2009-03-05 23:02
Three days left to listen to the first episode of BBC Radio 7’s radio adaptation of The Drowned World. Three more eps to go.
This first installment begins with a snippet from Can&rsquo&hell…Read More
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2009-03-05 07:20
All photography by Simon Sellars.
Bizarrely, it has been almost a year since I posted the first part of this photo essay. There are so many loose ends dangling from this site, frayed and… Read More
2009-01-31 06:19
Great find from Pedro, who sent me a link to a Brazilian review of Kingdom Come — in the form of a comic strip!
Here is the rest of the strip.
And Pedro has kindly translated the text… Read More
2009-01-29 14:00
It seems strange that in the SF & fantasy component of the Guardian’s ‘1000 novels everyone must read’ feature, Ballard is referenced extensively…
JG Ballard, th… Read More
2009-01-29 00:46
At Dan Hill’s always-impressive City of Sound, a recent post returns to Dan’s interest in Ballard’s Drowned World, positioning it as the middle panel of a triptych of nove… Read More
2009-01-27 00:28
Via structures:
The first question from journalist Martin Conrads about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put [Bill] Drummond immediately on the defensive (”I don’… Read More
2009-01-22 00:25
I thought I’d share a lovely comment from Vicky, a reader of my Shepperton photo essay (which reminds me: I’m still to post the second part. I hope to do that very soon, even if… Read More
2009-01-19 11:36
Over on the forum, Gareth has posted an update on the competition held by the Times to design the cover for a limited edition of Crash. I thought I’d bring the info to the front of the… Read More
2009-01-11 02:08
by Mike Holliday
Ballard’s oeuvre has many highlights: the 1960s ‘disaster trilogy’ of novels, Crash, Empire of the Sun, and short stories such as ‘The Voices of Tim… Read More
2009-01-03 04:33
Martin Pichlmair has written an interesting article for Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, ‘Grand Theft Auto IV considered as an Atrocity Exhibition’, that draws paral… Read More
2008-12-24 06:41
ABOVE: ‘London after the Rain’, by Ben Olszyna-Marzys. A film produced for Nic Clear’s Unit 15 course, ‘Crash: Architectures of the Near Future’.
In recognit… Read More
2008-12-18 09:04
I don’t like to get personal on this website. However, there is something I need to acknowledge, because it involves on a significant level the readers of this site and its contributor… Read More
2008-12-15 13:06
ABOVE: Bizarre footage of the Philip K Dick android, whose head was unbelievably left in the overhead bin on an airplane, never to be found again.
If alive this day, he’d be 80 &mdash&helli…Read More
2008-12-15 08:54
This is a bizarre match up: Mike Skinner of the Streets in conversation with the philosopher John Gray:
It seemed a good idea to put the pop star and the professor together, and so they met… Read More
2008-12-15 06:56
I’m somewhat flattered. Diane Johnson, novelist and co-writer of the script to Kubrick’s The Shining, references ballardian.com in a review of Miracles of Life:
“Ballard&r&helli…Read More
2008-12-12 12:58
‘Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard)’, screening at Autopsy of the New Millennium, Barcelona. Photos: Simon Sellars.
For you, I have unearthed a trove of information about &lsqu&hellip…Read More
2008-12-12 02:08
He turned his attention to me, tapping the bundle of handouts in his grip.
‘Get all the paper you can, Ballard. Some of the stuff they give away — “Mechanisms of Occupant E… Read More
2008-12-12 02:08
He turned his attention to me, tapping the bundle of handouts in his grip.
‘Get all the paper you can, Ballard. Some of the stuff they give away — “Mechanisms of Occupant E… Read More
2008-12-12 00:19
Exciting announcement of a new theme park in Dubai based on Ballard’s work:
A new theme park is coming soon to Dubai. Named The Ultimate City, its theme will be the the world ref… Read More
2008-12-11 12:10
Solaris (last scene) (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
‘”We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back… Read More
2008-12-11 08:29
LEFT: Joanne McNeil.
Recently, I was seriously puzzled by an attack from an anonymous (of course) ‘academic’ (female) on another forum that branded the contents of this site as … Read More
2008-12-11 05:09
ABOVE: Granny takes a trip… underground.
ABOVE: London Fields Lido, by Gigi Cifali.
A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future.
As BLDGBLOG w… Read More
2008-12-11 04:22
LEFT: Burroughs in 1963: ‘particularly spectral and menacing: a fitting mug shot for a literary outlaw’ (image via Reality Studio). RIGHT: Moorcock, from around the same era (im… Read More
2008-12-05 03:57
Further to Mike Moorcock, Frendz and Hawkwind all turning up in Mike Bonsall’s brilliant excavation of Ballard’s neural motorway, and then the passing away of Jim Cawthorn, let… Read More
2008-12-05 03:57
Further to Mike Moorcock, Frendz and Hawkwind all turning up in Mike Bonsall’s brilliant excavation of Ballard’s neural motorway, and then the passing away of Jim Cawthorn, let… Read More
2008-12-04 02:31
Cover scan via Moorcock’s Miscellany.
David Pringle reports that the fantasy and SF illustrator, James Cawthorn, has died. Cawthorn was a fixture of the New Worlds era, and had a stro… Read More
2008-12-02 13:04
by MIKE BONSALL
The Westway from a spot near Little Venice, west London. Photo: Simon Crubellier.
‘J.G. Ballard, the visionary creator of drowned worlds, Vermillion Sands, and now at… Read More
2008-11-26 09:05
Illustrations by Mike Saenz for two Ballard stories in Semiotext(e) SF: ‘Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty’ and ‘Report on an Unidentified Space Station’… Read More
2008-11-24 02:36
‘Like the suspended state of duty-free malls, a zone at once inside and yet outside the legal parameters of the country it exists in, Vaughan and [Crash’s narrator] Ballard expe… Read More
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