Nick Dymond

Re: Steam controversy.

Capitalism as an infantlising force.

I have many thoughts about this, one is I can't help but think this is all just shining a light on how games are still being held to wildly different standards than other media like film. I've played very few games like HORSES but watched so many films like it (as a connoisseur of arthouse horror).

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A caption that reads: "Degree music composition/performance/dsp thing where I worked with contemporary dancers. Recorded close contact/clothing sounds of them dancing and moving in a space with a view to processing/amplifying them back, triggered by motion sensing in Max. Anyway, the place I recorded the first pass of sounds had creaky floorboards. 20 year old me didn’t notice or think this would be a problem, just part of the sound of the piece. These sounds were pitch-shifted and amplified in realtime for the 1st rehearsal and… well… everytime a dancer moved it sounded like a massive fart. Good times."

My reply to a thread elsewhere about 'most embarassing moment in audio'...

If the main channels of music distribution infrastructure on the internet are going to continue to enshittify themselves to death, the only logical response is to enact a digital dubplate mentality in your community both IRL and URL.

Repurpose one for the bathroom door:

Food is good
W̷i̷n̷e̷ Taking a shit is better

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Awesome! Thank you! I'll check those out :)

There's some performances of The Real Inspector & Other Plays available but the quality is... variable. I'll endeavor to find a good one.

I'm generally not a fan of this next question, but any tips on where to start with his plays? Any good stage performances or adaptations that can be streamed?

I know (and love) his film work, but I'm pretty ignorant of theatre.

Book cover called In a Dust Cloud with a painting of an overgrown barn

Hello, you can now buy this pdf of all my old landscapes and a few new ones ones too that you’ve never seen before
ko-fi.com/s/889e6eec9f

+1 @starkholborn.bsky.social and I talked about this so much when we were working on it (for years 😅 ). Burying narrative/meaning/theme into every corner. Making strong connections between disciplines, mise en scene etc. etc. A privilege to be on a project where that was rewarded, encouraged.

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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

talkin' about the AI bubble

Thanks for the heads-up. I've seen this just as I was taking a tea break and listening to some early Philip Glass* and now I'm in half-a-mind to join in just to experiment with some procedural music processes.

* I mention this because it's aesthetically relevant, not 'cos I'm a t***. Although...

The triple-threat of degraded search results, people burying advice in video content and imgur being blocked in the UK makes resolving software issues a real joy.

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A photorealistic rendering of the KC 85/3 computer with keyboard, floppy controller and floppy drive on a white background.

A photorealistic close up rendering of the KC 85/3 computer with keyboard, floppy controller and floppy drive on a white background with shallow depth of field.

Another photorealistic rendering of the KC 85/3 computer with keyboard, floppy controller and floppy drive on a white background.

The same image as before but in all wireframe. The stats in the upper left corner tell of ~1.3 million triangles.

Finished the pet project that helped me recover 😊👍

#retrocomputing #computer #retro #kc85 #rendering #cgi #modeling #maya

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

Don't tell this to my pascal loving dad 😅

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Last night I dreamt of the economy and toilets. I'm sure it didn't mean anything.

A near 4 hour documentary style film about Edvard Munch is probably a hard sell, but it's f***in' brilliant.

"Illness, insanity and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life."

Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.

RIP to one of the most original and brilliant British filmmakers.

www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

yes

YouTube video by Dust Down Records Pernalonga - Di Melo

Obviously pretty much everything's dogcake but here's a really good tune:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnU...

2 drawings of bryony vines

Black Mandrakes

His Music Saw Our Age of Information Overload Coming

nice nyt piece on berio's "sinfonia" no firewall

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...

A mackeral tabby cat with a white bib, chin and socks is lying on a light grey blanket. The cat is half curled and half on his back with his arms raised either side of his grinning face.

Peak organism.

Comic page showing a full page poster. The poster depicts a grid with the different phases of the Moon, the full moon being substituted by a portrait of Laika. Text says: "Laika, 1954-1957. You were the first animal to orbit the Earth, but you did not have any say on it. We knew what your fate would be. We are sorry."

To Laika.

trump remodelling the white house