the painted smile
The fifth of November it is, and indeed we do remember … The next problem was the creation of the main character and the actual setting for the strip. Since ↑Dave [Lloyd] and I both wanted to do something that … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: writing
the simple art of murder
There are things which are interesting again and again, forever. ↑Raymond Chandler‘s essay ‘↑The Simple Art of Murder‘ (1950 [1944]) I already have read multiple times, quoted from it in ‘↑Cyberanthropology,’ and so on. Now I just stumbled over it … Continue reading →
understanding comics
EISNER, WILL. 1985. Comics and sequential art. Tamarac, Cincinnati: Poorhouse, North Light. EISNER, WILL. 1996. Graphic storytelling. Tamarac, Cincinnati: Poorhouse, North Light. MCCLOUD, SCOTT. 1993. Understanding comics: The invisible art. New York: Kitchen Sink, HarperCollins.
Continue reading →blogging writers
↑SFSignal featureas a comprehensive list of ↑SF and Fantasy writers who blog. For the aficionados there are real gems among the entries, like the blog of her Majesty herself, the Queen of Cyberpunk, ↑Pat Cadigan. tnx to just.be
Continue reading →second person view
Detail from a promotional screenshot for ‘Max Payne’ (Remedy 2001), forcing the viewer to look down the bore of Mr. Payne’s gun while he is shooting at the onlooker. There are ↑first-person shooters (FPS) and ↑third-person shooters (TPS)—what about the … Continue reading →
elements of style
Speaking about writing, let’s listen to Stephen King: This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when … Continue reading →
neologic spasm
↑William Gibson‘s comment on academia’s appropriation of the word “cyberspace”: Just a chance operator in the gasoline crack of history … Assembled word cyberspace from small and readily available components of language. Neologic spasm: the primal act of … Continue reading →
writing culture and cyberpunk
The above picture is a clipping from a photography by Martha G. Tyler, which served as a frontispiece in ‘Writing Culture’ (↵Clifford & Marcus 1986). It shows ‘↑Stephen Tyler in the field’, concentrated on his writing, looking away from the … Continue reading →
anthropology’s shades
Among the qualities which the issues anthropologists take up and belabour have, there is one which stings and delivers a lot of pain, again and again, during the whole process from shaping your project and defining the particular subject to … Continue reading →