Filed under: Matt Gagnon
In an outstanding display of geek craftsmanship, this dude converted his basic Moleskine notebook into an 80GB hard drive. A nice little marriage of old fashioned resources and modern tech, no?
Oh, and lest you think about discarding those cut out pages, consider first recycling that precious paper into a Hipster PDA. What’s a Hipser PDA, you ask? Well, it’s essentially a stack of paper, note cards — whatever — simply clipped together. An effective and subtle “fuck you” to your close-but-wealthy friends.
[Link via Boing Boing, naturally.]
Filed under: Matt Gagnon
This is an excerpt from an old interview with Warren Ellis in a book entitled Writers on Comics Scriptwriting. I’m guessing it’s from around 2000, judging by the comics he was working on at the time. I find this specific piece interesting and think it’s still accurate and profound.
Your work is, by and large, deeply political. Do you think comics, as a medium, make for a good political soapbox?
“Well, it’s one of the last mediums you can get on a soapbox in. It’s one of the last media to not have had all the interesting quirks and creases ironed out of it by corporate control and the demands of a mass audience, because the mass audience doesn’t want to hear about politics. A mass audience wants its football and its tits. This is one of the bonuses, if you like, of working in comics. We address a relatively small and relatively literate audience. We’re not addressing the culture as a whole, so we get to do things like be on a soapbox or write our comics on drugs and be quite open about it. It’s nothing you could do with television or film any more.”
– Warren Ellis
