Happy Valentine's Day ❤️

Colourized ASCII art at NASA using an IBM System/370 in 1981, via. Or… EBCDIC art?

#currentlyinked #fountainpen There's one I think I misplaced that I should probably find... #lamyalstar Purple with Lamy blue ink #auroraduocart Light Blue with #jherbin Rouge Bourgogne ink #twsbimini with #robertoster Lake of Fire ink #kawecosport with Kaweco purple ink #hobonichidayfree https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMOYaspmlF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I've been going to Magfest since 2013 (even 2020). I was actually nervous to go because the mask requirement was removed. The tickets sold out, so way more people attending. But I wore the mask for myself, which was fine, and I was actually able to do things, like play games without waiting forever.

I learned vinyl and cassettes are back for new music! I didn't buy any because I didn't have a chance to sample the music before buying.

I've been to several cons, but this one by far is my favorite because of all the things you can do and enjoy in a weekend. Looking forward for next year.

This gifset got me to watch this show. I'm still a sucker for preppy drama and romance.

Maxton Hall: The World Between Us

S01E03: Exposed

Join the fight. Studios are making billions while stopping projects, haulting original ideas, and putting many artists on unemployment and fighting for survival in a field they trained their lives for. Creatives are being taken advantage of and it's only getting worse with studios looking to use a.i. to cheapen work and make things based only on algorithms.

It's bleak, but we're working to keep art in animation. Help get the word out and support creatives you like. Many of us are now working to get our own ideas off the ground without the blocks of studios, constant rejections from disappointments that we're pitching original ideas (A real complaint I've received from studios), and without the many notes to make our ideas fit into a generic format. Instead of looking to studio CEO's, were looking to you to help us. Show studios you stand with us!

#standwithanimation

anyway my hot take is that the modern night-of live reporting model is bad and probably should be illegal. democracy is not a spectator sport and the fact that news outlets are allowed to exploit partial vote counts for ratings is ghoulish. there is nothing you can learn the night of a major election that has greater value than waiting the several days to a week that it will take, and always has taken, for the final vote totals to be established

What an interesting artist and for what she did for the time. Her exhibit at the Seattle Art museum was really cool. I appreciated the letters she wrote looking for funding for her move and her work.

Yayoi Kusama: Walking Piece (1966)

"Everything crazy looks crazier in a wax museum" - random guy at Harpers Ferry WV