A still I grabbed from an online copy of an old Aleksandr Sokurov film. I’d love a decent copy of this on Region 2/Region B, but I’ll live with 720p just to be able to watch it.
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I just bought and listened through PROTO, and, Holly (and your gang) – you made an immense thing, and I love it. It is beautiful, it is challenging, and it is fully summoned from seven minutes into the future.
Comments closedI have to say, these people are stepping up their game.
Esoteric Cult stumbles upon ancient erection secret
I do wonder what the headline generation process is here. “We’ve noticed that you are interested in esoteric cults and ancient secrets, so we’re pretty sure framing dick pills in this context will be an instant win for us”
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Spending the day inside my head. Things to puzzle out.
Comments closedI attended a talk the other week about the future of spaceflight. One guy gave a long presentation about how Gerard O’Neill’s plans for orbiting space colonies from 1972 are now ripe to be actioned. A guy in the audience – the “I don’t really have a question” type who realises he has a captive audience for his own statement — explained that sixty-four of the spent engine tanks floating between here and the moon could be recovered, linked up into a torus and spun at 2 rpm. My friend Rachel Armstrong, floating genuinely new ideas about synthetic biology engineering and microbiome management in space, cut something of a lonely figure amongst the retrofutures.
I grew up with the O’Neil “Island One” stuff. Those are lovely stories, and there was fun art made of them. But I am again reminded – I mentioned this somewhere the other day, too — of Bill Gibson’s recent observation that in the 20th Century we could talk of nothing but “life in the 21st Century” and here in the 21C we seem to have trouble of conceiving of anything past the end of next week, let alone the 22nd Century. 22C.
Sometimes I think there’s a mass conclusion that we shouldn’t be thinking about 22C because We’re Living In The Future and it should All Be Happening Now. I think the future needs to be constantly invented and drawn down to us. (Which phrase has just made me think of “Drawing Down The Moon.”)
22C should be a badge of honour for futures speculation, perhaps.
(written March 14 2018, recovered from morning computer, brought to mind by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Moon Very O’Neil 1970s presentation on May 9 2019)
(Drawing down the blue moon, heh)
One CommentTREES issues 15 to 19 are written, constituting Volume 3, and Jason Howard is drawing issue 19 right now. It goes on the publication schedule towards the end of the year, I believe.
The current plan on INJECTION is that I start writing Volume 4 in earnest this summer (it’s currently a pile of notes) ready for Declan’s schedule to open up in late summer.
I’m in the middle of writing Season 2 of FINALITY, and Colleen’s roughing out the first three episodes as I type this.
I have some 18 scripts left to complete for DC – THE WILD STORM is all written, as prev noted — and all of them are on unannounced projects.
That is all the active comics work I have on deck right now, having run out of artists who will tolerate my eccentric low-selling bullshit.
I’m working on CASTLEVANIA all this month, in tandem with outline documents for two other tv projects. I cannot say more about CASTLEVANIA, because our Terrifying Masters at Netflix control all information flow and we get picked off by snipers if we talk.
If I haven’t mentioned something you’re interested in, it’s because I’m not allowed to or there’s no new information.
#FAQ
Comments closedI was thinking today about my friend Leticia, who died some fourteen years ago. I always associated this song with her, for some reason. So I’m listening to it, right now, and making you listen to it too.
Going full Invisible Monastery over here (blame Brubaker for making me realise all my Eno is on mp3)
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