Warren Ellis

CAPTAIN SWING On G4’s Attack Of The Show

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:33:11 GMT

An exclusive first look at a forthcoming short series via Avatar Press.

(It’s not actually steampunk. And there’s not really a serial killer.)

Video Games - E3 2009 - Attack of the Show

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Bruce Sterling At Reboot 2009

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:29:06 GMT

In which Bruce Sterling beats the shit out of some people:

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FREAKANGELS 0061

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:22:13 GMT

Oh god why am i awake

I WILL TELL YOU WHY! Because it is Friday, it’s just gone noon, and it’s FREAKANGELS, all for free!

Anna May Wong Must Die

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:01:58 GMT

Extracts from Anna Chen’s “illustrated personal journey through the life and crimes of Hollywood legend Anna May Wong“, as presented on May 26 2009.

Si Spurrier’s SHORT AND CURLIES #1

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:32:55 GMT

At bleedingcool:

The next movie I write will be Jurassic Park 4: ADAMZOIC, in which a group of committed Creationists sneak onto a dinosaur-infested Island in an attempt to prove that humans and slavering proto-avian carnivores can live in harmony, as in Eden. The film will be 3 hours long; will feature multiple variations on the theme of Cute Naked People being disembowelled while trying to sing hymns; will include at least one incidence of punning, based on the words “pray” and “prey”; and will end when the sole survivor realises the error of her ways, embraces the Power Of Darwin, and spontaneously evolves a set of wings to escape.

Then gets shot down by Jeff Goldblum: Avenger Of Maths.

Station Ident: Sailing By

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:03:11 GMT

This is Warren Ellis Dot Com. Good morning.

(Lauren Semivan)

Talking Of The Death Of Journalism

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:43:06 GMT

I’ve been so busy today that I’ve not had time to follow this huge story, and I guess it hasn’t broken internationally yet:

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists’ repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public figures and to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.

No “In Russia Newspaper Reads You” Comments, Thanks

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:07:52 GMT

According to English Russia, a store has started running a local newspaper on its shopping bags. Which is, I suppose, one way to sidestep the whole "newsprint is dying" thing.

The Plumber

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:19:30 GMT

Talking of horror masquerading as comedy. Grant Morrison played me the radio version of this piece in 1999 and it lived with me all day. This later TV version is just as warped. Written by the magnificent Chris Morris.

Eels

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:13:49 GMT

This just popped back up on YouTube (the BBC periodically sniff it out and issue a takedown). Before it goes away again, have a look. THE MIGHTY BOOSH was an almost painfully uneven show, and in general musical comedy gives me the burning shits. But this was a moment of brilliance on a par with the better LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN conceptions. LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN was a horror show that was sometimes funny, and this has the same kind of vibe. So I put this bit up here, in case you haven’t seen it before.

HUMAN CENTIPEDE

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:44:25 GMT

Suffused with young Cronenberg and Yuzna’s SOCIETY:

Internationally respected Siamese twin surgeon Dr. Josef Heiter has a demented vision for mankind’s future existence. He wants to remove human beings’ kneecaps so they have to exist on all fours and then surgically graft them mouth-to-anus to form a centipede chain. When two stranded female Americans arrive at his luxury home-cum-hospital looking for help, his long-gestating plan swiftly moves into chilling action with a shocking force. Kidnapping a third Japanese male tourist he begins the tissue matches, teeth removal and buttock moulding to create his triplet creature.

Like A DVR For Life

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:44:08 GMT

Clayton "Siege" Cubitt:

Clayton Cubitt: I think photography is moving towards seamlessness. The future of photography won’t be about capturing a decisive moment by timing a shot perfectly. Cameras will capture everything – thirty or sixty frames per second. Then you choose. Like a DVR for life.

Tokion Magazine: Doesn’t that sound like cheating?

Clayton Cubitt: If you think a photographer’s creativity comes from their shutter finger, then it’s cheating. But if you think the creativity comes from the setup, the perspective, from the editing and the craft, then I think it’s no big deal.

The Women Of COILHOUSE

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:37:51 GMT

Just a really nice shot (by Allan Amato) of the editors of COILHOUSE magazine and blog. (Mer shouts at me when I call them the COILHOUSE Coven, so I don’t do that anymore. Mer shouts at me kind of a lot.) You read COILHOUSE, right?

In this photo, Nadya Lev is prone and being used as a prop by Meredith Yayanos (left) and Zoetica Ebb (right).

WASTELAND

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:01:53 GMT

WASTELAND is the best post-apocalyptic comic being published today. And I say that as the author of a post-apocalyptic comic. It’s reached its 25th issue — which, as an indie comic, is no mean feat either. This 25th issue is double-sized and full colour. Here’s a tinyURL to a 13-page preview and related interview. It’s out today in North America, tomorrow in the UK and elsewhere. It’s very good. You want a copy.

Find your local comics shop through The Master List.

Station Ident

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:06:52 GMT

Me and Rachael Gray inside the Architecture Association’s summer pavilion, as captured by writer/editor Will Wiles. Good morning. This is Warren Ellis dot com. Good morning. I am going out for lunch now.

Night Music: Instructions For Survival

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:28:20 GMT

Brain is still fizzing from the night’s talking. Have some more Philip Jeck: two m3u playlist files from Touch Radio at the link.

G’night.

DO ANYTHING 006

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:50:11 GMT

New column is live at bleedingcool:

Jack Kirby’s head repeats an interview response: “I felt that we ourselves were without a mythology. Even the Saxons had their own mythology, and I thought that there was a new mythology needed for our times.”

Station Ident: Today I Must Drink Beer

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:41:41 GMT

It’ll be a quiet day here, as I’m off to London to attend the BLDGBLOG book launch at the Architecture Association. Good morning. This is Warren Ellis dotcom. Image by Zo.

NO HERO #6 Preview

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:49:19 GMT

Out from Wednesday (North America) and Thursday (UK and elsewhere) this week, and here’s the first five pages located at Issuu.

The Newspaper Club

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:28:29 GMT

From the people who brought you THINGS OUR FRIENDS HAVE WRITTEN ON THE INTERNET 2008, a new and potentially very important venture: The Newspaper Club.

We’re building a service to help people make their own newspapers.

What do we mean by people? Individuals, communities, clubs, societies, companies, friends, gangs. You know; people.

What do we mean by newspapers? Anything you can make by putting ink on newsprint. We think lots of people will want to make things that are quite like the sort of newspapers we already know. But we also hope to encourage people to reinvent what newspapers could be.

They’re also running a blog.

I’ll get into this later once I’m past the bulk of the day’s work, but I think this could be really, really interesting. Also ref. PEAR emerging as a newspaper. (Which I also need to talk more about, because it’s a really fucking interesting newspaper)

WIRED UK: Column 04

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:31:22 GMT

I note my fourth WIRED UK column has been pushed to the web for your free reading "enjoyment." Here it is:

I speak to you now as a man who survived the bird flu. I acquired the lethal, human-transmissible H5N1 from looking at a turkey at a farmer’s market in north Essex. For weeks, I battled the deadly disease, bedridden, close to perishing entirely. I could hear the Grim Reaper using the toilet and everything…

Station Ident: Yes, You’re Still Alive And It’s Monday

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:27:15 GMT

And this is warren ellis dot com. Good morning.

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Scope

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:29:55 GMT

Matt Webb, mysterious Rotwangian wizard-engineer of Schulze & Webb, on design and what it means to be a 21st Century design unit, among other things. Pay attention. These are the people who get to have a say in how you get to live in the Western World.

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Night Music: Moon Wiring Club

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:43 GMT

Go here, my little badgers of delight, and click on the bit that says MP3 JUKEBOX. And be enthralled by the spectral and uchronic sounds of the Moon Wiring Club, whom I have described before as "like a gang of mad people were put in charge of a time machine." It is very definitely night music. Especially if, like me, you spent your childhood staying up late on Friday nights to watch old horror films.

G’night.

On Whitechapel Tonight (3jul09)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:13:19 GMT

On my internet knocking-shop tonight:

* The Self-Portrait Imagethread (Jul 2009) - always good for a laugh. Currently featuring less close-up photographs of stubbly and confused-looking young men than usual.

* I’d Like To Politely Ask For Help With My Webcomic - help this person out?

* The July 2009 Book Club

…actually, it occurs to me that I really have to find time to sweep the place out again…