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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 10h

My discography plus extra 😉
richcarlson.bandcamp.com

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 19h

Third stage Tan Ru Demolishers interfacing a root node Midjourney prompt by yours truly
#midjourney #scifi #tanru #infinitespace #spaceship #scavenger #machinerace

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 20h

Movies to Halloween By (talk about cults): Piers Haggard's weird, cult "Blood on Satan's Claw" (1971), and "Black Sunday" (1960), a Mario Bava gothic cult classic--keyword Bava.

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 1d

It's time for drum books!

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 1d

Thunderbean/Steve Stanchfield released a new restoration.

Flip the Frog in Spooks (1931)

YouTube video by Steve Stanchfield

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 3d

Six misconceptions about AI music:
AI music is just pushing a button.
AI replaces human creativity.
AI steals other people’s songs.
AI can’t make real music because it has no soul.
People who use AI aren’t real musicians.
Using AI means you lack musicianship.

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 3d

Movies to Halloween by #4. Alejandro Amenabar's jewel, "The Others" (2001), and F. W. Murnau's original "Nosferatu" (1922).

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 3d

Imagination really is memory in the future tense.
- Abby Smith Rumsey

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 4d

Just released: two albums of instrumental AI music I produced and curated over the last month. This one, "Funk of Love", is a collection of funk rock with hints of prog. Streaming and download. Enjoy!

Funk of Love, by Rich Carlson

12 track album

richcarlson.bandcamp.com

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 4d

Just released: two albums of instrumental* AI music I produced and curated over the last month. This one, "Prog Shop", is a collection of progressive rock similar to the band "Beat" which some of you know. Streaming and download. Enjoy!
* with one exception

Prog Shop, by Rich Carlson

9 track album

richcarlson.bandcamp.com

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 4d

Movies to Halloween by #3. (Time to bust some ghosts, buster!) Colin Minihan's and Stuart Ortiz's shoestring budget cult favorite, "Grave Encounters" (2011), and Ivan Reitman's block-buster, "Ghostbusters" (1984). Busted!

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 4d

Random Python pics.

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 5d

Movies to Halloween by #2. Lewis Gilbert's psychologically chilling* TV movie "Haunted" (1995), and James Whale's seminal pre-code horror classic, "The Old Dark House" (1932).
*at one point you'll just... well, you'll find out what the word shudder means

Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 5d

A conversation with David Gilmour

Podcast Episode · All Songs Considered · 10/07/2025 · 32m

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Rich Carlson @indivisualist.bsky.social · 6d

Movies to Halloween by. Let's pick 2 each night before the big day, beginning with Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963), and an obscure gem directed by Elliot Goldner, The Borderlands (2013).