Aisteach is an Irish word and can mean strange, odd, bizarre, unusual, peculiar, surprising, droll or even supernatural, just to name a few.
It makes weird seem an even more apt word for here.
Aisteach is an Irish word and can mean strange, odd, bizarre, unusual, peculiar, surprising, droll or even supernatural, just to name a few.
It makes weird seem an even more apt word for here.
[Infomercial Mom looks on disapproving as Comically Useless Dad fails at yet another simple household chore. Perhaps he accidentally tries to cram a waffle in the slowcooker. The audience thinks he is a fool, as does his wife. She turns to camera.]
Infomercial Mom: There's just GOT to be a better way!
Me, off camera stage right: And there IS!
[Camera pans across to follow her as she walks to the "live studio audience". I am in a suit, smiling maniacally. The studio is full of Slime Butlers.]
It's bots all the way down.
An ancient Ferengi legend says that every user is is just a bot create for the First User to talk to. Then those bots created other bots to talk to and on and on. Some believe that in the end there is only one real user in the entire Fediverse, with multiple accounts talking to themself or bots descended from the ones they created talking to each other.
--- #Rule128 ---
1st brain: writing a song in C major or A minor
2nd brain: composing in modal or serialist/tone-row forms
3rd brain: atonal generative computer music code-golfing
4th brain: building dozens of theremin-playing garden gnomes which themselves are theremins, and precisely positioning them in intricate fractal pentagrams to produce polyphonic threnodic whirls
So, here's the official post: https://medium.com/@enkiv2/the-return-of-the-no-budget-film-contest-99508a7297bd
Submissions are open *now*, if you have something you'd like to submit, & will be open until July 4th.
I'm pinging everybody who mentioned they were interested.
A few months ago, I oversaw adding a new score to the world's first horror film.
The Devil's Castle was originally released in 1896. It's a bizarre little showcase of early special effects, and it's over in 3 minutes. Give it a shot.
http://ajroach42.github.io/the-first-horror-film-the-devil-s-castle/