Bush

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief to me,” said John Lydon in 2009, recalling the day he came home with Kate Bush’s debut single, Wuthering Heights, and played it for his mother. She thought it sounded like “a bag of cats”, but Lydon, who had just left the Sex Pistols, heard a fellow renegade. Bush’s singularity makes fans feel like members of the biggest secret society in music, though it’s one they now share with the Gen Z-ers who discovered her last spring, when the 1985 single Running Up That Hill was…

‘You must kill Kate Bush!” The order is given on a planet far, far away. And so begins the odyssey at the centre of this trippy, erotic sci-fi fantasy, a film that looks like a horny music video from the 80s, neon-lit and smothered with glitter, the screen filled with erect nipples in quantities not seen since the early seasons of Game of Thrones. It’s French, of course, directed by underground film-maker Bertrand Mandico with such loopy abandon I could almost forgive him the film’s obscenely indulgent two-hour-plus…

In 2004, Whoopi Goldberg was one of a number of Hollywood figures who performed at a fundraiser for then-Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, where her comments about then-incumbent president George W. Bush were criticized by media outlets at the time as being too sexually charged. Goldberg has claimed that her career went dark amid the backlash, but her exact joke hasn’t been widely covered until now. As part of a profile on the comedian, The New York Times magazine dug up the text of…

This AI Pokemon generator can convert everything and anything into a caricature and it doesn’t need prompt training Pokeman fantasy from the Pokemon Chronicle series seems to have taken an unrelenting turn. If you are someone who grew up watching Pokemon and now want to embrace it in your definite style, here is an AI Pokemon generator in the dock. Justin Pinkney, from Replicate Labs, developed the bot to take any word as an input to generate a relatable Pokemon. Anything and everything will take the form of a Pokemon,…

7 misconceptions that businesses suffer fromImage source: https://unsplash.com/photos/pREq0ns_p_E?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLinkIn this article, I would like to explore in more detail the top seven data analytics and digitalization misconceptions most businesses suffer from. Let’s dig in!Unfortunately, a portion of companies in the market still considers “digital transformation,” “big data,” and “business analytics” merely as fancy words. Some underestimate their influence, and…

A mural depicting writer George Orwell, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.Photo: Darko Vojinovic (AP) “If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” - Tim CookThe English language, novelist George Orwell once observed, “is in a bad way.”The critic and notoriously “crabby” grammarian likened the destruction of the written word to the spiraling depression of one caught up in thrall of…

One of the earliest figures in healthcare technology is making a comeback.In 1997, Jonathan Bush founded a women’s health and natal care clinic called Athena Women’s Health, but pivoted less than two years later to build practice management and physician billing tools as Athenahealth. Over the ensuing 20 years, Athenahealth became a major provider of electronic medical records and medical billing technology with more than 100,000 providers using the company’s tools by the time Bush resigned in 2018 amid a protracted…

Better late than neverAll modern businesses have digital aspects in today’s world. Perhaps a few small handicraft businesses remain free from digital influence, but that’s the exception. Each organization progresses through several stages of digitalization — from basic accounting of cash flows to advanced analytics, predictive modelling and development of data-based digital services.Today, let me share one of my client’s cases, where my team and I worked on the Data Lake implementation to enable automated analytics to…

Tim Garbutt, DJ/producerJez and I met in Harrogate in a club called The Mix. I DJ’d house on Friday, and he played funk and disco on the Saturday. One night, Jez brought a rough copy of What Can You Do for Me on cassette. I played it and the place went mad, so we began working together.As with all Utah Saints tracks, the tune for Something Good was written before we decided on any samples. It’s generally easier to build tracks the other way around, but our back-to-front method meant any borrowings were used in a different…

Bush will release ninth studio album ‘The Art of Survival’ on 7th October 2022 via BMG. The follow-up to 2020’s ‘The Kingdom‘, ‘The Art of Survival’ era is being ushered in with the release of new single ‘More Than Machines’, which is available now. A cinematic music video for the song is due to arrive soon. Regarding ‘More Than Machines’, Gavin Rossdale states, “This is an action-packed song with three really big topics. Off the bat, I don’t understand how anyone has the audacity to get involved or assume…