Bob Flynn

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Before/After sketch of Janine with notes: "Hair softer, glasses round, pupils larger, earrings smaller, neck shorter, no necklace, no bracelets, no belt. Generally less harsh and 'slutty' and her face and expressions are prettier." Original caption reads, "Sketch supplied by Q5 Corp. shows how "Ghostbusters" character Janine changed after firm made certain suggestions to ABC."

from the original print edition

Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it."

In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime.

The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

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Maybe it will be a surprise new NEW version.

The Picnic - 5 decades of the Million Year Picnic (2021,2023) directed by Vincent-louis Apruzzese

THE PICNIC: 5 decades of the Million Year Picnic (2021,2023), a documentary about our shop directed by Vincent-louis Apruzzese, is now available to watch on YouTube!

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I’m at a point where I’m looking to embrace more mystery in my life. Trying to be mindful and to embrace what my senses and life experience can tell me.

Look, it’s a plane. That’s amazing there are people flying above me. Maybe I can tell what kind of plane it is with my eyes?

But that’s enough.

Overheard someone describing an app you can use to id the plane flying overhead, make-model-airline, its flight path and destination.

What are you, a humble being, going to do with that information? So much of current tech’s primary use-case is for a ‘look what I can do’ novelty.

Few more:

Lego as painting/mosaic.
Lego as medium for stop motion animation.
Lego for technical machines/robotics.
Lego for repairing walls.
Lego for collecting/investing.
Lego as inspiration for Minecraft & Roblox.

Lego as something to put away and clean up.

Basic frameworks for Lego brick:

Lego as toy to assemble.
Lego to free build and play with.
Lego to make articulated posable figures.
Lego as model kit (to be displayed, not to be played with)
Lego as model city/train layout.
Lego to build 1:1 scale replicas.

and…

Lego to hurt peoples feet.

Painted logo on bus.

Another example of "can't be a coincidence."

The green strip contains a rivet, bottom centered.
The red strip contained 6 of them.
The two frame a single rivet in the white negative space, like an eyeball.
The blue avoids any rivets.

8 and 9 painted on red

Here, you just know the painter drew the 8 and 9 to perfectly weave around the rivets.

It's super satisfying. I'm sure sign painters in the field conversed about the pros and cons of going one way or another. Avoiding rivets or painting over them. The craft, the choices.

It shows care.

Painted red letters on yellow.

Painted red numbers on yellow.

I visited a trolley yard this weekend where I'm instantly drawn to hand-painted type. I focus immediately on how the forms need to navigate the surface.

Left: If a rivet is in the way, you paint over it.
Right: Where here, the 3 manages to avoid the rivets, but the metal ridge can't be avoided.

Agreed, he and everyone else on Andor.

When applying to art school I needed to photograph my artwork and pay to develop them into multiple copies of *photo slides* and mail them in yellow envelopes to the various schools.

After which, presumably, portfolio reviewers would put them in a slide projector or view them tiny on a light box.

Oh wow, thanks!

Wait, do they have actual images of the plush? (I’d want an Impossibear)

Very! But now I need to find a new Triassic dinosaur.

But the internet tells me it’s not a dinosaur, and lived well before the Triassic 🤷‍♂️

Dimetrodon is the first one that popped into my head. Which is based on info from my 8yo self.

The book explores industrial scale decision making in markets, institutions and governments, a situation where the system serves itself by following process instead of logic. [3] He argues that unexpected consequences, unwanted outcomes or failures emerge from "responsibility voids"[3] that are built into underlying systems. These voids are especially visible in big complex organizations.14] Davies introduces the term "accountability sinks", [5] which remove the ownership or responsibility for decisions made. The sink obscures or deflects…

Oh I really like this term to:

“responsibility voids”

Holy moly, I’ve been saying and thinking about this a ton too. Helps to have a phrase to name it.

People need to start owning big decisions again. Enough with punting to the task force, to the focus group, and to the algorithm.

Anime was popular in the Soviet Union -- even Andrei Tarkovsky watched it. And animators in the USSR wanted to compete.

The recently restored Mystery of the Third Planet was an odd, wonderful attempt to do so. We explore its story: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/soviet-anime

I did! I worked with Chris Duffy at Nick Mag, just before it shuttered. And thanks! The longer I’ve been doing this the more I think the most important thing is doing your best to take care of the characters you’ve been given (or created). And to have a genuine affection that is hard to fake.

You had your hand in so many memorable poses and drawings. Wow! I can place all of them immediately in my mind. SB and Patrick were so well taken care of in that movie.

A few choice storyboard cleanups from the SpongeBob Squarepants Movie. I'm still so proud to have been a part of this movie! #spongebob #animation

Another batch of SpongeBob style guide poses. I did hundreds of these! I can still walk into any big box store and find my drawings on the merch. I did the final cleanup and color on a few, but I was mostly the "tight sketch" guy. #spongebob #picoftheday #animation #patrickstar #pencilsketches

More SpongeBob styleguide poses. I remember Steve Hillenburg was very picky about the karate pose. We went through several rounds of revisions, so this version is mostly based on his notes. #spongebob #animation

My son just spotted a ‘mad jeep’.

I saw an ad the other day for an online banking service called “Dave”, I wonder if they’re related.

Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism

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