Another month and another model update accompanied by a massive amount of marketing, Linkedin spam, spin, and dubious claims. Two years ago I debunked claims that Sora would destroy filmmaking. It’s still mostly garbage today. Last year I punished myself by testing Google's Veo model every day for a month. I am still recovering from the AI slop induced nausea. Last week’s new model was a version…
While I was offline for a while (working, coding and studying) a bunch of AI guys and anti-AI folks on social media became overnight experts in Studio Ghibli after OpenAI’s image generator let ChatGPT users generate images in the Ghibli style, or rather what westerners think is the Ghibli style. The AI guys insisted this was a “game changer” and soon anyone would be able to generate any animation…
A few hours ago OpenAI launched its text to video tool ‘Sora’ (Japanese for ‘sky’ but the same character 空 can also be read as ‘kara’ which means ‘empty’.) and predictably AI fanatics spammed film makers forums on Reddit and YouTube claiming the film industry’s days are numbered (they really mean Hollywood Jews, they will not apply this wild idea to film makers in the rest of the world) and that…
We are being told by finance bros, Twitter cretins and LinkedIn lunatics that AI (a buzzword that can mean almost anything now) will displace or replace anywhere between 40-90% of workers, enhance our productivity and make us more efficient, that it will free us up from hard work and give us more leisure time, and even more absurdly, that it will create a world of abundance for all. Let’s break…
Writing this science fiction novel took me 18 years of reading and research. Scrivener came out after I began working on it and over the years was so helpful and indispensable for managing all the notes and ideas. Sometimes I would take an hiatus to read and research other things. Many ideas and scenes were revised or scrapped during those years but the central theme remained constant. I not only…
Today I managed to finally capture my old film school DV tape. The tape had travelled with me for almost 20 years, from flat to flat and from country to country. I thought it wouldn’t have survived after so long. Tape degrades. I was about to capture the tape in early 2020 but then covid came along and delayed those plans. I didn’t want to ask someone to capture it for me. I really wanted to enjoy…
My favourite camera will probably always be my Leica M3, a custom version with a genuine Italian rosewood body. Whenever I take it to camera shops for servicing it always receives the same compliment 'It's a unique piece!' Leica M3 (photo taken with an iPhone :p) I've used just about every type of camera over the years, but what attracted me to the M3 was that Leica put over a decade of research…