May 2013
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April 2013
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February 2013
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Francis Ford Coppola likes my script →
EXT. - PAVILLION - DAY
A woman’s hands use tweezers to skillfully assemble a tiny sandwich. The tiny sandwich is placed in a mousetrap. The trap is placed in a high-priced coffin containing the body of a man in his 60s. The lid of the coffin is closed, and the coffin is lifted by pallbearers.
ANTON
His favorite sandwich.
— An excerpt from the beginning of Ratcatcher, a top 10 finalist in...
January 2013
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The Most Art
January 26, I’m conducting a workshop at the ICA Boston, and you can participate even if you’re not there. All you need is a camera. Here’s what you have to do.
First, take a picture of yourself as yourself - a portrait. Give a little bit of thought to this. How do you look when you’re yourself? How do you stand? What kind of expression do you make? Are you holding...
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November 2012
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A Robot Walks Into A Bar. . . →
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arcfinity:
“A Robot Walks Into A Bar and Says…” wins our third Arc/Tomorrow Project short story competition. It is a hard story to precis: a tale of robot love, teledildonic sex, Turing tests and the maddening wobbliness of human desire. In the telling, it is anything but...
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Arcfinity: Arc's new competition asks, Is the... →
I’m pleased to announce that my story “A Robot Walks Into A Bar and Says …” will be in Arc 1.4!
arcfinity:
Arc and The Tomorrow Project share a common belief: that we can shape the future through fiction. And at our launch, early this year, we teamed up to run a series of unique short story competitions.
We’ve run three so far, highlighting terrific new writing talent...
September 2012
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WatchThis is a film of mine from 2007, shot on 16mm for the National Gallery in London. It’s about a painting of theirs, “The Origin of the Milky Way,” by Tintoretto.
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Strange Horizons submission call →
“My favorite poetry, spec or otherwise, delights in its own creation… I believe poetry, science, and speculative elements do well together because they aim to enter the same heightened, liminal space.”
I’ll be reading poems submitted in October and January; we pay $20 a poem. What I’m looking for.
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August 2012
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A Test of the Great Man Theory of History →
“It would take at least five issues of Superman to get so much done
and he had but one Lex Luthor”
read the rest at New Verse News (May 2011)
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Strange Horizons Staff Page →
Why, look whose name is now on the masthead at Strange Horizons. It appears to be poetry editor Romie Stott.
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June 2012
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Dallas 2009
“It was the winter our guy took the White House when food was expensive and nobody had a job It was goddamn beautiful ”
Read the rest at Jerseyworks
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May 2012
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Premise
A baby is born wearing a silver body suit. A few years later, when it is old enough to talk, the ex-baby reveals itself to be from the future, and clarifies that the only way to time travel is to be born into another time.
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Haiku
A girl runs quickly.
Light is a vampire, or friend,
or she is crazy.
(My dissertation haiku about “Aperture.”)
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WatchParis 60 (Tony Ukpo, 2012) is a New Wave-inspired microbudget love letter to independent cinema. It’s very funny and is inadvertently a behind-the-scenes semi-documentary of the making of “The Sleeping People.”
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WatchAlan Strange. Lost in Time, a web series by Tony Ukpo (2008). I show up and offer some exposition.
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WatchMy alma mater, the London Film School. Alumni include Mike Leigh, Michael Mann, Tak Fujimoto, Danny Huston, and Duncan Jones. As a graduate, I’m allowed to put A.L.F.S. after my name, but I don’t know if anyone does.
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April 2012
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WatchMy 5-minute director’s reel, as of 2012
March 2012
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Crimethink: Politics and Speculative Fiction →
A $7 book of essays that donates $1.90 to Doctors Without Borders with every purchase. My Reflection’s Edge article “Aliens at the Office Christmas Party” is included, along with essays by other SF authors and academics like Nisi Shawl and Gary Westfahl.
C3 at the Dallas Museum of Art →
I was a visiting artist at the DMA on and off through a lot of 2009 and 2010. I think the Center for Creative Connections is the most progressive artist/audience/museum interaction space I’ve encountered. An art museum’s mission will inevitably be caught between competing desires for access and preservation, and I appreciate the way they encourage museum to behave like a...
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Romie's IMDB page →
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WatchAperture (2009) - Writer/Director
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WatchThe Sleeping People (2008) - Writer/Director
