This week in Southampton an argument was breaking out in my road and one of the individuals decided to launch my compost bin at the person they were arguing with. I retrieved said bin grumbling (thankfully it hadn’t opened mid flight) they even came back and said sorry about using my bin as a weapon
Yes! I been accepted to a preview of the Ray Harryhausen Exhibition in the ARC Winchester! A master of stop motion animation, sfx and fantasy film making, very much one of the key inspirations on my journey into animation and games. I have been fortunate to seen his work previously at the Berlin film museum. At the ARC preview Vanessa Harryhausen his daughter will be there as well plus goodie bags !! I am only slightly excited. See the Exhibtion yourself from Saturday 26th 😀
I really enjoy my work at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and we have risen another place and are now 7th for Art and Design in the UK, Complete University Guide. Book your spot on our upcoming open day and see what we do !
Train cancelled again twice this week due to trespassers on the line … for goodness sake the planet is burning so let’s disrupt public transport. Idiots
I was at work in the UK 9/11 and I recall being told turn on the TV and being transfixed as live we saw a second plane hit WT2, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I have since been fortunate to visit the memorial in NYC. I don’t know anyone directly affected but it was a moment of complete terror
There is another car behind the van doing the same. Both on double yellows but locally there is a visually impaired person that walks this road to the shops most days. Car people parking up on the curb are inconsiderate (I won’t use worse language)
I continue to love that on iOS I have auto updates on but this setting is not respected as apps never update so I have to go in and check and yep 52 updates today outstanding 🤦
When so much of my comms is via teams, WhatsApp, signal, micro.blog I really wish train WiFi wouldn’t tease me with notifications and semi updates as it’s just cheeses me right off when nothing loads ! (And I have to copy stuff incase it’s destroyed)
Care is the only future we have and Ai is so far is the opposite of care - Cory Doctorow
I am going to grab my head of department quote from when I took over this year
We flourish when creativity meets care—empowering staff and students to explore, question and make together, so our ideas shape better futures in art and media technology.
Care is so important
I’ve been a fan of Cory Doctorow for a long time, most of the time I cannot keep up with all he is doing. Once again he has smashed it out of the park bringing a really insightful critique of Ai. His ability to have such depth and detail but explain in such understandable terms is faultless. YouTube
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I’ve been a dog owner for well over a decade. Monty is dog number 2. And yesterday some random guy has a go at me for Monty fake wee’ing (he had already gone a lot) onto a concrete wall outside “his” house. Ps no way did he own the house they are all rented around me. I think he just wanted a fight.
Yes more cool stuff from @dajbelshaw@mastodon.social
Through my work I have been very fortunate to have been able to visit Barcelona, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and last week Delhi. This all started because I wanted to make cartoons and become an animator this route was via Art School / University. I am so glad I was able to follow my passion.
I really do need to do some work on my template for micro.blog so my blog looks nicer and easier to navigate. Need to fix photos, need to fix books, I also think the surprise me link could feature better, fix overall styling and I need to update or delete my now page!
I think Rosie and Monty may have missed me while I was away 🐱 🐶
Photos from my work trip to Delhi incoming. I have never been to such an overwhelming place. It was a great experience so much to blow one’s mind.
Starlink to the rescue Mikey T on the headphones and a beer on British airways coming into London :) COYD
Star link WiFi on Plane is pretty wild.
Same Old Wombles special is out celebrating 25 years ago we created an unofficial match day programme as part of the protests against the proposed move of Wimbledon FC to Milton Keynes. Search “Same Old Wombles” in your podcatcher of choice.
25 years ago Wimbledon fans started an unofficial matchday programme Yellow and Blue, part of the protests against the then owners announcement to move us 70+ miles away. Special Same Old Wombles podcast in the can, chatting with those who made it happen out soon subscribe in your podcatchers
I thought @manton or @danielpunkass this week mentioned something about that we might be hand writing less code but great software isn’t (really) about writing code… hoping to find it as a quote around vibe coding
Saturday I fly to New Delhi India for work. I have never been to India or any other mega city. I am both excited and truely terrified. I love curry, spice and beer so I am hopefully for a wonderful time
The Big Walk ok that is a cool game. Be good if the audio can be routed to headphones plugged into controller jack mind