Friday, 30 June 2023

Collision 2023 whizzed by with plenty on AI

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Godfather of AI: Geoffrey Hinton... he's the tiny figure in the centre. Squint and you can see him. I dropped in on Collision 2023 durin...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023

It Blew Up Good, REAL GOOD: Nordstream

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Did the US, with help from Norway, blow up the Nordstream pipeline? Seymour Hersh seems to think so, thanks to one anonymous source.  This h...
Sunday, 25 June 2023

Moh Life Drawin'

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Some life drawing from earlier this spring, using pencil brushes in ProCreate. Theme was pirates.
Tuesday, 4 April 2023

Generative AI frenzy: Adobe Firefly vs. Midjourney

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A spaceship on the moon... looks more like Mars, but whatever. The details on the ship are dodgy, but the overall impression is quite good. ...
Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Midjourney V5: hands up!

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Ladies and gentlemen, Midjourney can now do hands. That didn't take long. Check out this article for more.  Horrifically deformed hands...

On outgrowing franchises (Star Wars, natch)

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The very nature of television franchises is repetition: give them the same thing, only slightly different. Like eating the same bowl of porr...
Tuesday, 21 March 2023

Adobe's new AI renderer: Firefly

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Step aside, Midjourney, Adobe's entering the AI renderer ring with Firefly. The biggest thing about it? Firefly's built for commerci...
Monday, 6 March 2023

Artist Karine Giboulo does Covid-19 lockdown

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Some days I feel just like this... Saw the Karine Giboulo: Housewarming show at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, tucked in across the street ...
Saturday, 25 February 2023

Seductive Midjourney V4 Easy Bake Imagery

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Midjourney is seductively easy.  Write a prompt. Wait a minute and voila: result. Boom. Done.  I stopped using Midjourney over the ethical i...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Ukraine can’t win unless Russia agrees to lose

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A year into the war and Ukraine has not only fought the Russians to a standstill, they've pushed Russia back across the Dnieper River an...
Monday, 20 February 2023

Nil, Rebel Angels and possible book looks for The Future

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For the Nil short film, I added in gradients and cloud backgrounds to enrich the scenes. I rather like the result; it enhances the style.  ...
Thursday, 16 February 2023

Max Zing / Warlord of Io screens

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I've been digging around in my archives and found fab forgotten things. These images are from a presentation in The Before Time: Max Zin...
Thursday, 26 January 2023

Worst meeting EVER.

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A meeting like this is just what you don't want early in the morning before you've had your cup of coffee. It'd totally derail y...
Monday, 23 January 2023

The Last of Us: Girl With All The Gifts déjà vu?

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I watched the premiere of The Last of Us with Pedro Pascal and found the opening sequences quite harrowing. After Covid, I'm not sure I...
Sunday, 11 December 2022

The Creative Commons, AI Renderers and the Death of Cheap Credit

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Jeez, I was expecting an AI rendering, not a terrifying series of ethical and social issues brought on by an AI revolution. By the way, shou...