unencumbered demon

ahhhh today's work brew is straight from the bowels of hell (i.e. it is too freaking hot for once)

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

RIP Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan painting of a young George Lucas, with perfectly coiffed hair, holding a camera over his shoulder. He is surrounded by Star Wars characters.

Drew Struzan painting of a distinguished George Lucas, flanked by Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Indiana Jones.

Pouring one out for Drew Struzan.
Here are his sexy George Lucas paintings.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

Hook poster, 1991

Back to the Future poster, 1985

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

oh this migraine certainly explains why I felt so massively tired yesterday

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

first day back at work could've gone better, but also I could have slept better last night and I did not (which did not help the work day flow with ease, dang it)

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇." In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.) We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered. We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

forbidden stars

(there is now different IAP prices in mobile games for different players, using AI on their data to predict behavior. Higher priced bundles when players are most engaged/vulnerable/addicted, cheap prices when players are about to leave the game to maintain addiction/squeeze revenue)

a fully orchestrated and choral version of Battle with the Four Fiends? oh HELL YEAH

I threw away a permanent marker the other day. Today it showed up on my desk again with the word "permanent" slightly bigger and underlined

(also it was Sunday, and I wasn't expecting anyone or anything, so it was fine)

I actually don't like using my headphones in the house, bc I like to be able to hear if someone knocks on the door, for example, but I was enjoying the music so much I actually kept them on for an hour or so

it's been really foggy all day where I am. I just looked out the window now it's gone dark and it's going full on Silent Hill out there

love it

I mean OF COURSE amazing music sounds 900 times better coming from my headphones than it does the speaker in my phone

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels. Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory." Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality." Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?: Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint) Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close" A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

#pixelart #ドット絵

Manics fans we need your help!
Next year is 40 years of the Manics, so we're making a very special edition of the zine.
In order to make it, we'd like to get as many manics fans involved as we can, as our idea for the zine is not only a celebration of the band we love so much but also the fandom.

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

Hallowstream 2025 schedule reveal! As we prepare our minds and our bodies for two weeks of terror, we invite you to peruse the Hallowstream schedule and plan accordingly 😱

A Waterstones ad featuring Nine Goblins, which you can preorder for 25%! Neat!

UK readers, we got a coupon thing!

not the first time an arrangement from V has tripped me up like this!

got there! it's The Decisive Battle from FFV!

other than that, I have so far spent the afternoon listening to stuff I haven't heard before and having a whale of a time!

g dang it, I should know whose (boss) theme Decisions from the Stormblood soundtrack is a rearrangement of, but it's weird hearing a very familiar track played a different way than you're used to

I have just seen someone describe Stranger of Paradise as "the most underrated Final Fantasy game ever."

I may have to go and lie down somewhere bc lol, no

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.