Apr 16
Pretty much everyone has covered this but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention it — Just in case you didn’t hear, a hologram of Tupac performed at Coachella. I don’t have much to add. It looked good. It’s neat. But, I dunno, this just seems kinda like that version of Unforgettable or Fred Astaire …
Apr 13
My novel Technicolor Ultra Mall has been shortlisted for the Aurora Award in the Best Novel (English) category. Here’s the full shortlist: BEST NOVEL – ENGLISH Enter Night by Michael Rowe, ChiZine Publications Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism by David Nickle, ChiZine Publications Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy, ChiZine Publications The Pattern Scars by …
Apr 13
I’ll be at Ad Astra this weekend. It’s a science fiction convention. Ad Astra’s 31st Con will be held on April 13, 14 & 15, 2012 Ad Astra is a literary fan-run convention, promoting local talent within the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Paranormal, for all media of the written word. Our weekend …
Apr 13
My first piece of commissioned baseball writing is up over at The Score’s Getting Blanked. It’s an introduction to the baseball teams and their narratives. Over the years, I’ve done a few posts on baseball here but they’ve been few and far between. (That’s what I use twitter for. Seriously — if I had to watch games …
Apr 04
Eric Franklin has created a glowing glass sculpture of a human skeleton using krypton gas. I’ve been into skeletons lately. (Always liked glowing things.) It’s not so much a death thing as it is an interest in the underlying architecture of humans. And it’s just strange that something like bone is alive.
Mar 30
This is an interview that occurred in late January and will be hitting 12 television stations and 80 radio markets in about a week via TVCOGECO. It’s for Brent Holland’s Night Fright Show. Ryan Oakley – Technicolor Ultra-Mall via Skype from Toronto Canada. What if in the future Toronto had been turned into a huge indoor mall? …
Mar 17
MIT’s Media Lab has hooked up a huge, homemade 1970s synthesizer to the Internet, allowing people to remotely control its machine parts and listen to the results. You can do both here. Patchwerk lets you control a massive analog synthesizer from your browser, and streams the results back to you and everyone connected. The interface …
Mar 16
“The White Noise Supremacists” [PDF] (from the Village Voice, 1979) by Lester Bangs is about racism in the famous New York City punk scene. It’s a touching and honest piece of writing. I figured all this was in the Lenny Bruce spirit of let’s-defuse-them-epithets-by slinging-’em-out in Detroit I thought absolutely nothing of going to parties …
Mar 09
These Wire Windups aren’t for sale but they’re still awesome. If only there was a collection of bath-soaps based on The Shield. Via Dangerous Minds
