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The entire universe – space & time – was created instantly in a single massive Big Bang that can still be ‘heard’ today as a musical note in background radiation.
After the explosion, stars and planets spontaneously formed over billions of years from the expanding debris, the  expansion initially slowing down but more recently speeding up.
This [...]

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First of all we are aware of problems with sevcom.com and tomellard.com dropping out and being slow and when Stephen gets a chance he’ll advise me on whether the Chinese Army are attacking or what up. I am moving online sales to an external service and will announce it when it’s ready.
Secondly – Sensible Blog [...]

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Gig done / speech done / beer drunk /egos smoothed / back room plotting / photos taken /all that shit. Most of the stuff is on the sevcom front page is all I really need to say. The M Squared night was great too but no pictures up yet as far as I can tell. [...]

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2010 looms. Playtime is over.
Regretfully I must now commence a four year stint in the research army. Called up, given a rifle, sent off to battle the foe. The letter came a few weeks ago and it grimly sets out the conditions under which research will take place:

You must spend 35 hours a week researching. [...]

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Haven’t been able to write. Too busy filling in the application to start the next layer of academic cake. The process of proving artistic worth (”provide evidence of action painting – include section of canvas torn by police officer”) is disheartening.
I can understand that they need some kind of proof (”photograph of audience disapproval – [...]

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There. Got your attention.
The problem revealed by The Spirits Within and The Polar Express; that synthetic actors look like freshly dug corpses dragged about on invisible meat hooks – this is not going to hold Hollywood back for too many more years.
Please view this pictorial comparison. One of these is DAZ3D’s latest ‘unimesh’, Victoria 4.2. [...]

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Today I started furnishing six new bulletin board systems for KUNST KAMP, based on Omnium, the KAMP’s didactic BBS. (Furnishing because the nice folk at Omnium did the real lifting). While not perfect, Omnium includes many of the facilities that were ardently desired by the people on the old sevcom Twister system. While it is [...]

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This was going to be a music class but synthesis takes a while to explain, especially when you disagree with a large amount of what is written on the subject. E.g. the thing that defines good ’subtractive’ synthesisers is the additive (wave shaping) effects of their circuitry. Which makes most subtractive tutorials ‘well meaning’ in [...]

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What is a museum? A depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value (wordnet.princeton.edu)
Are museums useful and necessary? Yes, they store significant examples of production and culture that are needed for accurate history and as material for further research & creativity. Bad recall can sometimes inspire new work (e.g. current [...]

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Antithesis3D regret that we will no longer be offering our real time 3D software on which you have just spent a tidy sum. This page provides answers to Frequently Asked Questions about these changes.
Q: You Bastards!
A: All the team at Antithesis were in fact born to married parents except Jimbo the CEO.
Q: You mean yet [...]

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