Michal Wojcik's Blog, page 18
June 9, 2015
Episode 19.5 (?) – Voluntour-de-force!
Cross-posted with Iatropexy. Thus the dueling theme songs.
We watch Doc Zone’s last documentary,Volunteers Unleashed.
Then…we rant.
https://ia801508.us.archive.org/22/items/voluntourism/voluntourism.mp3Download the Podcast(archive.org page)
The documentary!(Video available for Canadians only)
June 1, 2015
Fury Eleven
i.e, “This is why I don’t (usually) write fanfiction”, part 2. Also, there be spoilers for the book.
In which my mind drifts while reading Station Eleven . With apologies to Emily St. John Mandel.
Kristen found it difficult to concentrate on memorizing her lines with all the noise from the flatbed’s engine, the constant smell of burning gazzoline, not to mention the jostling as the theatre troupe made its way down the cracked and folded asphalt. Her battered Dover Editions paperback of King...
May 31, 2015
Frivolous Hobbies
SPAG – The Interactive Fiction Magazine is back, putting out its 62nd issue at the beginning of this month after a seriously long hiatus. I assumed it died with issue 60 in 2011, which is why I only became aware of its resurrection today (the one-issue reappearance in 2013 notwithstanding). I loved reading this online magazine back in its heyday, and that love is rooted in a fascination with the mechanics of writing text-adventures that followed me out of high school.
This comes as no surpr...
May 1, 2015
Animating the Past: The Secret of Kells
One of those maxims they tell you in art fundamentals courses in university is that drawing or painting isn’t just the technical aspects of arranging a medium on paper but is also a way of seeing. The way light falls on an object, the spatial relationships in a scene, the perspective, the texture, all cast a-slant so you can recognize how to translate three dimensional space onto a two dimensional surface.
Let me extend that–in studying the dominant modes of artistic expression throughout hi...
April 4, 2015
A Meditation on the 18th Century
What always struck me about Lloyd Alexander was that while his prose style is elegantly simple, the themes he explored never were. I recently finished the Westmark trilogy with the The Beggar Queen (1984) and was once again impressed by the ideas Alexander played with. The Westmark trilogy begins with a familiar pattern: a teenager gets inadvertently caught up in events much bigger than him and meets a young woman who turns out to be princess, well-trod territory if you’ve read The Chronicle...
March 27, 2015
An Unsung Story
“Home Untethered” is now up on theUnsung Storieswebsite, and you can totally read it for free.
Also of note: this is the same small press that’s publishing a science-fantasy novel written in epic verse.
March 25, 2015
In the Mail Today…
..a pleasant surprise. The Winter 2014/2015 issue of On Spec, which includes a story by yours truly, and a cover that apparently depicts a homeless cyborg Jeff Bridges. (Billy Toufexis, I like your style.)
