I am fascinated by CLIP guided neural interpretations of text. There’s something delightful about the interplay between the metaphorical language of poetry and the dream-like hallucinations of the net. Some of the lines produced amazing…
Culture is a strange beast. Internet culture doubly so. Who could have possibly predicted that the dominant cultural phenomena of early 2021 would be … sea shanties? Senator Bernie Sanders also became a ‘meme’ when…
In July 2016, whilst he was running for office, I painted a portrait of Donald Trump. Today, after four years of horror, he finally left. To celebrate I burnt the canvas. I hope you enjoy…
We (The Private Sector) managed to record and release a track in the depths of lockdown called Quarantine Age Kicks. As we move into the inevitable second wave and associated constrictions, the song seems even…
I had a promotional branded Rubik’s Cube lying around, which I picked up, I think, at #pydata. Having lived through the original craze in the 80s, the object has an enduring resonance. It struck me…
We are 156 days from an almost inevitably ‘hard’ brexit. One may question how we got here, and whilst the tale is complex and rife with corruption and lies, one thread remains constant – the…
I’ve been tinkering with Unity as a tool for film-making. I am amazed at the power of realtime gaming systems to generate filmic imagery. This experiment takes the opening paragraphs of War of the Worlds…
William Blake seems all the rage at the moment. The ‘artist/poet/visionary’ thing has a universal appeal and tends to resonate throughout the generations. I shan’t go into details of his biography, I’ll leave that to…
I tried lip-sync’ing to Prince via Avatarify and recording the results. Frame-rate is a bit crappy, but not bad for ‘real-time-processing’ The future of karaoke, perhaps?
The story of boy meets girl is as old as time. One particular manifestation of the love story is the photo-comic; popular in the 1980s, often shoddily produced and sold to bored teenage girls. This…