Saturday, 15 July 2023

Girls gone wild: Yellowjackets review

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WARNING: SPOILERS Season one of Yellowjackets was different and fun. The show's basically Lord of the Flies with girls, and it switches...
Friday, 14 July 2023

War of the Roses and Medieval Genealogy ChatGPTrees

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So I was looking into how Henry VI of Lancaster was related to the York leader Richard Plantagenet, for reasons that will soon become clear....
Thursday, 13 July 2023

Extraction 1.0 and 2.0 review

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What a great video game walkthrough!  Or was it a movie?  The lead sure looked like Chris Hemsworth, but he wasn't jokey/goofy. So hard ...
Friday, 7 July 2023

Battle of Kursk: deja vu in Ukraine?

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During the early months of 1943, the Nazis were rolled back hundreds of miles from Stalingrad, until they finally stabilized their defensive...
Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Slo mo life drawing

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 Dragged my lazy old bones out for some more life drawing. The poses were for the same duration as always, but I felt like I was in slow mot...
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...