“The Bad One” by Siggeir Hafsteinsson.
On the sci fi art thread, I definitely read this book metioned on the awesome Ski-ffy blog: “Captain Bloodaxe - the terror of these seas - is known to give no quarter.”
I think one of the founders of like Phrack or 2600 took his name from this book.
This is the only game/rpg book I’ve read.
A portrait of the Madonna made of 2925 dice by Robert Hodgin:
Create your own by following these steps:
- Step 1: Get drunk on martinis and buy a shit-load of dice from Amazon.
- Step 2: Wait one week. Arrival!
- Step 3: Think of an image you don’t mind spending several hours immortalizing.
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To fund his art, Serra started a furniture-removals business, Low-Rate Movers, and employed most of his struggling friends. For a while Philip Glass worked as his assistant, helping him install shows and lug furniture up and down the steps of brownstones.
—Guardian Interview with Richard Serra
The Key to People Havens
The New York Times barks up the people haven tree this weekend with the arrival of the Fall edition of Key, their seasonal real estate/home magazine.
Cave living in southern Spain:
“People thought I was mad,” says Jim Butler, a retired English chauffeur, who has lived in his three-bedroom, one-bath cave in the Spanish province of Granada for around 18 months. “But I tell them, try a cave. It’s fantastic.”
“Although it’s a luxurious kind of nature. It isn’t camping.”
Will West, the C.E.O. of Control4 and the father of six children, uses his own home-automation system for everything from monitoring the comings and goings of his 18-year-old son (he can program the security system to e-mail or text him with the time his son enters the house at night) to listening to three kinds of music in his bathroom at once (he has 3 zones of audio in his bathroom and 21 zones in other parts of the house).
And an artist collective inhabiting a beach house.
Plus a lovely front cover by Andy Gilmore.
Skeptical? Well, these aren’t your dank, caveman-movie grottoes. They’re dry and whitewashed clean, and they have windows and all the modern conveniences: electricity, running water, telephone, cable and parking.
cf
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
andy gilmore’s page reminds me of jahmad’s friend tauba (remember from that one swimming hole trip where I was driving? she kept freaking out that i was going to kill us all?)
http://www.taubaauerbach.com/works.july27.2008.html
we should implement autolinking for comments, eh?
cf jennifer daniel. (and check that awesome domain name.)
I see your jennifer daniel and raise you a E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
this dudes whole site is pretty cool, esp. the nirvana part.
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