• ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: Artzybasheff's Machinalia

    ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: Artzybasheff’s Machinalia: “In his introduction to the section titled ‘Machinalia’ in his book As I See, Boris Artzybasheff says, ‘I am thrilled by machinery’s force, precision and willingness to work at any task, no matter how arduous or monotonous it may be. I would rather watch a thousand ton…

  • Life Baton

    Passed from Chiarina Four jobs I’ve had: Waiter/barman/kitchen porter, MP’s dogsbody, wine vendor, games writer.Four places I’ve lived: Didsbury, Bath Spa, Oxford, London; in fact, that’s your lot. Four places I’d like to be right now: Hmph; a boat on a lake, a snowed-in cottage with a roaring stove, an ancient library packed with bestiaries…

  • L:fe Update

    Something seems to have happened. Either I’m going through a extreme-pheromone phase, the female population of the world has gone mad in the run-up to Valentine’s day, or my waking dreams have become more vivid. I seem to have become popular with the extra-geners for a period of two weeks (I even pulled/was pulled using…

  • Atomic Blast Photos

    Atomic Blast Photos “Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast – the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.”

  • The Man Who Couldn't Blog: Bridge

    The Man Who Couldn’t Blog: Bridge: “And I told her it was cool, that all my friends, they had blogs, too. Everyone my age had a blog. And she said that thing—you know what I mean. She said that thing moms are supposed to say. She said, ‘Well, if everyone your age jumped off a…’…