Aditya Bidikar
@adityab.net
Probably lettered that one comic you really like. And that other one. Writer of IN YOUR SKIN, all 4 issues out now!
‘In Your Skin’ #4 delivers a near-perfect, chilling ending @imagecomics.com @adityab.net #comicsky Out tomorrow, read @cjwritesstuff.bsky.social's review:
‘In Your Skin’ #4 delivers a near-perfect, chilling ending
A satisfying close to one of the most gripping horror comics I've read in a while.
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This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 10h agoThe specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
Do these … people think anti-AI people use AI? Like, through gritted teeth, sweating, hating every moment, but they simply must use the thing they hate? (Of course, it's projection, like it always is.)
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h agoI have one answer.
So, the last issue of IS TED OK? dropped almost a week ago, so maybe now I'll compile some thoughts in a thread!? First, again, huge thanks to everyone who bought it, read it, and helped spread the word. This is a project that managed to keep momentum through six issues and it was so exciting!
ZANARDI by Andrea Pazienza (English translation by Jamie Richards, Fantagraphics, 2017): truly nasty comics, in the best possible way; the ultimate loser’s-idea-of-a-winner, the scumbag messiah. Upsetting, ugly, depraved, ‘immoral’ in that Italo-bleak way, with some transcendent cartooning.
Rewatched O Brother Where Art Thou? and yeah, still the best filmed version of the Odyssey yet (I say this as someone who thoroughly enjoyed the latest one). The Coen brothers apparently had never read the poem before they wrote the film, which tells you how much that matters for quality.
There's a part in the introduction to @adapalmer.bsky.social "Inventing the Renaissance" where she talks about the trauma the Black Death inflicted on Petrarch and his friends...and thinking how he'd react knowing it can be treated now. (And how close we've come to squandering it.)
Now my television has AI and apparently I can't disable it. I don't know, man, if you really thought a technology was genuinely useful to people, you'd tell me it's there and let me decide if I wanted to use it, not pop it up every time I open an app and not allow me to turn it off.
I have now fully caught up with Age of Bronze – and this is phenomenal stuff. Anyone who wants an "accurate" depiction of Homeric epic should check this out – Shanower has done more of the homework than you have, almost anywhere. Now I'm desperate to see this story finished. Incredible work.
Aditya Bidikar@adityab.net · last wk.I'm at issue 20 of this now, and I'm kind of baffled how this book isn't constantly in the top 10 of all time lists. It also seems some of the volumes are out of print? We really don't know how good we have it sometimes.
ANIARA (2018), a stunning Swedish-Danish adaptation of Harry Martinson's epic poem of the same name (1956), about a starship adrift, becoming crucible & microcosm for humanity's own journey through the universe, & our existential despair at our apparent solitude in it--the silence of 'god'.
Daniel Tunnard@danieltunnard.bsky.social · last wk.Are there any other poems that have been made into films? Could Nolan have a crack at "This is just to say"?
Did you notice the logo for IN YOUR SKIN changes each issue? 😉 In Your Skin #4 is in stores now! Don’t miss out on the epic finale from Image Comics and Tiny Onion. Created by Aditya Bidikar and Som Logo by Dylan Todd @imagecomics.com #TinyOnion #ImageComics
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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I once used it in therapy and my therapist looked at me strange and scribbled something in her notebook.
Jacob Harris@jacobharr.is · 6d agohaecceity is a fun little word 👹
If you like the piece, this profile of Milch by his Deadwood collaborator Ted Mann is superb: www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...
Story of Writer David Milch
Gain insight into the brilliant mind of David Milch, NYPD Blue and Deadwood writer. Learn more about his story and journey through life.
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I wrote about David Milch's memoir Life's Work - an astonishing book in many ways; written with encroaching dementia on the author's shoulder, it shouldn't exist, but it does, and it provides remarkable insight into creativity & what it's for, why we need it. www.patreon.com/weirdandconf...
David Milch – Life's Work | Weird & Confusing
I am currently, as life has surrounded me with boxes of books, re-reading work that made a strong impression on me first time around, to com
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it's tough being the only person who dislikes Chris Nolan movies without being weird about it. but after cutting the eyes out of several hundred print-outs of the Interstellar poster, I'm in a pretty good place.
N YOUR SKIN #4 is on sale now! Don’t miss out on this beautifully disturbing final issue. Created by Aditya Bidikar and Som, with colors by Francesco Segala. @imagecomics.com x Tiny Onion🧅 #TinyOnion #NCBD
IN YOUR SKIN #4 is on sale now! Don’t miss out on this beautifully disturbing final issue. Created by @adityab.net and Som, with colors by Francesco Segala. @imagecomics.com x Tiny Onion🧅 #TinyOnion #NCBD
My wifi has been dead for five days, and data around my house sucks, so I've been reading a lot of comics and books instead of noodling about online. Social media really does suck you dry.
The finale of IN YOUR SKIN (issue 4) is out today, and I'm very happy that it's coming out beside two other finales for books I feel are kindred to our book – IS TED OK? #6 and DEAD TEENAGERS #5.
This is the man who sat in a tent at Burning Man in 2022 and told the crowd that “OpenAI had figured out intelligence” … it’s been four years and they’re still blowing smoke.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
In Your Skin #4... wow. 👀 @adityab.net @takisoma.bsky.social Yours digitally on sweetshop.app tomorrow.
The Odyssey by N.C. Wyeth (1929) hard to find good quality photos/scans of these but I like this looser, more impressionist Wyeth
I've been watching old Twilight Zone episodes, and it's strange how the blocking and camera movement in a tv show producing 36 episodes a year was more innovative and thoughtful than 100-million-dollar movies these days.
