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- Help “Escape From Dullsville” Escape Obscurity!
"About a week ago, he finally finished the 288 page book collecting all 7 issues of L.O.A.F. The collection, titled ?Escape from Dullsville? also contains over 80 pages of new material, including the previously unpublished L.O.A.F. #8. Unfortunately, pre-orders have not been high enough for SLG to justify printing the book. (That can?t have been an easy decision for a publisher so dedicated to supporting industry underdogs.) Unless Andy can raise enough pre-order sales quickly it may never be printed…"
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- ‘Frankenstein’ fix lets asteroid mission cheat death - space - 20 November 2009 - New Scientist
"the mission team has now cobbled together another working engine using parts from two sick ones" - this mission, as I recall, was an absolute lemon
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- Acoustic Weaponry In Nature
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- polis: a blog about cities: Underground Below Ulaanbaatar: Homelessness in Mongolia’s Capital City
"The manhole covers are often only partly closed because they serve as the doorway to the underground sewers where the homeless of Ulaanbaatar live. The homeless sleep underground on the hot water pipes as a way to keep warm during the bitter winters…"
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- polis: a blog about cities: Paramodernism
"…not the repackaged neomodernism that seems to be cropping up everywhere, a literally redesigned utopia that ignores the social, the political and the very notion of a just city or the right to the city - but one which is capable of taking on the profound and intertwined crises of poverty, injustice and the environment. This requires not a new modernism but a paramodernism, something altered, contrary beyond and alongside what has come before…"
(tags:architecture culture )
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)
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Save for the last signing, on the day after Thanksgiving at my hometown museum, the SHADOW DRAGONS tour is over. I am exhausted, thrilled, anxious, and anticipatory all at once. Plans are to sleep, finish drawing Book Five, and get the rest of the bookplates, books, and t-shirts that need to be mailed sent out. A tour report will follow shortly, along with my expressions of gratitude to all the booksellers, librarians, teachers, readers, and everyone else who helped make this a thrilling month. In particular, I want to thank my friends Bill and Peggy Wu for one of the best moments of not just the tour, but of the last year. They took me as their guest, to visit the Magic Castle in Hollywood. And it was not just an enjoyable evening, but literally a transformational experience for me. And the most thrilling moment was when Bill got permission from the Castle Librarian to allow me into the locked, rare books room, to hold (and be photographed holding, which is verboten in the Magic Castle) a copy of a book by Houdini which I had quoted in an upcoming book. A copy SIGNED by Houdini himself. Add to that the fact the library has a copy of SUPERMAN: MIRACLE MONDAY (which mentions Ray Bradbury taking Superboy to the Castle) and I was about to just tear up. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Peggy. It was a wonderful night,  
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Greetings one and all. It is my pleasure to announce the long await launch of our proper website. Please pardon our steam as we work the gremlins out of the pipes. To kick things off, we have a series of announcements for you. To begin, we are pleased to welcome a series of very talented musicians. So please give a round of applause to The Extraordinary Contraptions, Tartanic, and Abney Park! We are also proud to announce esteemed authors G.D. Falksen, and Hugo Award recipients Phil & Kaja Foglio of the Gaslamp Fantasy comic Girl Genius. For the proper information, the World Steam Expo will be running Memorial Day Weekend 2010(May 28-31) at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn in Dearborn, Michigan. In collaboration with the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, we intend to bring you an event the likes the world has yet to witness. There is so much more on its way, and as much as I would like to tell you everything this very instant, that would be spoiling the surprises that we have in store for you. Be certain to keep your eye on that telegraph to find out more details about such events as our Charity Masquerade Ball, Victoria High Tea, and our Mad Science Fair. Until next time, we look forward to meeting you, and your expectations. ~Arthur http://www.worldsteamexpo.com
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By which I mean music released in 2009. And [1] because I’m obviously not going to get them all in one post. It’s going to be lots of little ones. I’m giving myself a month for my memory to work properly. But I think it’s still worth making a note of what was good to my ears this year.
THE SPOILS, Zola Jesus: of which I’ve made much mention lately. Nika’s a beautiful ghost moaning from the shadows of a bombed-out cathedral, on this record. Possibly an aspect of my continuing fascination with The Haunted in early 21st Century music. But I’m returning to this record a lot.
GABON and INCAPULCO and a bunch of other releases, High Wolf: top of the whole glo-fi thing, for me, has been High Wolf and his wet lo-fi tropical dreamstates. GABON in particular was a glorious thing. Hypnogogic reverie when you’ve still got the drugged beat of a rainforest drone-rave beating in your ears.
MAN OF ARAN, British Sea Power: always a band I’ve almost-liked rather than love, but "The SOuth Sound" off this soundtrack they prepared for the re-release of the eponymous film is the best piece of classical building/soaring postrock I’ve heard since "Raise Yr Skinny Fists." I mean, flat fucking out. Coda to the whole subgenre.
HORRIBLES PARADE, Gary War: this thing continues to fascinate me. It’s melted music. Seriously. Like someone went at a wax master with a blowtorch and then struck the record with it. A gorgeous gurgling gargoyle of a thing. Partially dissolved rock.
FLORINE, Julianna Barwick: astonishing vocal music, multitracked and layered and processed until it became the sound that the trails of collapsing photons passing through the feathers of angels’ wings in a particle accelerator should make. Or something.
BROADCAST AND THE FOCUS GROUP INVESTIGATE WITCH CULTS OF THE RADIO AGE, Broadcast And The Focus Group: the title should tell you all you need to know. You’re either the sort of person who wants to own an album by that title, or you’re not. It is, as Moon Wiring Club would say, in the finest tradition of confusing English electronic music. It’s less a "proper" album than a collection of sounds that surround a certain set of timebound notions about Strangeness. As the title implies, it sometimes seems more like research (in the form of original music). It is really bloody good, yes.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)
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It isn't quite neovictoriana, nor are there any actual straps or brass on the shirt; It is just a shirt with a steampunk-aesthetic-inspired design, but short of the rare pair of finished goggles this is probably the closest to relative thing I've had a chance to post here, as I am not a steampunk clothier... as much as I wish I had those skills. At first, I wanted to go with the light chocolate tonal stripe shirt from Alternative Apparel, but they are discontinued and no longer available from the manufacturer. I *can* get them from various sources online, but with no guarantees on quantity available or consistent supply. I decided to go with a distressed and heathered pigment-dyed chestnut material, to keep to a sepia motif and to so at least the material could look to be of vintage quality. The design is the product of working at a new logo/icon for the cover of the coffee table art book "Airships and Tentacles", a collection of weird-fiction illustrations. It employs Da Vinci styled ornothopter wings, the wheel of a ship's helm, and a combination monacle/eyepatch, and of course the skull and cross-swords/jolly roger with crossed wrenches in place of swords. The design was hand-drawn and digitally colored (for ease of color separation for screen printing), though I did go back and finish the original pen and ink with water colors after the fact. If you'd like to see larger images, they are available here. 
the design
( t-shirt and bandana previews under the cut )
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