Dave Lloyd

... or cycling. Or even just pottering around the house!

I'm sure Banksy knew this would happen and its erasure is as much a part of the art as the original painting.

Well that's a bit of a downer...

YouTube video by Ancient Selectramatronics

Mechanical lipsync - a very clever construction!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvm...

Nice mirror on Fen Drayton lakes

YouTube video by HappyToast Jim Bob - Art

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNX...
Turn it up, Jim Bob gets it - Art!

Eraserhead? I'm still a fan of his Dune - flawed but brilliant.

My mouth is watering at the very sight :D

Koyaanisqatsi - Wikipedia

Grim drive home down a very crowded M6 on a Friday afternoon. So I wound down by watching Koyaanisqatsi. Still great imagery and music even if it’s a bit of a period piece at times. Good for rumination. “A state of life that calls for another way of living”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaani...

Just spent a fab few days in Grasmere. View from our porch and view of our house from Silverhowe (250m up).

My favorite advice to engineers is:
Kirk: "Mister Scott, have you always multiplied your repair estimates by four?"
Scott: "Certainly sir! How else would I maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?"

Love it! (Movie & review). I keep meaning to read the book...

That’s a nicely dramatic shot with rain on the south rim!

Oh no! I also stayed there about 20ya. That restaurant had a truly awesome view

I do love it as a silent movie but I prefer Whisper in the Darkness - as an RKO style production it's more watchable as well as a better story.

What matters is the creative vision

Add the end of the day what matters is the creative vision and that can only come from humans. I don't diss a musician for using midi, sequencers, loops, samples, etc if the music is good (e.g., Massive Attack, Portishead etc). AI tools can be similarly empowering. But they can't create.

And there are a lot of automated grunt jobs begging to be automated - look at the list of credits after a modern CG movie and it can run into thousands. They're production line jobs not creative jobs. AI tools could let smaller creative teams deliver better movies and that seems a good thing to me.

Hard to disagree with any of that. I'm only really advocating for AI as a tool not as a creator. For example, movies have started to use AI tools to automate lipsync when translating movies into a different language - a very tedious and expensive job to do by hand so rarely happens.

- and so on...
It's easy to find bad (unartistic or you just dislike) examples of the above but overall, art has benefitted from these tools. LLMs and generative AI have similar potential *if used well*

It feels like we're re-running many of the same arguments against:
- midi & sequencers - "learn to play your instrument"
- Photoshop - "can't you use a brush?"
- computer-generated imagery - "what's wrong with practical FX?"
- computer-controlled saws & milling machines - "you're no carpenter"

Milton Keynes Wild Willy Barrett, Stephen Two-Names · Organic Bondage · Song · 1986

Cue Wild Willy Barrett: "There are four ways into Milton Keynes, but none of em lead out"
open.spotify.com/track/7pk9zC...

I’ve been doing something similar for a while. Does help!

Niven was always a shit. I ran into him at Worldcon in 86(?) and he was clearly a fascist then. Not bought one of his books since.

The TACO president - Trump Always Chickens Out - did you see the presser when he was asked about it 🤣

My midweek stables are lentils and beans. Low carb, veggie and good on fibre etc. Tasty and satisfying.

Just got to PFM - strange listening to an album I know well (Photos of Ghosts) in the original italian (Per Un Amico)! Had a similar experience with Omega and Gammapolis in hungarian.

I was listening to Clearlight Symphony earlier today! Camel gets a regular outing (and saw them play live not that long ago). But there's a surprising number there that are new to me. Thx for the playlist.

Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever

The Lay of the Surfers - 2007 Remaster Robert Calvert · Lucky Leif And The Longships · Song · 2007

"Barbarians, bar, bar, barbarians
Barbarians, bar, bar, barbarians
Barbarians, bar, bar, barbarians
The world is our oyster, the pearl's in our hands"