Cat Finnie

Actually, I just read your newsletter - definitely check out Harvest, it's set during the early period of 'enclosures', the taking of common land into private ownership. Quite interesting comparisons to be made with the later Luddite movement, I think. There were riots over enclosures, too.

2009, I moved to London and worked in a (tiny) studio under an off-license on Curtain road

I wanna pick 2 that aren't horror films but have really sinister undertones - April, which had some of the most arresting imagery I've seen all year, and Harvest.
28 Years Later for horror, horror though

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

It will create jobs. They'll just be fewer and worse paid than before. I see what they did there.

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

Happy Lit Windows Season to those who celebrate!

Hey #portfolioday!!

I'm a digital artist who creates commissioned art for #startrek #fanfiction projects - Had some wonderful opportunities to help out some fantastic folk and love to help others with their projects - even happy to jump star franchises ;) Thanks so much!

Whenever they have new to deliver that is so unappetising, they wheel Clegg out to deliver it. They say "for there is a man who has so debased himself, there is nothing left to defend"

AI industry cannot survive without stealing all our work. Got it. I'm OK if it does not survive

Not Clegg crawling back out the ground to jump-scare ya with the most obvious sh**

Chess is technically 4D though. It exists in time. Hmmm.

A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

People probably assume I'm exaggerating or lying. I'm not.

What radicalised me: police telling innocent citizens to move home (away).
So, if you pay council tax and work for a living, message is "f*** off, we don't want you here". If you're doing crime and pay no council tax or bills, message is "stick around, we'll bend over backwards for you!"

V annoying, personally, to be a person who takes schedules literally, in a world where we're not all doing that. Ugh, not my week this week

Not even enough of it even if we really wanted to. Can barely cover the bin collections as it is.

In my area, crowds of (I think primarily) crack users are drawn to the dealers. All crime rises - thefts, break-ins, assaults. More minor issues, too - obvsly the drug use, waste disposal issues, threats, aggression. All contributes to atmosphere of hopelessness and fear.

Also look into the policy (since Sunak) of housing ex-offenders via private landlords. Anecdotally, this is wreaking havoc in communities. Properties become foothold for organised crime gangs, conveniently located in the city. Very difficult to resolve.

IMPORTANT

All freelancers, self-employed, creatives

This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices

Deadline to respond is 23 October

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Illustrated cover of a blonde girl in a plaid school uniform looking out from a gothic window surrounded by fall ivy foliage. Reflected in the squares of the window are two boys faces, one blonde, one black haired with glasses.

Cover for Celine Leonora's "A Lesson in Murder," published by Arena-Verlag. This was my first time working with a German publishing company and they were so polite, and efficient, and respectful 🥲 13/10 client.

What I think of every time someone says they're "thinking of selling and moving to UAE". This, and cartels and money laundering

Feel like I should just call it a day. Clearly things not going well so far, and feeling very stressed tbh

Idk what to do. Support fixed it last time but couldn't this time. In limbo.

Photoshop rapidly reducing it's functionality to nil as it repeatedly deletes my brushes (that I'm using, that I NEED!) on updates.
Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template.
Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!

Enjoy! Nottingham is great :)

Sadly haven't been back since uni days. I imagine the Lace Market is still home to cute restaurants and bars tho, and Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is your obligatory tourist (but honestly pretty cool) old pub

Only Garmin people will understand this, but I did a textbook sleep. Lol, proud moments.

Idk, mine have all varied a bit, but mostly a couple of days feeling pretty rough. Panadol and lots of water!