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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 1h

I'm very sad to say that this event has to be cancelled!

Yesterday, I was among 8 arrested at an action demanding:

- The safe return of Freedom Flotilla members currently being detained in Israeli prisons, including Mskwaasin Agnew

- A two way arms embargo

- Immediate sanctions on Israel

Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 17d

Buffalo! I'll be in town to read at @gutterpopcomics.bsky.social on October 10, alongside @philmcandrew.bsky.social, Gia Ligammari and Max Weiss

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 17h

I know I'm aging because this first taste of frost has me understanding snowbirds 😭. Why am I shivering while covered head to toe??? It's only 11 degrees. That's not even cold

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 1d

I am loving the creative direction that Gap has been going lately. In an age where brands are using ugly AI slop more and more. It is so refreshing to see a brand hire actual illustrators and animators for their ad. I love this whimsical Sandy Liang collection ad! It's so nostalgic in the best ways

Fast Company @fastcompany.com · 1d

Gap released an anime style ad for its collection with Sandy Liang by illustrator Annie Choi. "Much of Sandy's world centers around imagination, nostalgia, and a sense of wonder," Choi says. "I wanted the animation to carry that same feeling." f-st.co/O7QD14G

This adorable Gap ad needs to be a full TV series

Illustrator Annie Choi has dreamed up animations for fashion brands like Dior and Loewe. She's also the creative genius behind this anime Gap x Sandy Liang ad.

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 2d

I was outside a lot this summer. Touching grass, touching water, and it healed me 🏞️

Sketchbook drawing of two girls and a ship. One turned back and looking at the ship and the other staring off into space

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 2d

I was outside a lot this summer. Touching grass, touching water, and it healed me 🏞️

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Tapioca @ home @malmseyy.com · 3d

Still have these fellas available!
Shares would be appreciated!
Currently won't be taking comms until I finish my queue so any help with sales would be appreciated 🥳🥳

Tapioca @ home @malmseyy.com · 6d

These were the only left overs of my polymer clay items after 2 cons!

If anyone is interested in possibly purchasing a piece feel free to dm me!
Us shipping only right now, apologies!
$8 flat rate shipping, will be packed up tight in a box for safe traveling!
Shares appreciated!

A picture of a few polymer clay figurines and trinket trays. Each item has a price near it which shows, the apple and worm figure $35 , the larger lighter shade slug pen rest $20, the small yellow house figure $30 , the smaller darker slug pen rest $20 , the tomato trinket tray $40, the apple trinket tray $40, and the poison dart frog on a lilypad trinket tray $40.
It then reads "shipping to us only $8 flat shipping"

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 4d

Ouentironk

Sketchbook Ink illustration of a man on a boat on lake simcoe. The sketchbook lays on a bed of pines

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 4d

Ouentironk

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 5d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others."

she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy."

when you're definitely the good guys

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

Again, selling some illustrations! Most of these illustrations are priced down and ranging from $50-100. I loved making every single one of these drawings and would love to see them in a new loving home ❤️

Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 9d

Just a few drawings I have available for sale on my ko-fi if you're looking for some art or ways to support artists especially as the holiday season approaches! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

Coloured pencil drawing of an edgy shoulder length haired woman sitting on a rock in the middle of the forest looking out pensively.

6 panelled ink drawing of a girl getting ready

an ink drawing showing the back of a girl who's underwater. She is surrounded by fish and seaweed.

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

I'm in a sharing schmooood!😌 I've been enjoying drawing in my sketchbook lately! I promise you not all my sketchbooks look like this. I have a completely separate one for ideating and ugliness but that one actually feels more precious like a diary.

Drawing of a man laying on grass watching a fire burn

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

“It's like I'm living in two worlds. There's a world where Palestinians are getting killed, and there is you behind the screen, trying to figure out a way to report on it without getting shadowbanned and with actually reaching people.”

Plestia Alaqad in @teenvogue.com

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 6d

Most of these illustrations are going for $50-$60. When you buy from a living artist you're also supporting them in real ways, so please consider supporting my work by buying art from me. It does not go unnoticed! ❤️

Portrait study of an Asian man's face in pencil with design elements

Ink illustration of a young Asian man standing in front of wall in a baggy black shirt and a close up of his stoic face in a square.

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 6d

Most of these illustrations are going for $50-$60. When you buy from a living artist you're also supporting them in real ways, so please consider supporting my work by buying art from me. It does not go unnoticed! ❤️

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 9d

Just a few drawings I have available for sale on my ko-fi if you're looking for some art or ways to support artists especially as the holiday season approaches! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

Also, if you're Canadian and would like to buy directly from me. You can dm me!

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

Also, if you're Canadian and would like to buy directly from me. You can dm me!

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

Again, selling some illustrations! Most of these illustrations are priced down and ranging from $50-100. I loved making every single one of these drawings and would love to see them in a new loving home ❤️

Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 9d

Just a few drawings I have available for sale on my ko-fi if you're looking for some art or ways to support artists especially as the holiday season approaches! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

I'm in a sharing schmooood!😌 I've been enjoying drawing in my sketchbook lately! I promise you not all my sketchbooks look like this. I have a completely separate one for ideating and ugliness but that one actually feels more precious like a diary.

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 7d

These would have been beautiful spreads but it's my sketchbook and I also like to write in it. Words by Tyson Yunkaporta that I wanted to remember 🖋️

Sketchbook pages of a drawing of a campsite in Simcoe county. A tent and some scattered bowls lay on grass with words written on both pages.

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Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social · 12d

Screenshot of text I’ve written that reads: I really want to rant about the way the world is going and how the creative industries are being destroyed and how those two things are so closely tied together and I want to complain about how hard it is to just exist and create right now and how it feels like you always need to be 'on' and the pressure to always be making content and be visible that's pushed on us by this capitalist fast tech-driven world we're in right now and how it's stifling creativity in the worst way and how it feels like you need to choose between being visible and actually making good art and experimenting and being a human being but I am exhausted and all my energy has been drained

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Jason Bradley Thompson @mockman.bsky.social · 8d

At this moment, the 45 boats of the Gaza Sunud Flotilla, bearing aid for Gaza & hundreds of people including Greta Thunberg, are probably about to be boarded by the IDF. In 2010, the IDF arrested everyone and killed 9 activists. The website which was live tracking the Flotilla seems to be down

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 8d

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

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