A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Google Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools
A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.
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Today the CBNN Prize judges Lydia Monks, Dapo Adeola, Emma Layfield and Ness Wood gathered at Waterstones Manchester to select the shortlist! It was such a tough decision as so many great entries from unpublished picture book illustrators across the North. Shortlist to be announced early June! 🏆
🦹If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Who would be your sidekick? Tag a friend & assign them a name & superpower 🦸Happy #NationalSuperheroDay! I made this piece when the amazing Dapo Adeola was on Gab ‘n’ Doodle #kidlitart #superheroday #illustration @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #art
Sooooooooooooooo many!!! John Vernon Lord Giant jam Sandwich @stevenlenton.bsky.social (the Dalmations!!!) @dc-litchfield.bsky.social Bear & Piano @fionawoodcock.bsky.social Silver Linings @dapsdraws.bsky.social Look Up! @mrsteveantony.bsky.social Rainbowsaurus …the list is endless! 😍
Remember how we mentioned @dapsdraws.bsky.social ‘s Hey You! recently? Dr. @darrenchetty.bsky.social is taking it and Elgan Rhys’ The Five to his @ioe.bsky.social Book Group TONIGHT! (Darren chairs the panel of #LittleRebelsAward shortlistees at our annual award ceremony)
In 2022 our #LittleRebelsAward Judge @jakehope.bsky.social described the book as: "This is a letter for the future, for a group who've been told 'No' systemically." #KidLitUK #RadicalBooks #PoliticalBooks
Always wonderful to see accounts sharing the joy of #LittleRebelsAward shortlistee. Hey You! was shortlisted in 2022. An insightful & glorious picture book anthology- 18 Black artists brought together by @dapsdraws.bsky.social @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social #KidLitUK
AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈)@madhmstr.bsky.social · 5y agoWORLDWIDE: Hey You! By Dapo Adeola & many illustrators. This moving picture book honestly addresses the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future. #WorldKidLitMonth
WORLDWIDE: Hey You! By Dapo Adeola & many illustrators. This moving picture book honestly addresses the experiences Black children face growing up with systemic racism, as well as providing hope for the future. #WorldKidLitMonth
I won’t be arguing with dickheads on the internet. Especially over racism, and especially when they hide their faces. You can fuck off and this block.
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And the BAFTA goes to... huge congratulations to Dean Atta and the team behind Two Black Boys In Paradise, WINNER of the Best British Short Animation. A joy to see Dean's poem from 'There is (still) love here' brought to life like this. ninearchespress.com/publications...
The only thing I’m gonna say about that BAFTAs incident is that precautions could have been taken to avoid it. Better choice of editing from BAFTA at worst, better awareness of his tics from the fella at best.
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
Scott Patrick, PhD@neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Why aren’t children reading for pleasure and what can we do about it? We look at the data, explore key barriers, and hear from authors, teachers & literacy experts working to change the story. 🎧 Listen now: https://loom.ly/7Zut6PU #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #teachers
Catching up with the @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social latest series The Reading Crisis. Loving the cross-profession input. Episode 1 includes @charliehacking.bsky.social contextualising phonics and thoughts from authors @dapsdraws.bsky.social & Tim Palmer. #KidLitUK
Mostly Book Talk@mostlybooktalk.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhy aren’t children reading for pleasure and what can we do about it? We look at the data, explore key barriers, and hear from authors, teachers & literacy experts working to change the story. 🎧 Listen now: https://loom.ly/7Zut6PU #ReadingCrisis #ReadingForPleasure #teachers
The Crown: A Tale Of Hell is out next month! Comps arrived just now. Seriously daunting stuff being in the Hellboy Universe. Thanks to Todd Mignola and Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics!
"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, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2
✨ LIKKLE LIT SPOTLIGHT: DAPO ADEOLA ✨ We’re proud to shine a spotlight on the brilliant @dapsdraws.bsky.social draws — an award‑winning illustrator, author and character designer whose work continues to shape how children see themselves on the page. For more: outofmanypeople.org.uk/news-events/
"Noiseman" is back for free on Youtube (for a limited time). Koji Morimoto x Masaaki Yuasa x Yoko Kanno (Studio 4°C, 1997). >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOhd...
I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵
📣 Competition alert! Our brilliant #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow has launched his poetry competition for children - and his favourite entries will win a signed bundle of his books! Enter by Friday 30 January - more details here👇 https://bit.ly/3Khwki9
Writer in Residence Matt Goodfellow announces his poetry competition
Send in your poems to win a bundle of signed books!
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It only took them the best part of a decade. 🥲 Hope all the victims get justice and the people at the publisher who paid off the victims and covered his back are also held accountable.
Currently reading this. I think everyone in the UK who has any involvement with comics - be that making them, publishing them, selling them, loaning them, using them in classrooms - should probably read it. Will post thoughts later.
John Freeman@johnfreeman.bsky.social · 8mo agoWith the publication of Comic Book UK’s “Vision for growth” white paper today – essentially the blueprint for everything the newly-formed trade association plan to do going forward – Mark Fuller, its Chief Executive outlines their strategy: downthetubes.net/game-on-why-...
Just a reminder to support small businesses this time of year!
✨️We’re thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning illustrator and author DAPO ADEOLA @dapsdraws.bsky.social to LIKKLE LIT FEST children’s festival of Black literature 🎟Ticket release: loading soon!👀 A #ROOTED event staged in partnership with @leedslibraries.bsky.social #ACEsupported #LikkleLitFest
Lots of learning & fun today with #BookWeekScotland 📚. - Travelling Assembly presented by P7’s ✅ - Book quiz ✅ - Live Lesson with @dapsdraws.bsky.social ✅ - Sketching a book character ✅ Well done P3 & thank you P7s! #antoliteracy @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @mrstoddp7.bsky.social 👫🙌👫
