Recurring fantasties of getting a PHD in folklore. Of moving slowly through stories and theories about why we tell those stories abt cultures and what that can tell us abt the human condition.

www.towson.edu/cofac/center... Come see SEVEN of my phenakistoscopes spinning live in Towson! The exhibit will actually be up through Sept 26th, there will just be a brief recess in late july/early august! :) Opening Reception this thursday, 6-8 PM!

You are going to the cinema. You are asking for two tickets to “I love boosters.” You are going to do this as soon as you possibly can.

creatureconserve.com/re-inhabitin... Reinhabiting conservation is open in Reading, PA! There's also a pretty thorough online gallery of gorgeous work! :)

The Dreaming World is set to have a EuroSummer with selections from Alexandroupolis film festival in Greece and Italia Green Film Film Festival in Rome.

The fertility rate going down is good because it means fewer teens are having kids, people are thinking hard about how many kids they can actually afford, and fewer women who don't want kids aren't being forced to have them.

Happy to announce upcoming screenings/programs for the Dreaming World www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-c... Projected on the Dumbo Archway in Brooklyn on Earth Day, April 22 www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-c... in NYC, April 30th www.theharwoodsidelot.com/events/gcff Screening in Baltimore, May 8th

The ambient stress of having to find/pay for parking and leaving ur car makes moving around a city so burdensome. Ilu public transportation.

We are delighted to announce the 19 artists in our upcoming exhibit, Solarpunk! This group exhibit explores the many possible worlds we could embrace beyond the fossil-fuel economy. Learn more and RSVP to the opening, April 11th, here: www.crowsnestbaltimore.com/current-prog...

Recent screenings for the Dreaming World! Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna (screenable online) The gallery exhibit in NYC at: www.humanimpactsinstitute.org/cca2026 Sustain Film Festival, UK: heyzine.com/flip-book/38... Skyfire Film Festival, Phoenix AZ: 4pm on Friday March 27 in Mesa at The MIX

sustainfilmfest.org "The Dreaming World" Will be showing at the Sustain Film Festival in Surrey, England tomorrow!

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

I respect the right of someone really close to world ending trauma to be a little bit unhinged, but I am also going to be assuming they may be particularly vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation.

AI-created art isn't eligible for copyright protection, after the Supreme Court chose not to review a lower court ruling. In 2022 the Copyright Office said images without “human authorship,” don't qualify for copyright protection — this was affirmed in 2023 by a district court.

I know it’s impossible to make a succinct art history 101 in 1 semester but I really think art schools/programs are doing students a disservice by not going back further in time.

www.trickywomen.at/program/lets... "The Dreaming World" will show as part of the 'Let's Get Carried Away' program at the Tricky Women Tricky Realities Animation Festival in Vienna next week!

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

trying to protect my peace by accepting that every application or submission I have worked hours or even on is essentially going into a void and I try to forget it exists once complete. If I get any type of response back it is a pleasant surprise to me.

if i had a nickle for every time a practical hardworking maid named Sophie with a secret identity was in love with her foppish, dramatic employer who didn't quite know how to rescue her from her situation, I would have two nickles- which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice

Animated Movies I think SHOULD be in the criterion collection. -Mr. Bug Goes to Town -Son of the White Mare -The King and the Mockingbird -Twice Upon a Time -Memories -A Ralph Bakshi Film collection (Heavy Traffic/Coonskin/Hey Good Looking/WIzards) -The Thief and The Cobbler recobbled -Rock N Rule

Some scenes in the film "A New Dawn" use a multiplane camera and many traditional animation techniques ♡ Backlit effects, resin filter, powdered pastel, bubbles made of clear gel... natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

Reading Persuasion right now. Ive only seen it on the screen (bbc and Netflix) and the parasocial relationship I have with Jane Austen in my brain is reignited.

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Brooklyn Beijing" by Hannah Yang @hannahyangwrites.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/vmg76Do

Mitski did not sing “we’re not out of the tunnel/I bet you though there’s an end” for you to call her music so depressing that real fans can’t stand to listen to her

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

This summary does not show that I read a lot of nonfiction this year but I Did do that. Looking forward to cutting screen time for reading time more in 2026.

The grinch Walmart ad fundamentally misunderstands the plot of the grinch. Are you gonna use the Lorax to advertise fast fashion next?

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddv... <-- Tune in tomorrow at 11 AM to see my online panel talk!

I miss posting my art and not immediately thinking about it being essentially turned into scrap meat for the data sausage of AI.

Ban them!

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I know MD is not that bad and it could be way worse but picking a healthcare plan through the market sucks so bad (Don't go with United! They terminated their relationship with JHU so are basically useless nobody takes them)

Been thinking this morning about how if you're a US freelancer and you haven't increased your rates by about 6% since June 2025, you're taking a pay cut. Which also means: if you're a publisher and haven't increased what you're paying by 6%, you've given your staff/freelancers a pay cut.

Thank you North Edinburg Film Festival! :)

The award-winning animation ‘Au 8ème Jour' weaves a cautionary tale about our climate futures. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/au-8...

Places to see The Dreaming World: -Spark 7 at the Peale Museum, Baltimore MD opening reception 4-8 PM. This is an opportunity to see the installation version Awake/Dreaming! -Philedelphia Animation Festival, November 22, 5:30 PM -Phoenix Animedia Festival in India -Icona Animation Festival in Greece

If yesterday taught us anything, it’s that you don’t know what’s viable or what’s possible til you at least try. We actually don’t have to take what we’re given. If enough of us get together and touch and agree we can do, create, and have better.

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

It is so funny we've heard over and over we need to go full steam ahead on AI investment and workplace adoption with no planning or regulation regardless of consequence to win a "race" with China while, from a "racing" perspective have effectively been unloading magazine clips of ammo into our feet

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

from the Sweaty Eyeballs "Hands of the Artists" opening back in August-- Photos by Jefrey Andres Wright