Software Engineer and Comics Writer/Storyboarder. Microsoft / Skype / Sony / EA / Criterion Alumnus. Currently working on No Man's Sky, #BaadFood comic and software synthesis.
A machine soul on a planet of molten rock and mud. Makes computer games, comics, beepy music, martial arts and sometimes solders.
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| TEFOSAV | https://tefosav.bandcamp.com/ |
BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"
No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.
Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.
Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 7: Limbo
A #magick #scifi neon-hardboiled detective joint, with reality pulsed by 80s bulbs, & the colour of old-school televisions tuned to dead channels (h/t Mr Gibson!) Wijngaard's art vomits scifi/horror machines & beings into an existence bound by low-tech magick users swirling around the protagonist, and reads like the fever dream from a Cronenberg flick. Watters and Wijngaard showed the chops they would bring to Home Sick Pilots a few years later.
It turns out #Justinhawkinsridesagain covered #Periphery a while ago, probably when the last album came out...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZpwYABjuI&ab_channel=JustinHawkinsRidesAgain
Friday, headphones on day. That #Periphery album just gets better and better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKSiOkRzb4&ab_channel=Periphery
New record! Out today. It is a score I wrote ten years ago and then, somehow, a decade went by before I got around to releasing it. But it's here now. Full of sad pianos and tape hiss.
Streamable/buyable on Bandcamp, at least for as long as it doesn't become morally unacceptable to keep hosting music on that platform.
https://paulwolinski.bandcamp.com/album/blood-original-score
12 track album
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 6: FLCL.
A #scifi #robo #manga, reimagined from the #anime, #which was heavily influenced by #cyberpunk, with literal cyber-punks, nefarious aliens and machines, trying to take over the world. The artwork was full of speed lines, and energy, the bass-guitar-as-a-weapon wielding ant/protagonist jumps off the page, and Naota, the main boy is an anchor that everything evolves out of. Defo worth checking out, it veers away from the anime enough to make it stand out.
REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)
Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 5: Blame!
In brief, a post-apocalyptic megalopolis teeming with crazed bio-machines, city-sized manufactory droids, a Man With No Name on a long walk, and a search which unpacks slowly over the course of the first couple of Tankobon volumes. This came out when The Matrix was in pre-prod, the visual style co-evolved to something visually similar, but remarkably unique, with the sheer scale and ideas making this a must read
Reintroduced to this track from the Pillows... so damn catchy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_Qzx-E2LQ&ab_channel=KINGRECORDS
I see your carved Hallowe’en pumpkin, and raise you the traditional carved Irish Samhain turnip head
Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/pumpkin-vs-turnip-a4-fine-art-print
I see your carved Hallowe’en pumpkin, and raise you the traditional carved - and terrifying - Irish Samhain turnip head. Framed image is for illustrative purposes only - all prints are supplied unframed . This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm heavy textur
Alistair Davidson
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