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Farewell To A Dear Friend

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Our friend Nigel Buesst. A friendship of so many years, 62 years since we first met. Plenty of water under the bridge. Nigel at home with his minder, Jedda  photo by Ivan Gaal I was just starting out in my life as a filmmaker, working at the State Film Centre in the library section. One day I was on counter duties, receiving films returning from borrowers and handing out films to other borrowers. In walked Nigel with a bundle of films under his arm, returning them from a film society he was involved with at the time. I think it was the CSIRO film group and Nigel was collecting another bundle which they would run in an upcoming programme. A short conversation of a few minutes at the counter established that we were both interested in making films and soon enough we became close friends. Nigel was about to shoot “Fun Radio” which was a real buzz for me. He asked me to shoot a few shots from his fancy sports car so I got to operate his new Bolex camera for a tracking shot or two as ...
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"The Pain of the Bare-Fleshed Skindiver" By David King

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Tourists are always being told to dress  conservatively  when  visiting temples in Bali.  But a pair of  swimming  trunks  or  a bikini is just fine for the              Underwater Temple at Jemeluk Bay . The Temple was never intended as an actual place of worship, but as a home  for marine life. It was originally known as The Post Office because divers  could post special underwater post cards in a net hanging from the ceiling and  the cards were collected each day by PT Pos (the Indonesian postal service).  The underwater post cards were sold by local dive shops. The Temple no longer has this function but still exists to attract and provide  a home for various forms of marine life. It was placed on the seabed in  Jemeluk Bay in 2010 by Reef Check Indonesia and associated groups. The reason Andrea and I didn’t take advantage of such relaxed dress standards ...
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"caught in time"

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  "caught in time" A little movie made with a lot of assistance from my AI imaging slaves!  All of them! It's too complicated to tell you every single step in the process today,  but I'll respond to questions later.  The best part is having my sister Chris writing great music for me whenever I need it! Hope you like! pt
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NOIR

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                                     NOIR Made with a great deal of assistance various from AI engines  and my friend  MR.GRIM All will be explained later, maybe... pt
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Luma's Ludicrous Dream Machine

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  Over the past few days I've been trying to create a modern parable based upon the New Testament story... "The Flight into Egypt"  I've used both the new Luma Dream Machine and some of Luma's competitors, all to no avail. What I get back are comical crazy cartoon-like jumbles instead of a a serious representation of my prompt which often includes a picture as well as carefully worded text. So here's one of my first visual prompts, courtesy wonderful copyright-free Rembrandt! I fed this image into Luma with some accompanying text to guide it towards my intended output  "Joseph leads Mary and Jesus through the rubble in the war zone of Gaza" and here's what came out: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YBvW50MCQPuyGg8zKOJI5wRyrSk53Mc2/view?usp=drive_link Starting with a different image I tried another test: An elderly man dressed in historical Middle Eastern clothing leads a donkey which carries his wife and child. They pass through a war zone of a...
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