Short films by Peter
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Am I imagining what you said?
AI can never experience what it is to be conscious. AI can never feel. AI cannot hear. AI cannot see. AI cannot experience time. Am I imagining what you said? … Continue reading Am I imagining what you said?
PICTURE FRAMER
Photographs taken in Leith, Friday 26th September 2026:
AYE – chalk graffiti [in sign language]
Based on this Trove image: View of chalk street art on side of tenement building, 2017 [Trove] – Dr Alex G C Hale, Archaeologist, Historic Environment Scotland
‘The only intimation’
In the Trove archive I came across the above photograph, dated 2017, of a ‘ghost sign’ of 24 Portland Place, Leith. Trove has indexed it under Dr Alex G C … Continue reading ‘The only intimation’
PRODUCTIVITY gets the wheels turning faster
I came across this in the Edinburgh Evening News of the 3 January 1949.
Bannockburn House Garden
A few photographs from yesterday:
Watch me walk: ring that bell
To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Music credit: ‘G.O.D. And the Broken Ribs’ by Jack White. Clips: On-coming headlights reflected in the windscreen … Continue reading Watch me walk: ring that bell
‘Old violinist: readers memories’
This post shares a timeline, of course terribly incomplete, of Herbert Parkin, a ‘street musician’ familiar to Edinburgh in the 1920s: 1901 census, 44 Edburton Avenue, Brighton: The Parkin family: … Continue reading ‘Old violinist: readers memories’
‘One of the most brilliant students’
I recently came across a fascinating account of the life of Dr Francis Maxwell Chrystal [1882-1944], written by James Hamilton, Research Principal for the WS Society. Much of the photographic … Continue reading ‘One of the most brilliant students’