Wojtek Sal - conquering the world since 1973

Zombie ants

Wojtek Sal — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:21:40 +0000

Apparently, the fungi Cordyceps have the ability to control the behaviour of infected ants before killing them.

Webspring

Wojtek Sal — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:22:23 +0000

Yepp, it’s that time of the year again when people start avoiding their homes in favour of “hangin’ out” and the websites get relaunched.
Just like this one.
Bear with me.

The case

Wojtek Sal — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:34:54 +0000

My new solotrack and a dirty little clip are ready to spread joy and terror among you folks:

Lost in cyberspace

Wojtek Sal — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:31:07 +0000

Yes, it’s done. The video for Lost in cyberspace is finished. Enjoy:

Screwing Dow Jones

Wojtek Sal — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:21:06 +0000

Economy mon amour, another fine Hans Atom & Wojtek Sal song is waiting to entertain you. Or to annoy you, if you should happen to be a victim of the current economical crisis. Whatever.

We are here

Wojtek Sal — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:06:55 +0000

Finally, a new song is finished. Or, to be honest, Dada le café, our first track. But it took a while for this bastard to leave its larva demo state and reach full bloom. Anyway, now that it’s been flushed out of the system new songs should arrive faster and more frequently. On the down side, the Lost in cybespace clip will still take a while. About 60% of the video are done yet, but it tends to become gradually more complex. It’s probably my best work yet, and I really hope that it will somehow reflect all the time and energy I put into it.

We hate music

Wojtek Sal — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:25:23 +0000

… and music hates us. So it’s back to the ol’ music making at last, this time not as a band, but as a collaboration with Hans Atom. The first songs can be found here. And I’m working on a video clip for the slightly insane “Lost in cyberspace”. So gimme your love.

Best of weather

Wojtek Sal — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:11:47 +0000

Yeah, finally it has come to this: I’m blogging about the weather. Today started with rain, then it became sunny for a while, which was followed by a snowstorm, and now we’ve got hail. As we all know, the strangest explanation is often the most likely. So I’m pretty sure that right now some mad scientists are struggling with a malfunctioning weather-control-machine, which refuses to be shut down.

The return of the weird

Wojtek Sal — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:08:47 +0000

I’ve just finished reading through my monthly lifesaving comic package, browsing through the FEB Previews and putting the next order together. And then I realized something. During the 90s, there was a time of glorious weirdness in the comics. After the realistic and grim stuff of the 80s the strangeness and the surreal set in. Things like Transmetropolitan, Preacher, Shade the Changing Man, Enigma, Metropol, Alan Moore’s meta-experimens such as Supreme and of course Grant Morrison’s Animal Man, Doom Patrol and of course The Invisibles. A kind of run-wild-and-free era. Oddly, as the Premillenium Tension dissolved into nothing, during the Noughties, the conventional rules of storytelling set in again. I mean, Morrison is now working on Superman, the most immobile property in the universe! (And before you mention it: Yeah, Arkham Asylum is a great Batman tale, but please, just compare it with the complexity of King Mob and Regged Robin.)
Anyhoo… Suddenly I can feel an air of weirdness rising again. Morrison is returning to his delightfully sick Seaguy, Doktor Sleepless begins to rise to Transmetropolitan heights, The Umbrella Academy have moved into the Doom Patrol HQ, Lapham’s got the groove back with Young Liars, Air nicely fits into the Invisibles-paranoia. It’s not much regarding the fact that Emperor Marvel still rules over the entire world, but it fills my transdimensional heart with twisted hope.

Cash of the living dead

Wojtek Sal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:20:18 +0000

How does a zombie earn a living? No, really. It’s nearly four months since my surgery, and I just don’t know how to start working again. All my freelance contacts seem to have vanished (due to extraterrestial intervention, I guess), and I’m not even sure I want to continue doing the stuff that I used to do. You know, the boring internet stuff. It tends to bomb one’s life with impossible deadlines and uncertainity regarding follow-up jobs, all at the same time. So, any ideas?