Warren Ellis's Blog, page 359

Marian Churchland is a comics artist who recently blew everyone’s shit away on a three-issue stint of Richard Starkings’ longrunning ELEPHANTMEN series. She’s going to be a huge fucking deal within two or three years.

But right now she’s selling off her original comics pages for cheap.

(Her husband is Brandon Graham, who’s going to be a huge fucking deal this year or next if there is any fucking justice in the world)

‘Lightbulb’ molecule has a bright future - tech - 23 June 2009 - New Scientist
"A single molecule that reliably emits white light could speed the development of low-energy LEDs for the next generation of light sources and displays, say chemists."
(tags:sci )Brave New WurzelWorld®
Suzanne Gerber (Miss Wurzel Tod of old) has decided that arts magazines are broken and puts forth her diagnosis and terrible Treatment Plan. Resonates with some of the things written here about magazines of late
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A tale of two internet acquaintances: Zoe Keating spotted a letter Amanda Palmer wrote to a music blog about marketing, and Zoe twittered the key points, which are:

from @amandapalmer re #LOFNOTC: "total made on twitter in 2hrs = $11,000; total made from Ben Folds-produced major label album = $0"

cash made by @amandapalmer in one month on Twitter = $19,000; cash made by @amandapalmer from 30,000 record sales = $0

Go and read the letter. Even though @amandapalmer is, as she likes to say, Amanda

…I endorse jameth for the LiveJournal Advisory Panel Election, for he has fine character references from the internet criminals of my acquaintance and he is, I have been given to understand, about the lulz.

Note written on table of Brian Michael Bendis at Heroes Con this past weekend, by someone who apparently waited there for an hour before finding out/being told Bendis wouldn’t be signing until after the panel he’d been scheduled to do:

People often ask me why I do so few conventions, you know.

Via bigblueglobe, this fascinating photo and note:

…the Inca ruins at Moray. The only known circular terraces in the region, it is believed that they were used for agricultural experiments since each of the terraces has its own microclimate…

Click through the link above for whole post and larger version.

Continued musings on the severed robot head of Jack Kirby and all the connections that run through it, at Bleeding Cool Dot Com.

Raymond Loewy is currently orbiting my house in a Studebaker Atom Space Shuttle. Let the bastard have his laughs. We’ll fix his shit later.

Matt Fraction once described this (after emailing me with “aaaaa what the fuck was that”) as the sound of “clowns going chickenhawking in darkened playgrounds.”

I love it. It’s still my favourite piece by the band. I give you “Want You” by Afrirampo. Pleasant dreams, internet.

Download audio file (Afrirampo%20-%20Want%20You.mp3)

(link degrades in seven days, provided for review purposes only, contact me if you need it removed and it shall be done immediately)

Just noticed this, from coverage of Digital Humanities 09:

Jeremy (Douglass) talks about Warren Ellis’ Freakangels. We could quantize pages by panel count on each page. Or we could treat all the pages as a single sequence of images, auto-detect each frame on each page and number them all in order. We could quantize by the aspect ratio of the frames: one beat for a quarter-page frame, two beats for half-page frames. All kinds of “DNA sequences” could be constructed, and then we could try to extrac

A short collection of "official" materials regarding Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion concept. Which actually killed a bloke.

DYMAXION

DYnamic — MAXimum - tensION

At the heart of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion concept is the idea that rational action in a rational world demands the most efficient overall performance per unit of input. His Dymaxion structures, then are those that yield the greatest possible efficiency in terms of available technology.

In this section you will find resources and informati