Elliott Hall
@hallmorph.bsky.social
Creative technologist, writer, and software engineer. Currently messing around with Unreal in immersive theatre and Virtual Production
https://elliott-hall.co.uk
https://elliott-hall.co.uk
Moderately (insanely) excited that this arrived today
October 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Moderately (insanely) excited that this arrived today
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Silksong is wild because i’m miserable but i can’t stop
September 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Silksong is wild because i’m miserable but i can’t stop
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I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
September 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I love London so much. So much.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?
Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.
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Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction
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anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
July 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
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I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
yes. yes yes.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
the UK is (not just the originator but) the setting for some of the most popular culture in the world. there is a whole genre of videogames that are set in an imagined Britain. 'soft' power is real economic and even political power.
Agree. One thing that I really liked about @jpspencer.bsky.social’s Labour Together report is it included culture in “growth spending”. So much policy about regional development in the UK basically regards culture, tourism, etc. as distractions from the real work of building trains to nowhere.
August 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*
what this country is really good at is producing culture
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A few years into my TV writing career, I was struggling! But one simple piece of advice changed the entire trajectory of my career. So I wanted to do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread about that advice and the ways in which CREATIVITY CAN FLOURISH (and also how it wanes).
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August 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A few years into my TV writing career, I was struggling! But one simple piece of advice changed the entire trajectory of my career. So I wanted to do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread about that advice and the ways in which CREATIVITY CAN FLOURISH (and also how it wanes).
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“The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
-Brian Eno
-Brian Eno
August 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
-Brian Eno
-Brian Eno
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Letter from a young reader today who was “forced” to read a book by his teacher and “forced” to write a letter to the author, but who’s going to buy the book (More Than This) over the summer to finish it, “which is a big deal if you know me”. Honestly, best compliment a writer can get.
August 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Letter from a young reader today who was “forced” to read a book by his teacher and “forced” to write a letter to the author, but who’s going to buy the book (More Than This) over the summer to finish it, “which is a big deal if you know me”. Honestly, best compliment a writer can get.
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We need to not safely park Unbound as an outlier.
Treat it more as an example of how even the most author-centric model can easily leave the people who make the damn product in the first place as disposable raw materials, plundered, drained and scrapped, part of a messy game of luck and hope.
Treat it more as an example of how even the most author-centric model can easily leave the people who make the damn product in the first place as disposable raw materials, plundered, drained and scrapped, part of a messy game of luck and hope.
August 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We need to not safely park Unbound as an outlier.
Treat it more as an example of how even the most author-centric model can easily leave the people who make the damn product in the first place as disposable raw materials, plundered, drained and scrapped, part of a messy game of luck and hope.
Treat it more as an example of how even the most author-centric model can easily leave the people who make the damn product in the first place as disposable raw materials, plundered, drained and scrapped, part of a messy game of luck and hope.
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This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This made me laugh. And then I sat and thought about it. This is correct.
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Good to see them updating the Richard Scarry books
July 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Good to see them updating the Richard Scarry books
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NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
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"too many people have main character syndrome" not me. i love being an npc. just idly standing around, watching the birds. oh you going on a quest? can you bring me back something
July 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"too many people have main character syndrome" not me. i love being an npc. just idly standing around, watching the birds. oh you going on a quest? can you bring me back something
I wrote an overview of Rob Morgan's excellent book about immersive storytelling, “Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality,” and the way those who want to play with the nature of reality have found themselves thinking more and more how to safeguard it
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Confessions of a reality poacher turned gamekeeper: some thoughts on “Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality” by Rob Morgan
“Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality” by Rob Morgan is a practical manual, fun activity book, and manifesto for storytelling in mixed reality. Writing about spatial storytelling is a ...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I wrote an overview of Rob Morgan's excellent book about immersive storytelling, “Storytelling for Spatial Computing and Mixed Reality,” and the way those who want to play with the nature of reality have found themselves thinking more and more how to safeguard it
www.linkedin.com/pulse/confes...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/confes...
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'the creative industries represent much of the best of what the UK and humanity does. The idea of handing over its output for free is abhorrent.'
The copyright war between the AI industry and creatives
We have surely gone beyond being able to give the tech sector the benefit of the doubt
www.ft.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
'the creative industries represent much of the best of what the UK and humanity does. The idea of handing over its output for free is abhorrent.'
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My favourite part of the Electric Dreams exhibition at the Tate is Suzanne Treister's "Fictional Videogame Stills" that she made on an Amiga 1000 in the early 90s.
We only have them now because she took photographs of her art on the screen back then - the original Amiga discs have corrupted!
We only have them now because she took photographs of her art on the screen back then - the original Amiga discs have corrupted!
May 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My favourite part of the Electric Dreams exhibition at the Tate is Suzanne Treister's "Fictional Videogame Stills" that she made on an Amiga 1000 in the early 90s.
We only have them now because she took photographs of her art on the screen back then - the original Amiga discs have corrupted!
We only have them now because she took photographs of her art on the screen back then - the original Amiga discs have corrupted!
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All of these spoke to me, deeply.
April 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
All of these spoke to me, deeply.
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Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is beautiful and sometimes transcendent about the Earth, but it’s the lives of the astronauts that I think I loved even more, the ordinary wonder of being in a tiny metal thimble forever falling towards but never quite hitting its home.
January 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Samantha Harvey’s Orbital is beautiful and sometimes transcendent about the Earth, but it’s the lives of the astronauts that I think I loved even more, the ordinary wonder of being in a tiny metal thimble forever falling towards but never quite hitting its home.
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Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.
January 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Four years since my son wrote the best opening to a mystery novel ever written.
I'm listening to In Our Time after a long break, and it struck me again how interesting, thoughtful, and simply humane it is. This should not be a novelty. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Venetian Empire
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise and eventual decline of the Venetian Empire.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 10:21 AM
I'm listening to In Our Time after a long break, and it struck me again how interesting, thoughtful, and simply humane it is. This should not be a novelty. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...