I wish more conversations around art in a post-capitalist world were based around state subsidiaries and co-op studios that we've already seen in practice in history, and not "artists are entitled babies who need to grow up and get a REAL job, but leftistly"
I like the painting process when I'm making art, sometimes even more than the drawing part tbh, but I also hate feeling like I have to perfectly render everything everytime, I wanna just do flat paints but then my brain screams at me to do more
For Disability Pride Month I’m once again begging for more artists to start considering accessibility and add alt text to your images. It helps low/no vision folks, neurodivergent folks, and more. Plus alt text shows up in searches! There’s a toggle in settings so you won’t forget. 👇
Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
Just once, I'd like to see American society's most vulnerable be able to criticize the Democratic party or Biden and express dissatisfaction with them without someone swanning in to tell them how they have to vote in >4 months.
Said it on twit also:
Too many people are willing to shrug their shoulders and concede on this as not a big deal, when in the UK transphobia engulfing both major parties began with statements like this dressed as "just common sense"
ntm that forced surgery on intersex children is still seen as okay
The thing with these guys is they view communications media (speech, fiction, film, TV series, drama, you name it) as data transmission and nothing more. The Great Gatsby is a list of events and characters and if you can cut that down to 500 words, you're maximizing something.
Since there's a lot going on today and a lot of people are feeling stressed & overwhelmed, maybe this is a good time to introduce all of you to early 20th-century artist Tade Styka and his distinctive painted dog portraits
We’re living through an era when everything needs to be upended yet so many people are clinging tightly to the edge of the pool. I understand why this is: when things feel uncertain, the status quo is a mirage of ‘safety’. But we need people who are willing to swim in the deep end & offer new paths
A few months ago people told me I was ridiculous for my anxiety about AI replacing workers, and now they’re laying off half the New York Times art department for AI-driven software.
Hey would you check out the storybook I made with friends? It’s online, free to read, and might be the last large art project I’m ever able to work on. It’s the only one to ever see completion
This is correct — why must the left wait until after (every) election to ask for a place at the table? At which point, mysteriously, it’s “not time now” again. The first election I followed was 1980; these are always the terms.
whenever I think about how a movie's financial success has been reduced to essentially it's first weekend in theaters, I am reminded there used to be a thriving economy based on months-long schedules, rentals, VHS and DVD sales, regional theaters, syndication on TBS, and international release dates
something of the "yes biden is bad but trump would be even worse for gaza-" that i keep noticing is they have no ability to conceive of what will even be left of gaza if this goes on till november and i feel this comes out of still operating by the same 10/7 beliefs of "this'll last a couple weeks"
CEO of Sony Picture group, an executive finally saying publicly almost all the stuff that needs to be done to make movies profitable again: deadline.com/2024/05/tom-...
