JOSS WHEDON: I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that’s been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it’s been in development.
NEIL GAIMAN: Yes. It really is this thing of executives loving the smell of their own urine and urinating on things. And then more execs come in, and they urinate. And then the next round. By the end, they have this thing which just smells like pee, and nobody likes it.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1109313,00.html#ixzz2RXrXd8TI
— http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1109313,00.html#ixzz2RXrXd8TIThe (oddly enough somewhat controversial) speech I gave about digital publishing to the Digital Minds Conference in London last week.
If you think I look sleepy or jetlagged, you are right…
In which Bryan Talbot, Mark Buckingham, Steve Craddock and I protested, in comics, something that Margaret Thatcher’s government did.
Clause (later Section) 28 is, I am glad to say, dead.
First published in AARGH! (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia!).
There’s an original poem by me at http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/04/house-neil-gaiman
to help celebrate National Poetry Month.
The subterranean environs of London Below are brought to life in a new clip from the Radio 4/4 Extra adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Benedict Cumberbatch – as the enigmatic angel, Islington – half sings, half whispers some haunting verses as he stalks the echoing confines of his underground domain.
For an extra-eerie effect, open this page in two (or more) windows and start the clip playing for a second time, say 15/20 seconds after the first one has started (the more windows you open, the weirder it gets…)
The Radio Times website, ladies and gentlemen….
Watch this video. It’s Amanda, giving her talk at TED two days ago. It’s about music and connection and being willing to ask for help…
It got a standing ovation, and you’ll see why.
The Second Stage of the BlackBerry project is now live. The 12 stories I wrote, one for each month, based on tweet-suggestions,are up and available to read online or for download.
I’m waiting for them to put up the instructions on how you can make art to accompany the stories… In the meantime, here’s a short video of the day between the tweets going out and the stories being written…