I’d never heard of them but had a quick listen and sounds real old school thrash. Looks like they are building up quite a following and this should bag them some new fans.
There are also thrash band Top Trumps cards to download on the Earache site which would have been good but they forgot Xentrix!
Stephen Wiltshire the British born autistic artist who draws incredible city panormas entirely from memory is currently working on New York. He started Monday this week and is due to finish tomorrow so the embedded live webcam will probably only show anything for a short time.
Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His work is popular all over the world, and is held in a number of important collections.
Stephen was born in London to West Indian parents on 24th April, 1974. As a child he was mute, and did not relate to other human beings. Aged three, he was diagnosed as autistic. He had no language and lived entirely in his own world.
There’s quite a few movie links sites around now but Classic Cinema Online fills the creaky, black and white, pulpy horror movie shaped void in my life.
Seriously, tons of great old films here from all sorts of genres but Halloween gets me in the mood for bad horror and scifi movies and there are plenty of those here.
The movies mostly seem to be on Youtube and Google video so streaming is pretty nippy but quality isn’t great. Not exactly blu-ray quality films though.
Looks like an interesting idea, can’t wait to have a play. Basically you draw a sketch and give a search term to each of the objects, it searches flickr. filters the images and then does some tasty manipulation to composite the images together and sort out the lighting.
I wanted to like it, I really did. I quite enjoyed “The Da Vinci Code” as a fun, yet slightly silly thriller and I could just about look past the “bollocks wrapped up as fact” feat he pulled off which still has people quoting “facts” from the book because Dan Brown told them it was real in the introduction…which was actually a very clever little trick. With this new one though the yarn just isn’t good enough to outweigh all the annoyances that I managed to overlook before.
The book has a cliffhanger every other chapter or so, all several billion of them. Most of the supporting characters exist as barely a job description, appearing for a few characterless minutes to drive the plot on to the next inevitable cliffhanger.
The “science” and tech stuff was dreadful which shouldn’t really annoy me in a book which is loosely based on reality but since Dan Brown states much like before in the introduction that all the science is real you’d expect some of it to be, well real.
There was an awful lot of guff about science not really discovering anything, just rediscovering ancient wisdom that had been forgotten, and some pretty weak coincidences between modern science and ancient texts that supposedly back it up. The IP address tracing bit was pretty funny too complete with pointless hacker who appears and disappears swiftly from the tale.
Noetic science? I’m not even going to bother with the claims made on that one. Sure it’s ‘real’ in the same way that homoeopathy is ‘real’, it exists as something some crazy people believe in. None of it is proven in the way that is claimed.
Maybe I’m just too much of a science/skeptic geek. Maybe I’d be less annoyed if the stuff wasn’t sold as being “true”. Or maybe it was all a bit dull and this is the most interesting thing I can say about it. Regardless the man knows how to make money so he must be doing something right.
