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Shiptracks
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 28th, 2012 (01:00 am)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14102

Via Mammoth, shiptracks are:

narrow clouds… form[ed] when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships either emit directly as exhaust or that form as a result of gases within the exhaust

Or: chemtrails for the ocean.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-27
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 27th, 2012 (07:00 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14106

  • Dawn Above the Cloud Sea on Vimeo
    Dawn Above the Cloud Sea After hiking 13km up HuangShan on the first day, we got up at 4am (after only 5hrs of sleep) to go see the sunrise over the mountain. At first it was a tease – the sky got brighter but we did not see the disk of the sun. When it finally began emerging from the grayness of the horizon, a large cloudmist swooped in to block its ascent from view. (the crowd was certainly displeased!) But at long last the mist dissipated, and the glow of morning illuminated the rolling waves of the cloudsea beneath. We were at ???? vista (hou zi guan hai) (monkey gazing at the cloudsea) Equipment: Nikon D300, Tokina 12-24mm, Nikon 35mm 2.0, Nikon 85mm 1.8 Music: Epoch in Dmaj – Caspian James Leng
    (tags:ifttt vimeo video )
  • surveillance and the sentient city | THE STATE
    @cnqmdi: new post at @thestate_: on anonymous, insurrectionism, and cv-dazzling underwear http://t.co/diKJyUyL cc @Triple_Canopy @BiellaColeman http://twitter.com/cnqmdi/status/205777537580793857
    (tags:ifttt twitter editmytaglaterwarren! )
  • Ghosting Season – 13 featuring. Birds Of Passage by Last Night On Earth on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
    Ghosting Season – 13 featuring. Birds Of Passage A fascination with taxidermy, a love of Krautrock, and interests ranging from vintage synths to gothic Victoriana – Ghosting Season embody the eccentric and the ethereal. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is the debut album from the Manchester-based duo, aka Gavin Miller and Thomas Ragsdale. Stepping off the path laid by the great British leftfield tradition (Eno, Aphex, Seefeel, Global Communication, Burial, Lone et al), Ghosting Season fuse elements of ambient techno, musique concrete, IDM and post-rock into the kind of textured soundscapes that have won them much critical acclaim via a handful of releases, remixes (Radiohead, Cloud Control) and their formidable live show (Fields, SXSW and beyond). Ghosting Season’s sound first emerged as tangents from Gavin and Tom’s previous band project, worriedaboutsatan. While the latter took its cues from the likes of Explosions In The Sky and Mogwai, the pair’s music began to head off into a different direction, one that was informed far more by electronic music, but still incorporated their love of guitars, vocals and found sounds. This new identity bore its first fruit with 2011’s ‘Far End Of The Graveyard EP’. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is a breathtaking debut, moving from beautifully crafted cerebal electronica to tripped out house, glitchy drone collages and more strobe-friendly peaktime techno. ‘The Very Last Of The Saints’ is the first album release on Sasha’s Last Night On Earth label.
    (tags:music ifttt soundcloud )

The Last Kickstarter Post
by Neil Gaiman's Journal ([info]officialgaiman)
at May 27th, 2012 (08:01 pm)

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/05/last-kickstarter-post.html

posted by Neil
We're in the last four days of Amanda's Kickstarter.

Over the last almost-a-month of the Kickstarter she's gathered a huge amount of support, set records for what crowdfunding can do, made the news internationally,  and she is now planning a giant webcast block party in Brooklyn on Thursday night for the people who supported the project and to count down to 11:59 when the Kickstarter ends and she starts to play.

She's certainly got enough supporters, and she's already well exceeded her goal and is somewhere off into the land beyond her wildest dreams. (As I write this she's 900% funded, and looks on course to make this a million dollar Kickstarter.) But I still thought I'd stick something up here, in the last few days, because...

We put together the Evening With Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Kickstarter last year, to raise the money to professionally record the West Coast tour we did in November. We raised a lot more money from the Kickstarter than we had expected, so we made everything we could even better than anyone had expected. The double CD we had planned to do became a beautiful triple CD package, for example, and then we did a special super secret bonus CD with a banana on it to go along with that - as well as over two additional hours of extra material we released digitally for all the supporters. We worked very hard to make sure that everyone who supported us got something better than they had thought they were getting when they signed up.

And when the stuff started showing up in people's mailboxes and they started posting happy photographs of their stuff (like these...)




...then people here and on Twitter and on Tumblr started sending me sad messages, telling me they wished they had supported the Kickstarter, they'd missed it as they hadn't seen it, or had forgotten, or were broke at the time -- but was it too late to get the stuff?  I wrote back a lot, and said yes, I was sorry but it was too late. We'd only made enough for the Kickstarter backers.

(We do plan to release An Evening With Neil and Amanda commercially, probably towards the end of the year. And it'll be a nice package, but it won't be what the Kickstarter folk got. That was special, and it was just for them.)

Amanda will be releasing a version of her new CD to the public in September. That's the one you'll be able to buy at your local store. But the two CD set inside a book (the blue thing on the right), or the quadruple vinyl in its box, or whatever else she decides to throw in to the other levels, the art-book she's making -- that stuff will only exist for Kickstarter.  If you want it, or any of the other rewards (down to the $1 reward that gets you the whole album digitally when it comes out, which I promise will be significantly cheaper than it'll be on iTunes) then this is really just a reminder that you only have four days to click on the Kickstarter link and support it...



...

Amanda did a post the other day on her blog and for backers, explaining that, no, a million dollar Kickstarter wasn't actually going to make her rich. People are signing up for things, she'll make the things and provide them, but she doesn't get to put a million dollars into a swimming pool and then throw it into the air, like Uncle Scrooge. It's not tax-free donations, it's people signing up for services.

So, to clarify:

The Kickstarter exists to fund a CD release (to the public, not Kickstarter supporters) and a tour (ditto).

The Kickstarter money funds the studio and promotional costs (just as a record label might have done). The business model isn't, Make Money From 20,000 people. It's Use 20,000 people to crowdfund the costs of manufacturing and distributing and promoting a CD and a tour to the General Public. And then get rich from that.

You'd think a band who took their video and studio and promotional budget from a record label and used it as income instead of as an investment in their future were being pretty shortsighted. That's the Kickstarter money: it's a video and promotional and design and manufacturing and touring budget. That's what it's for.


...

There. That's the very last post about Amanda's Kickstarter, unless I start blogging from a rooftop in Brooklyn when it's all over, as the NYPD haul Amanda and the Grand Theft Orchestra away. She says they have all the permits in place for a midnight rooftop gig, and they've even hired the police to block off a road and so on. I just think of the Beatles on the roof of the Apple building, and the legion of uniformed cops who appeared to make them stop...


Buckyballed by adamgreenfield
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 27th, 2012 (02:02 am)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14110

adamgreenfield

via Flickr -

Bookmarks for 2012-05-25
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 26th, 2012 (07:00 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14096

by ELLEN ROGERS
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 25th, 2012 (11:47 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14095

More and about it

ELLEN ROGERS

via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/c3P2CG

Due To Computer Error, FREAKANGELS Wins Eagle Award Again
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 25th, 2012 (07:21 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14094

I just heard that FREAKANGELS won Favourite Webcomic for the second time at this year’s Eagle Awards.

Anna Petterson, as is now traditional, is looking after it and pouring alcohol on it.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-25
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 25th, 2012 (07:00 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14091

Quick Useful Sandman Slipcase post
by Neil Gaiman's Journal ([info]officialgaiman)
at May 25th, 2012 (04:16 am)

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/05/quick-useful-sandman-slipcase-post.html

posted by Neil
A hasty post...

There's a slipcased set of Sandman on the way. It's going to be published in November. I'm so happy. This is something that I have been asking DC to make for a very long time, and I am genuinely thrilled it's going to exist. It will look almost like this. (If you look carefully you'll notice that the final book in the box shown here is not The Wake. That's because that edition of SANDMAN: The Wake has not been published yet.)



(Here's the Amazon listing for it -- they've dropped it from $200 to $125. And I'm sure there are other such deals elsewhere on the web.)

DC are also going to be selling the Slipcase with some copies of The Wake. So if you have the rest of the  books already, you can simply put them into the slipcase.

According to Bleeding Cool, retailers have until this weekend to get their orders in for November to guarantee that they'll get them. So if you want one, either if you want a copy of The Wake with a Slipcase, or the set of all the books, you should talk to your Local Comic Shop now. (How do you find your local comic shop? You could always use http://www.comicshoplocator.com/)

(The current edition of paperbacks contains the same colouring as the Absolute editions, although, obviously not all the extra material in each of the Absolutes. If you already bought the Absolute Sandmans 1-4, feel proud of yourself. You are not required to buy the books again. You are never required to buy again what you already have.)

Bookmarks for 2012-05-24
by Warren Ellis ([info]warrenelliscom)
at May 24th, 2012 (07:00 pm)

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14085

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