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This is just delightful: 3D modeling artist Kensyouen Y posted this fascinating animation of an anime character reaching through the screen to interact with the UI of their animation software to bring herself to life.
I totally love this! A joule thief is a sort of minimum-component voltage booster that can suck nearly every last drop of energy from even seemingly-drained batteries, and is probably most famously used to light LEDs from cells that are considered “dead”.
At school I was taught (by a very forward thinking Religious Education teacher) that Christianity stole a lot of it’s iconography as a way of taking over cultures… the rest of the world is learning that now… :cheffy-kiss:
Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books, films, television shows, and video has changed over the past 70 years.
What would it cost to bootstrap an art movement? There were unique conditions in place that allowed post-punk to manifest itself in the late 70s. This video essay on the fortuitous overlap of free education, social democracy and punk rock sensibilities calls the resulting attitude and period “popular modernism”, a term coined by the late…
Toluwani’s paintings are created on this textured “skin,” layering empowered portraits and atmospheric scenes over the dark legacy of colonialism and human enslavement. The artist considers both the physical scars of slavery—inflicted by whips and cane lashes—and the trauma it wrought on communities throughout Africa, highlighting a complex history. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/awodiya-toluwani-textured-paintings
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