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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Getting lost in the woods and loving it open.substack.com/pub/ianbruce...

My first big landscape

Happily lost in the woods

open.substack.com

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jul 30

🍉🍉 2nd Edition of 100 Watermelon Prints for Gaza Formula Fund now available on the Crowdfunder - please make sure you CHOOSE REWARD on the page when donating to buy a print.

Free Gaza. Free Palestine.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jul 29

🍉 100 Prints Sold Out in under 24hrs for Gaza Formula Fund. More than £6,000 raised - THANK YOU

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons

Second edition of prints on their way

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🍉FLASH SALE🍉 for Gaza Formula Fund

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/watermelons

*please choose Reward on the Crowdfunder page when donating to buy a print*

Aiming to raise cash fast for Gaza Formula Fund selling Limited Edition Watermelon Prints at £25 (postage included, UK only, pay more if you can)

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jul 3

We wanted to make a painting that looked as if Vermeer had had a night out in the Haçienda

open.substack.com/pub/ianbruce...

Vermeer but make it punk

Portrait of the Langley Linnet

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jun 15

A brilliant article in the FT riffing and expanding on Musk’s daddy issues that Jemima and I talked about during the livestream

Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · Jun 15

For Father's Day, I wrote about Musk and Trump's mutual daddy issues. With thoughts from @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social

on.ft.com/4dZ5TrK

The Trump-Musk love affair was about daddy issues, not bromance

[FREE TO READ] Theirs wasn’t really a friendship at all but a more complex and primal bond

on.ft.com

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jun 9

Only just seen this. New title for the second painting! Thank you!

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · Jun 9

I just went a pulled a T-shirt out of my drawer. Mind blown. 🍇🍎 Collective amnesia.

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you so much for joining today and supporting @freeourfeeds.com
Having you on the call gave me the burst of energy needed to finish the triptych!

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you SO much for joining and enlightening us about your journey in creating @blacksky.app - I’ve learnt a huge amount this week

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

What’s next? We’re cooking up something interesting with all the amazing chats I’ve had this week. Watch this space 👀

Thank you everyone for your support!

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

It’s been a thrilling (and somewhat tiring) week but I’m left with a sense that so many people are giving all they can to fight the power of Musk, the far-right & the malign influence of Big Tech over our online spaces, our democracies, our economies & our lives.

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

Then in a surreal turn of events @markruffalo.bsky.social @johncusack.bsky.social @alexwinter.com & @rosie.com joined me in the final hours to scream at the good billionaires out there to “f*ing do something already and donate to FreeOurFeeds.com ”

https://FreeOurFeeds.com”

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

In the final stretch @rudyfraser.com & @robin.berjon.com provided hope. They described how they’re building the architecture of a new kind of social media - decentralised, community-led & free from billionaire domination. Go donate to Free Our Feeds to help make that possible: gofund.me/e6bb4033

Donate to #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media, organized by Free Our Feeds

Free Our Feeds | A campaign to keep social media open, people-po… Free Our Feeds needs your support for #FreeOurFeeds - help secure the future of social media

gofund.me

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

Luckily Jayde Adams was on hand to give me a well-needed laugh as we speculated about why Musk is obsessed with being funny

Then @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com & Dr Melisa Basol warned us that we need to make sure our friends & neighbours aren’t victims of toxic content on today’s social media

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social , Shoshana Zuboff, @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social & Jay Griffiths zoomed out and reminded us what’s at stake if we let the tech bros take too much, as digital authoritarianism looms over us.

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

@jonronson.bsky.social told me that Musk might care too much about how people think about him to be a psychopath, @rosie.com and @jemima.bsky.social took me through what might be behind his relationship with Donald Trump - daddy issues anyone?

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

I was taken on a journey from his traumatic upbringing in Apartheid South Africa, with guidance from @kuminaidoo.bsky.social, to his years trying to make it as what @alexwinter.com described as a “vulture capitalist” in the US

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Ian Bruce @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social · May 23

After 5 days, 102 hours of live streaming, 19 guests & over 10,000 viewers, I've finished my portrait of Elon Musk.

And I think I've captured the psychology of the man.

#WeNeedToTalkAboutElon