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?
Category: Progress hardly broke its stride
A line from a poem by Iain Banks
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
in other words
I have hand-coloured on photoshop this advertisement that I came across in The Scotsman, 13 May 1960.
The clock ticked. Her eye twitched. Deep breath. Another pill.
I have read much of the work by Muriel Spark. Her ‘Sparkian’ approach is one that I both love and admire. Recently, I read an account of her life and … Continue reading The clock ticked. Her eye twitched. Deep breath. Another pill.
Temple to Time & Eternity
Donibristle chapel and family vault, Fife [Trove ] Ordnance Survey Book entry: Donibristle House, circa 1840: 8 April 1858, Glasgow Courier: 26 May 1859, Fifeshire Journal: 27 March 1895, Perthshire … Continue reading Temple to Time & Eternity
broken ribs
Part of Observer review of a recent concert in London by Jack White. I recently made this short film based on: ‘G.O.D. And the Broken Ribs’ by Jack White. To … Continue reading broken ribs
‘Here is the evidence that Scotland is alert and looking forward’
North Star and Farmers Chronicle, 30 August 1947:
MAD BUYER
117 London Road Edinburgh [sketch from a Trove photograph taken in the early 1980s]