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Here are various Momus links, mostly sleeping… imomus Click Opera Early LPs to listen to and sigh are here.
Read MoreSpiders vs. Bee
Watch Spiders vs. Bee. No one dies.
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 MoreHospitalfield – on a Sunday morning…
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction
Popped into the Barbican (a beautiful Ballardian thing if there ever was) on Friday for Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction. Really, I went to see Terence Broad’s autoencoded version of Blade Runner (a fascinating formal exercise – watch a clip of it here), but there were other treats too – a suit that once…
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 MoreA 35mm 208 Frame Version of Blade Runner for a Phone
I biked, I read, I made this wee video out of 35mm scraps. Felt the need to get working here at HF… A 35mm 208 Frame Version of Blade Runner for a Phone
Read MoreHospitalfield – there’s something happening here…
Shoulder to Shoulder – FIELDWORK International Summer School co-programmed with Cicely Farrer and Gordon Douglas Harp Celebration Day to mark the return of the newly renovated Erard Grecian Harp including talks and performances by scholar Simon Chadwick and harpist Sharron Griffiths. Sculptural commission for the Picture Gallery by artist Simon Bedwell – Society. Scones.
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