Ravi Swami
@pellucid.bsky.social
Eclectic tastes in music & film, some would say quirky, & according to some, latterly a Midjourney/ AI guru.
“Ravi” is “delightful” in French..
“Ravi” is “delightful” in French..
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
We’re now in the era of Bill Sykes’s - it’s Dickensian in the worst possible way, playground bullies throwing their weight around saying “try and stop me” while they tweak the ears of the cripple in the corner.
January 20, 2026 at 7:03 AM
We’re now in the era of Bill Sykes’s - it’s Dickensian in the worst possible way, playground bullies throwing their weight around saying “try and stop me” while they tweak the ears of the cripple in the corner.
The popsicles are town dog catchers…
January 14, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The popsicles are town dog catchers…
“The Sanskrit word Rakshasa (राक्षस) stems from the root rakṣ, meaning "to protect," but its demonized form relates to beings from whom protection is needed, originally created to guard waters but becoming malevolent”
Popsicles.
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Popsicles.
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January 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
“The Sanskrit word Rakshasa (राक्षस) stems from the root rakṣ, meaning "to protect," but its demonized form relates to beings from whom protection is needed, originally created to guard waters but becoming malevolent”
Popsicles.
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Popsicles.
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Oddest news of the day, Maduro & his wife are devotees of Sathya Sai Baba and Venezuela has the largest number of devotees outside of India.
Perhaps Trump wants to grill them to find out how to conjure gold watches and money out of thin air…
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Perhaps Trump wants to grill them to find out how to conjure gold watches and money out of thin air…
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January 10, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Oddest news of the day, Maduro & his wife are devotees of Sathya Sai Baba and Venezuela has the largest number of devotees outside of India.
Perhaps Trump wants to grill them to find out how to conjure gold watches and money out of thin air…
@mvij.org
Perhaps Trump wants to grill them to find out how to conjure gold watches and money out of thin air…
@mvij.org
That creaky old series you’ve never heard of : “The Lost City”, super scientist (Kane Richmond) (“Doc Savage” meets “Indiana Jones”) discovers Lemuria…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
That creaky old series you’ve never heard of : “The Lost City”, super scientist (Kane Richmond) (“Doc Savage” meets “Indiana Jones”) discovers Lemuria…
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Missed a trick in Alien:Earth, instead of what felt like a disturbingly unnecessary r*pe scene when “Zoya Zaveri” is killed by the xenomorph…
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September 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Missed a trick in Alien:Earth, instead of what felt like a disturbingly unnecessary r*pe scene when “Zoya Zaveri” is killed by the xenomorph…
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Natasha Rothwell’s recurring character of “Belinda” across all 3 seasons of “The White Lotus” pitch perfect reciting the Gayathri Manthram..OK, maybe a bit off here and there, but still..
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March 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Natasha Rothwell’s recurring character of “Belinda” across all 3 seasons of “The White Lotus” pitch perfect reciting the Gayathri Manthram..OK, maybe a bit off here and there, but still..
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Having watched “Take Out”, “The Prince of Broadway” & “Anora” recently it’s interesting to see a recurring theme in Sean Baker’s films of displaced people and immigrants - the Chinese undocumented worker in “Take Out”, the N.Y Lebanese dodgy trader in “The Prince of Broadway”…
March 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Having watched “Take Out”, “The Prince of Broadway” & “Anora” recently it’s interesting to see a recurring theme in Sean Baker’s films of displaced people and immigrants - the Chinese undocumented worker in “Take Out”, the N.Y Lebanese dodgy trader in “The Prince of Broadway”…
After watching Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood” last night it reminds me how a lot of my ideas and attitude aligns with Wood’s, which is rather worrying…😂
March 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
After watching Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood” last night it reminds me how a lot of my ideas and attitude aligns with Wood’s, which is rather worrying…😂
More performance driven AI.
March 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
More performance driven AI.
Here’s a thing I did in January - voice over (un-AI-filtered) and performance by me, image via Midjourney, motion via Runway ML using “Act 1”.
March 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Here’s a thing I did in January - voice over (un-AI-filtered) and performance by me, image via Midjourney, motion via Runway ML using “Act 1”.
I’m single & the only b*tch in my life is Karma..
February 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I’m single & the only b*tch in my life is Karma..
@mvij.org According to the Whoniverse I’m a member of an insectoid species…😂
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Dravidian
The Dravidians were an insectoid race from the Dravidian Star Cluster of Ganymede Antares. They were a race of scavengers and asset strippers, who took wealth and technology wherever they found it. Th...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@mvij.org According to the Whoniverse I’m a member of an insectoid species…😂
tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Dravidian
tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Dravidian
Tamil heritage director of 2025 Dr Who & Xmas special - likes “idli’s & dosas”…
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December 28, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Tamil heritage director of 2025 Dr Who & Xmas special - likes “idli’s & dosas”…
@mvij.org
www.alexpillai.com/pages/about
@mvij.org
www.alexpillai.com/pages/about