Alistair Aitcheson

This is nightmarish in a way I find genuinely beautiful.

time to get your submissions in, folks!!

A little guided tour of all the custom props and controllers I'll be using in The Incredible Playable Show this weekend :)

On the far left, a clown in a black swan ballerina outfit with sparkly tights and a tiara. From middle to right, a crowd of people holding up white boards with crude Sharpie drawings on them

I love this wide-angle shot from my cabaret gig in Wales last weekend 😊

I got the audience to draw the great works of art on A3 boards during the interval, and then interpreted each of them as a dance during the act 😁

So as I see it it's the regularity with which we see this insight being framed as profound that's the issue, rather than the image itself

(personally I think the picture is a helpful example of a useful idea, just not an example of some kind of genius-level mastery of the form)

... a sense that a lot of popular game design talk is about ways of tricking and manipulating players into doing or feeling what you want them to.

I often feel that that misses the big potential of what games can do, and treats players like sheep instead of people.

I have to say I agree with you. I do think the image does make a helpful and constructive point (one feels more precarious than the other, even though it requires the exact same steps to overcome the precarity in both).

What I see in Liz's post that I really agree with is...

Output from Google's automatic AI Several UK cities are not in the county they are named after, with notable examples including Manchester, Bristol, Southampton, and Leicester. Many of these situations arose due to administrative boundary changes, the creation of metropolitan counties, or because the county name is based on a different, larger settlement. Examples of cities not in their namesake county Manchester: Located in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, not Lancashire as its name might suggest. Bristol: While historically the county town, it is now a city and county in its own right, distinct from its namesake county. Southampton: Situated in the county of Hampshire, it is not located within the county of the same name. Leicester: Found in the county of Leicestershire, though its name is often associated with the county itself. Plymouth: Located in the county of Devon, rather than being named after a different county or city.

Believing the UK to be no better I Googled for examples of the same phenomenon here. Thankfully AI stepped in with some helpful answers.

Perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it’s also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun...

―Elizabeth Gilbert

#gamedev #indiegame #games #art #digitalart #artist #artwork #MondayMotivation

Poster for The Incredible Playable Show - Fringe Stage - 12:55pm Sunday 26 Oct

This Sunday I'm performing at MCM Comic Con at the ExCel in London! EGX visitors can also come and play!

Schedule: www.mcmcomiccon.com/london/en-us...

If you want to see how the games medium can be absolutely transformed by bringing it onto the stage, this is the show for you!

Seriously though my rump was tastefully hidden beneath a generously-sized tutu

More like preserved for posterior AMIRITE 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

Thank you 😊

Some of them are a little smashed because the clown... ahem... got romantic with them 😳

Four crude Sharpie drawings on white board. The bottom right one is broken into bits

Four crude Sharpie drawings on white board. Two of them have snapped into bits

Three crude Sharpie drawings on white board.

Four crude Sharpie drawings on white board.

Last night I was at a cabaret in Wales.

I got the audience to recreate the great works of art and I, as Prima Ballerina of the Royal Ballet, brought them to life through interpretive dance.

Thank you very much, that's very kind 😊

I like to see myself as having a low amount of skill and making the best of it 😄

I'm going to reply to this post now because it's the one with the salient message and thus the one I want people to see.

Not the post where I correct a typo.

That one is low in insight, please ignore it.

Carefully crafting myself to sound smart is hard 😄

That was meant to read "that's not what I expected"

Which isn't what I expected to type

So let's go with it 😄

And I think curiosity is such an important part of creativity.

Creativity isn't about saying "I want X" and then receiving X.

It's about being curious and playful, not knowing what the answers are and diving in anyway.

It's about the journey where you don't know where it will take you.

It's why early image generation was so much more interesting. It would make mistakes. Really weird mistakes. Mistakes that kinda made sense from a machine point of view. And you'd go "ooh, how else can I poke at it to get it to do weirder stuff?"

That's inspiring curiosity.

Creativity is in finding joy in the mistakes, and seeing what other more exciting ideas they can inspire you to ask the Alistair to do.

The art is in the journey of discovery and the relationship you develop with the Alistair and the other participants in chat.

I guess the difference is that I will not bring it to life the way you want me to. Because I am human.

With an AI you go adjust your prompt and run again until it gives you what you wanted.

With an Alistair you go "oh, that's now what I expected! How interesting! Let's explore that..."

I hear a lot of this "AI allows people who don't have art skills to be make art" and it does make me question what I've been doing, because the whole schtick of my streams and shows is to allow people who don't see themselves as creative to make art, using me as their avatar.

Sickhouse is one of these absolute gems of a creative space. Their Overkill Festival is one of these hidden cultural highlights that really deserves to be less hidden.

Daring, inventive, welcoming and radical, bridging all sorts of media through games, art and music.

Go support them!! ✨🧡

It's magical 🥲

Happy birthday! I hope you're having an amazing day :)

Clip from my Little Mermaid act on Sunday

Huge love to whoever typed "flirt with the Fridge" 😄💕

Thank you 😊

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Today I kissed a fridge and the fridge kicked Pierce Brosnan in the nuts AMA