GQ On Fell, Volume 1: Feral City

Fell, Volume 1: Feral City
Written by Warren Ellis; Art by Ben Templesmith

Fans of the parts of TV’s Homicide that played like a hardboiled No Exit will dig this book. Eight mordantly funny short stories about Richard Fell, a misanthropic police detective keeping what passes for the peace in a bleak and bad-mojo-ridden municipality called Snowtown. It’s full of tense close-quarters showdowns in dimly lit spaces and illustrated in a gloomily gorgeous color palette that runs from toxic-sunset violet to busted-nose red.

See the rest of the list here.

FreakAngels by Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield

FreakAngels is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.

Warren Ellis: T-Shirt of the Day (2/5/09)

February 5th, 2009: Post #6993

Via some pack of creepy cultists:

The comments crack me up:

I’m so excited. As a former masturbator I plan to get every color. I want everyone to know power of Jesus is stronger than the devil’s urge to purge.

War Haunted (Warren Ellis)

Re-post from Warren Ellis. The photo's get cut off for some reason :(

These are, I’m told, the work of one Sergei Larenkov, and they are wonderful. He’s reshot WW2-era photographs in the present day, from their original perspectives, and then faded the original in. Just look:

The effect is similar to those occasional freak photographs purported to capture ghosts on film.

I prefer to imagine a WW2-era photographer developing his or her prints, and discovering strange colour images bleeding in around the edges of their shots.

Polar Nuclear Lighthouses

January 7th, 2009: Post #6901

Posted in: researchmaterial

This is quite amazing to me. Never heard of these before. The great northern coast of Russia is inside the Arctic Circle, and the shoreline is hundreds of miles from civilization almost the whole way along. Lighthouses were required for the coast, because it’s a handy passage but it spends a hundred days of the year in near-permanent night. The problems were that they’d be miles from anywhere, and couldn’t realistically be supplied or crewed.

So the Russians erected autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouses. Which worked great, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, they probably would have been fine after that, if people hadn’t looted them for copper and anything else that looked like it wasn’t nailed down too hard. Including, apparently, reactor shielding.

So many of these great polar nuclear lighthouses are now radioactive dead zones. I would tend to doubt that the one in this fantastic series of pictures on EnglishRussia is one of them. But, honestly, you never know, abandoned-site explorers can be a little on the mental side. Anyway. Go and look.

Photo's by Imran Schah

This is actually a re-post from Warren Ellis, but I too found it incredibly interesting so I just wanted to share.

Imran Schah is a well traveled trekker and photographer with a keen eye for beauty. Check it out.

Imran Schah's Images

Beautiful but tragic.

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Originally uploaded by warrenellis

Ahhh the irony!!!

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Military on Segway's! Are they on their way to a Starship Troopers Convention!!!?