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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 8h

AI wants copyright protections for itself but brazen theft for everyone else.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations reut.rs/478nrij

US Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over copyrights for AI creations

A computer scientist on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 13h

Amongst typesetters, "follow the copy out of the window" was once axiomatic.

For illustrators, "follow the concept out of the window" still makes a good Prime Directive.
#bookpub #illustration #conceptualillustration #adventuretime #posterart

Adventure Time parody of Durer's The Knight, Death and the Devil. Original art at 11 inches by 15 inches, on Denril. It enlarged nicely for a poster issue from Cartoon Network's poster division, a cool enterprise that died a premature and unjust death.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 13h

Ripping off my illustration work? That would be a real step up for me.

#illustration #bookpub #penandink #conceptualillustration

The demon Zyk in superhero spandex, very hip beard and quadrocorni, his arm protectively draped over the shoulders of damsel in distress. She has the head of a deranged goose and a badly awry wig.
This is an illo for the insanely talented and funny Martin Olson's "Conquest of Heaven" from Feral House, the sequel to "The Encyclopaedia of Hell". Both books are indescribably funny in a non-stupid way that only indy publishers like Feral House bother to do right anymore.
The team involved in these books went on to do the Adventure Time Encyclopaedia and Enchiridion for Abrams, a NYT-bestselling bit of bizness that demonstrates once again the value of supporting indy publishers. No Big 5 publisher will take a chance on this sort of material without someone else taking the initial risk. I believe that the guy behind AT, forget his name, sorry, was the one who demanded quality take precedence over everything else. Otherwise, it would have been the same old licensing dreck.
That's why Zyk's crotch bulges. He senses $$$, Lord Satan's bread and butter.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 17h

Walk tall and carry a big book.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 1d

Suspension of disbelief is the god of illustrators on deadline

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

BIG KARMA: South Asian trader-missionaries exploiting hapless natives of post-apoc USA send “B.K. Baba” on perilous mission up-country — rescue America’s Last President, kick mutant ass & enjoy forbidden love of native white girl in lost jungle ruins of White House.

#DVPit #SF #A #NA

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 2d

BIG KARMA: South Asian trader-missionaries exploiting hapless natives of post-apoc USA send “B.K. Baba” on perilous mission up-country — rescue America’s Last President, kick mutant ass & enjoy forbidden love of native white girl in lost jungle ruins of White House.

#DVPit #SF #A #NA

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 6d

Illustrations by Harry Rountree for Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland” (Collins Clear-Type Press, 1931). 5/

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Wallace Shawm and Kevin McDonald (KITH) as George and Martha

🦇 @erikforrestjackson.com · 6d

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as George and Martha

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

Life's a joke and all things show it,
You thought so once but now you know it.
— John Gay

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

Artist's conception of Carrollian Multiverse birthing α-Snark as mentioned in my previous skeet.

Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 6d

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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu): Tantric painting — India, 18th c.
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

Snark is a sphere whose centre is everywhere and circumference is 100% boojum.

150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 6d

#snarking (1866)
#TheHuntingOfTheSnark (1876)
#snark
#snarky

"SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley.
Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]"

Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248
doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f
http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt

https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 6d

power loves power

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 7d

If you're here (thank you) and you're a bookseller or a librarian and we don't already follow you please shout out so we can.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 9d

We've reached peak bullshit as artists.

Article starts with hilariously uninformed attempt to equate the old studio system with contemporary system of being a ghost-artist for talentless hacks.

Gresham's Law applies to the arts as well, bad art drives out good.

www.ft.com/content/d84c...

The secret to great art? Finding someone else to make it

Marina Abramović, William Kentridge, Jasleen Kaur and other leading artists reveal the fabricators they entrust with their creations

www.ft.com

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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 9d

Samuel Beckett in vacanza a Tangier con le sue ciavatte preferite, Marocco, 1978.
Scatto di François-Marie Banier.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 10d

We're almost at deadline for submissions to the Fall issue of Forgotten Ground Regained.

alliteration.net/call-for-submissions/

Call for Submissions: Norse and Icelandic Forms

Submit your alliterative poems to Forgotten Ground Regained by October 1

alliteration.net

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 11d

We've entered the Golden Age of Con Men

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 11d

There once was an artist named Singh,
Who insisted on doing his thing.
He drew that-which-is-not,
For such was his lot,
That impecunious wretch of a Singh.

#bookpub #bookillustration #penandink #steampunk

Tompkin's Bookstore, wherein literary wallahs gather to drink tea and palaver. Semiotic glyphoids adorn the bookshelves and pee atop the books heaped up everywhere. One of many interior illos for "The Gentleman" by Forrest Leo, edited by Ed Park, ADed by Claire Vaccaro, published by PRH. This delightful novel is catnip for lovers of steampunk, Victorian poetry and Satanism.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 11d

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Monday! Today's Classic Cover is the 1970 edition of Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, originally published in 1926. This cover was illustrated by Gervasio Gallardo, who also created covers for Peter S. Beagle and William Morris.

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 12d

Guessing that this is an (aquatint+) etching and also marveling at the infinite lushness of black ink that's only possible with intaglio, even when degraded by digital/web repro

Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12d

and 1930s, the figures in Martin Lewis' work initiate the emotion, though they’re no more individual and personal than the buildings; the story lives in the moment of the scene. He was a key mentor to the young Edward Hopper.

Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 12d

Selling an uncategorizable novel is a bitch in publishing today. Support the team, fellow uncategorizable weirdos!

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Oct 17

ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 3

Out now: THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, my uncategorisable novella out about Ru, a 'boy from nowhere' growing up in 90s/00s Calcutta, facing the impossibility that his family may be migrants from another reality, & Alice, a neighbour from Chinatown who is pulled close to their secrets. Links below:

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 13d

Elliott Erwitt Pablo Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1957

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 14d

This is one of the very few podcasts I listen, catnip for lovers of 20th century lit.

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 14d

Series 5 of Ninety-Nine Novels, our podcast exploring Anthony Burgess's favourite books, is coming soon. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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