Warren Ellis's Blog, page 364

Matt Cottam’s computational wood, the final part of a master’s thesis entitled "In Search Of Heirloom Electronics":

Dr. Herb Smokler teaches us how to husband and harvest Computational Wood. Omitting the jerky production value of the video, one has to appreciate the inventive idea of treating trees with conductive ink over the seasons so that they become electrical circuits.

Imagine the sheer processing power of a rain forest of computational wood…

Computational Wood from Tellart on Vimeo.

Woke late after hitting the dawn chorus in order to finish a job, and then dragged into the outside world to spend money. Currently at pub consuming lifegiving Red Bull and life-subtracting cigarettes, typing this on a netbook that’s experiencing weird processing delays (note to self - do maintenance more than annually, scrape crust off keyboard). Broadcasting resumes shortly.

(note to self: station ident images may be required. Perhaps also musical cues/theme tune. Or video clips.)

Online art installation created by Tom & Tim Muller to promote Diesel’s new fragrance "Only The Brave".

British Library publishes online archive of 19th-century newspapers | Media | The Guardian
"Over two million pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers go online today, part of the vast British Library collection."
(tags:history print+porn news )

“Hallway Master,” by Pikelet, from the EP “Not So Still.” Pikelet is mostly Australian musician Evelyn Morris. I discovered this EP a couple of weeks ago, and this is the piece that has me mesmerised.

This is Pikelet’s MySpace, with lots more music on it. If you leave a note there, tell her where you came from.

Good night.

Download audio file (01-pikelet-hallway_master.mp3)

(mp3 degrades in 7 days, playable for review purposes only, contact if you need it removed and it shall be gone as if it wer

Tell your friends.

Since I’m obviously not going to have the time/spare-brainpower to get a coherent thought down this week, I’m going to spend the next couple of days just splattering this place with Stuff I Found in an oldstyle chaotic tumbly mode. And I’ll get back to doing actual content next week.

You have been warned.

Received in email from Jeff VanderMeer, who asked me to repost it:

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Shared Worlds asked Elizabeth Hand, Nalo Hopkinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock: “What’s your pick for the top real-life fantasy or science fiction city?”

At Shared Worlds our students create fantasy and science fiction worlds to fuel their art and writing projects. But even the strangest made-up place can have some real-world spark, and some of the real world’s cities can be stranger than anything fo

Fascinating coroner’s report on the Incidental event-newspaper project by Matt Jones, wherein I am referred to as a seer and a patron saint. Which worries me.

Excuse extended silent periods. Heavy work/thinking time.

Live at bleedingcool.com: in which we underpin the previous in a series of parentheses:

I should also mention here Jean-Pierre Dionnet, the grinning Angel Of The Odd —
as his blog is entitled — comics writer and editor of the seminal French sf
comics anthology METAL HURLANT, who introduced me to my Paris hotel suite with: “you will like this place very much. This is where I lived for a couple of years
after my wife threw me out…"