Bob Flynn

Wow! What a treat, thanks 👍

Go Fetch! - | Nick Gary's favorite ball falls into a monster-filled trench.

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Free on Nick.com!

Fun! Is there a way to see this (or is it behind the Paramount paywall?)

Dino with googlies.

You don’t see oval shaped googly eyes as often as you should.

Even without gen-ai, I’ve often had a concern about anything that smooths out human imperfection as limiting aesthetic potential.

If you go in with the idea that you want to make something as good as this other professional thing (as most of us do), digital ease leaves us prone to be trapped there.

Good question. Not necessarily, but I do think it risks limiting the range of possible outcomes. Narrowing the scope of what art can do.

Which may or may not be important to any one individual, but it could have broader impact to a healthy culture.

I have a hunch that all of this calculated talk of the ‘democratizing’ of art via generative outputs speaks more to the idea that a lot of people claiming to be innovators have little interest in making anything new with it.

Thinking about the digital ease of professional sheen—where you’re able to quickly make something that looks finished, but you’ve leapfrogged over the act of tinkering to make something work.

Not that you’re lazy or impatient by bypassing foundational skills, but that you may not make anything new.

I'm looking for animation work!

-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire

I'd love to animate for your game.

It strikes me lately that craft, any craft, is about taking good care of something. Taking pride in that care. And by mere proximity, taking care of yourself.

Yep, here it is. Shared a few mins ago:

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Man I’m still shining from that sperm whale vid. Uncanny time to be alive where a lucky diver can film a dramatic never before seen event like that and mundanely post it to IG.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I've posted many thoughts and clips about Jim Henson and The Muppets (feel free to go back & explore), but on what would have been his 89th birthday, I want to emphasize that for Jim, puppetry was a means to an end - just one of many mediums he explored to express his art…

Good question. I feel like I notice it immediately when I'm flipping through picture books at the store. Because I gravitate to those books. But names are escaping me at the moment.

Also, hi Meg!

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Just watched the 1978 Superman with my 6yo who immediately asked during the helicopter scene how they did it, and speculated about thin wires we couldn’t see. He could tell it was real.

He’s never asked a single thing about how they made Harry fly on a Nimbus 2000, because he knows it’s not real.

I liked it! (only just saw it as well) Would be nice to see a follow up where Superman doesn’t constantly have the shit beaten out of him, even though that’s kind of the point.

Willy Wonka Lego

This only works if you can eat the bricks.

I’m cool with them as long as there is candy to be had.

From the Asterix community on Reddit: Was Goscinny really inspired by the Argentinean strip "Patoruzú" to create Asterix? Some Argentinean sources even claim that it is plagiarism. Is there any concre... Explore this post and more from the Asterix community

I'm a digger too, constantly trying to find more cartoons and strips to admire study. Patoruzu is somehow new to me (double thanks, Phil!) and it does look like there's been some conversation on it's likely influence on René Goscinny in creating Asterix.

www.reddit.com/r/Asterix/co...

Learn about something new every day, looking at 'Aggie Mack' by Hal Rasmusson. Thanks Phil!

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

Read this, by @jamellebouie.net. These are the stakes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Another strike may be on the way?

I could tell the team who made The Bad Guys 2 had a real fun time making The Bad Guys 2.

Start up believes people actually read junk mail and can’t distinguish it from real mail.

Their business model is junk mail.

They think people who call junk mail junk mail are lazy.

Savers! Of course! We have one of those nearby. I’ll have to check it out. My son and I are really enjoying the Lego hobby (making our own builds) and I’m trying to be financially responsible about it.

This is a great find! I've been mostly going the FB Marketplace route to build part inventory. Mixed success (lots of fake Lego and random plastic toys mixed in). Which stores do you typically go hunting at?

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

New Mexico written on a flag

Enjoying the first state flag of New Mexico circa 1915, on a nudge from the 'E Pluribus Motto' podcast.

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