Archive for June, 2008

Dead Man’s Shoes

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Was up in Dublin for the weekend, went to see Dead Man’s Shoes at the IFI. I’ve seen this six or seven times but it was good to see it on the big screen.

They also showed Paddy Considine’s new short film, Dog Altogether, which was excellent. Considine did a Q&A afterwards, seems like a good egg.

Even the three borderline-retarded mooks sitting across the way from us who laughed a little too loudly at the violent bits and then sprayed deodorant on themselves halfway through the short couldn’t spoil what was a thoroughly pleasant afternoon. There was a technical hitch with the sound system that meant the short film had to be started again after about thirty seconds, the largest and most stupid looking one opined loudly that “Paddy Consintine won’t be happy with that!”

As we left they were discussing the sound Considine’s hand gun had made, apparently, because of the distinctive “whoop” it could only have been a “.22″ They also agreed that one of the executions had been “text book.” Stupid fucking twats.

Here, have a clip . . .

Nature - International weekly journal of science

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Got some great news yesterday.  Nature editor Henry Gee emailed me to say that he’s accepting my short story “Spamface” for publication in the Futures section of an upcoming issue.

Click below for info on the current issue.

Early artwork

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Lonny Chant has started work on our 6 page strip for Accent UK.

This is the first page, spotted blacks.

New In Town

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

You can read my short story New In Town on The Tiny Globule.  And it’s free!

The Tiny Globule

Plaça de George Orwell, Barcelona

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

This could be my favourite photo of all time.

Placa de George Orwell - small

Lonny Chant

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

. . . will be providing the art for a six page strip for Accent UK.  He sent me some layouts for our story, they look great.

Here, pay him a visit.

SFX review

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

SFX reviewed issue 3 of Murky Depths. Nice to see Shit New World getting a mention.

sfx MD review

Not sure why they called it a fanzine though.

Russell Stutler’s brilliant 221B Baker Street floorplan

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Found on Strange Maps. An annotated floor plan of 221B Baker St.

‘The floor plan was “drawn from notes taken while reading all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories twice in a row. If it appears in the books, it appears in this drawing,” says Mr Stutler.’

There’s a link to Russ’s site at the end of the article.

221b baker street plan - russ stutler


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