New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

This one reply really struck me

my friend says this pic is a banger so i post here

Mauro Ranallo if he called soccer:

I just saw someone refer to Donald Trump as “Pervert Hoover” and now I can’t stop laughing. 😂😂😂😂

Use a shit ton of reference, wherever you can get it. Smash images together to get what you can't find or make. Drawing isn't some contest where you have to comprehend every angle of a hand and render it from memory. There's no prize for limiting yourself for no reason.

Respect Your Elders 🇵🇭

Highlights from Bad Dude Tito vs. Brian Cage during Republic of Lucha VIII: Mayhem at Don Quixote in Los Angeles, CA. #wrestling #prowrestling #republicoflucha #lucha #aew #allelitewrestling

Like him or hate him, you have to admit Elon Musk is now the world's dumbest bitch.

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

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

Thinking today of my late studiomate Jesse Hamm. He drew a lot of great pictures and wrote wonderful essays on the art and craft of illustration and cartooning. Here's a link to one of my favorite of his essays, on Alex Toth and cartoon realism: sirspamdalot.livejournal.com/89372.html

Highlights from Cabarasian produced by Constellation Cabaret at Illusion Magic Lounge in Santa Monica, CA. #burlesque

"you already use AI. You use meta and photo shop and whatever, so you really can't even talk against him okay" Shut the fuck up, none of us fucking asked for AI to be in any of these, nobody fucking wanted that. That's the difference. What a hypocritical horse shit argument that is, shut your face

Why the hell do you need your emotional support dog in the damn Olive Garden? Those unlimited breadsticks got you stressed the fuck out?

there's no valor in killing yourself with art. the industry and fandoms will only get mad at you for the audacity of being selfish enough to die before you could deliver. please don't make yourself a human blood sacrifice to your work. your art can't exist without you.

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

It’s National Cartoonist Day. So here again, for those who might need a reminder, is the best cartoon ever made. By B. Kliban.

I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

“We just wanted to confirm that all Moleskine notebook covers are created by our designers, while AI was used to enhance the background of these images. We hope The Lord of the Rings inspires you!” Oh, sod off, Moleskine. Tolkien would have despised this and so do I.

Raine Stern performing at Climate Arts Fest at West Los Angeles College.

Troubling new Artemis II photo of Earth.

Sareee Bomb vs. Maya Mamushi during Sukeban at Anime Expo. #wrestling #prowrestling #joshi #sukeban #animeexpo

Lana Drincic performing during Live Music Night at Third House Studios in Van Nuys, CA.

My three favourite things are eating out my friends and not using commas

Katie Ward performing during live music night at Third House Studios in Van Nuys, CA.

Luna Lore performing during the All-Femme Art Show and Pop Up Market at Third House Studios in Van Nuys, CA.

Found out Q from the Impractical Jokers owns the page from Preacher where Cassidy gets stabbed, revealing that he’s a vampire. Now I can’t stop thinking about the jokers in Jesse’s ear

Search engines are useless. Social media's dying. New computers aren't affordable. So, let's all go back to the indie web! For the first time in 17 years, I have a personal website again. I have more ambitious plans for the future, but for now it's just a small portfolio site. louistrations.art

An old video of Street Fighter meets Duck Hunt.

It is interesting that two of the best horror directors come from sketch comedy backgrounds but the veil between those art forms is honestly pretty thin given that a bad improv show is essentially an unsettling a24 film

came across the set of Shogun season 2 (this is the second time they built this -- they tore down the first one)

everyone who bought a Virtual Boy, this is you

That’s all Folks

if you’re seeing this it was meant to find you today

Game & Watch screens when you first put the batteries in:

A lot of people are unaware, but “Metroidvania” is actually a combination of “Metroid”, a game series by Nintendo, and “Sylvania”, a brand of electronics that Metroid games performs best on

The smooth youthful makeovers all the characters got in the Dragon Engine make a lot of sense if you look at Nagoshi at 40 and Nagoshi at 60

Soon, all the films in close proximity to it will also be THE THING. Within the year, all films in the registry will be THE THING.

Sal Buscema, a comic artist best known for legendary runs on Marvel's Incredible Hulk and Spectacular Spider-Man, reportedly passed away last Friday, just short of his 90th birthday.

Yo' momma's so stupid she's lettin' folks tell her what her own eyes are seein'.

From director Rian Johnson, a collection of some of the screenplays of his movies & TV shows, including Wake Up Dead Man, Knives Out, Glass Onion, Looper, and the Poker Face pilot. “Print them, share them, act them out with your friends.” [rian-johnson.com]

Pencil sketches of Kayla Foxe during live figure drawing at Valley Art Workshop.

I stopped using sticker mule absolute ages ago because of the owner’s bullshit. The owner is still on his bullshit, so if you use sticker mule, maybe don’t. StickerAPP is a good alternative, and also there’s most likely a local sticker printer near you (Sticker Ninja in Portland, for example).

We really see the self-justifying reality manufacture in action when Naughty Dog, a studio that's kept around by a platform holder to make what are essentially aura products for the Sony Playstation, gets described as having a "30 year run of success"