The man who invented the future - Comic Books. “What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air?
It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.” “The whole thing is a movie,” says Alan Moore. The comic-book visionary behind such epoch-changing works as “Watchmen,” “V for Vendetta” and “From Hell” is actually talking about the war in Iraq. Every once in a while we are horrified by a beheading (albeit one seen only on videotape) and human culture remembers that it is not much more than a vulnerable collection of flesh, bone and nerve endings. The funny thing is that Alan Moore hates to talk about film and television, because, as he explains later in our interview, both “have a lot to answer for.” Moore clearly believes that the same mechanism has foisted a deadly, unwanted and unnecessary war upon the world. Alan Moore Online Interviews - 2004. Quantum Physics and Music: Upward and Downward Causation « Adam Rafferty – Guitar and Spirit.
Greets friends.
As I am wrapping up my November 2009 tour, I am actually feeling a sense of relief, and finding space to dig deep once again into creativity, meditation and life’s meaning. While touring, I have to pay attention to mundane aspects such as driving, soundcheck, and playing the gig. A thinker who I am very much enjoying lately is Dr. Amit Goswami. He was interviewed in the hit movie “What the Bleep” and has been a professor of physics at Oregon State University for 32 years. He shares a view of history with us as to how, why and when a purely mechanical / material view of our universe came into being.
Apparently for scientists to have freedom they had to separate “mind and matter” so as not to step on the church’s toes. The big question of course is where does “consciousness” come into our life picture. Part 1 of 3 parts: [youtube= But that is only the beginning. Alan Moore interview, 1988. Originally published in Strange Things Are Happening, vol. 1, no. 2, May/June 1988.
Note: “Vincent Eno” was Richard Norris, later one half of dance/ambient outfit The Grid with Dave Ball. See also the Watchmen round table discussion on this site. Vincent Eno and El Csawza meet comics megastar ALAN MOORE Amidst smouldering heaps of superlatives flung in the direction of the comic genre of late, one name stands head and shoulders above the crowd: ALAN MOORE. But don’t just trust the gushing blurbs on the back of Moore’s works (‘Alan Moore has reinvented the comic book genre’ and so on), take it from your pals at Strange Things – Alan Moore is beezer! With Watchmen the comic book format legitimately became what the media manipulators were attempting to tell us all about – the graphic novel.
Turning into the first true comic megastar wasn’t an easy ride for Alan. ‘After school I did a variety of awful horrifying jobs,’ he recalls. ‘I try to approach character writing as an actor would. Watchmen’s Clockwork Origins Span Comics, Quantum Physics. From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons borrowed from a stunning wealth of sources to create Watchmen, a work that’s generally accepted as the greatest graphic novel of all time.
With Zack Snyder’s cinematic adaptation of Watchmen hitting theaters Friday as 2009′s must-see comic book movie, it’s time for a deep dive into that fountain of influences. Watchmen‘s origin story starts with characters from Charlton Comics, which DC Comics acquired in 1985. Moore and Gibbons’ brilliant revisions of Charlton’s stable of heroes — characters like The Question, created by the legendary Steve Ditko — became immortal copies of their original sources. Moore’s literary influences didn’t stop at comics, though. He cited greats like William S. Taken together, The Question and Mr. "The main reason that I liked Charlton would’ve been probably Steve Ditko, originally," Moore explained to Comic Book Artist in 2000.
While Mr.