Trivial Pursuits Recently I’ve been playing a little mental game around the names of characters from the hit French Netflix...
2 weeks ago to the day I had been taking a deep dive into the world of "AI Art" thanks to "Midjourney", a subscription-based online AI (for "Artificial Intelligence") art generator that builds images from text prompts - an early result is the featured image of this post - having seen interesting results online, before my investigations were rudely interrupted by a bout of COVID...
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Now, and perhaps even in that moment in the hospital ICU private ward, I like to think that perhaps he was casting his mind back to the early 1950's when he lived in New York, which, judging by photographs from his time there, must have been the time of his life...
In more ways than just cinema, the immigrant community of that part of West London in the 1960's and 1970's could be viewed as a counterpart to that depicted in Tornatore's film, since many came from rural villages with a farming background.
Writing: Plastic Astronauts from Planet Cereal… My mother insists that this is a false memory but I have a distinct...
This is Nagendra’s first mystery, set in Bangalore in 1921. It is set in South India, not Bombay or Calcutta, which makes it unique in my experience.
This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
Writing: Recent work related experiences have had the effect of denting my self-confidence somewhat, with the “imposter syndrome” that invariably...
I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
Prior to Cinefex the history of fanzines was littered with short-run magazines..
The final title sequence involved a lot of analogue post-work in the form of a sheet of reeded glass that emulated TV raster or low-resolution 8 Bit computer graphics