I mentioned last week that I’ve found a wonderful new way of being creative – Midjourney. It’s a website that uses Artificial Intelligence to create images based on a prompt entered by people like me. /imagine followed by whatever you’d like to see. The AI is learning all the time from choices people make, refining…
On our last morning in Saigon Pete and I joined two of the ladies in our group to visit an artists’ colony on an island in the Saigon River. We were taken to the location in an SUV, crossing a brand-new bridge and driving through a neighbourhood studded with very expensive houses. This was going…
When I think about hermitages I imagine a skinny little guy in rustic robes living in a cave high up in the mountains or a tumble-down cottage deep in the forest. Somehow, the Hermitage in St Petersburg doesn’t fit the mould. For a start, it’s huge. It comprises six buildings, one of which is our…