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'Seven Deadly Finns', Brian Eno, Dutch TV, 1974: youtu.be/SaLrS0WG7Z0 about 9 hours ago via TweetDeck
AR 125 comp over! Thanks again, all. 6:14 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
I've 5 copies of @AR_AsiaPac #125 (Architecture & the Arts) to giveaway. Feat. Callum Morton, @owenhatherley, Howard Arkley, MONA. RT to win 5:51 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
Ok, before I go to bed, one more mini-competition... 5:47 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
Comp over, thanx. I'll do 1 more giveaway in a little while, for the new @AR_AsiaPac #125 (Architecture & the Arts), onsale from yesterday 5:26 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
I've got 5 copies of our mag @AR_AsiaPac #124 to give away (bit.ly/JvYb31, features @WillWiles, @markdery, @mckenziewark). RT to win. 5:00 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
My review of the new Auckland Art Gallery - worth a visit: bit.ly/KV45tZ 6:49 PM May 30th via TweetDeck
A later Watkins film, Punishment Park, more clearly anticipates this genre bit.ly/KHIatD | bit.ly/KvGDIy #gladiatorialdystopia 5:25 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
... another clip from The Gladiators: bit.ly/KGFXhM #gladiatorialdystopia 5:18 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
Respect: before Rollerball & Running Man, before Battle Royale & Hunger Games, there was Peter Watkins & The Gladiators bit.ly/KVYiV8 5:13 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
'All the News That's Fit to Kill - Guard dogs you never feed!' ... Future magazines in Blade Runner: bit.ly/Lu0Omx via @timmaughan 6:46 AM May 27th via TweetDeck
@njashanmal Half the time when scared s***less by films, I think I've seen something appalling but on reflection realise sound did it to me. 6:29 AM May 27th via TweetDeck in reply to njashanmal
@njashanmal Ah, nice description. I haven't seen it. I remember Planet of the Vampires used silence well in the opening credits. 6:19 AM May 27th via TweetDeck in reply to njashanmal
@njashanmal How's that? 6:12 AM May 27th via TweetDeck in reply to njashanmal
'Silence as a creative tool' - fascinating article on the sound design of Prometheus: bit.ly/JEZnTb 5:38 AM May 27th via TweetDeck
@suzanne_moore I'm with Nick on the brown avocado. Makes me cross, too. 4:51 AM May 27th via TweetDeck in reply to suzanne_moore
"Nick Cave is cross. He has no way of knowing who unfriended him on Facebook." bit.ly/KkwBtm 4:34 AM May 27th via TweetDeck
A rattlesnake struck a guest!! 7:40 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone
@PrinceofRazors "Maybe you can shift the integrator unit deeper into the cavity" 7:21 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone in reply to PrinceofRazors
Westworld on TV! #simplepleasures 7:16 AM May 26th via Twitter for iPhone

Name Simon Sellars
Location Melbourne, Australia
Web http://www.simons...
Bio Editor-in-Chief @AR_AsiaPac. Editor, Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with JG Ballard (2012). Writer, Applied Ballardianism (2012). PhD, 2009.