Matthew Carlson

Visions of 2050: Prominent media figures read the present—and predict the future. We asked prominent media figures to read the present—and try to predict the future.

I talked to Columbia Journalism Review about the future of media. www.cjr.org/feature/visi...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

I would 100% buy this b&w graphic novel

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Tiny owl sketch for a coloring page
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#dailydrawing #sketchbook #coloring

It dreams of being a crab

Fill the page late night doodles
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#adobefresco #doodle #illustration

A visit from the Night Owl
(Playing around with styles before the day of cooking)
#adobefresco #illustration #dailydrawing

Lost robot cafe doodle
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#fountainpen #sketchbook #daildrawing

Midnight Owl in the Magic Pine
#dailydrawing #adobefresco #illustration

Until she moves terrifyingly fast?

Well now. This beauty has turned up. I imagine a lot of people will be spending the weekend pouring over this.
Well done to @ianmcque.bsky.social and @rossignol.bsky.social for delivering the must have book this year. #Mileships

Layer Masks - late night doodle, you draw what shows up!
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#adobefresco #dailydrawing #illustration

Autumn vibes (playing with colors)
#adobefresco #autumn #dailydrawing

Shroom on the go

Come draw some owls, trees and leaves! www.youtube.com/live/lD7LJ_S...

From Idea to Illustration: Draw Along with a Pro YouTube video by Adobe Live

The Draw-along is live! Let's draw some stuff together in Adobe Fresco! #adobelive - grab your pens and paper. We will draw owls, trees, mushrooms and other autumn-ish stuff. And we'll animate some falling leaves!
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#adobefresco #talkingrocks #drawing #painting

💡🎨 🖼 From Idea to Illustration: Draw Along with a Pro! I'm going to do an #AdobeFresco Draw-along session on Friday at 11am PST - We'll doodle together and talk about how to illustrate your ideas.
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#draw #paint #illustrate #animate #adobelive

Just breathtaking. Made me say yikes, in the best possible way.

drawing of a fairy with antennae on a paper background decorated with moss

Here is a fairy

For far too many families, the cost of childcare is driving them out of the city they love.

New Yorkers deserve to be able to afford to raise families here.

Project Aqua is live in the App Store! map. Draw, paint, color, trace, dive into fashion design, create your own super hero or make a gallery to show off your art! Explore Project Aqua today!
apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...
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#kidsfun #creativity #fun #kidsapp

California voters OK new congressional lines, boosting Democrats ahead of midterms California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

JUST IN: California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Zohran and Rama smiling at each other in a gymnasium.

A wide shot of the gym with voting booths.

Zohran holding a ballot and smiling.

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future.

I hope you will too.

One Of My Worst Writing Pet Peeves, and How to Avoid It Before we dive into newsletter-town, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster makes a fantastic holiday gift for...

My latest newsletter is about one of my writing pet peeves.

I *hate* it when a novel gives its main character a personal epiphany on page 300 that:

a) could have happened on page 30 instead bc it was already clear
b) is ridic embarrassingly obvious and surface-level

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I suspect that the techbros who read the SFF stories about robots rebelling decided that the moral of the story was "design them so they won't" and they think that's actually possible and desirable.

It was super fun to be able to launch our new Pose feature in Adobe Fresco at MAX! Pose lets you turn ANY 2d image into a virtual puppet, so you can push, pull and animate it frame by frame. Check it out! #adobemax #adobefresco #animation

Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

I have a very bad feeling about this...