New short story in Nature

August 26th, 2010 at 3:02 pm

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My short story Me Am Petri appears in this week’s issue of Nature.

Neat and Tidy

August 23rd, 2010 at 8:18 pm

My friend and cohort Roy Huteson Stewart posted a picture of his desk on facebook yesterday.

It is magnificent.

Roy Huteson Stewart's desk

Stephen McKenna – The Oldest God (1926)

August 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 pm

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This blurry fish seems to agree…

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Necrophilia by Jim Leon (1938-2002)

July 21st, 2010 at 11:05 am

Necrophilia by Jim Leon - Oz #36 (1971)

Necrophilia by Jim Leon, Oz #36 (1971). Via John Coulthart.

Online library of Oz magazines here.

Holga 135BC Mod

July 15th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

More idiot insurance than a mod, really.  But having only ever owned digital cameras, it had to be done.

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Nature (again) (again)

July 15th, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Sold another story to Nature yesterday.

Me Am Petri should appear in a couple of months or so, I reckon.

Dolphin House

June 8th, 2010 at 3:53 pm

Dolphin House

New story in Supernatural Tales

May 3rd, 2010 at 4:59 pm

Got my comp copies of Supernatural Tales issue 17 last week. Includes my short story, 13 Nassau Street.

Looks great. Very nice cover by Stephen J. Clarke. Lots of good stories in there too.

Available here.

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Bird shit everywhere

April 24th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Birds

Holga 135BC + Ilford HP5 400 film.

Mullaghcleevaun – East Top

February 19th, 2010 at 5:53 pm

At the bottom…

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About halfway up…

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Nearing the top…

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The summit (795 meters)…

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Hungover Tree

February 15th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Hungover Tree

Zoso – Jimmy Page – the jumper proves it.

February 11th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Research on Crowley: Wandering The Waste had me scrolling through a copy of Fred Gettings’ Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils for interesting squiggles which Roy Huteson Stewart might be able to incorporate into the backgrounds and page layouts of the comic. And would you look at what I found on page 201, given as Jerome Cardan’s 1557 sigil for the planet Saturn.

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Looks familiar.

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Further net-based mooching about led me to this excellent article about the symbol, and Jimmy’s use of it.

First images from a Holga 135BC

January 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 am

I bought a Holga 135BC on ebay for $30 including shipping from Hong Kong. I loaded it up with 400 speed colour film and played around with it last week, with mixed results.

First lesson I learned is that even if it’s a clear and sunny winter’s day in Ireland, set the aperture to Cloudy, not to Sunny. It seems that an Irishman’s concept of what a sunny day is may not be the same as someone from fairer climes. A lot of shots were underexposed to the point of being what even the most amateur photographer like myself would call “complete fucking shit.”

Managed to salvage a couple. All hinges should be designed like this one.

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Iveagu Gardens

This was taken using the Bulb setting, shutter held open for about two/three seconds. Looks like it might prove to be an intersting option to have.

Streak

These were taken on an overcast day with the aperture set to Cloudy.

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Sea

Great camera; cheap, extremely light, immense fun to use, and the fact that you look like a leering sex-pest while wielding it in the park can only add to it’s appeal.

A quick look at Crowley

January 7th, 2010 at 5:00 pm

Roy Huteson Stewart‘s pages are starting to come in thick and fast as he works on Crowley: Wandering The Waste, our collaboration for Insomnia. Here’s a couple of unlettered panels from the prologue…

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I’m really enjoying working with Roy, he’s bringing plenty of strange and brilliant ideas to the project that I would never have thought of.  Can’t really ask for much more than that.  He’s also doing a great job capturing the frailty of Crowley in old age.

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I don’t know who took the above photographs, possibly Kenneth Grant (one of them does appear in Remembering Aleister Crowley, Grant’s very interesting memoir of his friendship with AC).  Taken in the garden at Netherwood, Hastings. Probably in or around 1945, which would make Crowley approximately 70 years old.

The book is looking like it will end up containing about 90 pages of actual comic, plus 30 or so pages of notes at the back. There may be a gallery at the back too, showing other artists interpretations of AC.

Out towards the end of the year, with any luck.

Why fucking not…

November 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Geezer’s curly, white lead is an especially nice touch.


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