microdosing Adam Curtis films at the Massive Attack show as a treat
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video making / book collecting Naarm/Melbourne norbateman.co
It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.
2 Die Hard With a Vengeance: the first three Die Hard films playing together as one, jumping between them in release order at every shot change (not synced temporally, so the total runtime is around 5hrs)
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w agoart installation that’s various screenings of Die Hard with the source altered: Die Slow (movie is screened at half speed), Die Die Die Die Die (movie is screened 5x in a row with the credits only appearing at the top of the 1st & end of the 5th), Die Alone (movie is screened in a locked theater)
very successful book fair haul at Trades Hall today - particularly stoked about The Book of Fantasy
People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...
The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map
YouTube video by People Make Games
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this is an excellent one of these. top notch one of these. very good high on the leader board for one of these
絶えず変化する, by 18 DAYS
from the album 無限の色 [Infinite Color]
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1997: Gran Turismo released for the PlayStation 1998: The Cardigans release the album Gran Turismo, featuring the single "My Favourite Game" 1999: Gran Turismo 2 released for the PlayStation, with The Cardigan's "My Favourite Game" as the intro track for NA and EU versions 2026: I realise this
the Sugarcubes cover in here is so damn good
Aquarium Drunkard@aquariumdrunkard.com · 4mo agoThe Lagniappe Sessions :: Shane Parish aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/13/t... No stranger to transformation, Shane Parish takes on late 90s southern gothic Cat Power, the croon of Lana Del Rey, nascent Bjork, and the nearly lost hushed brilliance of German folk singer Sibylle Baier.
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
best Alvvays song not made by Alvvays www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQz...
Stuck
YouTube video by Hatchie - Topic
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a few tracks on the new James Blake cross over into the Junebug zone (high praise)
@andrew-ray.bsky.social Hi Andrew, I stumbled onto your blog via Kagi's new Small Web feature and am greatly enjoying it. If you haven't read this already, I think you might get some mileage out of Adrian Duncan's relatively recent novel The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat place will AI have in game development? Senior figures from across the games industry weigh in on the future of AI use. https://bit.ly/4uB8396
Fine's 'sonic diary' for NTS from Jan is ideal cooking music: one of the best solo Spice Girls tracks, Janet Jackson doing Moments in Love ("Anything"), and her own intimate demo sandwiched between t.A.T.u. and Jojo - www.nts.live/shows/fine/e...
FINE 6th January 2026
Playing Pop, Hip Hop , RNB. Sonic diaries from Fine…
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My cyberpunk video collage RESET is now on display in Singapore at ArtScience Museum as part of the exhibition Another World is Possible, which runs until 22 Feb. It was single channel at ACMI in 2024, but for this exhibition it's been fractured and placed onto a heap of screens, which is fitting.
@jacobgeller.com have you read Lisa Tuttle's novella My Death? I finished playing Returnal this week and watched your video - this book is very much within the wheelhouse of that game thematically
i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 8mo agoAs the backlash to generative AI in video games continues to pick up steam heading into 2026, it'll be fascinating to see what is considered "made with generative AI." Can a dev team say they're not using AI if they're writing design docs with Copilot or using chatGPT to make schedules and budgets?
I had to capture the intro to GP mode because it's just. this is how you fucking DO it
Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 9mo agobeing shown Ridge Racer Type 4 by a coworker and I don't think I've ever been as thoroughly blown back in my seat by how stylish a game is, jesus christ the music is ALL JAMS
I recently copped some HD 600s at half price and the most notable 'oh god these are great' moment so far has been listening to the latest Stereolab double a-side
really enjoying the new CV Vision album, it's like scanning through stations late at night, pausing intermittently to catch a fuzzy psych rock track: cvvision.bandcamp.com/album/releas...
Release The Beast, by CV Vision
14 track album
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well read - you've correctly identified a situation you're well read - you've read a lot of books well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher
The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...
Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 10mo agoI have two FM RF LaserDisc that uploads going up tomorrow that I'm very excited to share with everyone. One is for lovers of the American Southwest. Another is for New York, baby.