Last week a new wall-projection installation opened in Boston's Old South Meeting House called 'Ruckus!'. We (at FableVision) animated the rats and horses that appear throughout the show. One of the cooler recent projects I've been lucky to be apart of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1O7...

Last week a new wall-projection installation opened in Boston's Old South Meeting House called 'Ruckus!'. We (at FableVision) animated the rats and horses that appear throughout the show. One of the cooler recent projects I've been lucky to be apart of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1O7...

Parts of the Northeast US have been under a thick plume of smoke today overspreading the region from fires across south-central Canada - the worst smoke plume to affect the region since the infamous 2023 NYC smoke plume. Thread for the meteorology associated with this:

Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.

I created the poster art for the show, titled 'A Matter of Scale' (the final list of exhibitors is may change, but this is the latest)

We're getting ready for our latest FableVision Creative Juices Artshow—where we open our studio to the public. We share art created by staff and recent freelancer & interns. If you're local to Boston, here's the Eventbrite link to the event. July 30 from 5-8pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-creat...

10pm and it’s still 86 degrees in my Northeastern US suburb. Woof! Boston reached 100 today, breaking the record high from 1963.

I asked a bunch of early-20-somethings at work if they watched ‘Wishbone’ when they were kids, miscalculating just how old the show I remembered being a smart show ‘for little kids’ was. They’d never heard of it. They weren’t born when it aired.

Every time I see an AI book cover discussion it makes me want to scream. Some people have disconnected that making something costs money, if you don’t have that money you cannot make the thing. If having a book cover is necessary I suggest budgeting for that the way the rest of us budget projects

Why are some outlets reporting 5-4 instead of 6-3 on the birthright citizenship ruling?

Impressive amount of detail for relatively small scale build. Note the circles at the top are brick studs. The tiles for the base are 2x2.

Every flower counts.

FINALLY FEAST YOUR EYES ON JJ VILLARD’S SCAREDY CAT! youtu.be/FcAZ9Y6R5hk?... Director: JJ Villard BG: William Wray(!!) Animation Direction: MATT TAYLOR Animation: Matt Taylor, Mike Carlo, Smo Animation Assistants: Smo, Brian Martin, Chloe Christina #CartoonCartoon #Pilot #ScaredyCat #Animation

My 7yo son is really into identifying birds right now. Down to learning about helpful markings, and differences between male and female bird coloring and patterns. It's most of the appeal for him. Couldn't help but make the connection to tech that IDs stuff. How joyless that would make it.

In my Top 10 Classic Simpsons B-Plots.

Well, that was a fucking ride.

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Currently awaiting:

How do you screw up a Link.

Now thanks to @ani-obsessive.bsky.social , there's a gif of this very moment! Featured in their most recent newsletter "Slow Stories Don't Have to Be Boring."

Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)

Wow, if these statements really sum up the moral conundrum, don’t they. By giving up on decision-making, you’re sidestepping responsibility. Additionally sidestepping whatever mental rigor it takes to make a decision. Moral, creative, or otherwise.

elf-like hero in green cloak / #LegoMOC

Searches like DuckDuckGo and Kagi still promote AI assistants in their offerings. Am I missing a more obvious choice, or is it something that every search company needs to offer to be viable during the chat hype boom?

This is remarkably bad for Blue Origin, and possibly even worse for NASA. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

I realize this has always been the case. Execs and PR not understanding how things work. But how does something so blatantly false slip through the cracks? So easy to check. So easy to understand how Xerox was used. (response from Buzzfeed via Cartoon Brew: www.cartoonbrew.com/artificial-i...)

As I get older, the more I notice people demanding consistency for consistency's sake. Not because inconsistency is necessarily confusing (sometimes it is). It's just easy to point to, like a hair out of place. Make it more tidy and orderly. Consistency can result in its own kind of homogeneity.

Been hearing people justifying the sludge machine at the concept and brainstorming phase of a project. "Human-written essays offered up to eight times more new ideas than those produced by A.I." AI doesn't come up with new things. It's a plagiarism/resampler. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

What are the TV franchises that have held up or were improved upon as a movie release? Mission Impossible (1996) comes to mind, but it was more of a reboot (not concurrent with the airtime of the show). Most of the time when a celebrated series gets the movie treatment, it's a letdown. Right?

Parents near the LEGO Pick-a-Brick wall telling their kid “No, what would you even make with these random pieces.” I want to grab and shake these parents: “Anything, literally anything!” Very specific example, but emblematic of so many things.

listen up graduates

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!! MY CARTOON CARTOON!!!!!!! Maude Macher & Dom Duck are my babies I hope you’ll love them! youtu.be/ubQgPMMcRAg?...

Listening to Terry Gross interview tech reporter Joanna Stern who asked AI why her son's pet preying mantis was turning brown with a photo. The answer: it was pregnant! The bug died a couple days later. She acknowledges it was a good lesson—but low stakes mistake. Gross commented: not for your son.

Today I learned (TIL?) that a Tintin animated series was made in the 90s. So I dialed it up and watched a couple episodes with my son. The attention to Herge’s drawing aesthetic is astounding. Hard to imagine a more faithful adaptation. Decently animated for a 90s cartoon, too. Anyone else seen it?

Two times today, first this morning, and again just now, a read “David Attenborough, … 100” and felt my stomach sink. I knew about his birthday yesterday, but the headline finds my nervous system. Anyway, happy birthday!

Finally watched Pluribus. Uncanny parallels to chatbots on websites, phones, email (everywhere) constantly asking you if you need help doing something you already know how to do. I'm somewhere between a Carol and a Manousos.

Cognitive asbestos

Vader and Friends for #starwarsday

Ironically we just got to a Clone Wars episode where a Rodian appeared in the background and it did in fact turn out to be Greedo. Except he spoke in clear English. (None of this matters, please carry on with your Sunday)

My other hot take is that valuing art on just effort and technical skill is designed to placate people who are skeptical about the value of art to begin with - and realism and detail happen to be the areas where those are demonstrated most clearly to the layperson and can be measured objectively

I get the appeal (99.9% nostalgia), but we’ve entered the “Is it Cake?” era of LEGO sets. Do I know anyone who got the Gameboy set? Can you delve deeper into the appeal?

Two thoughts this morning: 1. In 'freeing up time for something else', that something else is often just more toiling and scrolling away on a computer. (Imagine if new tech freed you up so you could return 'slower' means like drawing or animating on paper)

my resignation

A good character design exercise would be transforming your character into a bunch of animals, a la Merlin.

Storyboard sketch (Bill Peet?) compared to a final frame. A lot of the drawing's energy and personality was captured in the final, I'd say. Disney's 'The Sword in the Stone' (1963) Source: characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-anima...

I’ve been watching the Clone Wars animated series for the first time with my son. I like it. But one character element that gets my brain going is how they opted to make entire species out of what I’d always considered great one-off creature puppet designs. Created for establishing shots.

The fact that a 38yo would freely admit to this, publicly, is all the evidence you need for what this tech does to your brain. That he doesn’t realize how inept he sounds. That he isn’t embarrassed. This is mind erosion. Every parent since the beginning of time has made up stories for their kids.

A mustached Lemongrab spotted at the American Museum of Natural History in NY.