A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question: Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run? They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

V annoying, personally, to be a person who takes schedules literally, in a world where we're not all doing that. Ugh, not my week this week

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

IMPORTANT All freelancers, self-employed, creatives This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices Deadline to respond is 23 October 1/2

Cover for Celine Leonora's "A Lesson in Murder," published by Arena-Verlag. This was my first time working with a German publishing company and they were so polite, and efficient, and respectful 🥲 13/10 client.

What I think of every time someone says they're "thinking of selling and moving to UAE". This, and cartels and money laundering

Photoshop rapidly reducing it's functionality to nil as it repeatedly deletes my brushes (that I'm using, that I NEED!) on updates. Can't even start a new blank doc now. Gotta be a template. Bye bye creative professionals, I guess!

Only Garmin people will understand this, but I did a textbook sleep. Lol, proud moments.

Here to Report: One Battle After Another is a top tier movie. Back in the all-timer bracket, after I personally found Liquorice Pizza only ok - I've got no notes here, just a classy, absolutely of-the-moment, pacy and heartfelt poke in the eye of white supremacy, set to great music

To celebrate The Booker Prize shortlist we have teamed up for a desk set giveaway! You can enter here thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

I put on the electric blanket for the first time last night, which means it’s that time of year for me to say… if you get cold at night, get an electric blanket! They’re cheap to buy – mine was £40 – and much cheaper to run than heating a draughty British house. And so cosy. Going to bed is A JOY

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers Red and pink editions 🩸 .................................................... Well, I've just got this one, but I'd love to work on more of these sometime :) Sending that into the universe ✨

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

But the thing is, they all say perfectly reasonable things sometimes - innocuous things anyone might agree with. Things that get people hooked onto the content in the first place. That's why it's better to be specific when describing what is unacceptable.

Went to see Little Trouble Girls which was quite poetic and lovely. Amusingly, it opened to a close shot of Christ's Side Wound as depicted in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg - an artwork some audience members may have been hitherto unaware of, judging by the shocked gasp, lmao

only around a decade to go until another PM thinks "I know, I should hire Peter Mandelson"

Do we not think there's a wee bit of a problem, though, because the Epst**n file is sealed (by Tr*mp), and now we know our ambassador for US is compromised by its contents. Essentially, the US president has compromat on the guy we pay to do our negotiations there. Is this just... all fine?

Sorry but if they boot Rayner over the tax thing but don't boot Mandelson over the 'Bessie mates with the dodgiest, highest profile millionaire pedo the world has known' thing, then I'm done

Unfortunately, same

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

Right. None of this is really new information. People knew. They have known. Nothing happened. Maybe this time will be the straw that broke the camel's back, but I'm too jaded to hope

"Decorado" animated feature film is coming in Spanish theaters on October 24. Directed by Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy, Unicorn Wars), and based on his short film. Full trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=V71F... Artbook >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Got my lucky 7 noted down for timings, so fingers crossed for getting to see some of them!

Everyone, pls watch Long Story Short and give it a Double Thumbs Up so we get more cute animated larks with this family!

Aaaah, it's the most wonderful time of the year, the LFF schedule is out, the spreadsheet will be underway shortly!

Snuck a fried egg into a kimcheese toasties today, and it was good!

Why did it take me so long to watch Pig?! Brilliant film. Like some improbable cross between Mandy and The Taste of Things - I'm serious. Part revenge thriller, part meditation on life, love and loss. An all-timer.

I wrote a review of Meterialists, to purge it from my thoughts. It has spoilers. You are welcome. boxd.it/aQodDV

lately food seems significantly more expensive

You guys, Materialists is so bad. Genuinely pretty horrible. Pretty and horrible. Nasty work. I'm so sorry to everyone who worked on it, but yikes

Just the hubris to be giving answers like this and not think, hey, maybe we shouldn't do so much if we don't know what we're doing?

Weapons: to watch or not to watch? What's the verdict?

For my peeps with allergies: I just used a sinus rinse for the first time and, can I just say, it was amazing! Unclear how long it will help for, but seriously so good

In the Mood for Love is such a perfect film - even better in a theatre! "You notice things, if you pay attention"

I've been an illustrator since 2006. Still sometimes draw a hand on backwards 🙃

Have to pay my mid-year taxes this month, so I'm a little bit skint this month. I've put a 65% sale on my originals on my shop, if you'd like to take a look! www.etsy.com/shop/HannahL...

“That Harvest is an allegory is clear, but focusing on contemporary resonances risks obscuring its power as multi-sensory filmmaking” @rachelpronger.bsky.social reviews Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

You shouldn’t have to shrink to fit in. 👀 Exclusion, gossip, power games — they’re all forms of bullying, even in the creative world. If you’ve ever felt like the problem, you’re not. ⬇️ Read our latest on the hidden bullying culture in creative workplaces: www.creativeboom.com/insight/repo...

Probably we should just treat dog attacks in which another animal or person is injured or killed as though the owner of the attacker dog has done an assault / manslaughter. Would reduce people's enthusiasm for having a dog that can kill a person, for starters.

Predictable

I *loved* Harvest, based on the John Crace novel (which I have not read). Gorgeous cinematography and score (both songs/singing and music). Perfect pacing, quietly easy, plod of a ploughhorse, without ever feeling like it was dragging its feet.

We’re running another pilot this Autumn. (It would be silly not to considering our last one was 100% successful!) If anyone wants to take part they can find out more below. ⬇️ www.4dayweek.co.uk/national-pil...

The rain; the sweet, fine rain! Obsessed with rain. More rain. Only rain, pls.

this hasn't reached me in the UK yet, and I will be turning this off, but it's a good reminder to go through your Facebook settings from time to time to keep tabs on what they're sneakily opting you in to.

Mood

One thing that's gotten so, so boring is that I buy these cute little notebooks to write notes and ideas, and they keep needing to be requisitioned to chart harassment. Like, ugh.

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"Automation may be the final straw I reckon before white collar Britain goes into full revolt." @jameskanag.bsky.social didn't exactly cheer me up with this post but it's really worth reading! politicalwhiteboard.substack.com/p/the-collar...