Dr Geraint D’Arcy

Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain, published 8 January 2026
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Yes! I’ve just finished writing the Oxford Dictionary Biography for Tony Walton! His career was very very broad. His second feature was Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and he pipped the Alien team to an eventual Oscar with All That Jazz in 1979.

Says he’s joking, but satire rarely cuts this cleanly. These are brilliant.

Add it to the Students who want paid placements pile. Set an opportunity for 8 places, 4 signed up 3 showed up one dropped out after half the week. All to meet metrics that are meant to meet student “demand”.

Great thread on early TV history.

YouTube video by LavenderTowne THE AI 'ARTISTS' ARE MAD AT ME

This video is absolutely fantastic, breaks down every single nonsense argument on GenAi made by GenAi advocates, and does so in such a succinct way! Plus its always a joy to watch people work on their craft! Watch asap because it’s spot on!

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Performance Research has wisely migrated here! Get following the most respected performance research journal in UK academia.
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Image of the UEA media suite teaching lab, with a screen showing a slide of the creative challenge task I set my students

My 2nd year digital media class did a session on AI with me yesterday. I set them a creative task to compare AI with their own practice. The verdict was damning “AI is essentially slop”. Robust critical thinking in place at concrete towers. Well, among the students for sure

Join us on Thursday 27th February, for an evening with Nick Hornby, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author.

Nick will also be signing books after the event.

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Lampeter: University education at Wales' oldest campus ends - BBC News There has been more than 200 years of academia in Lampeter, but humanities courses are moving away.

It begins. When the landlords catch on we might see some National Intervention. www.bbc.com/news/article...

With the passing of David Lynch the world has got significantly more mundane banal and shit, to be honest. And it wasn’t doing well as it was.

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

OTD in early British television: 21 December 1936 - Illuminations John Wyver writes: On the evening of Monday 21 December 1936 extracts from from the current stage production T.S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral were played for a third time at Alexan...

OTD in early British television: on Monday 21 December 1936, an experiment in transmitting television to a theatre saw a broadcast of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' watched in the auditorium of the Duchess Theatre.

Précis below, blog post here:
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The Joint International Conference of Bande Dessinées, Graphic Novels and Comics

Call for Papers

The Taste of Comics

Brussels, Belgium

Tuesday 24 June – Wednesday 25 June 2025 (online)

Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2025 (in-person)

internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com

AI = Artificial Insouciance.
There, you can have that for free.

Missing you in Leeds buddy! Miss you!

This.

Slipstream with Geraint D'Arcy (and special guest Paul Reynolds) - Just The Thing Joel and Chris are joined by Geraint D'Arcy, Associate Professor and Head of Media at UEA, where the three originally met as students in the late 90s. Geraint was also the star of Chris and Joel's sho...

I’m in a podcast and so is COLIN FROM PRESSGANG! Super-important paradigm shifting work with Joel Jessup and Chris Regan at Just The Thing podcast. www.buzzsprout.com/1990618/epis...

Anyone in need of some cover or character work? Rent is due and we're quite short! Any shares appreciated

canal st Martin, Paris. View from a bridge of a tree lined canal.

A set of cardboard cut out model buildings laid out in a gallery from the Artist Seth

A Parisian Arcade. With chequered floor and lantern roof.

Three Men grinning

Went to Paris saw lots of comics. Did some (erm) flaneûry (?) with Simon Grennan and Roger Sabin.

Get following. @thespaceshipper.bsky.social scholarship of all things AD, PD and concept for Sci Fi is absolutely excellent.

Hello, I've made a second Starter Pack, or rather a companion to the first. This new one is dedicated to artists: designer, concept, illustrator, storyboarder, cartoonist, cover, comics, movies, games...

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YouTube video by Geraint D'Arcy Expanse Death Slug build!

When I preseted at a TV set Design conference in Westminster I met Sarah Harding . She had some death slugs from S4e7 episode of #TheExpanse that she directed. They were brilliant and I thought I’d have a go at recreating them youtu.be/f0Qsl9PzZDg?... #screamingfirehawks #scratchbuild #filmandtv

Five wonderful and weird comics to read if you love Umbrella Academy The wacky and weird hyper-violent series is coming to a close but there is so much more to fill the gap it leaves.

I did a thing for the conversation.

Townsen Hicks M, et al. ChatGTP is bullshit. Ethics Inf Technol 2024; 26:38.

Just, you know, in case you need to cite it somewhere

A reminder that the IGNCC 2024 CFP deadline is coming up. Due date is 15th December. The conference is 10-12 July 2024 at UEA.

Be great to see you there. Spread the word.

More details: internationalgraphicnovelandcomicsconference.com

#comicbooks #comics #comicstudies #popculture #graphicnovel

Page of scrawled notes reading: Conceptualising It begins with the invite Expectations sell. So meet them. Set the world rules. If water = water then there is no other water. Use limitations as conventions No wing, no problem Reality is loud, but it has a volume Realism is not your friend Indexicality is the form Iconicity is the exception

Notes cont: Building and designing measure everything (twice) Know your container If you can’t show how it works, it won’t

Notes cont2: Words are cheap Images sell everything No image, no sale Show don’t describe Show any way you can Build it in Rough (to scale 1:25) Ppp=ppp Piss poor planning = piss poor performance

Delivering a 2hour crash course in theatre design tomorrow. Aiming to scrape a poor+ / rough - .

I love it when during marking, when the bottom of the list appears on the bottom of the screen.

Went to the East Anglian Film archives. Took my UEA documentary module
students. It was ace.

Heading upstream to Leeds for Comics Forum 23. Also stopping by Thought Bubble for the first time!