Paul Franklin

The deep 3D animator geek within me (actually not that deep) wants to point out that this is a dodecahedron, not a tetrahedron

I thought it was a great adaptation - thought provoking, emotionally satisfying, and visually stunning.

A door painted to look like the Tardis from Doctor Who, nearby is a popcorn machine

I found this one in Nob Hill cafe in San Francisco a few years ago

Watching Hackers with director Iain Softley at Magnetic Field last year was quite an experience - a packed cinema tent bellowing “Hack the planet!” with one voice - joyous!

I interviewed for an art job at Bullfrog in 1992 with no less than Peter Molyneux himself. Didn’t get the gig :-(

That’s @ruairirobinson.bsky.social’s movie!

A woman’s face, rendered in hues of orange and purple, rises above a pixelated skyline

I think this classic cover for the seminal Synners, by @patcadigan.bsky.social may have been created in part with the Pluto

I met Peter a couple of times in the very early 90s. He was a fan of an old 1980s digital graphics tool - the Pluto Graphics System - which I also used at the time. He incorporated it into his later 80s and 90s work.

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So I was turned on to the smart Apple TV series Murderbot by my friend David Dastmalchian, who's in it, and found it to be a bright spot in current sci-fi programming. It's very clever and unique and well worth a visit. Highly recommended.

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And it also has awesome Picard/Guinan beats.

It’s wonderful. The writing in TNG is often superb and the cast and crew always knew what to do with a good script. The reconciliation scene between Data and Riker at the end is so perfect - elegant, concise, uplifting. The Measure of a Man is rightly seen as the point where TNG went next level.

And this is the edition I bought, so the Space Beagle looked that way in my head as I read it

I remember this (brilliant) Foss painting being described by an SF critic as a prime example of the “potato peeler in space” school of sci fi art.

Long day at the Vfx coal face. Winding down with TNG’s The Measure of a Man and a glass of wine. What an episode - @melindas.bsky.social wrote a truly brilliant script and the cast knocked it out of the park and into orbit. Pretty soon this is going to be reality.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

A guy I used to work with in the 90s had a vintage one-sheet of the Rollerball poster on his office wall, amazing image!

The London A to Z. Before the internet/smartphones *everyone* carried one with them. Mine would slowly disintegrate in the bottom of my bag, requiring an annual replacement.

Thank you so much for Murderbot, I watched it with my big neurodiverse kids (19, 21) - we loved it! Exciting, funny, and very touching. They’re now reading the books. We cheered when season 2 was announced!

Post a kick-ass woman! (The brilliant Tove Jansson)

I took mine with me to a Lyme Regis B&B

Is this the special with the weird b&w Dan Dare story, with the Martian guy who thinks he’s covered with spiders? Or was that an earlier one?

This is very much the process of "enshittification", as described by Cory Doctorow

Wa hey!

Was thinking of getting that. Need to get a shift on before I get my buss pass next year.

Same here - a wonderful cover for a fantastic book!

"Savior" by Nancy Kress, one of my all time favourite novellas. I also just learned that she's won more Hugos for Best Novella than anyone else, four wins out of eight noms - GOAT!

That is brilliant - I’d seen Giger’s paintings of Debbie Harry, but not this.

However, the Bakshi Balrog did blow my mind at the time!

Great clips - and the music is very evocative of the era, I moved to London from Manchester in the early 90s and had that looping on my auto-reverse Walkman pretty much all the time.