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People often ask me what comics scripts look like — or, at least, what my comics scripts look like, as there is no industry standard for comics scriptwriting. I have a few scripts up here on the site, and you’re welcome to download them. I write in OpenOffice and save in RTF. Beginning writers may find it instructive to compare the scripts with the published work.
(Please, don’t ask to be shown other scripts instead. These are the ones I have available. Okay?)
MINISTRY OF SPACE #1.
DESOLATION JONES #1.
DESOLATION JONES #7.
(Yes, JONES will be back one day.)
FELL #1.
(And so will FELL.)
(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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A bunch of us were talking at the tea party, and I was dead serious when I said I wanted to see the new Twilight movie. There is no shame, my friends, in enjoying the hell out of movies that pander to the worst in you. What I'd really like to do is go see it opening night if possible (Nov. 19), in full-blown over-the-top sweet lolita, with a bunch of you guys so we are not so lame! Teach those vampire kids a lesson or two. Is anybody interested? |
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(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/egl_comm_sales/8648533.html#cutid1">Black Whip Magic, price negotiable!) |
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(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/egl_comm_sales/8648533.html#cutid1">Angel Window [aka Virgin Mary] jsk, AatP horoscope jsk) |
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"Learning from Japan" is a theme I keep coming back to, a sermon I keep preaching. Opposed to the crude view I call "Japan Original Sin" (people who harp on about research whaling, war criminal shrines and textbook lacunae, and with whom one eventually, inevitably, ends up playing a futile game of Atrocity Snap), the "Learning from Japan" meme simply suggests that Japan's difference from Western practice is valuable, precisely, to the West. We can't learn anything from people who think as we do. For the same reason, men can learn more from women than they can from other men. 
The architecture world will get a chance to learn from Japan -- and from a woman -- in 2010; SANAA's Kazuo Sejima has been chosen as the curator of The Venice Architecture Biennial. I'm pretty sure she's the first Japanese to get this job; she's certainly the first woman to do so. A clue to her focus comes in a brief statement she's released saying that "a significant point of departure could be the concept of boundaries and the adaptation of space... it could be argued that contemporary architecture is an afterthought and perhaps an easing of borders themselves." That's a fresh thought already; architecture as an easing of borders in a time when they're generally stiffening. 
I blogged last week about a new book from Lars Müller, The SANAA Studios 2006-2008. Learning from Japan: Single-Story Urbanism. My title today comes from there. The blurb explains: "During three spring seasons between 2006 and 2008, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa taught at the School of Architecture at Princeton. The SANAA Studios explored Japan's contemporary society as a context for architecture and considered its particular perspective on space, the personal and the public realm. Design exercises were situated within the specific demographics and social variables of three distinct sites in Japan... "As an overall thematic it asks: What can we learn from SANAA?" Browsing the book at Pro-qm, I got the strong impression that what we can learn from SANAA is something to do with a relaxing, elegant lightness and understatement, something to do with minimalism and gentleness, and something to do with a feeling of calm that permeates Japan very noticeably whenever you spend time there. Iwan Baan's photographs of SANAA buildings filled with schoolchildren or middle-aged culture tourists made me think of Alasdair Gray's excellent maxim: "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." |
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I think I am the only person who knows how to write a paper at this university. |
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"Facebook is more revelatory of the seamy underbelly of the human psyche than Livejournal." |
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First and foremost I want to thank all of you for your concern regarding my previous post. So far here's what's up: -I'm still calling in daily to keep myself on the shelter's list. - I bought myself sixty extra days (nights actually) because I sort of *lied* to my mom, using an idea from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xelyna about it being illegal to throw dependents out, since she sure as hell DID claim me on taxes, and I HAVE helped payed for rent and food before hand. -I'm not really allowed to be around the house during the day, so I've been spending as much time as possible with my aunt, and keeping distance from my house. All in all, I don't have anything permanent but I'm just really trying to make the best out of a bad situation, and get on with life as normally as possible.
danaeaphreal I am really seriously considering your offer, of course my money is next to nil right now, so I can't afford air-fare at this moment, but it is something I'm working towards. |
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This, on the other hand, is amazing.
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.
"We have found the first archaeological evidence of a story reported by the Greek historian Herodotus," Dario Del Bufalo, a member of the expedition from the University of Lecce, told Discovery News…
(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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...On the other hand I've suddenly lost my taste for Lolita clothing entirely XD I was just looking at my closet today and I thought "Ugh. Just ugh. What the hell was I thinking?" This is possibly a mood-swing but I honestly thought about selling my Moitie Cathedral Print and you KNOW that's a big deal XD Tomorrow everyone who has my number: Please feel free to call me between the hours of 7AM - 8AM EST. I mean it. I have to be up for a leadership breakfast followed by a meeting with a faculty adviser and for some stupid reason I am thinking about joining the Blue Key Society at school. Shoot me now. Lol. |
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Ariana Osborne, designer of this place, SHIVERING SANDS, etc., talking about POD and the book, because:
…apparently, there’s a bunch of folks paying close attention to how Shivering Sands does so they can figure out if POD is “worth their time.”
And I have absolutely no fucking clue what that means, so I’ve just got to talk about it…
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THE SPOILS by Zola Jesus is one of my favourite albums of this year. But it’s kind of hard to find on CD. (The mp3 download is easy to find, I’ve even seen it on Amazon, and got mine at eMusic.) But now there’s a store open at zolajesus.com, where you can buy it, her other records, and a t-shirt that I’m going to pick up for Lili.
(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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