Puerto Pollo at Dawn
Jim Clark and I have just released a shiny new Monkey Island Ambience track. This one was inspired by a small piece of concept art found in the CMI manual….
Continue readingKurt Schwitters Midjourney
I’m not an art scientist but it seems to me that Kurt Schwitters would have had something to say about AI generative art. He saw machines as “abstractions of human…
Continue readingEnchanted Lands – Volume 3
The long awaited third installment of Enchanted Lands has been released. It’s an ambient tapestry of tone and texture, exploring themes both old and new. You should definitely check it…
Continue readingBroulee Briefly
We had the opportunity to take a week off and decided to head to Broulee prior to the Easter and school holiday rush. I hadn’t been down there for quite…
Continue readingMore tomatoes? Yes please.
It’s been a weird season in the garden. My tomatoes performed poorly. So poor in fact that I basically gave up on them half-way through. Other gardening-inclined friends of mine…
Continue readingStarWars Ambience – Jawa Workshop
Somewhere past the Jundland Wastes, a Jawa community has established a semi-permanent settlement. Homes, markets and a large workshop mark an area of territory that is relatively safe from Tusken…
Continue readingDo Androids Dream of Dinner?
After the success with our first ChatGPT recipes, I went all-in on the concept and ended up putting together a little eCookbook. It’s now available on Amazon in Kindle format….
Continue readingDo Androids Dream of Dessert?
It’s kind of hard to avoid the Chat GPT thing at the moment. This week we decided to make a theme of it and use the bot to write recipes…
Continue readingBlood Island at Dawn
Blood Island is well known for it’s night time atmosphere. Live entertainment, a wide range of pirate cocktails and free nachos mean that a lot of people aren’t awake to…
Continue readingA very COVID Christmas
Our festive season plans were entirely upended by the ‘ol Coronavirus this year. The plan was to have everyone over to our place. A fair bit of research, development and…
Continue readingFrom The Library 2022
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History – Rachel Laudan Visualizing Taste – Ai Hisano Reid: House of Fame – Alan Foskett The Home and the World – Rabindranath Tagore…
Continue readingWSET Level 1 Award in Wines
After returning from Napa I was inspired to start some sort of formal qualification in wines. I ended up taking the WSET Level 1 course through the fine folks at…
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