Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

I think you have to try very hard to be an honest to god snob about anything these days, so the one person I see tediously clearing the bar all the time I have to respect on some level

Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry

current “do you really want to draw this scene” list — if it doesn’t check any boxes, i make sure i know why it’s there (usually vibes)

Did You Know: the entirety of KaBLam! is on Archive - archive.org/details/kabl... It's really silly and inventive, and fun to show to current-time little human kids and stuff, imo.

KaBlam! - Full Series (PMTP WEB-DL)

Airing for four seasons on Nickeldoeon, KaBlam! offers a home to a selection of animated shorts that could be best described as offbeat. The short films, which are bridged by segments featuring animat...

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Brian S.@nukalixir.bsky.social · 6d ago

Huh. Reminds me of "Clockman" in a way. For me it was a regular segment on a kid's variety show called "KaBlam!" specifically, "Promethius and Bob". It was a claymation segment about an alien teaching a caveman to be civilized, aired on Nickelodeon in the mid to late 90s.

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)@talkinghenry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

a lot of unfamous but working comics have been able to eke out a living in large part due to royalty checks from siriusxm's raw dog comedy channel. six months ago, sebastian maniscalco bought it and the channel now heavily features already famous comics, and the checks for smaller acts have dried up

Yes! Bookshop dot org is great and they support local bookstores!!!

Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 5d ago

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Rabbit Creek Band - I Just Can't Take It Anymore [USA, Lounge Deep Soul](Early 70’s?) records like this is the reason I always pick up these boring stock covers, you’d never guess this has a deep soul Ballad, also has country https://redd.it/j9leh3 https://youtu.be/dXgUBfEquco

Rabbit Creek Band - I Just Can't Take It Anymore [USA, Lounge Deep Soul](Early 70’s?) records like this is the reason I always pick up these boring stock covers, you’d never guess this has a deep soul Ballad, also has country funk!

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The way this damn cat yells cracks me up so bad

*eerily sped up voice* you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

Gumby Screens@gumbyscreens.bsky.social · last wk.

This is so cool... So much archival Phil Tippet materials that could easily have been lost if not for someone buying it up and uploading it to Archive.org: www.avclub.com/gji-phil-tip...

Rolling into October...

Scott Walker Season

It's Raining Today

YouTube video by Scott Walker - Topic

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Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: Christa Pike still alive after administered execution drugs, attorneys say. www.tennessean.com/story/news...

Are you a cis man feeling disgusted at the news? Good. Use that. Talk to your fellow men about what you're going to do to make our industry and our world safer. And then actually do it. You may lose friends or opportunities, but a better and safer industry and world starts with you.

Alright man it’s not even that you’re incorrect but I don’t think this was why YOUR movie was bad

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

I felt like a freak librarian balking at the price tag my friend's bookstore was asking for Animerica issues that were, to me, an archival treasure trove.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

We used to be a proper country: aftermath.site/animerica-maga...

I don’t quite love Songs in the Key of Life as much as everyone else, but that just means I think it really owns and getting four unreleased songs from the notoriously vault-opening-averse Wonder is a gift bsky.app/profile/blac...

Black Intellect Media@blackintellect.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stevie Wonder releases 4 unheard songs from 'Songs in the Key of Life' sessions: Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album w/arena tour. Reporting by Ben Beaumont-Thomas www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

"borzoi" really sounds like a kind of mobile suit, doesn't it?

Last year’s orange

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

Cloud - The Individual [Bonfield, IL, USA / Instrumental Rock / Easy Listening] (1985) https://redd.it/1ffvyzy https://youtu.be/08uveFNAeSo

Cloud - The Individual [Bonfield, IL, USA / Instrumental Rock / Easy Listening] (1985)

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this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 3w ago

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

Will my love of Brad Bird’s entire* filmography override my distaste for his Lasseter apologia that probably got this movie made

Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social · 3w ago

First trailer for "Ray Gunn" by Brad Bird. Coming to Netflix on December 18.

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

always saying this