Getting lost in the woods and loving it open.substack.com/pub/ianbruce...
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Getting lost in the woods and loving it open.substack.com/pub/ianbruce...
🍉🍉 2nd Edition of 100 Watermelon Prints for Gaza Formula Fund now available on the Crowdfunder - please make sure you CHOOSE REWARD on the page when donating to buy a print.
Free Gaza. Free Palestine.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons
🍉 100 Prints Sold Out in under 24hrs for Gaza Formula Fund. More than £6,000 raised - THANK YOU
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons
Second edition of prints on their way
🍉FLASH SALE🍉 for Gaza Formula Fund
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons
*please choose Reward on the Crowdfunder page when donating to buy a print*
Aiming to raise cash fast for Gaza Formula Fund selling Limited Edition Watermelon Prints at £25 (postage included, UK only, pay more if you can)
We wanted to make a painting that looked as if Vermeer had had a night out in the Haçienda
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A brilliant article in the FT riffing and expanding on Musk’s daddy issues that Jemima and I talked about during the livestream
Only just seen this. New title for the second painting! Thank you!
I just went a pulled a T-shirt out of my drawer. Mind blown. 🍇🍎 Collective amnesia.
Thank you so much for joining today and supporting @freeourfeeds.com
Having you on the call gave me the burst of energy needed to finish the triptych!
Thank you SO much for joining and enlightening us about your journey in creating @blacksky.app - I’ve learnt a huge amount this week
What’s next? We’re cooking up something interesting with all the amazing chats I’ve had this week. Watch this space 👀
Thank you everyone for your support!
It’s been a thrilling (and somewhat tiring) week but I’m left with a sense that so many people are giving all they can to fight the power of Musk, the far-right & the malign influence of Big Tech over our online spaces, our democracies, our economies & our lives.
Then in a surreal turn of events @markruffalo.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social @alexwinter.com & @rosie.com joined me in the final hours to scream at the good billionaires out there to “f*ing do something already and donate to FreeOurFeeds.com ”
In the final stretch @rudyfraser.com & @robin.berjon.com provided hope. They described how they’re building the architecture of a new kind of social media - decentralised, community-led & free from billionaire domination. Go donate to Free Our Feeds to help make that possible: gofund.me/e6bb4033
Luckily Jayde Adams was on hand to give me a well-needed laugh as we speculated about why Musk is obsessed with being funny
Then @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com & Dr Melisa Basol warned us that we need to make sure our friends & neighbours aren’t victims of toxic content on today’s social media
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social , Shoshana Zuboff, @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social & Jay Griffiths zoomed out and reminded us what’s at stake if we let the tech bros take too much, as digital authoritarianism looms over us.
@jonronson.bsky.social told me that Musk might care too much about how people think about him to be a psychopath, @rosie.com and @jemima.bsky.social took me through what might be behind his relationship with Donald Trump - daddy issues anyone?
I was taken on a journey from his traumatic upbringing in Apartheid South Africa, with guidance from @kuminaidoo.bsky.social, to his years trying to make it as what @alexwinter.com described as a “vulture capitalist” in the US
After 5 days, 102 hours of live streaming, 19 guests & over 10,000 viewers, I've finished my portrait of Elon Musk.
And I think I've captured the psychology of the man.
#WeNeedToTalkAboutElon
"The one thing about fascists throughout history is they never survive. They can't fucking govern." - @markruffalo.bsky.social in conversation with @rosie.com, @alexwinter.com, @johncusack.bsky.social & @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social.
John Cusack, Alex Winter, Ian Bruce (painting), Rosie O'Donnell and Mark Ruffalo on a livestream
What a Crew!
@johncusack.bsky.social, @alexwinter.com, @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social, @rosie.com & @markruffalo.bsky.social all in one place!
Join the conversation LIVE: www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
Pretty wild line-up right now with @markruffalo.bsky.social, @rosie.com, @alexwinter.com, and @johncusack.bsky.social raising funds for #FreeOurFeeds as @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social paints.
Ruffalo: "Hey billionaires out there, fucking step up!"
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
Donate to have you name painted into the portrait:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...
NOW: @markruffalo.bsky.social just joined the stream!
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
HAPPENING NOW!
@rosie.com, @alexwinter.com & @johncusack.bsky.social join @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social on IanPaintsElon.com!
Joining me LIVE now are @rosie.com, @alexwinter.com & @johncusack.bsky.social!
Join us as we support @freeourfeeds.com!
www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
LIVE: @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social is joining me now to talk about Elon Musk, billionaire control of our society and much more!
All in support of @freeourfeeds.com.
Join us: www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
"Democracy is the thing we can get out of decentralized technologies. This means allowing communities to govern themselves." - @robin.berjon.com
IanPaintsElon.com
Rudy Fraser & Robin Berjon on a promotional graphic for the IanPaintsElon.com livestream at 3 pm BST/10 am ET
Happening now!
@rudyfraser.com & @robin.berjon.com are joining @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social on his #IanPaintsElon livestream to support #FreeOurFeeds!
Join the stream at IanPaintsElon.com & ask about Free Our Feeds, the AT Protocol, and what’s the solution to billionaire control of social media!
