@owenfreeman.bsky.social drew this lovely poster and I slapped some old timey design on it for next month's model theme! I've been trying to get someone in to be a Gibson Girl for us for a while and I am ready to draw some H A I R
Super fun job working on one of the posters for the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🕸 🕸️ Thanks to Sony Pictures and Popcore!
"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/
Animation Magazine@animag.bsky.social · 3mo agoThree AI animated series are heading to Prime Video streaming via Amazon MGM/AWS-backed GenAI Creators' Fund: 'Cupcake & Friends;' 'Love, Diana Music Hunters;' and 'Punky Duck' from Jorge Gutierrez.
#tdih Memorial Day ⬇️ -- @dblight.bsky.social on origins in SC in 1865, led by African Americans -- #HowardZinn urges us to "destroy the weapons of death that . . . threaten our children & grandchildren." -- Memorial Day Massacre doc 🎨 by @owenfreeman.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/peoples...
People's History of Memorial Day
On this Memorial Day weekend, we feature two articles: one about the early origins of the holiday, led by African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War, and the second by Howard ...
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Wait, you can do that?! Just... tax rich people more?! And cut unnecessary police overtime? And then you get to have libraries and schools and parks? And record low crime? And city services that work?
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 4mo agoWhen we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
A super fun collaboration with Pentel Arts just released today, my Digital Integration Pro Kit! Available now! (Also 20% off at pentem.com if you use the code OWEN20 )
Happy to discover my Last of Us poster made it into the American Illustration book! Thanks Mark Heflin and the judges and everyone at Naughty Dog and Nucleus
Illustration for Lea Ypi's piece on surveillance for the Financial Times. #surveillance #espionage #illustration #drawing
My "Last of Us" poster (and ink drawing) for Naughty Dog's 40th Anniversary show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social Available as a limited edition of signed prints through Gallery Nucleus' site 🍄✨️
Illustration for the latest Foreign Policy magazine "Why Compare the Present to the Past?" Thanks to Lori Kelley
Cover illustration for Stephen Rebello's new book "Criss-Cross: The Making of Strangers on a Train, Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece" from Hachette. Another dream assignment to watch this movie over and over for work. 👓🎾🎠 #strangersonatrain #noir #hitchcock #illustration #crisscross
"Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You" #illustration for @thisamericanlife.org from a few weeks ago
More early visdev from The Day the Earth Blew Up (in theaters now!) The bittersweet, sentimental "Days of Heaven" vibe on the first one has never stopped being funny to me.
If you are in any creative or copyright dependent org of any kind, NOW is the time to speak up. You have until March 15 11:59 pm EST to send a note to the WhiteHouse on why we need to follow our current laws. We all lose if tech’s deranged agenda passes. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
Public Comment Invited on Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global
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"The Day the Earth Blew Up" opens in theaters today! I had the pleasure of working on some of the early visual development with the brilliant @aaronspurgeon.bsky.social and the nicest team you could ask for. Please go see it so we get more hand drawn animation on the big screen ❤️
My contribution to the God of War 20th Anniversary Exhibition at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social If you're in LA it opens tomorrow and will be up through March 23rd and looks to be an epic lineup. Also signed prints should also be available soon through Gallery Nucleus! #GodOfWar #posterart
1st Patreon post is up (free for everyone) - this month I'm going to post my newsletter/WIPs for free, next month they will only be for paid subscribers at my $5 tier! A WIP of a current print as well as a process write-up of how I work on pieces www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...
Welcome to my Patreon! Plans for this month + WIPs/process of a new piece… | Zi Xu
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Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"
Jeremy Stahl@jeremystahl.bsky.social · 2y agoBreaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...
