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24.2.25
Classical Music Playlists
3.2.25
Comics, Art & Design Playlists
YOUTUBE playlist LINK
Letterboxd List
COMICS/ART/DESIGN PODCASTS
Comic Geek Speak - LINK
Comics Connection/Comics Experience Make Comics Podcast - LINK
Comic Timing - LINK
Design Matters w/ Debbie Millman - LINK
Fire and Water Podcast - LINK
iFanboy - LINK
13.1.25
Stage, Theatre and Dance
28.11.24
15.10.24
The CHILLZONE
relax yourself and float downstream
YOUTUBE playlist LINK HERE
CHILLZONE MUSIC (downtempo, chillout, ambient, low key electronic music)
24.1.24
The 2024 Collection is Live!
New designs for January are available today!
I Have It
Inalienable rights are those than cannot be taken.
Lemon Mouth
Distance may not be an obstacle, but you still wear me out.
So Long Ago
Who are the Angles singing about?
Drama Without Equal
Sail away and soon forget about your promise.
Son of a Deer
Leave everything to me.
26.11.23
Winter / Holiday Playlists
Winter & Holiday Collection
A collection of Winter, Holiday, Thanksgiving and NYE, Christmas, Hanukkah, and other general Snow-themed titles.
30.9.23
More AI experiments
In recent months, I've been playing around with the various AI art generators, and I've used their output as a springboard towards some fresh images. Here are some of them for yr enjoyment!
Above:
"A Quiet Day in the Country, but with Aliens" turned out the inset photo.
I've decided to go all mid-century sci-fi novella on it.
Above:
"Vote Crispus"started with the revolutionary fists, presumably from some Third World country. One of the AI generators had a version with the gentleman in the lower middle, frozen with an accused look that I thought added a more sinister tone. There's no particular candidate named Crispus, and a vote for that person might not be in everyone's best interest. I don't think it's our central character. It reminds me of something from a Costa-Gavras picture.
Above:
A pair of imaginary bands, Sinister Day's "No One Will Save You", which could be for a stoner metal band from somewhere like the Netherlands. I guess there's a wicked Aussie psy-trance artist with this name too.
This started from a graveyard statue and a plume of smoke from a factory.
And then, the album Flora from Exotic. The AI spit out a freaky-looking flower from an old series of nature shots I did long ago. I think it looks like a female-fronted indie pop band's second album, circa 1996 or 1997.
Above:
A totally unauthorized tour poster for one of my favorite bands, Yo La Tengo, and their latest album, This Stupid World, which is just terrific and can be had for a low price at only the finest local record shoppes in your town.
16.9.23
10.8.23
AI monsters
I used Adobe's Firefly for the first time and made some monsters:
Frankenstein Brass Band
Robot Butter
1.1.23
16.5.21
How to Lose What We Have (in our hands)
Contains elements from:
In Our Hands: How to Lose What We Have (1950), Wilding Picture Productions, Inc.,
American Economic Foundation (Inland Steel Co. & Borg-Warner Corp.);
You're No Good (1965), National Film Board of Canada;
The Terrible Truth (1951), Sidney Davis Productions;
Ants: Nature’s Craftsmen (1920), Pathe Studios;
To Market, To Market (1942), General Outdoor Advertising Company;
Discovering Dark and Light (1965), Phoenix Films;
Sections (1947), CRM Films.
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