Making sense of my sketches and animating for KARMIC KNOT often feels like a tango: two steps forward, three steps backward, five to the side. Then, suddenly, some of it comes to LIFE!

Greenpoint Film Festival will screen my short BIRTH on August 7th at 5PM, with a Q&A to follow - I'll answer your questions about the film and my path in animation. Afterwards, we can all go out to celebrate MY birthday! tickets.greenpointfilmfestival.org/schedule/pro...

Reminder to friends: Z won't be able to deliver his agenda unless the state legislature will hold the line against Governor Hochul and force her to #TaxTheRich. To do that, we need to win at least 7 Leftist Assembly primaries today. So if you can join us in the field anytime before 9pm, please do.

May the thousand Suns purge this place! Happy SUMMER SOLSTICE!

Hey, friends in NY-10! It's time to vote for @bradlander.bsky.social, and here's why, illustrated with photos! I've taken more pictures of this dude than any other elected because he always shows up, supporting people & causes I care about. Check it out & VOTE! Find your polling site at vote.nyc!

Get ready! When the Sun comes, it purges! Happy Summer Solstice!

"Animācijas brīnums notiek tad, kad atsevišķi zīmējumi pārvēršas dzīvos, kustīgos attēlos. Bet kā šie zīmējumi iegūst krāsas? " @signebaumane.com un kolēģi no "Lokomotīves" krāso jauno filmu. kinoraksti.lv/domas/latvij...

At my Brooklyn animation studio we measure the temperature of our pencils daily. Today they are HOT.

The news sometimes are ironic or symbolic, not sure which. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

By Jim Benton

Marjane Satrapi, whose acclaimed graphic novel and animated adaptation 'Persepolis' brought the realities of revolution, exile, and identity to audiences around the world, has died at 56. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-creator-co-director-dies-at-56-262120.html

Each character in KARMIC KNOT has a different color palette to represent their different points of view, but together they still have to form a cohesive ensemble. By what Magic do we get there? Find out in this update on the project's progress! www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/how-kar...

My studio shelves are filling up with sets!

Are we free on a sidewalk? NYC Streetblog asks Law Professor Michael Pollack. "We have our constitutional rights on the sidewalk, and yet the law has limited all of those rights, sometimes in the name of public order, and to protect the adjacent property owners. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/18/t...

Animation Line Tests invoke a sense of Mystery to me, even my own line tests. Don’t let AI kill t he Mystery and Awe of creating Life with a Pencil.

The biggest NYC Animation Event of the year - ASIFA-East Festival is talking place on Friday, May 22. See the winners get their awards, watch the films and meet the filmmakers at the reception. It is the hottest ticket in town! All you have to do is to RSVP. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-56th-a...

Everybody knows what Karma is and has an opinion about it ("Karma is a bitch") but do you know what Karmic Knot is? @cartoonbrew.bsky.social #film #animation www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Patriarchy is a particular way of looking at the world. It is embedded in stories we tell and through the stories it seeps into our consciousness and subconscious. You don't change society until you change the stories. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Latvia may be small but it's cinema rocks the world! After FLOW yet another Latvian film in Cannes - ULYA, directed by Viesturs Kairišs, staring Kārlis Arnolds Avots. Just you wait and see what happens at Oscars this season! @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Sometime small miracles happen and this is one of them: Chris Robinson wrote a good article on Bill Plympton in Cartoon Brew. @cartoonbrew.bsky.social "He inspires thousands of animators to aspire to do the impossible - to make films independently". And fuck AI. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ke...

After our GRILL BILL event at Metrograph where I successfully grilled Bill Plympton to medium rare we went to Corner Bar where we hung out with our good friend Meira Blaustein, Woodstock Film Festival Director. Film community rocks! @metrographnyc.bsky.social @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social

My favorite things about DEVIL WEARS PRADA 1 and 2 is that it is a movie about a work place - it depicts a workplace power dynamics and structures of people working together. You may not like the structures, but they exist in real life. That's all.

Here Cartoon Brew pours their gasoline on our GRILL BILL event at Metrograph. And on top of that - today is Bill Plympton's birthday! Come to celebrate this Saturday at Metrograph! @cartoonbrew.bsky.social @metrographnyc.bsky.social www.cartoonbrew.com/events/bill-...

“You haven’t lived a worthy life if you haven’t been grilled by Signe Baumane. She will leave you well done for the rest of your life” - - Bill Plympton Come to GRILL BILL at Metrograph on Sat May 2nd! metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

I'll be giving a friendly grill to Animation Legend Bill Plympton. Saturday, May 2nd, 7PM at Metrograph! Among many other things we will discuss his Cassandraic prediction/mockery of home-grown fascists long before we thought it can happen here in the US. metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

Finally, a birthday party where everyone is welcome! To celebrate indie animation legend Bill Plympton’s milestone birthday ASIFA-East and the SVA MFA Digital Arts are hosting a ROAST with reception! On Sunday, April 26th at 7PM at the SVA Theater. FREE and open to the public! See you there!

In the light of the upheaval of the last 10 years I came to conclusion that the best way to meet the End of Civilization is just to keep working! If it comes, it will surprise me in the middle of action. If it doesn't come, by working for the Next Day I would have helped to usher the Next Day.

"Shameless" star Cameron Monaghan, who also stars in "My Love Affair With Marriage" has been very busy. Check out what he has been up to! www.looper.com/2130489/what...

Spotted on the streets of Luxembourg. MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is on the march!

At the NYC NO KINGS MARCH:

I just backed "u know i luv u" - an animated short by Bill Plympton on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bil...

"A feminist Firework!" - from the Tageblat review of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE by Carole Theisen. The film's theatrical release in Luxembourg starts tomorrow.

Take photos and video and send them here. They will be needed at Nuremberg.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS NYC MASS MARCH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

The sweet taste of MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE theatrical release in Luxembourg!

Animation Legend Bill Plympton:"I don't have a studio deal. I don't have a financier. I have 600 people who prove that independent animation still has an audience". Check out and support Bill's new project on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bil...

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE is screening tomorrow in Luxembourg at Ciné Le Paris – Bettembourg, as part of their Mois De La Femme Film! bettembourg.lu/events/my-lo...

When love rains it pours

How does an animated feature get financed? We went to Berlin International Film Festival Co-Production Market to meet producers, co-producers, sales agents and funders to get better versed in poetry of film financing. Here're our takeaways: www.karmicknotmovie.com/post/an-insi...

Streamers want you to stay home and watch things alone. That's how they get rich. In this context going to CINEMA to watch movies with friends is a form of Resistance. Thank you, Thomas Flight, for tips on how to start a Cinema Club! @thomasflight.nebula.tv www.seeingthroughfilm.com/p/you-should...

She leans back and feels a knife pointing at her.

When in Berlin do the East West thing.

Only one week into the Year of the Fire Horse and we already have more fire in our step. (Also 2 days ago my studio building had a brush with fire when someone in the sweatshop below us forgot to turn an iron off)

The New Republic article explores why thousands of Cassandras were ignored in 2015 - 2016 by the "political experts". @thenewrepublic.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2060...

In increasingly political world this is an odd thing for a filmmaker to say. In particular, women rights at the moment is a political battlefield. For a woman filmmaker just the act of making a film, any film, is a political act. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Baltic Film magazine explores what makes Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian films so special. One of the interviewees was me! Thank you, Kristīne Simsone! @kinoraksti.bsky.social @latvijasradio.bsky.social issuu.com/blacknightsf...

Check out ATOMIC FONDUE by Dan Mirvish on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ato...

Animation First Festival invited me to be one of the panelists on the Sound and Animation panel. It is a perfect balance of 3 composers and 2 filmmakers to get plenty of insight on sound in animation. It takes place at French Alliance New York! Come! lallianceny.org/event/profes...

I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.