads: MOC – A magazine of cool
Always interesting to see a designer's notebooks.
(tags:magazine design )
Man Myth & Magic: Volume 1, Issue 1 – a set on Flickr
via John Coulthart: someone is posting the entire run of Man, Myth & Magic–1970 occult encyclopaedia in 112 weekly parts–on Flickr
(tags:magazine magic history research )
Magazine First Covers | Retronaut

(tags:design magazine )
Out now: Buffalo « magCulture.com/blog
"What I like about the publication is the way it uses its large pages to reproduce smaller magazine-sized pages. The contents page, above, shows how they play with this; the contents listings have been annotated beyond the edges of the reproduced 'magazine' by Bruce Weber."
(tags:magazine newspaper design )

Hurricane Bawbag

That's what they're calling it in Scotland: winds gusting to 165mph.  We're getting the barest edge of it down here in south-east England, but it's enough to make it bitterly cold.  Hence and therefore, I made fire with sticks.  Like a man does.

And while freezing my bits off, I found literally one minute to record a spoken introduction to a forthcoming remix album by WHITE TRIANGLES.  You can find that piece at this link.

(I have a horrible voice.  Why do people ask me to do such things?  It's all I can do to force myself to record the spoken-word for SPEKTRMODULE.  Thanks to the 1600 people who've listened to the second one, by the way.)

Only just stepped into my office for the first time today, at nearly 8pm.  Some serious time off has been required since the last rush and push to finish the novel.  Editor and Agent have now read GUN MACHINE, and pronounce it tolerable.  Actually, they were much more complimentary than that, but, as has been pointed out to me in the past by people who are wrong, I don't take compliments very well, and also I can, with a week's distance, start seeing all the things that are wrong with the book.  So next week… sigh… I start revising the novel, with a view to sealing a locked manuscript before Xmas.

That's right, you hack!  Merry Xmas!  This year, you get to review all your own stark fucking stupidity in an intense two-week burst!

I know writers who enjoy the revision process.  I am not one of them.  Probably because, as a comics writer of two decades' sentence, I am conditioned as a first-draft-is-the-only-draft pulp hack.

Also I am being utterly shamed as a scrawler by DAILY SHOW writer Rob Kutner, whose Kindle Single book THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO ME is really funny enough that I'm going to have to have his hands broken.

In the future, you can change your parts as easily as you change your pants.

This gives all of mankind access to hawk-like eyes, ears that can hear a pin dropping onto a pillow thousands of miles away… At least, that's the theory. In practice, people pretty much just swap genitalia.

Blurring gender lines make business-world sexism and homophobia unsustainable, verging on hilarious. Dual-installment capability makes masturbation a thing of the past, and unplanned self?pregnancy the crisis du jour…

But new photos by Ellen Rogers always make the day better:

And so does this: a new song by Julia Holter, whose album TRAGEDY was a highlight of the year, and whose next album arrives in 2012 from RVNG:

Julia Holter – Marienbad by RVNG Intl.

Bookmarks for 2011-12-08

Kinfolk
"This seems to be a growing trend, video trailers for single issues of magazines…"
(tags:magazine video pr )
When banks were frank
" I unearthed this rather charming and naive, cheque book size, direct mail piece produced for the Midland Bank in 1975, although its design styling is pure 60s…"
(tags:design money history )
National security expert warns of Asian space race

(tags:ifttt facebook like )
A chat with Eric Drexler | Blog | Futurismic

(tags:ifttt facebook like )

James Ellroy Hates Everything

A glorious routine by novelist James Ellroy.  And I think he was reining himself in, too. 

Interesting interstitial things happen when a writer devises a character to be, for interviews and the like.  Especially if someone's been doing it a long time, and has gone through the cycle and, I suspect in Ellroy's case, gotten back to the point where he hopes someone somewhere is getting the joke.  Listen to how Ellroy speaks, now: more than ever, he's speaking for tv, and speaking to be transcribed.  A lot of media training under the bridge, there.  And the little wink to the audience, if not his interviewer, is there too. Slowed down, like a big bit of bait being trawled across still water.