Fanzine - Sgnl01

Mon projet de fanzine se concrétise et je passe par myspace pour y arriver. Toutes personnes qui serait intéréssés par recevoir un exemplaire du fanzine que je mettrais en place peuvent s'ajouter a mes contacts sur cette page myspace.
Le but est de créer un réseau pour que je puisse estimer le nombre de personnes intéréssés, les gens qui voudraient collaborer et ensuite les tenir informé de l'avancé du projet.
Pour l'instant je pense faire quelques articles sur des groupes, essayer d'en contacter pour des interviews peut être, et faire des chroniques de bande dessiné. Pas d'idée encore du nombre de page mais de toute façon ceci n'est encore qu'un projet qui avance pas à pas.

Un article sur l'industrie de la musique et le RIAA

Why is the music industry dishing out free download?
Merci à Nicki
Réaction

Deux webcomics

Deux nouveaux webcomics a garder en mémoire. Un dessiné par Phil Foglio qui était auparavant, entre autre, un dessinateur d'illustration de carte Magic, et le webcomics de Sam & Max réalisé par leur créateur. Attention, il faut passer la souris sur chaque case pour avoir les bulles mais aussi pour voir quelques animations.

Zimbabwe - Vivre sous le regime de Mugabe

Living in Mugabe's Zimbabwe

I am buying bread at 6,000 Zimbabwean dollars ($0.34 at current black market exchange rate) for a loaf and two litres of cooking oil for 120,000 Zimbabwean dollars ($6.70).

I was only taking 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars ($28) home a month. But even that is no more. As of yesterday, I was laid off from my clerical job.

And now, because this is Zimbabwe, I know that I am not going to get another job.

[...]

My gran used to give me 50 Zimbabwean cents to go buy bread, butter and milk - all that for so little! It was easy to live well.

And when we were at junior school, five cents in your pocket could get you sweets to last the whole week. I tell you, finding a five cent piece on the pavement was like finding gold!

Now if you see a 1,000 Zimbabwean dollar note on the floor, you just keep walking. You don't stop. It is nothing - no-one will even pick it up.

[...]

Mugabe is already a hero and he always will be but there is nothing more for him to do. He must just step down.

When he was prime minister everything was fine.

But when his first wife, Sally, died, he started going the other way. That women loved our country - she did so much for us.

A lot has changed. And it all started then.

Now, our country is dead. I really want a better Zimbabwe.

Decibel - Fallen warriors of sXe

Fallen warriors of sXe
Première partie d'un article sur !e straight edge et les artistes qui furent sxe mais ont brisé leur serment au bout d'un moment. La semaine prochaine, la suite avec des personnes qui sont encore sxe aujourd'hui.

“At the time, I was already involved in a lot of what you might call DIY activities, and I felt like straight-edge was an extension of that,” he continues. “I just felt like there was a lot of apathy amongst my peers, and straight-edge was a reactionary move against that. Whether it was true or just a perceived thing on my end, I felt like drugs and drinking were connected to that apathy.”

Turner broke his edge six years later, at the age of 21. By that time, he had moved to Boston, started Isis and was finishing up art school. “I was true ’til 21, dude,” he laughs. “But I never drank—I just started smoking weed—so it didn’t really have anything to do with that age. It was more like, ‘OK, I’ve gotten what I need to out of this and I’m no longer in fear of falling into this drugged-out, pathetic state, so I’m gonna start smoking weed again.’”

Still, Turner feels that straight-edge was a positive influence on his life. “Aside from all the teenage dogma and wanting to belong and so forth, I do believe that straight-edge put me on a path that was ultimately beneficial to me,” he says. “It was part of what got me involved in the underground DIY culture, and instead of spending my time figuring out how to score drugs, I really did get more involved in the local scene and started up a distro—which eventually turned into the label—and I made contact with a lot of other like-minded individuals both within my area and outside of it. So I really do think it was a motivational force in my life. And you know, regardless of whether you endorse it or not, drinking and smoking are not good for your health. So the fact that I escaped that for a number of years was probably beneficial in that sense, too.”

[...]

Pelican guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec grew up in the Parisian suburbs, where there exists a considerably more relaxed attitude toward teenage (and even pre-teen) drinking than anywhere in the States. “I was always encouraged to drink beer or champagne at family functions—it was never banished or forbidden,” he explains. “Even in middle school, I’d get six-packs with my friends. Then I moved to South Korea when I was 11.

“Being in a new culture and being around people I couldn’t relate to, having to learn English and everything—all that was very conducive to drinking and doing a lot of drugs. My parents never really cared until everything else started to fall apart and I started doing really shitty in school. That was when I was around 15 or 16. And Korea was a really easy environment to get anything in. There were no restrictions, no drinking age, nothing—so I spent my life in bars with friends, even as early as 14 or 15. I was hanging out with GIs, prostitutes—just crazy, crazy shit. But to me it was normal because I didn’t have anything to compare it to.”

Then the shit hit the fan. “My sister, who is only a few years younger than me, started going to the same parties and that became a real problem for me—seeing her do the same things that I was doing didn’t make me feel comfortable at all,” he says. “One night, I wasn’t there, she passed out, and some people who I thought were friends of mine took advantage of her.

“She came home and wouldn’t name names, but I was enraged. I knew about straight-edge culture from some of the bands I had been listening to, so I just decided to embrace the complete opposite of what I’d been living—if only to show her that I could sever myself from that and to make a statement against what had happened. That was halfway through my senior year of high school, right before I came to the States for college.”

[...]

oth Scofield and Schleibaum would eventually break edge. Scofield managed to hold out for two years after his Cave In bandmates Steve Brodsky and Adam McGrath started drinking. “That was hard, because I was tied to the hip with those guys at that time in my life. We’d play a show and they’d be like, ‘OK, we’re going to the bar.’ I wanted to hang out with them, but I wouldn’t even go into bars at that point. So I’d just sit in the van while those guys had beers and shot the shit and had fun. I think about some of those tours we did, and I was just sitting in the van. It’s like, ‘C’mon, man—at least go hang out with your friends.’ Which I would do from time to time, but let’s face it, it’s not that cool to order Cokes at the bar.”

Scofield eventually drank his first beer at the age of 23. “It was a Coors Light tallboy from the fridge,” he recalls. “I was all by myself. I just got so tired of being… almost afraid, you know? I think one of the reasons I had never drank or smoked pot was because I was scared. I was afraid of what would happen. Eventually, I realized that it wasn’t that big of a deal to go to the bar with your friends, have a few drinks and a few laughs. It didn’t mean you were gonna turn into a crazy alcoholic.

Idée - Appel a suggestion

Je serais intéressé par un projet de fanzine version papier comprenant des articles sur les comics ou la bande dessiné en général et des interviews avec des artistes (musique, scénariste ou autre). L'idée serait de proposer :
Soit sur un format papier disponible dans des librairies, bibliothèque ou disquaire pour un prix de vente modique (type 2 euros, voir 1 euros).
Soit un forma téléchargeable sur un système de blog quelconque (Blogger ou livejournal) pour permettre aux personnes de lire les articles directement sur leur ordinateur ou de les imprimer aux quatres coins de la France (dans l'absolut).
Si vous avez des suggestions d'idées ou des objections a fournir, je suis prêt a les entendre. Tout demande de collaboration est accepté aussi mais je ne sais pas du tout si cette idée arrivera au bout de son chemin donc c'est a mettre en suspend pour le moment, mais pas a oublier.

Warren Ellis - Fanzine / Flyers

Here's an idea I float out there
every couple of years:

Years back, I stole a term from
Bruce Sterling, "ideological freeware"
-- this predated Creative Commons
-- and applied it to the notion of
web distribution of printed matter.
We were talking in terms of the
dearth of good writing about comics.
Simply put, one could create a small
magazine about comics and format
it for cheap copying in black and
white, and free it so anyone could
print off copies.  And then put it
in comics stores.  Viral distribution
from pixel to print.  SAVANT was
the one that took up the entire idea,
and the first twenty or so numbers
of that were fireworks.

I'm talking specifically about web-
to-print here, rather than the mags
where the PDF was the end result,
not the intermediate form.

What occurred to me after that,
that I don't think anyone picked up,
was the broadside format.  The
single sheet.  The broadside has a
centuries-long history as a device
for disseminating news and ideas.

I mean, flyers go up on the web to
be printed off, sure.  But it's not
quite the same thing.  Getting an
idea, or a piece of writing, on a
single sheet and saying, yes, print
this off, copy it and distribute it
wherever you like -- that'd be
interesting.

In web terms, the costs are tiny --
host the image on a free hosting
site if you're worried about the
bandwidth hit.  Use Livejournal or
Blogger for the whole thing.

Hell, I might even do it myself one

Warren Ellis
of these days...

Terence McKenna - Citation

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

-- Terence McKenna

Un cimetierre sur Seconde Life

Warren Ellis - the Island of lost souls

“It’s the first thing like it I have seen in SL… an entire sim dedicated as a cemetery. It’s a strange virtual spirituality there, I guess… a friend of mine that departed in real life has her grave there. For me, it was nice, because she lived on other side of the world, and this was the only way for me to create something for her.”

Grant Morrison devient scénariste de film

Grant Morrison (Arkham Asylum, the Invisibles, Superman All Star ...) scénarisera l'adaptation au cinéma du jeux vidéo Area 51. Le jeux ne me dit rien mais la zone 51 est le nom d'une mythique base de l'armée americaine censé contenir des informations sur les extra terrestres, comme des ovnis ou des cadavres de petit gris retrouvé sur le site de Roswell.

Le monde du traffic d'enfant au Philippines

Chairmans reveals seedy world of trafficking
Un interview exclusif de la BBC avec un trafiquant d'enfant aux Philippines.

Takashi Miike - Sukiyaki western

Trailer de Django
Takashi Miike adapte pour le Japon un classique du Western : Django, le cowboy qui traine son cerceuil. Bientot sortie au Japon.

Un scientifique accuse le gouvernement americain de modifier ses recherches pour des fins politiques

Scientist accuses White House of nazi tactics

James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, took particular issue with the administration's rule that a government information officer listen in on his interviews with reporters and its refusal to allow him to be interviewed by National Public Radio.

[...]

"I am concerned that many scientists are increasingly engaging in political advocacy and that some issues of science have become increasingly partisan as some politicians sense that there is a political gain to be found on issues like stem cells, teaching evolution and climate change," Issa said.

Hansen said the Bush administration was not the first in U.S. history to practice information management over government scientists, but it has been the most vigorous. He deplored a "politicization of science."

[...]

Cooney was asked about changing "will" to "may" in prepared testimony describing the impact of human activity--particularly the burning of oil and coal--on the Earth's temperature. He said his edits were based not on political views but a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences.

Une famille entière dédiée aux marches anti homosexuelles

The most hated family in America

The Phelps family pickets mourners across the country, to mark what it describes as God's revenge on the US for tolerating homosexuality.

Their actions are in the name of the Westboro Baptist Church, which numbers 71 and is headed by "Gramps", preacher Fred Phelps. The church, which is based in Topeka, Kansas, mostly comprises his extended family.

[...]

They're well known because of these pickets which they've been doing for at least 15 years now. The pickets weren't always of soldiers' funerals, but it got more extreme as it went on. Originally it started as pickets of places where gay people congregated - a local park becoming a cruising area which they objected to, and then when Aids came along they said it was punishment for homosexuality and they began picketing Gay Pride parades and marches and also then the funerals of people who died of Aids. And they didn't originally use offensive words like "fag". They would say "homosexuality", but then it just escalated.

[...]

They go to school; you can have normal conversations with these people. They're intelligent, high achieving, have good jobs, and they're kind, for the most part, when they're not on pickets. They're easy to communicate with and deal with too. It's just this one area - their pickets.

[...]

I think that the pastor is not a very nice person. I think he's an angry person who's twisted the Bible and picked and chosen verses that support his anger, that sort of justify his anger, and he's instilled that in his children and they've passed it on to their children. Although the second and third generation are by and large quite nice people from what I saw, they still live under the influence of their Gramps.

Une camera a l'épaule pour agir a distance sur des appareils

Shoulder worn camera acts a third eye

The system can recognise when the wearer is pointing with a finger, grasping an object or resting their hands on a surface.

Pointing can direct the camera towards a target. Or it can be used to overlay virtual objects on a video picture. This video shows virtual objects being generated and positioned with different hand gestures.

"If you are going to use wearable computers, you cannot use a computer and mouse," Mayol Cuevas says. Instead, users may one day assemble their own "virtual workspace" around them using a wearable computer and a head-mounted display, he suggests.

"A person's hands are always there to see," he told New Scientist. "I want to have the system use that to tell if you are, say, cooking or eating." This information could warn a computer to reroute phone calls to avoid interruptions, or cause it to bring up information on a computer screen or head-mounted display related to the task in hand.

Des morçeaux de victimes du 11 septembre mélangés aux gravas utilisés pour les routes

9/11 remains possibly used on road

Eric Beck, a construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the borough of Staten Island, where the rubble was taken after the Twin Towers fell, said in his affidavit that the process of sifting through the debris was rushed.

Beck said he saw sanitation workers removing small pieces of debris containing possible bone fragments and loading them "onto tractors, and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts."

Des moutons dotés d'organes humains pour la transplantation

Now scientist creates a sheep that's 15% human

Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.

[...]

He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.

The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.

[...]

But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race.

Dr Patrick Dixon, an international lecturer on biological trends, warned: "Many silent viruses could create a biological nightmare in humans. Mutant animal viruses are a real threat, as we have seen with HIV.

William Blake - Citation

"Sans contradictions, il n'est pas de progression"
William Blake
extrait de "Vers une écologie de l'esprit" de Gregory Bateson (p.325)

Grant Morrison - Interview

Morrison à Pop Image
Je me souviens avoir lut cet interview il y a un an ou deux et l'avoir beaucoup apprecié bien que je ne comprenais pas tout les concepts. Le temps est venu de s'y remettre et de voir la différence.

Comic Book - Innocent ?

Superdickery
Comment rire avec les pires couvertures de comics au monde et la preuve ultime que Superman est un viel enfoiré.