Richard 🎧 Ward
@haunted.audio
Audio producer, sound designer, mix engineer, journalist. https://haunted.audio
Bet I’m not the only person who can summon the smell just reading the words Jorvik Viking Centre, and I was last there over thirty years ago.
Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 3d agoMy new article on Jorvik Viking Centre and its use of smells over the last 40 years has just come out today in The Public Historian! online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-... if you can't access it and want to read it, let me know.
Had the enormous pleasure of mixing this wonderfully thoughtful (and bass-heavy!) programme about identity and lineage. Presented/produced by Silas Gray and exec produced by @peggysutton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Rastafari and I
Silas Gray travels to Ethiopia to explore the legacy he inherited from his Rastafarian dad
bbc.co.uk
Must feel so good for text after you hit ctrl-x, floating in liminal space, before ctrl-v thrusts it back onto the desolate page
Truly disappointed in this car manufacturer's opinion on their car's inbuilt safety systems... aim higher I say
A Midsummer Night’s Dream After several attempts, I finally managed to photograph fireflies in the Czech woods.
Morning all. Of all the many, many photographs I’ve seen this remains one of my all time favourites, like a Caravaggio painting. What a frame. Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Blackpool 1972.
Good news, we noclipped through the wall in one of our strongrooms and found all this empty space ready for more archive storage! We'll be expanding our shelving capacity as soon as we've found a way back to the front desk.
There's a story about the mix for Carpenter's "The Thing". So they're playing back the reel with the Blood Test Scene for Carpenter and the team and as the scene progresses, there's this slowly building rumbling sound... /1
Jane Espenson@janeespenson.bsky.social · 2mo agoI thought this serial killer documentary had a really effective creepy soundtrack. It was my dryer.
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions.
wired.com
just wanted to give a quick shout out to my favorite wikipedia page, list of fictional computers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of fictional computers - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Once I had this thought it was impossible to unsee #strangerthings
equitable_equations@equiequa.bsky.social · 2y agoI can’t be the only one who sees this, right?
In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
moryan.com
This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 5mo agoPhilip Pullman said that anything that a child might encounter in their childhood is appropriate material for a children's story.
All our collaborators get paid within a day of invoicing. It's really not that hard.
Marie Enger@soengery.bsky.social · 5mo agoHow is it a publisher with millions of dollars and a large staff can't pay me on time ever but the indie TTRPG crews have paid out invoices in less than 48 hours?
"[Anaesthesia dreams] are very different. This is new... We really think this is some form of consciousness." themicrodose.substack.com/p/dreaming-w...
Dreaming While Under: 5 Questions with anesthesiologist Harrison Shong-Wen Chow
Chow discusses how dreams during surgery have relieved trauma symptoms.
themicrodose.substack.com
Makes sense that the man who stole from Satoshi Kon's work multiple times would make an animated series with a plagiarism machine. (clip via @ani-obsessive.bsky.social )
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6mo agoFirst trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776' • Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War • Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind • Has SAG voice actors
Communication device - made from clay, wood and plastic. (5 cm's long)
And they all gathered round and listened with wonder
Louise@selkies.bsky.social · 6mo agoGenerate podcast??? Why the fuck is Adobe even giving me this option?? The document I have open is a receipt from the printers
Sorry to see Mark Tully has died - he was very much an old-school gentlemen reporter, immersed in the region he covered. His is a very 20th-century story that I suspect looks alien and in some ways troubling to modern eyes, but he was really devoted to his craft and to India
Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's 'voice of India', dies aged 90 - BBC News
Sir Mark covered some of the defining moments in India's history in a career that spanned decades.
bbc.com
