Warren Ellis's Blog, page 366

Leather Band-Aid
"Pressed Black Leather Band-Aids - Leather breathes better - This is how to dress a wound"
(tags:design )

Rachael Fox releases DAD SOLD CRACK HERE, a collection of photographs from the decaying edges of New York City. Extensive preview at the link.

Katie West releases PRACTICAL TOKENS OF AFFECTION, a limited-edition book of writing and selfportraits.

Is Friday, is past noon UK time, is FREAKANGELS, free to air.

Taken from the DC Wildstorm Blog:

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It lives, Igor!

“Today, Ori Lahav and his mates at the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, say that they’ve created the sonic equivalent of a black hole in a Bose-Einstein Condensate…”

For the people who still ask me about process:

My comics scripting process has thoroughly mutated over the years. I use pretty much any method that works, and there’s little resembling a method left. Things sometimes start in a notebook, scrawled in pencil. Sometimes, on blessed days, I’ll open OpenOffice and start writing in fully-formatted script, straight from brain to page in finished manuscript.

But, usually, it’s like this. I’ll have an idea, stare into space for an hour assembling its bits

Clarkesworld Magazine : The Story Is All: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop by Jeremy L. C. Jones
"ten of the top speculative fiction magazine editors talk about what they do and how they do it."
(tags:sf )

Tonight at my internet hall of perfumed mirrors:

* This Week In Comics (10jun09) - got a comic coming out this week? Tell us about it. I’ll relink the thread tomorrow so people can get a look before they go to their comicky shops.

* The Christos Gage Residency - wrote THUNDERBOLTS, STORMWATCH and LAW AND ORDER.

* How to fuck with the BNP - please distribute

* My story for Marvel is finally seeing the light of day and I wish to celebrate. - writer John Leavitt gets his junk out for your amuse

CONSTANT SIEGE - Teaser for a documentary on the Gullah culture in…
"The Gullah are known for preserving more of their African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other African American community in the United States. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and significant influences from African languages in grammar and sentence structure."
(tags:history culture )The Lord of Light Documentary
truncated blog gathering more material on the ill-starred and

A passing half-cooked notion: this article on ReadWriteWeb talking about digital magazines is less than impressed with the digital-magazine version of PC WORLD because it doesn’t have the interactive bells and whistles of AVANTOURE magazine, cites the embrace of the digital magazine format by +h, and comments that "the savior of digital magazines though will be the increasing market penetration of eBook Readers, such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader device."

So long as they can use Flash. Be