August 2011
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“Digital comics services are still very much all about the single rather than the...”
– Warren Ellis » Never The End: Comics And MP3s. Isn’t the “infinite storyline” ultimately one of the obstacles for bringing new readers in to serialized comics? They complain about not having a jumping-on point.
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Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line →
momentofmoore:
…the [V For Vendetta] mask resonates with the hackers because it was worn by a rogue anarchist challenging an authoritarian government in “V for Vendetta,” the movie produced in 2006 by Warner Brothers.
What few people seem to know, though, is that Time Warner, one of the largest media companies in the world and parent of Warner Brothers, owns the rights to the image and is paid...
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Amanda Conner
Cameron Stewart
Cameron Stewart
Chris Samnee
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“The conventional image of a ‘futurist’ is that of someone who speaks...”
– Open the Future: About Foresight (a minor rant) (via Warren Ellis)
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Watchtwentyfourbit:
Feist & Friends Cover Velvet Underground Live
Earlier last month, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood, the HotRats (aka Nigel Godrich with Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey of Supergrass), Soap&Skin, and Air’s Nicolas Godin, teamed up for a one-off tribute to the Velvet Underground in Paris, aptly titled Velvet Underground Revisited. The set was comprised almost entirely of covers off...
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Alex Toth
Darwyn Cooke
Des Taylor
Phil Hester
Amanda Conner
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“I’m a huge comic book geek as well. I collected comic books throughout my...”
– Jon Hamm. (via twiststreet)
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Lou Reed Pays Tribute to Amy Winehouse
twentyfourbit:
At recent concerts in Europe, the great former Velvet Underground leader Lou Reed joined a growing list of venerable artists paying homage to Amy Winehouse since her tragically premature death last month.
Performing in Rome a few days after she passed, Reed paused midway through the title track to his 2000 album Ecstasy for his first tribute: “I’d like to dedicate this show to...
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“How unique in all of the world, that one nation that was the resting point from...”
– In the Words of Michele Bachmann
(Probably a surprise to America’s early slaves and slaveowners, and the many different minority groups who were effectively second-class citizens for much of U.S. history.)
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On London: Rioting in Media Context
ITV Reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent?
Young Londoner: You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?
ITV Reporter: ...
Young Londoner: Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you.
“I tell you now: I never feel like I don’t have a whole career’s worth of work...”
– Warren Ellis
Of course, that might sound daunting to him, but it just makes me happy. Why? Because it’s a writer I enjoy proclaiming he still has a lot more to say.
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(I love that Hardman put in the Velvet Underground.)
“Openly saying what you want to read and admitting what you do read is very...”
– (via drunkengenius)
Too true. Same goes for people who complain about wanting certain types of movies or TV shows made, but then don’t go out and support them at the box office. 