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Nearly 400 Artists Threaten Angoulême Festival Boycott Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management ...

Nearly 400 Artists Threaten Angoulême Festival Boycott
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ATTENTION LOCALS! We'll be hanging out at Bulgilhan HQ for the @cityofsomerville.bsky.social Yart Sale on Saturday 8/9 from Noonish until 6ish. Stop by!

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My hot take: we as a society don’t challenge people enough on facts and it’s metastasized.

Political tension in the family? You’ll be told, “Oh, don’t let “politics” get in the way of relationships - avoid it!”

Sorry, no. Politics is personal. Speak up. Do it with humility, but insist on facts.

the first conspiracy.

Listen pal if you’re going to be a 30 year old baby you’re going to need to have a Bluesky account

Efforts to paint the moments we're in as “anti-American” while romanticizing US history and its foundations do not dig us out of fascism; they dig us deeper in. Tell the truth about how this country came to be and what it is now, or expect more problems.

A More Congenial Spot | Carla Speed McNeil Get more from Carla Speed McNeil on Patreon

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Knowing how to make stuff at all by hand with a human mind increasingly feels like being a master practical FX artist: decades of specialist knowledge that can wow anyone and was a great passion of my life to pursue, now mostly unwanted in favor of the “just okay” we’re willing to tolerate.

Three formative events for me as a young woman in the 1990s were all centered on Americans absolutely trashing different women for different circumstances: Anita Hill, Monica Lewinsky, and Chelsea Clinton.

the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

#animationtidbits #animation #stopmotion

Proponents of AI always talk about productivity etc etc but they never mention how literally nobody wants to read or consume the garbage that you didn’t even want to make.

The card was everywhere, advertised as a surefire bestseller. It was THE gag of 1905.

Dam jokes had been around for decades but picture postcards were relatively new. When the two combined, Americans just had to give a Dam.

The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905) A Silent FIlm Review An entire silent comedy based on… a postcard? That’s right, this little comedy played with the popular “whole Dam family gag” that was enjoying a moment in jokes, postcards, novelty songs and more.…

This week, I review THE WHOLE DAM FAMILY AND THE DAM DOG (1905), an Edison comedy based on the wildly popular picture postcard that had become a phenomenon across the country.

I cover the history of the gag, the postcard craze and the film's uncredited cast.

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Doodle Stream With Far Fetched Creators/ Ashley Nichols & Dave Capdevielle YouTube video by Daria Cohen

We're LIVE, hanging out with Daria Cohen and the Vampair crew!

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lol of course James Baxter, should have guessed from the flawless 360 tracking shot.

"Psycho at The Sphere"

"The Shining at The Sphere"

"The Blair Witch Project at The Sphere"

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Truth.

I remember in the friggin' 90s reading essays by forward-thinking hacker types who were like "We cannot allow the internet to become funded and sustained by advertisers, it must be nationalized now as a public service" and thinking "Seems dramatic!"

lol.

LOOOOL.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant humanoid embracing a smaller one. It is captioned "Man and the Earth."

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female satyr embracing a small human male. She appears to be nuzzling him.

A Rose O'Neill pen and ink drawing, featuring a giant female humanoid nuzzling a tiny male humanoid. It is titled "Besieging the lips of the Earth."

This is your occasional reminder that Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpies, first published female cartoonist in the United States, and among the first cartoonists to build a merchandising empire on their work, turned out some absolutely baller, romantic-feeling size-difference monster art.

Print featuring a woman sitting on the floor holding and embracibg a child who lolls back in her arms with closed eyes

'I am in the world to change the world'
- Käthe Kollwitz

#ReframingWomenPrintmakers

C'mon, we learned this on Twitter. Those stupid, inflammatory takes are 100% on purpose.

Reminder that dunks disseminate. You're not owning some asshole, you're being his free street team.

Please stop putting stupid shit in my timeline. Just block and move on.

And there are literally books and courses that will guide people to unlocking their creative process. They can learn to do this!

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Tired: Choose your fighter.

Wired: Choose your strongly worded letter writer.

But in all fairness, saying that they can't fight is not accurate. Because they fight really hard, and viciously, when the opponent is AOC, or Mamdani, or Black college students.

Fantastic news for artists: The lost functionality of Google Image Search as a reference image source has been recreated.

Never ceases to amaze how we all Had A Good Thing, a good, useful, easy thing we all liked, and someone went "Mmkay, well, let's ruin it for no good reason."