I made a Movie Funny Thing ...
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#Crash #DavidCronenberg #BodyHorror #MutantFam #JGBallard #TransgressiveFiction #Memes #MovieMemes

#nowplaying #wealdham Motorway based on JG Ballard’s dystopian classic Concrete Island on @CastlesInSpace label. Superb album. #vinyl #jgballard #books #synth

The rest of the available digitized episodes is also up on Internet Archive. The audio quality varies greatly in this set though.

The full set includes dramatizations of maybe seven J. G. Ballard stories and a six-part dramatization of the Ursula Le Guin novel The Dispossessed as well.

Link again goes to Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/VPoint

#AudioDrama #RadioDrama #SciFi #VanishingPoint #JGBallard #UrsulaKLeGuin

This is cool.

"An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard’s fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes."

https://youtu.be/nnuImk1ALcc

#jgballard #theatrocityexhibition #theunlimiteddreamcompany

In its focus on the slow "radicalisation" of a "tabula rasa" protagonist & the excesses of the uber-privileged, this feels very influenced by #JGBallard (SUPER CANNES in partic.), but w/some of #MichelHouellebecq's PLATFORM (the critique of tourism in LDCs) mixed in #InfinityPool

RT @brownanddickson
#jgballard anyone?

Latest read, Love in a Colder Climate (1989) by J.G. Ballard; in a future of severe population loss, sex is compulsory, young men and women must have intercourse with a new partner every other day, and love is illegal.
Smart, dark, terrific.
211 of #400FantasyStories
#books #ShortStory #ScienceFantasy #DarkFantasy #JGBallard

Latest read, My Dream of Flying to Wake Island (1974) from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard; an astronaut, who had a nervous breakdown in space, discovers a buried allied bomber near the resort where he convalesces.
Possesses an indefinable uneasiness. Excellent.

#Books #ShortStory #JGBallard

After seeing it at its release in 1997, where I witnessed many walkouts (including some of my friends), I got to see this in theater again. However controversial it was back then, the graphic sex scenes aren't as shocking, repetitive nor boring as I perceived the first time. Autoeroticar in this is pretty darn hot actually. And I find the movie still brilliant. Based on J.G. Ballard's book of the same name, Cronenberg, no stranger to the human body/technology relationship, confidently tackles our post-war era fascination with cars. These shiny metal objects not only signify wealth and power but our hidden desire for destruction and death. Along this perverted ride are James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas and Rosanna Arquette, bravely charting the dark underbelly of the human progress built on destruction and shame. Crash seems immune to aging compared to other tech-oriented Cronenberg movies. #davidcronenberg #adpaptation #jgballard #crash #bodyhorror

What can you seen through that thing? #jgballard #highrise #movies #sciencefiction https://youtu.be/gR8NNSOj2pM

On January 4, 1997 Crash debuted in Greece. Here’s a Post-It Note portrait of Deborah Kara Unger!
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#Crash #DavidCronenberg #JGBallard #BodyHorror #RomanticThriller #CultCinema #1990sMovies #Art #PenDrawing #FanArt #MovieArt #MovieHistory #CultCinema #CultMovies

Unused notes for an introduction to The Drought (Paladin 2014) by JG Ballard--
https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/unused-notes-for-an-introduction/

#TheDrought #JGBallard #Ballard

Unused notes for an introduction to The Drought (Paladin 2014) by JG Ballard--
https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/unused-notes-for-an-introduction/

#TheDrought #JGBallard #Ballard

Fantastic short story by J. G. Ballard from 1977: The Index.

”the text printed below is the index to the unpublished and perhaps suppressed autobiography of a man who may well have been one of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century … Incarcerated within an unspecified government institution, he presumably spent his last years writing his autobiography of which this index is the only surviving fragment.”

https://metaphorbymetaphor.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/ewriting_ballard_index.pdf

#ballard #jgballard #scifi

#7AuthorsToKnowMe
#RobertMacFarlane
#NeilGaiman
#UrsulaKLeGuin
#ChinaMieville
#FranzKafka
#octaviabutler
#PhilipKDick

Also: #JGBallard #NKJemisin #NoamChomky (though his take on Ukraine pisses me off) #SethTobocman #HowardZinn #ArundhatiRoy #SteveStern

[2006] The South Bank Show – JG Ballard – Melvyn Bragg speaks to science fiction writer JG Ballard, discussing the effect being a medical student, the surrealist painters, and the death of his wife had on his work, and also discussing his controversial novel Crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hXbFtBsyYs

#OldBritishTelly #MelvynBragg #JGBallard #Crash

Odd. It just happened again: Something that happens to my character also happens to a character in a Ballard book (which, strangely, I'd never got around to before. I only bought it now because I thought the tone might inspire me). Anyway, I currently live here with Ballard...
#coincidence #books #JGBallard

Odd. It just happened again: Something that happens to my character also happens to a character in a Ballard book (which, strangely, I'd never got around to before. I only bought it now because I thought the tone might inspire me). Anyway, I currently live here with Ballard...
#coincidence #books #JGBallard

I can’t tell whether the person who came up with this *has* or *hasn’t* read #jgballard’s Crash.

like, mate, if you want to have sex with a car just own it.

#literature #books

#WillSelf waxing lyrical on the fall of the #novel, #climatechange, drinking with #VicReeves, writing #fortunecookie text, and why #JGBallard's moment is yet to come:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/26/will-self-im-seen-as-a-still-walking-dead-white-man