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18th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 6:38am: RED: 22 October 2010
 Variety says:
Summit Entertainment has set Oct. 22 as the release date for "Red," its espionage thriller starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
Red," based on the WildStorm/DC comicbook…
…because apparently reading the names on the spine is hard work.
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warren_ellis @ 5:53am: FREAKANGELS 0080
The joy of Fridays.
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17th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 4:54pm: Xmas Can Bite My Muckpump: The Musical Edition
“In Dulce Jubilo” – the Medieval Baebes.
“Just Like Christmas” – Low
“Christmas Wrapping” – The Waitresses
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16th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 7:05pm: Mag+
A new project from BERG:
We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.
Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?
This video prototype shows the take of the Mag+ project…
Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.
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15th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 6:52am: DO ANYTHING 024
Nearly to the end of the first volume, now:
…Alan Moore who’s also in the audience at an early Roxy Music gig and watching Brian Eno in some insane costume making music with Science, Alan Moore, whose early career could easily be described as trying to find out what might happen if Brian Eno had written the Fantastic Four, Brian Eno, who conceived of his generative art software project 77 MILLION PAINTINGS as “visual music,” which is as good a term for “comics” as any I’ve seen…
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saikoutron @ 3:29pm: look what finally turned up in the mail
  Grown on and spoilt by the convenience of the internet makes holding a copy of an underground magazine from a town that's 9365km away a rather surreal experience.
14th December 2009
kawaii_not @ 7:40pm: kawaii not #307
 
Happy Hanukkah, Kawaii Not style!
And here's an icon to celebrate: 
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warren_ellis @ 5:09pm: T-shirt Of The Week #008: SCROTUMPUNK
TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.
Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.
So, every Monday, I’ll post the new shirt here, and you can peer at it more at http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic.
HOWEVER, THIS WEEK: it’ll run ’til next Monday, as we’ve been running late today due to my being in London for meetings. Okay?
This one needs some explaining. I once opined on Twitter that the word "scrotum" ruins everything. And proved it by providing the helpful example "scrotumpunk." And then, um…
…I present to you T-Shirt Of The Week #008: SCROTUMPUNK:
We also offer a couple of perennial items. Mostly because I wanted one of these for myself:
(And also a MAN COOK MEAT WITH FIRE "splatter-shield", because Ariana’s crazy)
Thank you for your kind attention.
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saikoutron @ 6:51pm: the 'c' word
 Well, writing about it certainly pushed me over a bit, so I ordered a pair and here they are, no, not the ( best choice of colours ) but it was the only one I could find with my size (pardon the hairy appendages, I haven't had my monthly shave yet, see, and since we're on it, sorry about the crotch shot too). Fits nicely around the toes with a bit of a pocket by the heels, I'm wondering if a size smaller might be the perfect fit, although at this point the toes are pretty snug; a size smaller (which is a quarter inch) falls into that gray zone of toe abuse that has confounded hordes of lawyers both alive and 6-feet under.
13th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 1:45pm: Empty Box Of Pixels
I have to go into London tomorrow, as I’ve been instructed to meet a producer. Sometimes my agent talks to me as if she has some kind of remote-operated Destructo-Ray Projector in my office that’ll burn off one of my balls if I disobey her instructions. But she speaks with such confidence that I start to worry that she does actually have some kind of remote-operated Destructo-Ray Projector in my office, and so I go to the meeting.
So it’ll be all quiet here until tomorrow night.
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12th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 6:00pm: Links for 2009-12-12
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warren_ellis @ 5:26pm: Annie Wu
Poster designs.
Wouldn’t you love to see her do comics? I know I would.
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11th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 2:00pm: Links for 2009-12-10
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warren_ellis @ 10:21am: Notebooknotes: Roughing It Out
After many years of doing rough work on Visors and Treos, I switched back to notebooks this year. Moleskines and Field Notes. Usually working with a propelling pencil, until I found a reliable micro-Sharpie thing earlier this year. Just because I think it’s always worth looking at the way you work and seeing if a change won’t do it good.
These are from a Field Notes notebook started on 5 July 2009.
Had to crank this one up in GIMP, as I was working in pencil (some notes on ASTONISHING X-MEN I scanned were too faint for the scanner or GIMP to save). The left hand page was made around the time I was speaking to the Architecture Association. As you can see, I do tend to go back and add guidance notes later — here, reminding me not to re-use this bit because I ended up using it in a WIRED UK column.
On the right, is how I tend to start roughing out a comics script. It’s almost legible, innit?
I write GRAVEL as "scriptments," usually — a cross between a script, a short story and a film treatment, that Mike Wolfer then turns into something that makes some kind of sense before he starts drawing it. They can run to four or five pages, sometimes just becoming long runs of dialogue. This is me halfway through #15 of that book, just banging the dialogue down without stage directions, as it comes to me:
Yes, I do have bloody awful handwriting. Always have had. I’ll often write in block caps just for the sake of legibility — sometimes I can’t read my own writing.
I’ve filed the serial numbers off this one, as it were, because it was for a work-for-hire project that never got off the ground due to my lack of time. Hence the odd gaps on the page. But this is what you’ll most often find in one of my notebooks: looking at comics page flow. This was the start of several pages of diagrams and notes, trying to find a formal page flow I liked for a DPS, or Double Page Spread.
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warren_ellis @ 6:34am: FREAKANGELS 0079
Because it’s Friday.
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10th December 2009
kawaii_not @ 6:35pm: kawaii not #306
Who said the holidays have to be depressing?
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Just a reminder: Last day for guaranteed-by-December-25th domestic (U.S) shipping for button orders is DECEMBER 11th!
warren_ellis @ 2:00pm: Links for 2009-12-09
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warren_ellis @ 11:53am: The Ministry Of Space
Well, probably not that Ministry Of Space. But:
Britain is to get its own space agency more than 40 years after the Apollo project landed the first astronauts on the moon. The agency will come into being next year and replaces the existing British National Space Centre as a single co-ordinating organisation for the nation’s space exploration activities.
The announcement coincides with the publication of a government review of space exploration that warns the nation is "at a critical point" in deciding its future in the space business.
Britain has a long-standing policy of not contributing to human spaceflight programmes and instead supports robotic and satellite-based missions. The review urges ministers to consider backing a space programme that involves both robotic and human explorers…
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9th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 5:55pm: 8tracks: Little Deaths In The Snow
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warren_ellis @ 3:04pm: Received Goods 9dec09
Issue eight of YETI magazine arrived today. I noticed it because it has a Zola Jesus interview, and I am fond of Nika and her noises. But it’s a monstrous 200-page thing packed with all kinds of interesting stuff. Also, an eighty-minute CD full of rare/unreleased music by shitloads of people. Here’s Yeti’s site, with the information you want. It’s USD $11.95, or USD $19.95 if, like me, you’re ordering from outside the USA. For the amount of content here, that’s really bloody cheap.
Oh, and I got this last week., but I want to mention it: Julianna Barwick’s sublime FLORINE, previously only available as an mp3 EP from eMusic, is now available as a CD. This was one of my very favourite discoveries of 2009, and I’m so glad to now have a physical copy to hand. Julianna’s mailing these out herself, and mine arrived with a nice little note on the back of the envelope.
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warren_ellis @ 2:22pm: They Be We
A book by Katelan Foisy:
Fifteen women.
Three portraits each.
They Be We provides an intimate look at the lives of fifteen different women. From mothers, to Voodoo doctors, to those in the limelight, each woman has a story to tell.
Go to this link here for a set of discount codes to use.
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warren_ellis @ 10:57am: Scott And Shackleton’s Antarctic
Shots from the photographers who accompanied Scott and Shackleton’s teams:
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warren_ellis @ 10:00am: Links for 2009-12-09
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8th December 2009
warren_ellis @ 7:09pm: Received Goods 8dec09
Oops, bit late with this, so I’m backdating it to before midnight, haha. Fuck the future.
I came across this book a few months back, and was reminded of it yesterday. CYCLONOPEDIA: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, by Reza Negarestani. So I did a little look, and found the website. And, if the author will forgive me, here’s the entire, mental description of the book:
The Middle East is a sentient entity – it is alive!’ concludes renegade Iranian archeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the ’lubricant’ of historical and political narratives.
An American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manuscript in her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a fictional quantity all along. Meanwhile, as the War on Terror escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines, leveling cities into the desert, seducing the aggressors into the dark heart of oil …
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, Cyclonopedia is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. Cyclonopedia is a middle-eastern Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth’s tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun.
After reading that, I decided that I needed a copy — I mean, christ, wouldn’t you? — and it arrived today. I intend to get into this over Xmas, with a bottle of wine and Xela playing through noise-cancelling earbuds while my family spend a day trying to kill each other over possession of the tv remote.
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