Ballardian

More links from my Twitter stream.

A weekly archive of Ballardian-related links and observations on Twitter.

Probably of no interest to anyone but me, but here goes: top 10 most-read posts on ballardian.com in 2009; top 10 search-engine phrases leading visitors to the site in 2009; and top 10 links from other sites in 2009.

Due to popular demand, the Ballardian/Savoy microfiction competition deadline has now been extended to 15 December. Keep those entries coming!

The very first Savoy/Ballardian Microfiction Competition! Write a short story of 100 words or less on “Savoyesque’ or ‘Ballardian’ themes, and win super-rare Savoy books and comic books, and Savoy CDs.

R.I.P. Mac Tonnies.

JG Ballard on the BBC TV documentary Synth Britannia.

I’m giving a paper on Ballard, circular time and the nouvelle vague this Thursday, October 1, at 3pm at ACMI in Melbourne, as part of the time.transcendence.performance conference. Come and say hello.

An update on updates…

Late tributes from the Ballardosphere: Jeannette Baxter, Mike Bonsall, Mark Fisher, Owen Hatherley, Mike Holliday and Nina Power.

Further tributes from Tim Chapman, Rick McGrath, Solveig Nordlund, Dan O’Hara, Dominika Oramus, Rick Poynor, David Pringle, Simon Sellars, Supervert and V. Vale.

Michael Moorcock’s tribute to JGB.

I have asked Ballardian contributors and associates for their thoughts on JGB’s passing. This is Part 1, featuring Ben Noys, Mark Dery and Chris Nakashima-Brown. More to come.

Moving on to Twitter for a little while…

Grovel, grovel.

The first episode of BBC Radio 7’s adaptation of The Drowned World is now online.

A Brazilian review of Kingdom Come — in the form of a comic strip.

Toby Litt on the best of JG Ballard.

Dan Hill looks at a triptych of post-apocalyptic novels: On the Beach, The Drowned World and The Road.

The first question about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put Bill Drummond immediately on the defensive…

Thoughts on Ballard, fame and reclusiveness, and Shepperton.

News on the stalled competition to design the cover of the new edition of Crash.

Autogeddon: Martin Pichlmair on the connection between Ballard and Grand Theft Auto IV.

Just a little housekeeping note…

John Gray meets Mike Skinner, discusses Ballard.

Diane Johnson, Kubrick collaborator, gets to grips with the Ballardosphere.

A slew of information on Ann Lislegaard, the brilliant artist behind ‘Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard’, the mesmerising animation that showed at the recent JGB exhibition in Barcelona. Includes links to an interview, video excerpts and stills.

If Vaughan was alive today, do you think he’d be using AutoCAD to plot celebrity autogeddon?

Announcement of the new Ballard World theme park in Dubai, following on from the Egypt, London and Shanghai versions.

Joanne McNeil on women characters in Ballard.

A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future.

A new interview with Michael Moorcock, discussing Burroughs, Ballard, the Bomb and more.

The return of Moorcock, Hawkwind, Frendz… and Jim Cawthorn.

RIP James Cawthorn, illustrator for New Worlds and Savoy Books; pastichist of Ballard.

Man survives for three months in airport terminal; doesn’t know why he’s there…

The artist Guy Peellaert, designer of Bowie’s Diamond Dogs cover and more, died this week.

Steven Meisel: rejected by Vogue Italia, embraced by ballardian.com.

At last: furniture for the Ballardian bachelor pad.

Happy birthday, Mr Ballard.

Preliminary news about the 50th anniversary celebrations for Naked Lunch.

BLDGBLOG on Ballard, resampled architecture, homogenous global space and Michael Winterbottom.

Ballard in Esquire.

I’m off to Barcelona to talk about Ballard with Vale and Bruce Sterling as part of the Kosmopolis literary festival. If you’re Catalonia-bound, come and say hi.

Ballard on horror fiction: ‘There are sudden glimpses of the shocking and unspeakable in my fiction too, so there is a certain overlap’.

Solveig Nordlund’s Ballard adaptation, Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude, is rooted in reality, as this report on Spain’s ghost towns demonstrates.

Announcement for Owen Hatherley’s new book, Militant Modernism.

David Pringle’s JGB News archive is finally online.

Hard to believe a month has passed since I tended to this site.
I submitted my thesis last Friday, and now it’s down to the examiners. I’m out of jail and in the halfwayhouse waiting for final parole. I can see a sliver of daylight through the crack in the angle between two walls. Coming up [...]

While the site takes an enforced break, please feel invited to use the forum or browse through the archives. I shall be back with new content in a few weeks’ time.

Parallels between Ballard’s Kingdom Come and Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.