Warren Ellis's Blog, page 369

WE ARE SUPERVISION: CHICAGO’S LESSER KNOWN ARTS HISTORY LESSON or OG ART GALLERY (Gang Cards)
"Every city has its own gang history, part of Chicago's are Gang cards, most prominent in the 70's and early 80's, back in the day when a gang was more of a neighborhood crew then what it is today."
(tags:design history )

First edition of my new column at bleedingcool: sort of an introduction.

I have the head of Jack Kirby in my office.

I built it myself. Which means, this being the late-postmodern 21st Century, I stole it from someone else and then tinkered with it until it became a transformative work. What I actually did was steal the Hanson Robotics-designed android head of Philip K Dick off an airplane, resculpted the front and filled its brain with the work of, interviews with and anecdotes about Jack Kirby

The 5Lights Project, run by Katie West and Lou Noble:

Awhile ago Warren Ellis had posted an idea on his site called ROTOR - essentially a rotation of artists generating content for free online. We liked this idea, specifically this part: “tumblr version of same: one writer, one illustrator, one photographer, one musician, one video/filmmaker = five slots.” So we decided to make it happen.

The 5Lights Project tells stories. One story a week, told five different ways, in five different mediums, by f

I probably won’t remember to listen to this, but you might:

1st TimeTeamup Alert: DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF meets HARVEY PEKAR: on Media-Squat Radio 7pm 2nite. WFMU, http://www.wfmu.org, iTunes, or http://mediasquat.net

A one hour long conversation, ranging from topics in Rushkoff’s new book about "corporatism," Life Inc. where Rushkoff and Pekar revisit the "GE/Letterman incident", to Pekar’s new book on The Beats…

At my online community today:

* Comics Shipping This Week (3june09)

* The Self Portrait Imagethread (June 2009) - terrify and delight us with your facemeat

* London Comics Event: LUC 176

* REMAKE/REMODEL: Blue Lady

* The Weekly Listening Thread (1jun09)

* MoCCA Art Festival - June 6/7

* 8tracks Mixtapes

"Somewhere safe to keep your pen."

My friend Anna Young just dropped me this note:

My friend Rachel (Experiment Haywire) is staying at my place this weekend. She was telling me that her [record label site:] MachineKunt was hacked and someone was impersonating her. They created a fraud site to get money from her fans. She posted info about this on her site http://thehaywire.net and is trying to spread the word to as many other indie artists as possible, so they don’t get ripped off too and can stand up for their rights as artists.

1. marching on the moon, 2. Lego Jeep Hood, 3. photo.jpg, 4. butterfly72, 5. something, 6. sundown

Rossignol: Thrilling Wonder Stories
Jim's notes on last Friday's gig.
(tags:sf architecture peopleiknow me )

Bleeding Cool, Rich Johnston’s new comics news/views site, launched earlier today.

Not sure if my column for the site pushes live this week or next, right now.