Procrastination Vivisected
Posted on 12.24.05 by Widge @ 5:19 pm

Excellent article on procrastination. I feel better, anyway.

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The Art of Zdzislaw Beksinski
Posted on 11.13.05 by Widge @ 4:49 pm

Wow. Here's the MetaFilter post with links to his work. That is some creepy, haunting shit. I mean, look at this. That's the kind of stuff to give me nightmares. The cool nightmares where I have a steno pad and take notes.

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Cross Section of Underground NYC
Posted on 11.07.05 by Widge @ 1:30 am

More goodness for an unannounced project that I have on tap. Just putting it here so I'll remember to find it later.

Found via Gridskipper.

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Oh, Perfect. This is Just What I Needed.
Posted on 11.06.05 by Widge @ 11:56 pm

WWII Army Sea Forts. On stilts.

Found via Boing Boing.

And somebody's already caught it and asked WTF is up with this to which I must reply: patience. Patience.

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A Quick Placeholder, Followed By a Coma
Posted on 09.27.05 by Widge @ 3:09 am

Insomnia is a fucked up thing. Even when you want to sleep, know you really do need to sleep, when you've finally said, "Okay, look, fine, I surrender. I give in. White hanky in the air" it still just sits in the corner and broods, watching you.

I have to sneak up on sleep when I do sleep. I have to dislocate my hip wrestling with it.

Odds and ends. I'm re-reading Imajica. I hardly ever re-read books, simply because I have a pretty solid memory of the books that are worth re-reading and I just go back and access that as necessary.

However, I've picked the Barker back up because of the new one-volume edition with appendix and new illos (I'm such a sucker when it comes to bonus features) and also because I feel the need t0 plunge into something epic. Probably because I'm preparing my brain for the coming of Martin's fourth volume. Probably because Barker and Martin are the only two folks who have really just hit me with an epic that felt…well, epic.

King's Dark Tower series somehow doesn't fit because it seems far too personal an endeavor, and is the rock upon which King built his church. All roads lead to the Tower in King's work, and that just isn't the same. Not in my head, anyway. Tolkien was nice, yes, but it always felt like the really impressive thing that you walked into and looked around a bit, then left–you know, like St. Patrick's Cathedral.

So yes, I want to wade up to my eyeballs in a book and have it slap me around. Hence, Imajica.

Even more odds. The links for Mystics and Desolation over on my right are now Amazon links. Amazon owns Booksurge now, the Amazon prices are corrected and every one you buy helps my sales ranking.

Finally, there's a new LiveJournal, as well as three more Something Odds.

Oh, and I want to say something about writing rules. Not writing rules, mind you, but rules for writing. But not now. Later. This is just a reminder to myself. For now, I'm going to try this sleep bullshit again.

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The War for Media Supremacy Will Be Waged in the Streets
Posted on 07.04.05 by Widge @ 10:14 pm

John Rogers over in his Kung Fu Monkey blog poses an interesting concept of 4th Generation Media, as an insurgency that cannot be stopped and should focus on going around the creaking 3GM instead of taking the fight to them. I couldn't agree more.

At this stage of the game, I'd like to think of myself, in this extended metaphor at least, as Thenardier. You guys go get all the fighting done and I'll pick through the bodies for shiny things.

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Japanese buildings where nobody's ever home
Posted on 04.29.05 by Widge @ 6:11 pm

I don't know why I dig the hell out of pictures of abandoned buildings. But I do.

Found via Boing Boing.

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Peter Gric
Posted on 04.16.05 by Widge @ 6:51 pm

His work can be found here. Excellent and surreal, it reminds me a lot of a dead project I worked on where a number of alien artifacts were involved.

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Makes 'Red Star' Look Like A Kid's Clubhouse
Posted on 04.15.05 by Widge @ 8:37 pm

For future reference, Unrealised Moscow, a gallery of building projects that never happened.

Neat reference material for creating a totalitarian world where they go apeshit extoling their own virtues (read: wealth and power) in stone.

Found via Boing Boing.

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Look, Up in the Sky
Posted on 04.14.05 by Widge @ 1:06 am

These already play a role in DBM, but I just love this idea. Giant serene airships letting you download porn wirelessly from, as they say, an area the size of Texas. I love the future.

Found via Kurzweil AI.

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