Canvas-Rose

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

Cut to the next day and I was in the Students Union, when a friend came up to me and told me how funny that video was of me falling asleep in class was. What? I asked her about it, what did she mean, who made the video, and she realised I literally had no clue about it. Kindly, she told me who to talk to and I thanked her. I was already upset, but I knew it wasn't the messenger's fault. So, I took to Facebook and messaged the girl who made the video -- a girl on my table in the class from before. I asked her about it, and she admitted it right away -- she took the video on her phone during class and posted it to her snapchat. That's how the other girl saw it, not to mention countless others.

Sorting this out was an absolute toil. I felt betrayed and violated that someone would do that while I was obviously not in a position to have any say about it. I lost friendships with the people who took the girl's side, as if it was no big deal or "funny". I had to tell the lecturer about it, because let's face it, that's a shit thing to allow to happen during class itself, the department moved to be more alert and proactive about restricting phone use in class, and all that girl had to do was give a half-hearted apology. The next semester, she was still openly using her phone in another class we had.

For a long time, I couldn't trust anyone who held their phone up around me, as if to take photos or video. It would make me so anxious and put me on edge. I never did speak to the people who cosigned her behaviour, who acted like it wasn't their problem that their bff video-recorded a person in class over their health condition without their consent.

Today my wife did it, and I couldn't be more stunned and happy:

(pics taken as the sun shines through the doors, making all the colors shine and projecting some of them across the hallway floor) (edited this reblog to add a second pic)

This isn't a post from a big blog that a ton of people reblogged from that one big blog. This isn't even a post that got big because one big blog reblogged it. Yes, there were a few big-name boosts, but almost all of these reblogs are just, this post ambling through Tumblr making people happy.

My wife found this incredible rug to go into the living room, that matches the doors so so so well!

Isn't it fabulous?

rubbish bins,

parking permits,

council tax, and

the placement of foster children

Within the county of Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Not listed among their responsibilities:

this is AI.

I reblogged it earlier, assuming that it was the same kind of fun, stylized musician tiktok thingie that you see a lot on tiktok. it's fun, I didn't see anything amiss, the guy has a YouTube channel, etc etc etc.

BUT. apparently that song is, in fact, AI. it's a real video -- the guy is real -- but he's lip-syncing to an AI song. the song is AI. please stop reblogging it!

as an apology for reblogging it earlier, here's an actual non-AI cool jazz cover of Without Me, which was made and published years before that kind of music genAI was even really a thing:

They don’t linger super long on any of it, but as much as any violence in the show, it shows our main characters disconnect from their normal society. They have a certain kind of relationship to the act where it is part of being human, but most other humans are using them. Geralt for his more exciting and exotic Witcher traits and Yen for political reasons. They are almost always denied their humanity even through intimacy.

It’s a lot, but imo it is by no means gratuitous. And I think the story loses some weight without it.