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Morphing into James McAvoy
Playing with AI to transform a selfie into a stylistic portrait inspired by James McAvoy’s movie “Pose.” After describing the desired photo detail to Gemini Pro, they generated an impressive monochrome image. The process evolved into animating the image, showcasing a novel technique for creating unique personalized visuals.
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Change Management
As a CTO, effective change management is crucial for delivering solutions to users who may resist significant changes. Develop a detailed project plan outlining responsibilities, timelines, and success criteria. Communicate extensively with stakeholders, providing training on new systems to ensure users understand the changes. Over-communicate throughout the process for success.
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Only takes a minute
Navigating the rapidly changing technology landscape can be stressful. It’s essential to engage in regular, small learning increments, such as 15 minutes daily, to build knowledge over time. Embrace a self-learning model without pressure, prioritize your time effectively, and share your insights to reinforce understanding. Progress comes from consistent, bite-sized efforts.
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
On paper this musical movie should not work. It should be completely silly, cheesy and full of strained musical numbers. However, this Abba inspired musical telling the story of young girl who is about to get married, trying to figure out which of the 3 men in her mothers brief sexual awakening in one infamous summer is her father. The strumpet in question is Meryl Streep, who now runs…
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Mr. Holmes (2015)
Now this is a wonderful premise. Take a famous literary character, and let him live out his years and explore what would happen if a once world famous detective started to have dementia and amidst his failing health. Ian McKellen takes on Sherlock Holmes wrestling with a retirement that is not going terribly well as he is losing his memory and his once powers of deductiveness starts to fail him.…
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Trumbo (2015)
This was the tale of the time back in the 40′s and 50′s where America was gripped and paranoid about communistic influences in its cultures. It went as far as public witch hunts to out those that were a detriment to the American dream. This movie focuses on the Hollywood writers and actors who were outed and forced to leave their jobs and in some cases their homes and…
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Lord of War (2005)
Our old friend Mr Cage takes on the major role of this tale about illegal arms dealer. Based on a true story of the convicted gunrunner, Viktor Bout, it looks at the world of arming the various armies and uprisings around the world. While you are watching this you have to keep reminding yourself this is a true story, with some of the more outlandish scenes based on actual events.…
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Time Lapse (2014)
Three friends, who live and manage a real estate community of apartments, discover a machine from a recently deceased tenant that takes photos 24 hrs into the future and creates a Polaroid. The machine is pointed at the living room of the friends, from across the yard. After discovering this, they get to figure out what its all about, the boundaries and then feel they can use this for their…
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
One of the more whimsical Disney outings the Little Mermaid is now, after 26 years, firmly concreted as a classic. With signature tunes, such as Under the Sea and Kiss the Girl it still gets my foot tapping. What is interesting about this particular Disney cartoon, for me at least, is that it is the first Disney animation that I watched as an adult when it first came out. Up to this…
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Frozen (2013)
Let it go, Let it go, can’t hold it back any more! Feels right, that while I am in Disney World, I should be watching this movie as part of my series. I will confess the journey to this movie for me wasn’t your conventional path. I came to this one very late. In fact, I came to it only because of my youngest son, doing a parody of…
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Youth (2015)
For my 100th movie on the 100th day in this series I was wanting something a little special to mark this huge milestone. Oops. Not to worry, I will chose better for my 200th movie. Youth had so much promise, with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel as two aging friends, at a spa retreat in the Swiss Alps. Quirky and stylistic, we followed these pair as they wrestle with what is…
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The Transporter (2002)
It is no secret I have a man crush on our boy Jason Statham. After he was an Olympic diver, he turned his hand to movies with a help from Guy Ritchie. He quickly found himself a niche, as that ‘b’ movie action hero. Picking up where the likes of Van Dame and Seagal left off, Statham slipped into that no nonsense, never gets his butt kicked role very easily.…
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