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The Unhoped For – 27may24

Published May 27, 2024 by Warren Ellis

TODAY

ARTS

Above taken from this exhibition, will add artist attribution when I track it down (none provided on site)

Trailer for the new Leos Carax film. His HOLY MOTORS is a favorite:

Thank god, a new Black Polygons record:

I keep meaning to catch up with the works of Drew McDowall:

Twinkle twinkle there you are, a solitary life on an anomalous star.

STRANGE HOTEL, Eimear McBride

morning computer, zibaldone first thing in my day

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Random assemblage 8apr24

Published April 8, 2024 by Warren Ellis

Because of its size and location, the henge would have been a prominent place in the region and provided a major site for ceremonial activity. At this time, Crowland would have been a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water and marshes, and the henge was situated on a distinctive and highly visible point projecting out into the Fens.

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The henge seems then to have been deserted, perhaps for many centuries, but the significance already given to the site by the substantial prehistoric earthworks—which would have still been visible into the medieval period—meant it was probably seen by hermits like Guthlac as a unique landscape with a long and sacred past.

Scribbled numbers, wiped-away letters, word-like scrawls: all of these recur in Kikuo Saito’s paintings of the early 1990s, a selection of which form a wonderfully mystifying solo show on view now at James Fuentes gallery in New York.
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Annuals

Published June 12, 2023 by Warren Ellis

70s Sci-Fi art shows off a small collection of what are probably now curiosities. Here in Britain, weekly comics (which they mostly were) did both a Summer Special issue and a big hardback Annual at Christmas. One of the things I looked forward to at Xmas as a kid was getting one or two Annuals. It was really nice to see some again. That’s a Brian Bolland cover. I was lucky enough to hit a bucket list item very early in my career – Brian Bolland did the cover for the first issue of my first monthly comics job, HELLSTORM for Marvel.

American comics sometimes did annuals – I think they went out of fashion at some point there. But British comics were anthologies, and so the summer specials annuals had really wide ranges of material. often by new or obscure artists, and were stuffed with articles. Garth Ennis and I both learned out to write comics from the printing of one page of John Wagner/Alan Grant script in a 2000AD Summer Special.

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