- Alan Moore: The art of magic
One of Mr Moore's more interesting interviews.
- The Taxonomy Of Sin | MORNING, COMPUTER
I really liked today's morning.computer, no other reason.
Tag: alan_moore
Bookmarks for September 8, 2010
- Unearthing by Alan Moore & Crook&Flail
Alan Moore's latest audio work (a reading of his piece in London: City of Disappearances scored by some very clever electronica wizards) is available via iTunes. It is two hours of the good stuff, and thoroughly recommended.
- calvetica – The fast calendar for iPhone
Testing this out as a better (and yes, much nicer looking) calendar/todo app for iphone.
Bookmarks for June 17, 2010
- American Apparel's Complete Guide to Grooming
Jesus fuck. It turns out that I, and many/most of my friends would not be eligible for employment at American apparel because we don't look "natural" (for which one might also read "bland") enough. Be sure to read this, and then click through to the stories about hiring and firing based on appearance. The level of angry fuck you this inspires is staggering.
- Eizo Pin-up Calendar 2010 – more than integral nude | Ufunk.net
I can't quite decide what I think of this. One balance, yes, I think I would like to have this calendar on my wall.
- Alan Moore & Mitch Jenkins ‘Unearthing’ – Interview Preview & Live Shows – Lex Records
Alan Moore is performing live in London at the end of July. Just, y'know, in case anyone's interested. I've got tickets for the Friday night.
Bookmarks for June 23, 2009
- » Saga of the Swamp Thing #20
Steve Bissette offers a behind the scenes look at the creation of the first issue of Alan Moore's industry-changing run on Swamp Thing, only recently reprinted for the first time.
- The V: A summary
I am very very occasionally asked why I'm not on The V (an old internet hangout) these days. I can't imagine my presence is terribly missed, but Dave has thrown up a summary of the board that he found somewhere (either on the board itself, or on some kind of nerd forum review site, I guess) that has rather set me to thinking about on-line communities, why I basically don't participate in them any more despite having spent a significant chunk of my 20s in one forum or another, and what I think they lack, and it's a topic I wouldn't mind writing something longer about in the near future, so I'm just bookmarking the summary as a useful starting point.
- Angels in the Abattoir
Thea Gilmore's new idea for a music business model. I'll be interested to see if it takes off. And if I have the spare cash, I might well sign up.
Bookmarks for April 29, 2009
- Kickstarter » Projects
A commercial scale ransomware/fundraising site that'll work for any creative endeavour. Now to think of something people will want to give me money for…
- Daily Scans – Alan Moore's Glory proposal
Hadn't seen this before, and I can see approaches in this that clearly got recycled into Promethea, and Tom Strong and the other ABC stuff, which makes it all rather more interesting than just a document about an old Supreme character.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end."
God, I hate it when I discover that Margaret Thatcher said something I agree with.
- Noisy Decent Graphics: 7 ways to be a Graphic Design student online
Never mind "Graphic Design Student" – 7 ways to be a thinking human being. If you're not using a decent number of these services, well, OK, it hardly makes you a bad person, but still: most of these are basic tools for information management and digital note taking, and if you like to think of yourself as engaged with the world, and aren't using them, then you're probably doing something wrong. (Saying that: I keep trying to get some cognitive traction with tumblr, and have never really managed it. Might take another go soon. And it did take me rather longer than many of my friends to get twitter.)
Bookmarks for March 27, 2009
- Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos
I've got a few different quotes I'd consider having put on me, and this place might provide inspiration for design/context for them.
- Daring Fireball: Obsession Times Voice
I don't have time to read this in full right now, so I'm bookmarking it so I remember to read it at some point over the weekend.
- Steve Lambert » SelfControl
Mac App to lock email/internet away for periods of time. Killer feature: once started, it cannot be undone, unlike most other, similar apps. Handy for those days when you really have to just dig in and get something done.
- glycon: Big Numbers #3
Alan Moore's Big Numbers #3, made available on-line with his blessing. To say this is a big unexpected would be understating things a bit, but well done that man.
Bookmarks for March 26, 2009
- glycon: Big Numbers #3
Alan Moore's Big Numbers #3, made available on-line with his blessing. To say this is a big unexpected would be understating things a bit, but well done that man.
- Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters – Boing Boing
Ironically, the police state that we're increasingly living in "for out own saftey" is what's moving toward to the belief that armed insurrection is the only answer.
- AC/DC rocks the office wins Media Grauniad award
My former colleague Phil has recently won a well deserved award for a very clever means of producing a viral music video.
Bookmarks for January 30, 2009
- Alan Moore Essay
"The roots of Art and all abstraction are in Magic, firelight, and the hidden world." – a short essay by Alan Moore about art and magic that I hadn't run across before.
- Anti-drugs ad
I may not neccessarily agree with them, but that doesn't mean this add isn't a very clever bit of design.
- SASLIK
I must eat here. It is very important.
- Prayers and Promises for Supernatural Childbirth: Amazon.co.uk
I saw someone reading this on the bus this morning. I mostly share this because I like to spread the incandescent rage around. What the fuck are these people doing on my planet, who is allowing them to breed, and why am I not yet allowed to simply kill them for being a complete waste of resources and hand their spawn off to people who will raise them to think for themselves?
Bookmarks for June 16, 2008
- The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels
Copright-violation-tastic, but still: the complete text of Alan Moore’s performance piece. Worth a read, and I’ll probably find it handy to refer to, but if you can get hold of the CD, that’s much better.
- Angel Passage
This, and the next one, particularly need to be heard to get them right – they’re very rhythmic pieces and the formatting on these does them no favours at all. Still, handy reference if I need to quote them at some point.
- The Highbury Working: A Beat Séance
It’s a dreadful armpit of a place, is Highbury. But scratch the surface…
Bookmarks for May 6, 2008
- Atomic Tragedy — Photos
Previously unreleased photos taken in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Hugely moving photos that convey the human cost of the atomic bomb. Should be in every history textbook, under the heading “there can be no excuse”.
- Boris Johnson Facts
“Not even twelve pygmies have the strength of a single Boris Johnson.”
- random($foo): Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown
Well, that’s half my evenings this week gone. Some of these sound fascinating. (The other half, like total waffle-shop bilge, but let’s focus on the positive, shall we?)
- Alan Moore’s Outbreak of Violets
Given away at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1995, the postcards with text by Moore, and art by a number of utterly splendid illustrators now change hands for absurd sums. Or you could just read them on-line.
- The New Yorker profile of Grant Achatz
A really compelling account of the effect that his battle with mouth cancer, the experimental treatment he got, and the effect it has had on his life, and his cooking.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » Designs on Your Money
Interview with the guy that came up with the designs for the UKs new coins. Insteresting insight into the design process, and how some of the initial ideas were refined and improved (or even just unworkable).