I finally tracked down (through Vimeo of all places), the C4 documentary from a few years back (2014?) called My Granny The Escort.

This features the stories of 3, well, older ladies who do escort work. Also some chat with some of the (usually younger) men who use(d) their services.

Quite interesting

Here is a brief trailer . . .

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Encanto

Another solid Disney effort that won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2022.

It has all the usual Disney elements present and correct, but it's elevated by glorious visuals (the tale is set in a Colombian mountain village) and the impressive soundtrack is notable for the song We Don't Talk About Bruno, which has 607 million views on Disney's YouTube music channel and has entered popular culture in a similar way to Frozen's show-stopping Let It Go.

The best song for me though is the opening number The Family Madrigal, possibly the best song I've ever heard with 'Madrigal' in the title.

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Quote from: Slim on June 13, 2024, 01:35:37 PMWhat I'd really like is to be able to feed it chords - let's say I want two bars of CMaj7, then a bar of B half diminished then E7 .. and so on. Just tell it what I want in English like that. Ask it to make it sound like a jazz piano quartet but leave space for a guitar.

Then when it comes back with something you could say "good, but make the verse a bit more punchy and the whole thing a bit faster. Make it swing a bit more in the chorus".

It must be possible. Would be a fantastic compositional tool. Maybe it's already available. Actually Band in a Box can do that - sort of - but you can't give it instructions in natural English.

That's enormously exciting in principle, I just wonder if it's still an efficient use of time, as to explain the musical sound in your head to something that (presumably) doesn't have any intuition or empathy could be a laborious process.  I'd love to try it though and see.

A few weeks ago I (long story short) used an AI app mentioned in the Image Creation thread to create a movie poster for a film idea I have; I had a firm concept and theme of the image I wanted and added more and more detail to my description, my expectation being of course that it would be progressively fine-tuned toward the end result I wanted.  But I found that it had a habit of taking a step back rather than forwards and I ended up abandoning the whole process.

What pisses me off - like it does with most adverts theses days is the:

"Create Exuberant" Create exuberant what?

"Live Vivid" Live vivid what?

"Delete Ordinary" Delete Ordinary what?

Adjectives and Adverbs are separate syntactical parts of grammar. Just because they both start with "Ad" it doesn't mean they are interchangeable. Go a bit further down that road and language becomes complete gibberish.

1960s gangsters and bookmakers must be spinning in their graves.