Sunday, 27 August 2023

Apple TV's Invasion review

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This show is the definition of the slow burn.   There’s a saying about the military: it’s 99% boredom and routine, and 1% sheer terror.   In...
Sunday, 13 August 2023

Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse review

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Hands down the most radical, unrestrained, gobsmacking, visually creative animated film I’ve ever seen. Well.  Other than the first one. Wat...
Saturday, 5 August 2023

High versus low art in film: Lynch vs Spielberg smackdown!

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David Lynch is an exemplary film maker, but his work is not for everyone. Lynch's foray into blockbuster territory (Dune) was a bomb (I ...
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. ...