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A Fascinating View Of A Past Era
As someone with a bit of a historical bent, I found the following most fascinating. In 1951, a collection of 3500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth century were found. Digitally scanned, they...
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A New Project – Of Dust and Gold
The first annoucement that is coming out of the changes previously announced is a new blog – Of Dust and Gold. This is a collaborative project between my fiance and I, based on a steampunk setting we...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Writing Process
Back in 1978, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg sat down to brainstorm out the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The whole process was taped, and those taped have now been transcribed into a PDF....
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PJ’s Sneak Peek at The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
For those that bought The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, they were given access to a special to a special live online event which featured the first look at the second part, The Desolation of Smaug,...
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Castle/Firefly TV Intro Mashup
I saw the following video yesterday, a mash up of two of my favourite shows – Castle and Firefly. (Both, oddly, starring Nathan Fillion.) It takes the theme and style of Firefly and uses the cast of...
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Cyberpunk 2077
One of my all time favourite movies is Blade Runner, perhaps the quintessential movie of the cyberpunk style and theme. For those unfamiliar with cyberpunk – and who haven’t seen Blade Runner – it is...
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Mars Colonisation Simulator
I have mentioned before how much I’d enjoy to explore a new world, where none had set foot before, and how it was unlikely to happen in my lifetime. There is of course Mars One and its plans to sent...
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Short Film – The Reward
The following is a short animated film, around 9 minutes in length, about a pair of unlikely adventurers. It is very much in the heroic fantasy style of adventuring (think Conan) than the high fantasy...
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Ancient Stone Structure Beneath Sea of Galilee
As a history buff, this is the kind of thing I find interesting – beneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel, a massive, mysterious stone structure has been found, and no one is exactly sure as to its...
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Doctor Who Meets Metal
I went to school during the 80s, so as a result I heard a fair bit of Metal – I even have a collection of it still on my old cassettes, which haven’t been played for years. Yesterday I came across this...
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Sounds of the Past
It amazing what you can find when you aren’t looking for it. The other day I was perusing youtube when I noticed something in the suggested video lists – something called The Oldest Known Melody...
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The Most Cultured Flashmob Ever?
The Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has just been reopened after being closed for ten years for renovations, which seems an awfully long time. To announce and celebrate the reopening, a...
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Pantsing vs Plotting
When it comes to writing, there are two main ways of doing it – pantsing vs plotting. Each is a perfectly viable method, depending on the person involved. What works for one doesn’t work for another....
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Trailer
The trailer for the second part of The Hobbit is now out – seems to take a bit of a detour from the books, but we’ll see more when it comes out.
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Stormraven Is Done
The story that I have been working on over at wattpad for some time is now complete. Stormraven comes in at around 65,000 words, a bit longer than I expected than when I started. It can be read here....
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And the New Doctor Is…
Peter Capaldi. Oddly enough, he has been in Doctor Who before, back in The Fires of Pompeii, as the merchant Caecilius. It is also interesting to note after going with young Doctors, they are reverting...
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2014: Aiming High
I haven’t posted much for a while, for a number of reasons. I’d been studying full time most of last year. Then three months ago I got married and moved across country, which was a big change to the...
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The Tomb of the Pharaoh’s Brewer
The Tomb of the Pharaoh’s Brewer – it almost sounds like the title of an old pulp style horror adventure. But in this case it is a real place. Japanese archaeologists working in Egypt have found a...
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Million Word Challenge: Week One
We are already one week down in the new year, and so one week into the million words in a year challenge. And so far I am doing better than expected. For the week, I was aiming to do the following;...
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Million Word Challenge: Week Two
Two weeks into the year already – where does time go? Before long the free time will be gone and I won’t be able to write as much, so I’m trying to take as much advantage of it as I can. But the...
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