@akage72
Up North. Stop motion, 2D animator. Having a go at comics. Autistic, ADHD. Autobio webcomic https://stargazinginthecity.wordpress.com/ Stop-mo Telly work https://vimeo.com/11681775 2D animation work https://vimeo.com/781060444
It feels like the label content has been wrongly applied to actual human creativity for years (when the epithet 'content creators' started to be applied to YT and Insta video makers) and has only now found it's true home as a label for AI generated things.
"I didn't get where I am today by watching Americanizations of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"
This is one of the most revelatory and inspiring things I've heard recently - a reverse engineered version of Suzanne Vega's song 'Tom's Diner,' revealing all the sounds stripped out when encoded to an MP3.
youtu.be/efpZ_jR8kiU?...
‘The need for support is everywhere’: working-class arts group expands to north of England. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
To my shame, I've never seen that film! He's very cute. Ray knew his stuff, shooting on film with no video assist, having to wait til the end of the week to get the film back from Boots to see if it came out ok. The only other place I've come across an eohippus is this song which is nice
CONRAD POOHS DISAPPEARANCE SOLVED
I'd like to think Turn the Page was inspired by Mandelson in the same way Toxic was inspired by Noel 'Supervet' Fitzpatrick
Last couple of days left on my January sale. Ends at midnight, uk time on the 31st. Get 15% off with the code NEWLEAF.
'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
A photo of a copy of the Repeater edition of The Weird and The Eerie by Mark Fisher. The book was designed by Johnny Bull.
"The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or there is nothing present when there should be something"
The Weird and The Eerie by Mark Fisher
Any excuse to bollock on about this again... Snub TV is available, nearly entirely, on YouTube here, complete with VHS glitches and BBC2 idents...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:
1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear
Lynda Barry (2016)
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
I think allowances must be made for the possibility that the artist was tripping absolute balls at the time
This from the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social in an article by Mic Wright about a Spectator awards bash, where the key awards went to the most far right politicians to honour their racism & intolerance. And yet, there are Labour people attending, validating & normalising this far right publication…
Zadie Smith.
Closing for the day and even 1 online sale overnight would tip us past the rent line (and honestly no harm in 2 sales just to play it safe!)
littledeercomics.ie
'All the news that's fit to print. And some drivel.'
🎬 The arts aren’t a luxury - they’re an export.
At #Lab25, @aiannucci.bsky.social reminds us that the UK’s Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy and 7% of our workforce - the GDP equivalent of oil + car industries combined.
🎥 Watch more clips from the Creative UK Pavilion hubs.ly/Q03QVhV90
Haha, "inspiration"!
I think most adults can hold more than one significant news story in their minds at once
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Creative businesses and freelancers outside of London are in line for major government support to help them innovate, up-skill and attract private investment
https://downthetubes.net/six-uk-regions-receive-25-million-to-bolster-creative-industries/
Refugees are quite often a product of our arms industry - perhaps there should be a special tax on the arms industry to go towards expenses related to refugees ?
With all the money being thrown at AI nonsense, it's worth sharing an appeal from genuine hand-crafted indie animation.
One6th need help to promote & distribute this fantastic short, based on a poem by Dean Atta. Please take a look & repost.
#StopMotionAnimation
www.indiegogo.com/projects/two...
From Washington Post to Manchester's @millmedia.bsky.social for new investigations editor Cameron Barr
Barr wants to help "restore and revive the kind of investigative accountability, tough minded, rigorous reporting that that we all need" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
