Timothy

All British viola players of the last 100 years and more owe a huge debt to Lionel Tertis. Born in 1876 (on the same day as the great cellist Pablo Casals), Tertis became a champion of what at the beginning of his career was an overlooked and maligned instrument; through the brilliance of his playing, with its utterly distinctive vibrato influenced by hearing the violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in the wealth of music that he commissioned, the viola finally achieved status as a solo instrument in its own right.The cover art…

Octopath Traveler 2 is one of those games where I couldn’t even comprehend how special it was until it was over. I went into it expecting more of the original Octopath Traveler, which I liked but did not love (similar to Chris Carter’s take). But if Octopath Traveler was a love letter to golden age SNES/PSX RPGs, Octopath Traveler 2 is a perfect encapsulation of them. This is, without a doubt, one of the most fun RPG worlds I’ve ever explored. There are secrets and bosses around nearly every corner, rewarding every ounce…

Timothy Olyphant is going from Star Wars to Alien.Screenshot: LucasfilmThe world of Alien just got a whole lot sexier with the addition of actor Timothy Olyphant. The Justified star, who recently dipped his toe into another major sci-fi universe as Cobb Vanth on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has been cast in Noah Hawley’s upcoming FX show set in the universe of Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, and Prometheus.Deadline broke the news of the casting and reports Olyphant is playing Kirsh, “a synth who…

Everybody knows Timothy Olyphant. He’s one of those actors you recognize, even if you aren’t sure what his name is or what you’ve seen him in previously. It’s one of the highest compliments a moviegoer or TV fan can pay an actor: committing their face to memory despite them not being a megastar. Olyphant is in the midst of a TV renaissance. After acclaimed turns in Fargo season 4 and The Mandalorian season 2, the actor has decided to reprise his most famous character in the miniseries Justified: City Primeval. The…

Timothy Garton Ash has combined work in academia, journalism and political analysis for nearly half a century. Europe – its role in the making of the modern world and the challenges it faces today – has been his unflinching focus. His new book is an insightful analysis of the transformation of central and eastern Europe in the decades between the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Garton Ash first encountered “Europe” as a teenager bewitched by its character and tragic history, very different…

Probably the weirdest best-of list you’ll see Here’s a thing that someone writing for a gaming website probably shouldn’t say: I didn’t play many new games in 2022. It’s been a tough year. I’m sure I’m not the only person who had trouble getting back on their feet after that whole COVID thing threw the world into upheaval, and it certainly impacted my gaming habits. Had I known I’d be on the frontpage of Destructoid, I would have spent less time chipping away at my years-long backlog. Yet here I am, and regardless of…

A very simple and straight-forward guide to extract metadataPhoto by Robert Penaloza on UnsplashMost photos taken by smartphones today contain a lot of metadata, including GPS data. GPS data refers to the Latitude and Longitude coordinates of where the photo was taken.When we get the GPS coordinates of the photo, we can even input it into Google maps and see the exact location. Just input , in the search bar of Google maps, and we can immediately see the location.If we just want to check the GPS coordinate of a single…

In the standard farce, explains Timothy Hutton, “people who are not supposed to be having sex are – and they’re doing everything to hide it”. Terry Johnson’s new play, The Sex Party, is an “incredible reverse” says the actor, who is making his London stage debut in the production, directed by Johnson. The characters “have come to a place where they would like to be having sex and, as events move on, they are doing everything they can not to have sex”.Hutton read the play, which takes place in the kitchen of a north London…

Image: Marvel StudiosMarvel movies tend to have big box office openings, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is no exception. With the promise of Letitia Wright’s Shuri taking up the heroic mantle, the film being a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, and seeing Wakanda go to war with the underwater warrior Namor (Tenoch Huerta), expectations for the film were pretty massive. And financially, the superhero sequel has blown those expectations out of the water. Per Variety and at time of writing, Wakanda Forever has made a…

One would hope that the profile of the pianist and composer Duval Timothy might rise exponentially after his high-profile production work on Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale & the Big Steppers. This former art student – who dresses only in blue (in fealty to the signage in his home borough of Lewisham), co-wrote a cookbook of African recipes and currently lives between London and Freetown, Sierra Leone – has been making consistently excellent music for a long time. His quizzical piano miniatures have been sampled by Loyle…