jen hurler

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✨animation development @ wba ✨
🐿️ blue sky studios alum 🐿️

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The Opaque Masterpiece: Angel’s Egg - A personal article by e rathke, which explores the opaque, dreamlike imagery and story of 1985 OVA Angel's Egg. He ties these elements to a period in their life in which his first child was in the NICU, when the film became an undercurrent of his life.

The Opaque Masterpiece: Angel's Egghera.fyi An egg. A man. A girl. An empty city of grand, gothic buildings populated by shadows hunting the shade of some great fish. Skeletons of massive beasts. A

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Whoops, a lot of cartoonists have probably moved over to Bluesky. Just FYI, CALA is back and accepting applications!

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That’s right King

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Snug. ☺️ From April's Kittens, written and illustrated by Clare Turlay Newberry. 1940. archive.org/details/apri...

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HOLY SHIT THEY FIXED VOYAGER I …!!! blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...

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In researching the next book a trauma expert told me offhandedly she believed most political issues and controversies came down to an argument over whether kids and young people should suffer the same abuse as the previous generation and boy oh boy is that on my mind a lot recently.

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Jillian Grant and I had visions of a @jamilarowser.bsky.social and @oneilljones.com team up for aaaaaages, and the story that they made together with @longtalljodie.com lived up to the hype and then some. Natasha Irons, Traci 13, John Constantine, and Xanthe Zhou have TRULY NEVER LOOKED BETTER.

DC just posted a sneak peek of this year's DC Pride 👀 y'all want to see what me, @jamilarowser.bsky.social, and @longtalljodie.com have been up to? www.dc.com/blog/2024/04...

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The Emotional Score: A Journey Through Anime Music: Alicia Graves explores the anatomy of an anime soundtrack, and the musical theory that goes into a good score. She talks with composer Masaru Yokoyama to discuss their own inspirations when creating the Your Lie in April soundtrack.

The Emotional Score: A Journey Through Anime Musichera.fyi The mournful vibration of a violin. The lonely notes from a piano. A harmonious swell as the two come together. Deafening silence, a sudden rise in tempo.

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on this week's episode of aftermath hours, we (along with special guest @lawoftd.bsky.social) talk about why the tiktok ban is bad, stupid, and bound to blow up in the government's face, if it even goes through at all aftermath.site/tiktok-ban-s...

Andreas Malm’s climate activist books discuss the pros and cons of various tactics and cites historic examples of effective *tactical* violence that have been white-washed over time. Also debunks a popular but flimsy study that attempts to disprove it. Recommend just for this lesson itself.

Fetishization of non-violence is based on the fantasy that you can politely usher progress into being.

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Looney Tunes' actual Foghorn voice actor Eric Bauza lends his voice to the latest anime meme!

Looney Tunes' Foghorn Voice Actor Eric Bauza Takes Part in Anime Memeswww.animenewsnetwork.com I say, I say, bōya

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Brilliant read. "The money produced by art has not disappeared. ... The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less."

an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...

The Money Is In All The Wrong Places | Defectordefector.com You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about so...

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This one feels like a punch in the chest: Vinay Krishnan on the bird app.

Excited!

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kiki

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If you're feeling terrible about the state of animation industry, just remember that the golden age of animation started during the great depression. THE worst financial period in US history. Yet survived, and through every budget cut that came its way! Animation is not doomed

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I'd been keeping an eye on Aftermath. Recently, @lukeplunkett.com wrote an excellent piece titled "There Is No Piracy Without Ownership" that caught my attention. Gita's piece, below, on the current AI scam is what has made me become a paid subscriber. You should read this and pay these folks, too.

how many times are we all going to fall for the same fucking scam aftermath.site/openai-sora-...

AI Video Is A Scam - Aftermathaftermath.site On Thursday, OpenAI revealed their text to video AI generation model. This is the same scam I have seen in Silicon Valley one thousand times.

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bluesky's open, quote one art to promote yourself

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One of the greatest books ever made.

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Exploring ways to draw my kitty, Sophie. Bryan and I are always joking that we think she can see ghosts. She will just stop and stare at nothing with wide eyes! So Im exploring drawing her so I can figure out a design and make her a ghost hunting kitty 👻 But first I need a base design for her

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You know for all the trans people on here, I’ve never seen anyone talk about Cybersix, a 90s cartoon about a robot who presents as a male teacher during the day and a female hero at night.

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Anytime you wanna pump the brakes 2024, it's good by me. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staffwww.bloomberg.com Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.

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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

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What if someone had the foresight to put a provision in the Constitution that bars a fellow who organizes violence against the constitutional order from holding office again?

Republican polling leader Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest if the criminal charges against him cause him to lose the 2024 election. The former president did not take questions and walked away as a Washington Post reporter asked him to rule out violence by his supporters.

Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearingwww.washingtonpost.com Trump spoke after his lawyers argued to an appeals court that the former president should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

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It's my book's release day! The Patterns of Comics is now officially published, featuring an extended data-driven analysis of the structures used in 350+ comics from Asia, Europe, and North America analyzing diversity, regularity, and change over time www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc

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Happy Christmas!

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🕹️ Bytes of Gaming History ⌛ From the pages of Gamest magazine: a photographic glimpse into the heart of Squaresoft's offices in Japan during the development of Final Fantasy VII in 1996. That's one helluva multi-monitor setup they've got there!

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U.S. HOLIDAY COVID UPDATE: - COVID wastewater levels are very high in the majority of states - 1 in 35 people currently have COVID - COVID levels higher today than during 90% of the pandemic - WHO designated JN.1 variant of interest - CDC warning hospitals may ration care