Jonathan King

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I make films and comics in Wellington,
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Prima di Blade Runner, Matrix, Mad Max e Sin City. Spione, Fritz Lang (1928)

Vive La France!

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Pōneke, come and get your first glimpse of The Mires, the exciting new novel by our colleague and MA workshop convenor Tina Makereti! Tina will be in conversation with Ingrid Horrocks at Unity Books on 10 July, 1230.

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Just returned an audiobook because the American narrator’s “British” accent for one of the characters made Dick van Dyke sound like Laurence Olivier. There was no way I was taking another 8 hours of that!

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Well this is grim

These Kenneth Branagh Poirot films really are very good*. *At driving you straight to better adaptations of the material (by people who understand how mysteries work) – or the books themselves.

Thinking of the current, NZ-related, celebrity scandal reminded me of this 99-year-old quote:

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Linette is probably one of my fav artists on this site. I have one of her paintings in my bathroom and her graphic novel. You should follow her RIGHT NOW.

9 away from 1k

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Two new HISSandaROAR sound lirbaries just released: VEH004 TRAILER IMPACTS = hefty multitrack metal impacts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQH... #sounddesign #gameaudio

HISSandaROAR VEH004 TRAILER IMPACTSwww.youtube.com New HISSandaROAR Sound Library:https://hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/veh004-trailer-impacts/

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I made a Meme

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Neil Gaiman, *63yo, insists that his sexual relationship with his live-in nanny,*23, which started on her first night at his home, was consensual. It’s not the 80’s sir. The power imbalance & her dependency on you for employment & housing, make this at a minimum coercive & far from consensual.

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Wellington! [email protected] and I will be at Unity Books Wgtn on 17 July for a lunch time talk and at WORD on 31 August. We’ll be talking writing & reading and what makes our nerdy bookish hearts sing. You might go away with a reading list! See you there? #pukapuka

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you expect ME to pay bills? me. a former baby. you sound insane right now.

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Apparently Brian Tamaki was on The Platform calling for homosexuality to be re-criminalised in New Zealand. What do you lesbian TERF cheerleaders think about that? Still think it’s good and cool to support him and his events? You’ll let leopards eat your face just to be mean to trans women.

This is like announcing to grifters that the NZ government is in the market for a monorail.

Govt could develop its own AI, Collins suggestsnewsroom.co.nz A bespoke artificial intelligence for government work would help address concerns about privacy and the misuse of sensitive data by tech companies.

Mon Oncle, Tati Our Man in Havana, Reed Vertigo, Hitchcock I Walked With a Zombie, Tourneur Element of Crime, Von Trier

Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films. My picks Mystery Train (Jim Jaramusch) Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō) Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) Ice Storm, The (Ang Lee) Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)

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Thanks to The Sapling for asking @rachaelking70.bsky.social to interview me about my debut kids' novel, 'Brown Bird' 🪶🤎

One acclaimed author talks to another: Rachael King puts a few questions to Jane Arthur about her newest book, Brown Bird. www.thesapling.co.nz/interview-ja...

Interview: Jane Arthur on Brown Bird - The Saplingwww.thesapling.co.nz The intimidatingly-talented author of two acclaimed poetry collections, owner of the best fringe in New Zealand lit, and all round book-ish Good Sort sat down with Rachael King to talk about making th...

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Like many comic artists I had a hard time understanding backgrounds. They tend not to be stylized in the same way characters are. For me, it clicked it into place while revisiting Canada's classic landscape painters, the Group of 7. Their simplification of forms showed me the way. (Happy Canada Day)

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What Jim Lee has just done for the art community is an absolutely masterful strategic move. In one post he's re-established art as something of great value at a time when so many people are doing everything to reframe it as valueless

Folks are up in arms about these prices

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Sketched a goth

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This is one of the best comics of all time and Lynda put it on the back cover of her book. She really said “I’ll give you that one for free”

stumbled onto this lynda Barry comic again which always makes me a little verklempt

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One of the pleasures of the past 12 months of freelancing has been the opportunity write profiles of some of Aotearoa's unsung screen professionals for nzonscreen. Here's one that's just been posted: the 60-year career of camera professional Andy Roelants. www.nzonscreen.com/profile/andy...

Andy Roelants | NZ On Screenwww.nzonscreen.com Andy Roelants - Nearly 60 years after picking up a film camera for the first time, Andy Roelants is still excited about telling stories on screen. The owner of camera equipment rental firm Metro Film ...

Sunset Boulevard‘s crazy old has-been Gloria Swanson was the same age top action star Tom Cruise is now.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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don't usually interact with the MP posts that slide into one's feed, but this was an open goal

Doing Jury Duty for the first time ever today. On the way in I’m practicing everything I might be called on to do today: “Objection!” “Asked and answered!” “Badgering the witness!” “I put it to you, sir, that you are a LIAR!”

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Some news I didn’t post here! My selkies-meets-Nz #middlegrade novel Red Rocks is currently being shot for TV by Libertine Pictures in one of my favourite places in the world - Weliington’s South Coast! www.wildbrain.com/trade-news/l... #kidlit #selkie

LIBERTINE PICTURES’ RED ROCKS GOES INTO PRODUCTION ON LOCATION IN WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND COMMISSIONED BY BYUtv (US) & SKY ORIGINALS NZwww.wildbrain.com Mystical live-action family series has engaged Wētā Workshop for Creature Effects, with WildBrain on board as distributor Wellington, NZ – June 25, 2024 – Libertine Pictures has commenced production o...