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Hey folks, the audiobook of my anti-AI novel - For Emma - has come out today.
This book was written to be spoken & the voice actors have done such a beautiful job.
So moving to hear the characters come alive.
Enjoy.
Link below:
Ewan Morrison
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Ewan Morrison
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Untopian. New novel: FOR EMMA. shorturl.at/XxCcq
Agents: @DMilaschewski @CBTheatreFilmTV
SUBSTACK: ewanmorrison.substack.com
- Star Wars was painted. Almost impossible to believe that most of the epic widescreen sci-fi images in the first 3 Star Wars films were done by 3 "Matte painting" artists. These are fake sets made with plexiglass and oil paint. Even the 100s of storm troopers were painted.
- “The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.” Andrei Tarkovsky
GIF - Post-Technology Future. The art of Simon Stålenhag depicts a parallel universe in which Hi-Tech, Robotics & VR reached amazing heights then suddenly collapsed. An alternative world in which we've regressed to the 1980s, and are surrounded by dead Super-technology. Amazing.
- Murdered for $100. Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) was a painter of breathtaking dystopian images. For all the darkness in his art he was reportedly a humorous, shy man. He was stabbed to death by the 19 year old son of his caretaker after refusing to lend him money.
- If Ridley Scott had retired at the age of 63, like Tarantino claims he is going to, then he would never have directed: Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, American Gangster, Prometheus, The Martian, Alien Covenant, House of Gucci, Napoleon + Gladiator II (+ 8 others). Scott is 86.
- 4 exploded steam locomotives. For no reason other than they are strangely beautiful and look like angry aliens frozen in time. A boiler explosion was so violent it could rip through steel plates, half-an-inch thick and "hurl an entire train into the air like a missile."
- Possibly the least horrific of all the images by Aleksandra Waliszewska. A Polish artist, born in 1976. Her paintings have a "new Gothic style that meshes surrealist imagery, medieval mystery, fairy tale themes and references to the likes of Bosch & Goya"
- The Floating Farm - like something from a children's animated Manga film. It's actually an abandoned potato sorting station in Ukraine.
- Glowing tyres. In 1958 Goodyear created translucent "neothane" tyres that had 18 light bulbs embedded in them. Sadly, they performed poorly in wet conditions and tended to melt when drivers braked too heavily. After ten years of development, they were shelved.
- I can't believe these actually exist. Original concept art for Andrei Tarkovsky's film SOLARIS (1972) from the archives of Mosfilm. They were created by Mikhail Romadin (1940-2012) and are not at all what you'd expect.
- AI stealing the style of Studio Ghibli will be the last straw for many people who were on the fence about copyright. Just - stop. Here’s the master Miyazaki to remind us what real art is.Since this utter garbage is trending, we should take a look at what Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli, said about machine created art.
00:00 - Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was obsessed with creating paintings of imaginary castles. Famous for his work as poet, playwright, novelist, statesman & human rights activist, Hugo's art is less well known though it was avant-garde in his time. He painted w/ink, soot, coffee & blood.
- Sometimes an artist creates one image in their lifetime that transcends everything else they have done. This is Moonrise (1881) by Polish realist painter Stanisław Masłowski (1853-1926).
