Photoshop was a miracle for digital art, but it got loaded up with crap. Finally, upstarts like Affinity, Procreate, and Manga Studio seem to have motivated them to shake off the cobwebs.
We don’t have to stand for Big Tech turning our neighborhoods into “crime blotters with ads.”
We need better digital tools that build trust, instead of eroding it.
From our Co-Director @eli.bsky.social at @creativemornings.bsky.social
Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details:
www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...
Rev. Jesse Jackson stood with residents of the District demanding what should have always been ours: the right to govern ourselves.
He showed up for D.C. because he believed the people of the nation’s capital deserved the same political power as every other American.
Rest in power.✊🏾
This guy knows how to live
I mean, there's no topping this, is there?
www.weschlers.com/auction-lot/...
General strike tomorrow
All respect to his nephew, etc., but public domain this stuff already
SomeBODY once told me, the world is gonna roll me...
Paul Karasik, the artist who translated Paul Auster's New York Trilogy into graphic novel format, will be teaching an online class through Politics and Prose about his process on Jan. 15th. If you’ve ever been curious about the process of writing a graphic novel, this one’s for you!
In 2019, when the vacant Venezuelan embassy here in DC was taken over by anti Maduro protestors, I reported on it for The Nib, in comics form
thenib.com/a-showdown-a...
US-backed regime change has been a fear for a long time
I didn't play a lot of games this year but we did finally play Disco Elysium, which I can honestly say the hype is true, the hype is real, this game fucks. I am simply astounded on every level. Also I didn't expect it to be so incredibly funny?? Maybe the most well written game I've ever played
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
It's loose! My new sketchbook of monstrous portraits & my "Philosophy of Monsters" essay on value & importance of putting monsters down on paper. Black & white budget edition linked here (there's also a full color edition, same contents)—Spread the link, please! www.amazon.com/S-R-Bissette...
New York's hottest club is...
Incredibly good joke
That's great, my friends and I got really into him in high school and each have way too many
Ooh did you get any $2 Steve Keene paintings? I saw he was there on insta
📖Sprocket’s Halloween Highlight Day 16: AMERICAN CULT edited by Robyn Chapman 🕯️
A graphic history spanning centuries of religious cults, from a 1694 Transylvanian monk and his followers crossing the Atlantic to modern-day gurus using self-help and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks
The Wind Rises vibes
Have five minutes? Our own @joshpkramer.bsky.social has a lightning talk on Public Spaces Incubator and reconnecting public media to the public:
“When you give up on hosting the conversation, and you cede it to these companies, what happens when they go crazy?”
DC statehood now.
In "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes about how one way to show love on the internet, as opposed to just “liking,” is by revisiting things.
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
I just returned to one of my fav spots in DC: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Saw egrets, herons, osprey, and many lotuses. 🪷
In a @newpublic.org fav, "Fish: a tap essay", Robin Sloan writes: “to love is to return.”
What (IRL or online) do you love to return to?
www.robinsloan.com/fish/
James Gunn seems to have learned a lesson from the Raimi Spider-Man movies: show regular people reacting to disaster and the emotions of the danger hit so much harder.
I keep thinking about that woman holding her turtle.
New comic!
What if you were cast to reprise the role of a legendary performance in a shaky prequel movie?? 🎬
www.joshkramercomics.com/comics#/preq...
It's frustrating that ANC meetings are so long, and the minutes are approved months later.
However, new AI tools make it much easier to stay on top of what's happening in these meetings. I took the YouTube transcript and meeting agenda and created a summary:
docs.google.com/.../1TIF.../....
join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?
AI has been able to generate Celery Man and Oyster without any issues, but so far it refuses to show me a nude Tayne
