@neilkbrand.bsky.social hi Neil! My son is coming with his school to the BFI tomorrow to see Sunrise with your accompaniment - he’s in for a treat, he’s really looking forward to it!

The Godfather is one of those films which you’ve seen on a TV and thought “this is brilliant”, but until you’ve seen it in a cinema, you ain’t seen nothing.

Happy Doctor Who day! Wearing my Gallifrey t-shirt to mark the occasion, hand made for me by my eldest son a few years ago :-)

one for @scarredforlife.bsky.social

@world-of-telly.bsky.social Long drive down the M6 today - very much enjoyed several eps of your podcast, especially Moonbase 3, which I remember watching, aged 7, with my parents on Sundays in 1973. Pretty sure there was a feature on Blue Peter about the programme's SFX, possibly with Matt Irvine?

I love the Nancy comics, this one is funny on so many levels

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Recently, I have used various LLMs as a Google search substitute because they're easier to query and the answers are presented in a seemingly coherent manner. But last week, when asking a simple question: "can I travel between these two London train stations using contactless payment?" (cont)

Tough day, amused ourselves by getting ChatGPT to make stupid ads for old cars.

What’s it like inside your head?

Very sad to hear about Dave Ball’s death. 35 years ago this was in heavy rotation at our house: Floatation, The Grid youtube.com/watch?v=OBpb...

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842 In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

I’m not sure why whatever benighted algorithm it was served this up to me today (perhaps image searches for weird creature references?) - do people actually wear these things? Is it even real?

🎵 Bluedot headliner Hannah Peel returns to #JodrellBank for an exclusive evening of music and discussion! In conversation with Prof. Tim O’Brien, this event fuses science and storytelling to explore new ways of understanding the Universe through sound. 🎟️ www.jodrellbank.net/events/in-co...

If you see this, post a dragon 🐉

For old-school space nerds visiting the @sciencemuseum.org.uk in London - lower right of the CSM control panel on display next to the Apollo 10 Command Module.

Director Iain Softley and Fisher “The Plague” Stevens on stage at the @princecharlescinema.com last night for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers

In a packed @princecharlescinema.com waiting for the 30th anniversary screening of Hackers!

Holy hooting heck - 30 years today since this baby was released into the world. This is where my career in feature film VFX began. Hack the planet!!!

It's the 30th anniversary of Hackers - the mighty @princecharlescinema.com screens the movie on Thursday 18th Sept, with an in-person intro by director Iain Softley. 35mm sold out, but still tix for the digital screening. My first feature film VFX job! princecharlescinema.com/film/6780863...

Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR orbits back to the PCC from Fri 19th Sep on 70mm. Few films demand the grandeur of celluloid quite like this one: a sweeping voyage across galaxies, black holes, and the limits of human endurance. 🎟️ : tinyurl.com/f5w59x96

SHOWING TODAY 🎞️ - PSYCHO - EASY RIDER - TWO-LANE BLACKTOP - THE TOXIC AVENGER UNCUT - DREAMS - VANISHING POINT - UN FLIC - THIS IS SPINAL TAP princecharlescinema.com

@dirkmaggs.bsky.social lovely to find you on here, Dirk!

The deep 3D animator geek within me (actually not that deep) wants to point out that this is a dodecahedron, not a tetrahedron

So I was turned on to the smart Apple TV series Murderbot by my friend David Dastmalchian, who's in it, and found it to be a bright spot in current sci-fi programming. It's very clever and unique and well worth a visit. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEio...

Long day at the Vfx coal face. Winding down with TNG’s The Measure of a Man and a glass of wine. What an episode - @melindas.bsky.social wrote a truly brilliant script and the cast knocked it out of the park and into orbit. Pretty soon this is going to be reality.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

The London A to Z. Before the internet/smartphones *everyone* carried one with them. Mine would slowly disintegrate in the bottom of my bag, requiring an annual replacement.

Post a kick-ass woman! (The brilliant Tove Jansson)

After a busy week for us, #SundayMorning has crept up on me unexpectedly! Here's our usual start to the day: this is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. The subject of the painting was Corporation Buildings. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums.

Godzilla 1954 sketch for a painting. Idea would show blue radiation in cracks, and trilobites, etc and wreckage.

THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

This is soooo good - a must watch for fans of classic British TV horror, and anyone who appreciates great writing and a stellar cast.

What's beyond a supermassive black hole? Say hello to the "stupendously large black hole" - 200 billion solar masses. There's not enough boggle left in my mind for this.

Sky at Night - BBC 4 tonight at 21.50 - celebrates the 350th birthday of Royal Observatory Greenwich, and we get to talk about time and black holes. It's genuinely a great episode - please watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I've discovered a nifty way to add camera shake to clips in Premiere without all that messing around in AfterEffects, and now I'm going crazy making all my animatics look handheld - wish I'd know about this years ago.

I see a lot of miseryguts comments in my timeline about the Doctor Who finale. I had a joyous time watching it last night with my (big) kids in a packed Leicester Square cinema. Anyway, somebody sent me this - I guess it was inevitable.

As an aside, London has a murder rate of approximately 1.1 per 100,000 people per year, which is why it isn't on the table

As it would be the birthday of #PeterCushing today, I feel obligated to tell this story of one of the nicest men in horror.

Was rooting through my photo library, came across some images from the miniature stage on The Dark Knight Rises. 1/5th scale Bane's Lair + Tumbler at New Deal's old Marina del Rey facility, January 2012. We used the miniature for the shot when Bane blows the charges and the Tumbler drops through.

Want a Dugga Doo? My Katy is handmaking and painting these little guys to order, from lightweight air drying clay. £5 UK inc postage and packaging. DM me if you want one! #DoctorWho

We've had a few days away during the past week, so it has taken me a while to realise what day it is, but I have concluded that it must be #SundayMorning ! So, here's "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929 from the collection at Brighton Museums #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

At De Martino in Fitzrovia, London, celebrating Dickie Bain's VFX BAFTA win for Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Season 2!

As well as his powerhouse performance as Darius Jedburgh in Edge of Darkness, Joe Don Baker played a baddie in The Living Daylights and was back for more - this time as a goodie - in Goldeneye & Tomorrow Never Dies, threatening to overwhelm Bond with charisma on every occasion.

This is such great interview with Shirley Manson - inspirational.

BBC Radio 6 Music Journeys In Sound Shirley Manson of Garbage shares the songs that have sound-tracked her life and how her experiences and emotions are woven into her own music.

One for @rogerhighfield.bsky.social :-)

Hell's bells! From the savagery of the rabbits to the grim squalor of Dickie Attenborough's serial killer and so much more - that is one serious downer of a film season, the perfect antidote to the joys of summer!

Spacecraft hits asteroid part 2