Lorenzo Senni ‘All Ages’ [WARP423] - the new album out 20 November. In his own words an “internal revolt”, ‘All Ages’ breaks from @LorenzoSenni's previously self-imposed limitations, using vocals for the first time and exploring the genres he’s best known for (experimental trance, rave) through the lens of hardcore punk; traversing music, skateboarding and straightedge culture. First single ‘Art Life & Skateboarding’ ft. skateboarding stalwarts @themuska and @jamiethomas out today. 01. Art Life & Skateboarding Ft. Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas 02. Smile Through Tears 03. Jealous Of Michelangelo 04. Your Favourite DJ 05. La Persuasione e La Rettorica Ft. Jamie Stewart 06. Orpheus In The Underground (Who Are The Brutes!?) 07. Self eXamined Endurance 08. Purely Coincidental 09. Spoken Into The Void 10. XGood Clean FunX 11. KILL LIES ALL Available for pre-order now on 1xLP and digital formats → lorenzosenni.com

The strongest “I’m living in the future” moment was the First Contact demo on the Oculus CV1 in ~2016 and I’ve been chasing it ever since. Yeah yeah we’ve got AI and self driving cars and stuff now, but it doesn’t hit the same. Shame that the space kind of fizzled out…but here’s to hoping there’s a resurgence soon. There’s got to be other technologies that had an extreme “wow future” moment that never panned out. What would your “oculus” moment be in the 90s, 80s, 70s?

Tomb Raider on the Commodore 64? Four nights. A hundred prompts. A Tomb Raider that actually boots on a Commodore 64 Ultimate. Dave Izon’s Raider 64 is the kind of thing the C64 scene argues about before it finishes loading. He had the idea years ago — Lara-style rooms, climbing, traps, enemies — then parked it, because the graphics in his head never made it onto the screen. This month he handed the art problem to Astra, the model he says finally produced sprites he was willing to use, plus a custom character set he says was better than anything he would have drawn himself. He kept going. Gameplay pieces, a Tomb Raider-flavoured tune. Four nights and well over 100 prompts later, the prototype looks like the game he had been failing to finish by hand. He is blunt about what it is not. He says this is not programming a C64 game, and that people who say so are right. He knows the 6510, the charset limits, and the SID budget. This pass was a test of the toolchain, not a claim that the machine got easier. The needs a RAM Expansion Unit. The 6510 still only sees 64K; the REU is a DMA bank the CPU cannot address directly, so frames get copied into main RAM. I played through on my Commodore 64 Ultimate, the download is still an impressive release. Custom charset rooms, platforms, ladders, hazards etc. It is a prototype / demo that is fully playable and looks amazing. This was my first time playing so just like the OG Tomb Raider I had to nut out the puzzles, and I have to say this is really good. Just 4 days and Dave and his Ai friend produced this. Impressive. So the question worth answering: if the idea is good and the author cannot draw, compose, or finish coding on their own, is a game that exists because of Ai, better than a game that never exists? Or does the scene only count when a human fought the VIC-II for every frame? Is this the future of Commodore 64 games? (For further updates follow Dave's YT Channel and download the playable demo from the links in the comments below).

The Light House cinema in Dublin's Smithfield has applied for planning permission to build two new screens. jrnl.ie/7176500

Another test of bringing a rough pencil test by the amazing Disney animator #MiltKahl up to today's standards using AI, in this case, #Seedance 2.5 on @dreamina_ai What do you think? Do you think Milt would have embraced this technology?

No Man's Sky Cosmos 📋Own A Space Station 🤝Alliances 🛰️Orbital Bases 📡Space Hulks 🚀Anniversary Expedition 🗺️Star Map 💎Deep-Space Looting 🪨Asteroid Belts 🦠Infested Outposts ☀️The Sun 🧙‍♀️Dev Commentary 🧲Tractor Beam ❄️Ice Fields 🪐Outposts ⛰️Improved Terrain 🔫Shipbreaking

I’m just trying to imagine what they must have been feeling in that moment… trapped with no way out. I can’t even imagine the fear, helplessness, and desperation a person would feel when there seems to be no escape.