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where the punk went…

Filed under: music, the future, Internet — Brendan @ 11:02 pm

It put on a suit and … I was going to say got a fucking job, but that’s not what happened, is it?

I think the world needs more things like this happening right now. Shit’s been stagnant for a while. We need someone to save the world again. I’ll go put on a slip, start building instruments out of broken things!

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The future comes traipsing

Filed under: sci-fi, the future, outside world — Brendan @ 12:46 am

You remember how robots used to be terrifying, powerful automatons that could do everything we couldn’t and kept coming back in time to kill some whiny kid we all wished was dead after a few minutes anyway? Then, at some point in the 90’s they got friendly, and we got things like Asimo, and Ai-bo, and even when they were trying to kill us, it looked like Steve Jobs had designed them specifically to be really bad at killing people. Well, it’s time to be afraid of robots again. Really afraid.

That said, if one of these fuckers could run at a decent clip and it didn’t sound like someone trying to cut through a mobile home with a chainsaw, I would totally ride it. I would ride it, while wearing an unlikely hat.

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the robot eyes

Filed under: sci-fi, the future, Pictures, A thought — Brendan @ 11:00 pm

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Originally uploaded by Jahsonic

I was thinking about it today, and I think that there might be some disconnect in my brain. Women (okay, not just women, sometimes I do too) wear eye makeup to accentuate their eyes, make them pop. For some reason, I can’t see peoples’ eyes if they’re wearing eye makeup. I only see the makeup and the eyes vanish. The overly made up person stops being a person to me, and might as well be a robot.

I was mulling this phenomenon over when I realized that it could be due to early exposure to things like this (Blade Runner is the second movie that I can remember seeing, A New Hope is the first). I’m not sure if I should blame my parents or the eighties. It’s easier to get my parents to act guilty.

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Interactive fiction

Filed under: writing, the future, A thought, Interactive fiction — Brendan @ 3:13 pm

I keep forgetting about and coming back to interactive fiction. Well, I never really forget about it, since it’s how I learned to read, and when i was smaller I wrote thousands and thousands of words for various AGT games. Hell, when I’ve got a little bit of free time I might write some now. We’ll see about that.

Anyway, the main point of all of this, I’ve been playing this, and it’s the bee’s knees. I owe Shamus for the link, I suppose.

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Plodding along…

Filed under: comics, writing, the future — Brendan @ 10:13 pm

Just another work update, I guess. I’m through having nervous breakdowns because I need a smoke, I’m in the pacing back and forth because I can’t concentrate stage. I’m almost completely uninterested in working on Hallowed right now, which frequently happens when I’m nearly finished with something. Instead I’ve been stoking new life into old projects, and pacing around a novel that I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

Conclusions? A story I posted here a while back has potential, so it’s been taken down, and the novel’s going to be a real thing. I’m collaborating with my long time friend Dave on the novel. I’ll post some kind of a link for him when I convince him that it’s time to stop living in the early nineties and he should start finding time for things like email. I’ll slap up a piece of the novel here and there to keep you interested.

Also, I added a link to Facebook over there, because I’ve got this macabre fascination with showing the world how few friends I have.

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Working…

Filed under: cautionary tale, writing, the future, crazy guy, disorganized mess — Brendan @ 12:18 am

Let’s see, I’m tired as all get out, so I’ll bullet point this:

Hallowed: Slowly nearing completion.

A Deeper Shade of Gone: I’ve got some artists lined up, and I’m considering hiring someone to stab Shamus if he doesn’t show me some more pages soon. I’ve even started a couple of new scripts, so there should be lots of content soon (in theory).

The Martyr: Tentative title of an upcoming collaboration with an associate from my past. It will probably be a while, but I’ll leak a page here and there. Expect a comic consisting almost entirely of people screaming at each other and getting kicked in the face.

Novel: As yet un-named, and kind of unfocused; you’ll hear more in the future!

So very tired.

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Work update: I am so excited

Filed under: comics, writing, the future, crazy guy, disorganized mess — Brendan @ 6:59 pm

Well, I just scratched the last few words of the third issue of Hallowed into my notebook which means that I have completed the first draft of the entire series! All that remains is typing it in, editing everything, finding an artist, schmoozing editors, poisoning/stabbing competition, wrestling a bear, getting the artist to do something, writing a pitch, choosing cover art… Oh God.

I’ll leak some pages of script later to build anticipation.

Anyway, I also have a pile of artists lined up for Gone and my laptop is threatening to die at any moment. More news later.

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Audience participation encouraged

Filed under: sci-fi, writing, the future — Brendan @ 11:38 am

So, I keep talking about the new fiction project. Here’s what it is:

A news blog, set in a post-apocalyptic-oid future, documenting the crumbling of society. Creative types of any medium will write stories, stage pictures and shoot video of what’s going on in this theoretical age of economic standstill, societal decay and environmental collapse.

Rather than setting up a relatively simple fictional world where one sits down, figures out what the main focus of the story is, and patches together the external details (the ones not central to the story that make it seem believable), we have several people, trying to think out as much of what’s going on in the world as possible. Then, within that world, we find the stories ourselves.

I’m not sure if that’s as coherant as I wanted it to be, whatever.

If you’re interested in this, and you’d like to contribute to any stage of it (the planning, or the actual implimentation), let us know. We’re open to anybody’s ideas, and any area or level of expertise would be appreciated.

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The big news

Filed under: sci-fi, writing, the future — Brendan @ 12:37 am

It’s why I’ve been quiet for the past few days. My gang of writers, creators and degenerates and I have been kicking around ideas about a massive collaboration project that will be such a goddamned mess that everybody will have to love it. It’s knd of a scifi-journalism thing. It’s awesome. I’ll post some more details later, when I’m less exhausted. I’ve put off the planning for tonight, though, so I can get down to the best part, the writing.

Dig it.

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Last day off

Filed under: site shit..., cautionary tale, sci-fi, writing, the future, crazy guy — Brendan @ 12:24 pm

So, I took a couple of days off for my birthday (yesterday), and I haven’t gotten as much done as I’d hoped. I’m not sweating it, though, as I’ve come up with some massively awesome ideas about fiction, specifically an exciting (to me, anyway) new way to go about the whole storytelling thing. I’ve got some potential collaborators in mind, so some people who read this should expect an email about it soon.

Some of you have noticed that the whole comment thing doesn’t really seem to be working. I don’t know what’s up with that. It will probably start working again at some point, we’ll see. The web-nymph is all over that shit. For now just email me if you want to say something.

Also, since the comments are boned I haven’t been able to add this to the comment to my doom and gloom end of the world post. Jeremy sent it to me, and it ties in with the whole social decay thing going on in New Orleans.

I had to use tinyURL, because the actual URL seems to be the only thing consistently making wordpress lose its shit…

That’s it for now, my head is buzzing with mad fictions.

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Brendan Peveril . net

September 22, 2008

where the punk went…

March 26, 2008

The future comes traipsing

October 2, 2007

the robot eyes

October 1, 2007

Interactive fiction

August 18, 2007

Plodding along…

July 17, 2007

Working…

June 19, 2007

Work update: I am so excited

February 23, 2007

Audience participation encouraged

February 16, 2007

The big news

February 12, 2007

Last day off

Artists

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