Author: Colin
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Dr. John Dee’s Actions with Spirits
How I dislike that title. It relegates the principal author of the spirit actions – I mean of course Edward Kelly – to the role of a ventriloquist’s dummy. I am in the middle of one of my periodic reviews of Dee and Kelly. I do this every decade or so. The two principal subjects…
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The High Priestess
I was going through some files and discovered this image I made last year (for no particular reason). No, it isn’t AI. I use 3D modelling and physically-based rendering, so it is a kind of virtual photography. In the past I have attempted to use AI for images. It works when you want a stereotype…
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The Smoking Mirror
In the late-70s I was working in central London and living in a ground floor flat in Stamford Hill adjacent to the Lubavitch. There was almost no heating and ice formed in the toilet. One way to warm up was to drive into the British Museum on a Sunday afternoon, and spend a few hours…
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The Search for the Perfect Language
In the 1580s, John Dee and Edward Kelley conducted many remarkable conversations with several angels. Most of Dee’s original records and diaries survive and have been widely reproduced in editions and commentaries, from the famous 1659 A True and Faithful Relation of Meric Causabon, to the fastidious textual analysis of Aaron Leitch in The Angelical…
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Backrooms
John 14:2, “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.” At some point in the mid-90s I was in a convention centre in Belgium for a minor telecoms conference. I think the venue might have been Le Palais des Congrès de Liège. We were inventors. We were exhibiting a PTSN telecom switch hooked-up to…
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New Site
If you are new to making a website, then you will find so many hosting providers offering wizard tools to help you get up and running. Making a new site is relatively easy compared with ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago. But are you locked in? What control do you have over…