I will be in Leeds, UK, for three weeks in November 2026. While primarily based there, I’d also love to visit universities and institutions across the UK, Scotland, and Ireland to give talks, readings, and more. If you think you might be able to invite me, please email me: t@asiancha.com.

Wu Haiyun on anti-AI anime culture and the delights of drawing for fun @sixthtone.bsky.social www.sixthtone.com/news/1018599

Keep Drawing Your 0.5-Yuan Masterpieces, Kid

In a world still in awe of artificial intelligence, the best power we have is our urge to create and connect.

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That’s bad. And happening not only at your friendly Am*zon’s around the corner. But it all depends on what we label as “rare”.

404 Media@404media.co · 2mo ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

I am really tired of being called "brave" all the time More than anything right now I am just tired.

It's official - I'm a product 😉 My Paris paper commissions and workshops are finally online. Feedback (and bookings!) much appreciated! www.ebriel.com/experiences

When a falling robot captures exactly how you feel at the moment

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I appreciate the moment when he raises his arm at the end, to signal I am fine.

Rationing inspired creativity: Clothing made of paper in Germany during WWI www.theworldwar.org/en/learn/abo... #papersky

Ersatz

By 1915, the great demand for material resources to support the war effort caused supplies that German civilians and soldiers commonly used to dwindle, increasing their costs and value.

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For all #ai enthusiasts, #tech bros, and other idiots. #papersky

Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Make some paper with us at the Library of Congress! We make paper at the Library to create a body of reference samples for material science research. This research helps support the preservation of our collections.

Small-format artworks I'm making these days, light pouring through French windows on denim paper www.patreon.com/ebriel/posts...

The Collector | Chambre de Papier

Windows are barriers, lattices with illusions of transparency, filters we use to separate interior and exterior space. They keep out enemie

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I recently learned the phrase: "Bâtir des châteaux en Espagne", which like 'Castles in the Air', refers to impossible dreams of happiness. And after nearly 2 years in Paris, Mme de Sévigné's reply 'One need only be in Spain to lose all desire to build castles there' rings true.

I was going to ask if, like other Christopher Nolan movies, "The Odyssey" has a lot of mumbling/hard-to-hear dialogue. Now I've got one more reason to not go watch the film.

Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Has a Colonialism Problem

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding filming in occupied Western Sahara.

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Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊@sauthoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Parts of the dialogue in the Odyssey were really hard to understand. Hurrah for French and German subtitles.

For artists in France, here's how much we should be charging for artists talks, workshops and more le-trait.fr/recommandati...

Recommandations tarifaires 2026 - Le Trait

Le Trait - Recommandations tarifaires 2026

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Books as Building Blocks: what inspired my move to Paris nearly 2 years ago www.patreon.com/ebriel/posts...

Books as Building Blocks | Chambre de Papier

These books from my father's library, stacked on my studio couch before giving a paper marbling workshop last month, hold the origin story o

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And now for something completely different. Stumbled upon a gravestone today, which had been half swallowed by edaphoecotropism, only for all the branches to be cut away, leaving a grave with a dominating cloak of wood.

Been looking at ways to create a subscription option as a way to share varieties of tangible works from my studio, and this article by @unilink.bsky.social is one of the most concise and practical I've seen unil.ink/help-center/...

If you haven't yet, you might consider toggling this feature off. Protect your work!

Related: latination.com/12-cities-th...

12 cities that could be underwater by 2030 with climate change

Climate change threatens to submerge 12 iconic cities by 2030. Find out which urban centers are at risk and why sea levels are rising.

latination.com

Hrag Vartanian@hrag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If this yacht in Venice by one of Pinault’s art spaces doesn’t look like the embodiment of billionaire evil I don’t know what does.

"Your accent says: I did not start here. And that is interesting." via this FB post on accent discrimination in France www.facebook.com/groups/15859...

Learning cursive: -allows you to sign your soul away to the devil in blood -helps with deciphering those fancy, webdings-esque fonts -has the added benefit of keeping your writings private from nosy, know-nothing kids -will help politicians sign bills into law again, which hasn’t happened since 2012

a close up of a person 's face with a light shining through it .

Alt: It’s the Gunna writing straight fire gif

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In the 1820s, British potters figured out something clever. Americans would pay more for plates with American buildings on them. So factories in Staffordshire, England started cranking out dinner sets decorated with scenes of places they'd never been. Hotels, capitols, canals.

Great list of funding links in France for studios who make all kinds of things - www.mekanika.io/en/financing...

Art Karlsruhe: "Collectors Often Start with Works of Paper" 'The diversity of works on paper is greater [than with other media]. And I have the impression that artists who work with paper are more spontaneous' - Kristian Jarmuschek, director france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/al...

Art contemporain : "les collectionneurs commencent souvent par une œuvre sur papier"

Art Karlsruhe est la deuxième foire d'art contemporain d'Europe. Elle ouvre ce jeudi 5 février et se termine dimanche 8 février : 2700 m2 d'œuvres modernes et contemporaines, 180 galeries de 18 pays. ...

france3-regions.franceinfo.fr

I know, girl. I know.

Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I know, girl. I know.

The one big social media habit that we need to all break is going "look at how stupid this is!!" Yeah, we all know. Don't give it oxygen.

Question: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Réponse: YES! (Il s'agit bien sûr de Marlow Moss) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?

Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...

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I lived in these neighborhoods aged 20-23, within a few hundred meters of each site. Cannot begin to explain how this institutional violence becomes tangled into memory when it happens on your street, where you greet your neighbors, in the places where you love and fail and build and live your life

Aunt Fancy@auntiefancy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

Today's inspiration: artists commissioned to design public works for stations as part of the Art at Amtrak program @amtrak.com www.amtrak.com/at-the-stati...

Art at Amtrak

Art at Amtrak invites artists from New York and New Jersey to create original art specifically for Penn Station.

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