Items of note
imomus
Here are various Momus links, mostly sleeping… imomus Click Opera Early LPs to listen to and sigh are here.
Read MoreHome (2009)
Here’s a link to Home, a 2009 BBC TV version of Ballard’s The Enormous Space, with Antony Sher. Just not quite (Wheatley’s) High-Rise enough for me. Budgets, one imagines. But why aren’t the Beeb and/or Ch4 not making a Ballard-a-yr? It’s our cultural heritage init? We need a Ballard manufacturing company equivalent to Merchant Ivory.…
Read MoreJGB does Advertising
Following on from his 1958 Project for a New Novel, Ballard made this series of five ‘Advertiser’s Announcements’ created and published from 1967 to 1971 in Ambit magazine. According to Ballard: ‘Back in the late 60s I produced a series of advertisements which I placed in various publications (Ambit, New Worlds, Ark and various continental alternative magazines),…
Read MoreBack to Ballard
Writing and reading on a train for 12 hours or so this weekend, and post a re-read* ‘n’ watch** of Empire of the Sun, I’m now into Extreme Metaphors – an exhaustive collection of Ballard’s interviews. Read an interview with editor Simon Sellars here. Angela Carter on Empire of the Sun (1984). *Definitely read this.…
Read MoreTopping 2016 – Munich
Thank you to experimental ear owner (the ears are real, their preferred MO avant-garde) CM for this spot of my (previously unknown) talents, in Munich.
Read MoreTwists in the Cord (or) Other Extensions of the Telephone
Before I head up to Hospitalfield in time for FIELDWORK International Summer School – Summer Festival, and thanks to a purchase of Civic Radar, a massive monograph of Lynn Hershman Leeson, I’m gorging on all things LHL today. Here’s a link to her 1994 ‘history of the telephone docudrama’, if you can believe the pigeon-holing, Twists…
Read MorePeter wins Best PKD Short Film at the 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival 2017
Thank you to Dan Abella, the PKD crew and to all the filmmakers I met this week. A superb festival… I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. No really, at one point I was surrounded by alien abductees… Here’s a Facebook thang. Now, how to wear those laurels..?
Read MoreFree Fire
The new Ben Wheatley/Amy Jump film is so well written, there’s not a bullet that doesn’t count. The only downside for me is genre, but that’s a personal thing, init. When there’s a Wheatley/Jump American high school film out… Free Fire Trailer but don’t watch this before you get to the pictures… Interview here.
Read MoreBlade Runner 2049
Here’s the trailer. Here’s an nme article. It looks like it’s a geekfest of refs – Officer K indeed! I’m excited though.
Read MoreBerlin Report
Ably assisted by the students of University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts, I saw some things in Berlin. A man walking a pig, for instance. I also saw a lot of art ‘n’ that. One post only, as you’ll be familiar with the itinerary… Along with the big work by big lads, the Hamburger…
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