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LEE MADGWICK
UNGENTRIFIED
ALBERTO MIELGO
MARATHON
Insanely talented animator and director
Alberto Mielgo. A lot of his work is strangely
hard to get hold of. One of the sites he
worked for - pinkman.tv sets off alarms
with several of my browsers, some of his
best work is behind a netflicks paywall
and don't even get me started about
vimeo and their stupid age verification.
That said, enjoy, and wait, like me,
for his next twisted masterpiece
JIBARO
(MUSIC VIDEO VERSION)
WINDSCREEN WIPER
GENTRIFICATION
Double click to start editing the text
INTERVIEW
(MAKING OF JIBARO)
TORBAHEAD
HAYLEY CHIU
MINIMALIST SURREALISM FROM CANADA
RESONANCE FM
RADIO UNTAMED
Shamefully, I'd almost forgotten about Resonance FM
until I heard Stewart Lee singing its praises
on Radio 4 this week.
Some years ago, I had gone to one of their shows
at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Lon.
(home of the annual Anarchist Book Fair)
and it was a bit too Avant - Garde for my tastes
(I'm more experimental - a different thing)
Anyway, a radio station without setlists,
poptarts and general pandering to listener figures
- I should be celebrating it, too.
I'm going to make a mental note to listen more often.
Excellent Stewart Lee interview on
why everything is rubbish
THE END OF ART ?
I was going to post some of the work of an artist
I really like, who has been working since 2009.
I then noticed he had started using AI in 2024.
In his own words "I went from producing one
piece a week to making one every day"
As a result, there are hundreds of pictures
on his site - with no indication which is which.
I'm not even going to argue about the morality
of the issue - AI is just another fashion -
and I don't do fashion. But the way the whole of
society is being railroaded into using it is both
annoying and suspicious.
I deal with tech every day,
but I haven't found a single use for it
I've had trouble finding anything interesting
this week. I've no intention of turning this into
a full-time job, or blogging other people's blogs.
I've always lived by serendipity -
and it's the same with the internet.
Stumbling across the unusual and inventive
while doing research for creative projects
is one of the things I like best about my life.
The media-making landscape isn't looking
particularly great at the moment:
Digital artists on reddit complaining
of no sales because everyone
thinks their work is AI.
Bosses forcing their workers to use it,
even though it looks like trash.
Animators making one or two personal films
before being forced to work
for some soulless corporation.
I just got an email from a music distributor,
with a guide on how to weed out AI music.
I'm not giving up on blogging -
I still believe in an independent internet,
despite people saying it's already been broken .
I just refuse to buy into it -
I advise everyone else to do the same.
For those who are interested -
I use the brave browser to cut out
a load of the ads and anti-privacy stuff
and only ever use DuckDuckGo for
searches - I'm hoping the little bit
of tech, below, will help, too.
FREEWARE
A COLLECTION OF SMALL FREE UTILITIES
THAT MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR SANITY
AUDIO
For creating that mp3 playlist
Normalizes the volumes in your playlist
Make your computer audio compatible
with that bluetooth speaker or
music keyboard
VIDEO
Helps your uploaded video start quickly
Plays all media files and isn't microsoft
Download any video from anywhere
Used to be brilliant, but they filled it with adware ...
This is a clean version, with the nasties removed
Recommended by MajorGeeks
IMAGES
Free and non-microsoft
Replace missing or damaged icons on your desktop
Replace missing program thumbnails on your computer
Easy but feature-rich animator with timeline by Ulead
INTERNET
Vastly speeds up your internet connection
- good for large uploads
Rock-steady, independent email client
Back-up email client
Same as above
HARD DRIVE
Auslogics' free program has an auto backup
and even dedicated online support. Safe and fast
Vital when you have to set up windows again
Frees up the registry
The best partition manager I found -
intuative and stable
PLEASE NOTE:
The next 2 programs in this section
can be downloaded as trials. That should
be all you need to install / clone a drive
Helps your computer recognise the new hard-disk
Before AOMEI, I used this -
It never let me down
ESSENTIALS
Find out what's starting at bootup
Disable before you delete
According to MajorGeeks, Tweaking.com haven't
updated this program since 2023 - Having said that,
I just used it to fix a major glitch in Windows 11
It's like a reset for your registry.
For iso and DVD files
* All files tested safe, but check with your antivirus
BEN LEVIN
Genius is an overused term,
but when it comes to some of
Ben's creations, it's pretty damn close
TSUNAMI GIRL
KATRINA BABIES
Edward Buckles was a young child in
New Orleans when hurricane Katrina hit.
Years later, he became a director and
made a film about the aftermath
Podenco supplied the animated sequences
CHEMICAL MESSIAH
JOSHUA DUNLAP
