Video tribute to J.G. Ballard

0164 (a tribute to J. G. Ballard, 1930-2009) from Jesús Olmo on Vimeo.

Goodbye, J.G. Ballard.

J.G. Ballard, one of my favorite writers, has died. (The frightening prospect is that his apocalyptic legacy might be just beginning.)

Here's an interview with me about Ballard's influence on my own ideas.

To share your own Ballard remembrances, visit Ballardian.

Ballardian Home Movies: The Final Cut

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Dissecting bodies from the twilight zone: Stuart Wavell meets JG Ballard

Believing that reason and rationality failed to explain human behaviour, he resolved to become a psychiatrist. "I already had my first patient -- myself." To this end he studied anthropology, psychology and pathology at Cambridge. For the next two years he dissected cadavers, trying to exorcise the memories of dead Chinese on Shanghai's streets.

"Sometimes there would be the bodies of entire families that had perished during the night," he recalls. "I took it for granted, but I knew there was something wrong about all this. Perhaps I sensed that we were like a pack of wolves destroying itself."

(Via Ballardian.)

Aside from mentioning Ballard's cancer, the article describes his owning a Ford Granada -- my first car.