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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 17h

I'm gonna go full Sarah Conner if those things come for my churn!

Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 21h

I think at this point people who don't like AI (and visa versa) will just judge without really taking on the nuance or contradictions.

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 21h

Seems like a medium as well as other things to me. What's weird and uncomfortable to me about AI is it's uncanny almost-but-not-human intelligence. It's hyper detail. It's like an evil spirit wearing a skin suit. So maybe that.

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've unarchived some hand drawn work, feels kind of refreshing in the age of AI. simonfarussell.com/Hand-Drawn-A... #drawings #illustrations #archive

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yeah that Dick bloke has a LOT to answer for

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So you mingle with sophisticated European gangsters?

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yeah, only a matter of time until you're the official opposition

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Graham Morris (né Campbell) @grumjim.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Any pixel artists in my network? Ideally someone with a bit of time on their hands and looking to take on a small project, emphasis on small. This is not my project, I'm just looking to make a connection.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 29/04/2026

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. If you're a designer, researcher, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are open: longnow.org/labs/001/

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yeah you don’t hear them talking about Ceefax!

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A couple of projects been cancelled so I’ve got some freelance availability! 3D/2D mograph (C4D, Houdini, AE). Showreel below — shout if you need anything. #houdini #mograph #c4d #freelance

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

“5. Being Early and Being Wrong Can Look the Same” erm…

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Yeah makes sense. But guess we’ll see

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A data visualisation of a piece of house music. We used python to analyse the tune and perform analysis of each stem and the piece as a whole. #datavisualization #houdini #python

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In Sync. A visual music test animation. We made a couple of Houdini tools to help with this, an audio to MIDI tool and a Houdini to After Effects exporter to bring over data and cameras etc. #houdini #musicvisualization #aftereffects #dataviz #synesthesia

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A little music visualisation experiment. More info: sunmachine.io/work/light-f... #dataviz #musicvisualization #houdini #ebsynth #suno

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Some Procreate concept sketches for visual music

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Here's some painty Procreate pics I did. Trying to organise my Procreate files!

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Human vocals → data → particle simulation. This visualization extracts vocal features and uses them to drive a particle system in Houdini. #houdini #synesthesia #audiovisualizatioin #soundart #mograph

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Another test experimenting with visualising audio. This one’s a thrush. I analysed the recording in Spear, then rebuilt the spectral data inside Houdini with Python. #dataviz #audiovisualization #houdini #sonification More info: sunmachine.io/work/acousti...

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’ve been experimenting with visualising different kinds of audio, human voices and animal calls. This one’s a thrush. I analysed the recording in Spear, then rebuilt the spectral data inside Houdini with Python. More here: sunmachine.io/work/acousti... #houdini #audiovisualization #mograph #3d

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

It's for music visualisation. So making pretty animations. Using Sonic Visualiser is a start. But chatting with an LLM and start working out what you're trying to achieve. Whether it's music theory or waveforms or semantics or whatever.

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Extracting data from music, I'm aiming to get semantic 'meaningful' data if possible. Dipping into music theory and language analysis as well as granular ffm/waveform stuff. I'm getting lots of data, need some time to see how well it can be utilised for visualisation.

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

120 Years Of Electronic Music 120years.net

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

To explain a little, it's illustrating the circle of fifths. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_...

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Circle of fifths - Wikipedia

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A music theory animation I did a long time ago just discovered on my hard drive

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Very cool to see the animation I created with @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social being played at Royal Institution. bsky.app/profile/rigb... youtu.be/thc2bWGNY2k?...

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Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) (@Ri_Science) / X

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Simon Russell ☀🤖 @simonfarussell.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Edwards had a lot of creative control because he'd made Godzilla and they agreed he could make the Creator in his own way as part of the deal. As anyone who works with clients knows (particularly in the creative industry), the more top down changes and madness flows in, the more expensive it gets.

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