SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 26 – Universal Time Crack

SPEKTRMODULE 26  Universal Time Crack 46 minutes and 34 seconds

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

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1. logotone

2.  “body should” -  Wrugs    (EP: Braided Gas)

3.  “Brompton Road” -  Dollboy     (album:  Ghost Stations)

4.  “The Letter (Part Two)” -  Liberez       (album: The Letter)

5.  “Cloud Prayer” -  Iasos    (album:  Celestial Soul Portrait)

6.  “Come Wander With Me” -  SLEEP ? OVER     (album:   Dark As Night 2E c32)

7.  “Celestial King for a Year (Pt. 2) -   Richard Moult     (album:   Celestial King for a Year)

8.  “Angel Tech” – The Grid    (album: Bliss)

9.  “Slambient Desire” – Sonic Youth    (album: Demonlover)

10.  “Reed Sodger “ – Clive Powell w/Sean Breadin (album:  John Barleycorn Reborn)

11.  “Lilyguilding” -  Kurt Ralske    (album:  Good Night Music To Sleep By)

12.  “60 to 0” -  Baikonour     (album:   Fork Ends)

13.  “Don’t Get Any Closer” -  Eluvium     (album:   Nightmare Ending)

14.  logotone

All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.

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SCATTERLANDS will resume at scatterlands.com in a few weeks.

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You can find me on Twitter as @warrenellis and Jason as @theJasonHoward.

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Jason and I are also talking about another project together.

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There will also be a paid digital collection of the first fifty panels, and an eventual print edition, all organised by the same publisher.

Heathrow Express Celebrates 15th Birthday with giant train shaped cake

While the London Underground is celebrating its 150th anniversary, the Heathrow Express celebrated its 15th birthday with the aid of some cake.  A large train sized cake.  Coming in at 4 metres long, 1.5 x 4m x 2m and taking over 30 hours to install it was on display at Paddington station today.

A team of 15 bakers used  industrial cake mixers, copper moulds, blowtorches and spirit levels to engineer the cake in-situ at the station. It's made of sponge, fondant icing and chocolate.

Keith Greenfield, Managing Director of Heathrow Express said: “Building an enormous carriage-shaped cake with its flavours inspired by the Heathrow Express journey felt like a fitting way to celebrate our 15 years of service. We hope that passengers are able to enjoy a slice as they pass through on their way to or from the airport.”

Come on TfL now it's your turn to make a replica Tube train cake for your anniversary celebrations.  

Photos by Gary Morrisroe 

We had a giant cake Tube map a few years ago for National Baking Week and perhaps the cake could be installed at Swiss Roll Cottage station, or maybe Victoria sponge Tube or even Charing Hot Cross Bun station.

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Where To Find Me

Last one of these I’ll do for some while.

I also have presences on Tumblr, Facebook (a Page) and G+, but those are just coverage and for occasional play.  The Snapchat account is also just me farting around: I’ve been writing about apps and code in that general space lately, which is why I have it.  Also also, I have WhatsApp, for friends only.

And that’s that.  After Friday, there won’t be daily posts here for some time, so I thought I’d get this in now, just for old time’s sake.

(And to forestall the usual questions: the photo was glitched with the Decim8 app, and the text was added with the Over app, both iOS in this instance.)

 

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The tranche of panels after this will be serialised in a different place.  It will be mentioned here.

SPEKTRMODULE: Podcast 25 – That Awful Bloom

SPEKTRMODULE 25    That Awful Bloom      53 minutes and 19 seconds

 

 

If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.

Direct mp3 link.  Or press Play on the player.  iTunes link.

@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com / t-shirt? mug?

Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.

#SPEKTRMODULE

1. logotone

2.  “The Mystery Sonatas, The Five Glorious Mysteries, 15. The Coronation of the Virgin: Passacaglia” -  John Holloway/Davitt Moroney/Tragicomedia    (album: Biber – The Mystery Sonatas)

2.  “The New World” -  Ian Hawgood & Aaron Martin   (album: Wolven (A Modern Interpretation) )      

3.  “Good Luck to You Sailor (Slight Return)” – Josh Mason    (album: Timecode Beach)

4.  “Coda, For The End Of Days” – Oathless     (album: Peripheral: Music For An Imaginary Film)

5.  “Singularity” -  High Wolf    (album:  Kairos: Chronos)

6.  “Wat Tyler” -   Petrels    (album:  Wat Tyler)

7.  logotone

All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com.

Father's Day Gadgets ideal for any Dad

There are all kinds of Dads and Dads like all kinds of things, but these days it's tough to find one who doesn't like gadgets. So here are a few ideas to consider when selecting just the right gift for your perfect Dad, ranging from simple and nifty to right off-the charts.

Lego Tube Maps - 150th London Underground Birthday Celebrations

Fans of Lego rejoice. To mark the London Underground's 150th anniversary, five the Tube maps through the years have been created entirely out of Lego.

Each map is made from 1,000 Lego bricks and they aim to show how the Tube map has evolved from 1927 through to a first look as to what it could look like by 2020.

The maps, can be seen at Kings Cross St. Pancras (for the 2020 map), South Kensington (1927 map), Piccadilly Circus (1933 - Harry Beck's original map), Green Park (1968 map)  and Stratford (2013 map) Tube stations this summer, before moving onto permanent homes at London Transport Museum.

Photo by Ben Sutherland

They've  certainly come on a long way from the interpretation of the Lego Tube Map at Legoland Windsor (pictured above) and the Lego maps made by Duncan Titchmarsh in 2007



Mike Ashworth, Design and Heritage Manager at London Underground, said: 'LEGO have done a wonderful job of recreating our internationally recognized Tube map. 

'I'm sure our customers of all ages and backgrounds will enjoy looking at the five different LEGO maps that show the history and development of the Underground. 

 'The 2020 map at King's Cross St. Pancras shows the new stations and rail links we want to deliver - we hope this fun LEGO map will inspire the young engineers of the future to help deliver our vision.'

You can pick up a leaflet at the stations where the Lego maps are displayed with  details on how to build your own London Underground logo or 'roundel' out of Lego bricks.

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Robb Stark from Game of Thrones on the Tube

SPOILER ALERT for Game of Thrones fans .... don't read this is you haven't watched the latest episode of the show .... or have somehow managed to survive several days on the internet without knowing what has happened.




What happens to kings who've just been murdered?  Apparently they end up on the Bakerloo Line.  Robb Stark or rather the actor who plays him, Richard Madden was spotted on the London Underground recently, looking rather pensive.  Stark very recently met a grisly end in a massacre on Game of Thrones much to the shock of many viewers. 

Photo by @DannyBlahBlah

As it looks as though @DannyBlahBlah took this when the weather was a tad more inclement than it is now, one can only assume it was before his very recent demise was broadcast. 

All Robb aka The King of the North needed was for some Tube "joker" to say "Cheer up mate it might never happen" and then he could have turned around and said, "It already has, I've just been brutally murdered".

Dr Who's Alex Kingston spotted by me on the Piccadilly Line

Let us know if you've spotted any other bored looking actors who play sci fi or fantasy characters on the Tube as there seems to be a growing "club" of them.

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